Jonathan Dobres, Ph.D.
I’m a Principal Data Scientist at Sonos, formerly a Research Scientist at the MIT AgeLab. I design, code, and write this entire website. I've enjoyed it for years, and I hope you will, too.
Blog
Aug 11 2023
running the current python file in the vscode terminal
A useful custom keyboard shortcut if you want your VS Code workspace to feel a little more like RStudio.
Jan 8 2023
every zelda is the darkest zelda
A great video exploring the dark and light of the Legend of Zelda franchise.
Publications
I am an author of 22 scientific publications, 15 white papers, 3 popular press articles, and 29 conference presentations. Here’s my favorite.
The latest is:
Beier, S., Berlow, S., Boucaud, E., Bylinskii, Z., Cai, T., Cohn, J., Crowley, K., Day, S., Dingler, T., Dobres, J., Healey, J., Jain, R., Jordan, M., Kerr, B., Li, Q., Miller, D., Nobles, S., Papoutsaki, A., Qian, J., Rezvanian, T., Rodrigo, S., Sawyer, B., Sheppard, S., Stein, B., Treitman, R., Vanek, J., Wallace, S., & Wolfe, B. (2022). Readability Research: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Foundations and Trends in Human–Computer Interaction. 16:4, 214-324, http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/1100000089 PDF
Contact
I’d love to hear from you. Email is best. StackOverflow is a favorite haunt. ResearchGate has all my science. And I sometimes check LinkedIn.
The Roottrees Are Dead is a game in which you must complete a fictitious family tree using clues gathered on the ’90s internet. This scratched an itch I didn’t even know I had. 100%’ed it.