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Posts about research and programming

Moloch: A Revival of the Metropolis LaTeX Beamer Theme

latex

software

presentations

beamer

Metropolis is a popular and modern beamer theme for LaTeX, but it is unfortunately no longer actively maintained. As a result, its list of issues is growing increasingly large. Moloch is a fork of Metropolis that aims to fix these issues as well add a few new features.

PhD Thesis

thesis

statistics

optimization

My PhD thesis about optimization and other algorithms for sparse regression has been published! In this post I give a brief summary of the papers that are included in it.

New Julia Package: ProjectRoot

julia

software

I have created a new Julia package for easy file referencing within project workflows.

SLOPE 0.2.0

r

SLOPE

statistics

A new update to the SLOPE package with many exciting features.

Polygon Labeling with polylabelr

r

geometry

polylabelr

A new package polylabelr can be used find visual centers of polygons and label Euler diagrams.

29 October 2018

Finding the Farthest Points in a Point Cloud

r

qualpalr

data visualization

geometry

An algorithm for finding the most separated points in a cloud of points.

30 October 2016

Introducing eulerr

r

eulerr

euler diagrams

data visualization

This is an introduction to my new package, eulerr, an R package that computes and plots eulerr diagrams of set relationships.

19 October 2016

Introducing qualpalr

r

data visualization

qualpalr

Let me introduce qualpalr: an R package that generates qualitative color palettes with distinct colors using color difference algorithms.

15 October 2016