Favorites
Tools, books, and other things I keep coming back to.
Tools I reach for
Software I come back to for data work, writing code, and building things.
Python (opens in a new tab)
Default choice for scripts, pipelines, and anything API-shaped.
R + tidyverse (opens in a new tab)
Still the fastest path from raw data to an answer.
ggplot2 (opens in a new tab)
A grammar of graphics that makes hard charts easy and easy charts fast.
Nuxt (opens in a new tab)
Go-to framework for internal apps and dashboards.
Claude Code (opens in a new tab)
How most of this site — and most of my code these days — gets written.
dlt (opens in a new tab)
The load half of ELT, without the usual boilerplate.
DuckDB (opens in a new tab)
An embedded warehouse for local analysis and quick joins.
Books
R for Data Science (opens in a new tab)
Still the clearest introduction to the tidyverse way of thinking.
Storytelling with Data (opens in a new tab)
A short, practical case for why most charts should be simpler.
The Signal and the Noise (opens in a new tab)
A good, humbling read on what forecasting can and can't do.
Podcasts
Data Skeptic (opens in a new tab)
A long-running, reliably solid data-science and ML podcast.