About

33.8 The website

The purpose of this website is to serve as a resource for using my notes and work for this course in the future. Originally, I built it using ‘distill’ and deployed it as a simple static website on GitHub. This worked well and was quick to build because the notebooks did not need to be re-run each time. Though it is a very flexible platform, it had some limitations and I didn’t like the styling of the notebooks in HTML. I’m sure this could have been endlessly adjusted in CSS, but I realized firs that the ‘bookdown’ format may be more appropriate for my needs.

I transformed this site into a ‘bookdown’ book after completing the course. It took a bit of rearrangement, but I think the product is more logical and easier to use. It has replaced the ‘distill’ website completely and is deployed on GitHub.

33.9 About me

My name is Joshua Cook and I am (at the time of taking this course and writing this About page) a graduate student at Harvard Medical School. My research is on cancer genetics and I have a specific love of Bayesian modelling. You can peruse more of my projects and other work on my GitHub profile at jhrcook or my website.