About

Welcome

Welcome to my blog! My name is Ryan Heslin, and I recently graduated from American University with a master’s in data science. While I work in Python and a few other languages, my main (and favorite) is R. For now, I’ll devote this blog to my musings (or ramblings, if you feel uncharitable) on R and other topics related to data science.

Why the Name?

Naming things really is as hard as cache invalidation. I spent a long time casting about for something to call the site before hitting on Verso. It means the reverse side of a physical document, such as the left-hand page of a book. The word attracted me because I aim to make this blog like a good anthology: you can visit any page and find something short but worth reading. As a publishing term derived from Italian, it has a pleasingly archaic resonance similar to “quarto”, the namesake of the file format this site’s documents are written in. Most important, it’s got an R.

Verso was built with Quarto and deployed using Github Pages with a standard Quarto GitHub workflow. A previous version of this site was built with rendered Rmarkdown and the blogdown R package.