During my tenure as a CTO for the pharmaceutical company, I had to deal with both small and large datasets for biostatistics. The gold standard for data analysis in pharmaceutical is SAS since FDA reviewers use it. Although SAS is great and I got the basic training as seen below, the cost is rather higher than I liked.

When I heard about R project through a colleague back in 2003 or 2004, I had to jump on it and find out. After evaluating what it is and where it’s headed, I instantly loved it. It was very early in development, but I knew that this would be awesome. In fact, I love it so much that I became a supporting member (see below).

I don’t list R anywhere in my CV nor rants/blogs I post since it’s been long long time and I don’t have the expertise to be comfortable with it. But now that I have to deal once again with a large dataset on my private projects, I’ll pick it up again. There may even be a video diary of my learning. 😉

I’ve tried a site where people can ping me for questions and pair up. This got annoying real fast as I was getting pinged at all hours, especially during my pomodoro.

Rather than using a service, I’m donating 1 hour each week to pair up with anyone needing help with Ruby, Objective-C, or any other programming. The only request I have is that I’ll be recording the sessions for others to share. If I don’t know the answer, we’ll go through the process of finding out the solution where we don’t just copy and paste answers from Stackoverflow.

If you’re interested, please email me at my name at this domain with [selfthis] in the subject line along with your name, question/subject, and available time . I’ll reply with the time. Let me know if you absolutely need the instant gratification.

We can pair up using VNC, Skype, or Hangout.

The reason I’m doing this is to give back something for all the things the community has given me, there aren’t any other motivation other than the fact that hopefully I helped someone and his/her benefited from my existence.

It’s hard to believe how much things have changed since I took the position at where I work. I haven’t been actively screencasting, something I enjoyed knowing others find them useful or entertaining. My promise made to myself to actively learn someting new also haulted. Working 16 hours a day took its toll on me and especially my family.

That all stops starting next week.

I’m going back to consulting and will only take on a position where I can balance both work and life. That does not mean I’ll stop pouring my heart into the work – I’m simply not built that way. But work little smarter and better rather than working unproductively without rest. That means that I won’t cater to constant panic of others that are not really something to panic about.

I will be taking a short rest to recharge my battery and will actively make contents and contribute to the communities that helped me so much, so please keep you eyes on this blog.

If you need a polyglot, please don’t hesitate to ping me at joon at this domain.

Sick of opening different Google Chrome windows for work and private accounts? I use following script to create a separate standalone Chrome app for that. Take a look at the code and give it a spin. This is for Mac ONLY!!!


#!/bin/sh

# create the executable
cat >"$execPath/$name" < "$plistPath" <

CFBundleExecutable
$name
CFBundleIconFile
icon
EOF


Personally, it’s extremely difficult to find humor in this video when you have to deal with daily. Same goes for my friends and family. This may be the reason why it’s hard for me to think of myself as an American although it’s my nationality and home.

Another annoyance is when someone asks me how’s wherever a place in Korea is. I grew up in NJ – that should be enough punishment.