Thoughts

A nice tool to have at your disposal is a method for quickly making a connected graph diagram in your markdown. It may be a workflow you are trying to show or something an org chart or whatever. One thing that I've recently learned to through [Obsidian](https:://obsidian.md) as I develop my second brain (I call it my *brainforest*) is that you can easily insert mermaid charts into markdown and have them render properly. In R, it is the same, though we have a few tricks we n

OK, so in working on various RMarkdown stuff, I‘ve just run across a problem with it no longer rendering HTMLWidget stuff in the recent upgrade. So if you use something like `mermaid` or `leaflet` in your `xaringan` presentation, it will show you the raw <div></div> output instead of the actual widget. This is not an easy one to track down online because the RMarkdown & Xaringan Github sites do not address it. So I thought I would insert a thing here so I can find it next

At last, a mobile version of Obsidian for the ipad/iphone!

So this spring, I’m going to make a large push at porting over the population graphs analyses Dyer & Nason 2004 that I have in R to a version that runs as a native app on iOS/MacOS. The long-term goals here are to leverage the upcoming advances in Augmented Reality and LiDAR at the phone/glasses level that I suspect will be more mainstream by 2023 or so. Big Picture So, in the long run, I’m looking to have a set of software that can do the following: Estimate a population gr