I appreciate you dropping by.
My name’s Simon. I write software for statistical modeling at Posit (née RStudio).
I studied statistics and sociology at Reed College, and had a brief stint in a PhD program in Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins. Throughout my career so far, I’ve had a deep and enduring interest in statistical software development—I think, done well, statistical software has an incredible impact on our ability to think intuitively about statistics and data science.
Most days, I’m working on maintaining R packages in the tidymodels ecosystem. My GitHub profile links out to some of the projects I spend my time with.
I’m currently based out of Chicago, IL. When I’m not working, I enjoy cooking, hanging with my dog Millie, and playing American folk music.
This site is built with Hugo Apéro, and I’ve repo-dived on Julia Silge and Silvia Canelón’s personal websites while tweaking and troubleshooting. The site is deployed using Netlify. My blog posts are released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Some Pitters and Patters with R
Hiking the 2023 John Muir Trail / Nüümü Poyo

A group of buddies and I walked 242 miles from Mt. Whitney to Yosemite Valley.
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A couple small changes can greatly speed up the hyperparameter tuning process with tidymodels.
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