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Photograph of a Merriam's kangaroo rat, from Wikimedia Commons.

RRRRR, I’m stuck!

A Carpentries lesson about getting unstuck in R through the process of making minimal reproducible examples (“reprexes”)

Kaija Gahm
Jul 1, 2026

Hello everyone! Thank you for being here. My name is Kaija Gahm, and I’m a data manager at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies. Late last year, my colleague Chelsea had just finished her Master’s thesis, and my supervisor asked me to help her to organize her code and analysis into a reproducible workflow that we could reference in the manuscript that we were putting together.

Retroactively Reproducible: Lessons from a workflow audit

A talk I gave at the 2021 SORTEE conference about my experience implementing data management and reproducibility tools retroactively, for an existing project, even if best…

Kaija Gahm
Oct 27, 2021

greenT: Exploring grapheme-color synesthesia

For my whole life, I’ve associated colors with letters and numbers. This is called grapheme-color synesthesia. For my second major project in Shiny, I built an app to help…

Kaija Gahm
May 13, 2021

YGDP Dashboard

From June through December 2020, I taught myself Shiny and ended up creating a pretty complicated interactive dashboard for exploring dialect variation across the US. Here’s…

Kaija Gahm
Feb 5, 2021

Watercolor illustration of a wood frog tadpole. Artwork by Bayla Arietta.

The Tadpole Olympics

For my B.S. thesis project at Yale, I measured how fast wood frog tadpoles swim in response to a simulated predator attack, and how that swimming speed relates to their…

Kaija Gahm
Jan 29, 2021
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