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4/13/2026

Welcome! Here you’ll find posts about my teaching, research, data science, and academic life.

Introducing rurality: a one-stop R package for U.S. rural–urban data

R
package
rural
methodology
rurality

A new R package that puts USDA’s Rural–Urban Continuum Codes, Commuting Areas, and a composite rurality score.

4/13/2026
4 min

Building a Programmatic Academic CV with Quarto and Typst

quarto
typst
tutorial
academic

This is a walkthrough of building a data-driven academic CV using Quarto and Typst. It includes publications pulled automatically from a BibTeX file, custom styling, and a clean design that rivals LaTeX or InDesign.

4/5/2026
9 min

Asking for a Letter of Recommendation

teaching
advice

So You Need a Letter? I am often asked to write letters of recommendation for students. This is an important part of our jobs as professors, but I often find myself struggling to write the letter I think the student needs because my experience with them is either limited to a single course or otherwise negative.

6/22/2023
2 min

New publication on spatial-x models

research
publications

Along with Guy D. Whitten and Laron K. Williams, we have a forthcoming article in the Journal of Politics.

6/22/2023
1 min

New publication on the interpretation of spatial models

research
spatial

I have a new publication on the interpretation of spatial models.

3/6/2021
1 min

Doing an Independent Study with Dr. Wimpy

teaching
advice

So you need an independent study? I am often approached by students who want to complete an independent study with me. In most cases, they ‘want’ to do this because they ‘need’ a certain amount of credit for a given sub-field to graduate.

3/18/2020
3 min

Best practices for virtual meetings

teaching
advice

This post provides best practices for virtual meetings and seminars in the event that they are necessary

3/17/2020
12 min
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