About

Parent, partner and research software trainer at the University of Queensland (Brisbane, Australia).

I live on stolen Turrbal and Jagera land. I am passionate about Open Research and the Commons, and currently spend a significant amount of time with the R language.

Interests

I am interested in Open Research/Science (and Open Research Software specifically), the Commons, community-owned tools, plants and our environment, sustainability, bushcare, spatial and biodiversity data, and cycling. Please do get in touch if you’d like to work with me on a project!

What I do

Training:

  • Technology Trainer (and research support staff) at the University of Queensland’s Library. I authored and maintain many of our Creative Commons-licensed training manuals on R, Python, LaTeX, Bash, Git, OpenStreetMap, uMap, QGIS, OpenRefine, Audacity, Voyant Tools and Inkscape.

Software:

  • Maintainer of R package rinat: acquire iNaturalist data
  • Author and maintainer of R package osmxml: read and visualise OSM XML
  • I enjoy sporadically spending time on Quality Assurance for LibreOffice

Open data:

Outside:

  • I regularly participate in bushcare activities around Meanjin / Magandjin.

Thanks!

Thank you to everyone who make this work possible: the developers of and contributors to the tools mentioned above, the wonderful people I have worked with over the years, my fellow open data gatherers who have built these monuments over the years, the people who have documented and shared processes I have learned from, the organisations that support the ecosystem, and the building blocks that make this website what it is: Codeberg and Quarto (and before that, Hugo, blogdown, R Markdown, the Hugo Apéro theme), and everyone who is part of the R community.

My posts and their contents are released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License unless otherwise specified.