My name is Aaron Gullickson. I am an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon. I am also a demographer by training, a total data science nerd, a git evangelist, and an open science advocate.
Most of my empirical work uses large scale census and survey data to look at issues of race mixing or racial ambiguity. I examine racial classification, identification, interracial marriage, and life outcomes by race. More recently, I have begun studying religious identity as well, particularly among the growing number of people with no formal religious affiliation. Since I started using git to track my research projects, all of my research projects are available publicly as git repositories.
I am trained in a variety of statistical programs, but I almost exclusively use R in my work these days. In addition to my research, I teach a first-year graduate sequence in statistics that focuses heavily on the practical issues of data analysis. You can view the (WIP) statistics textbook for that course here and see the repository that produces it here. I have also written a companion textbook that focuses on the practical side of managing a quantitative research project in R (repository is here). I also teach courses for Code Horizons specifically about using Version Control for Data Analysis using GitHub and Reproducible Reports with Quarto and R Markdown.