pcbrom.com is live
Today, the discovery of a researcher on the web depends on intermediaries. A social network profile rises or disappears with the platform’s algorithm. A code repository tends to be found by those who already know the author’s name. An article sits behind a journal paywall. Each channel solves part of the problem, and none of them, on its own, is a stable address under the control of the person who publishes.
This site exists to be that address. pcbrom.com brings together, in a single place, the packages, papers and projects of Pedro Carvalho Brom, and serves as the destination that the other profiles point to. The question it answers is direct: where can all of the author’s work be seen at once.
The blog has a purpose
The site also includes a blog, and it is not ornamental. The notes published here deal with statistics, generative AI and the R language. Every note tagged as R content circulates through the community via the RSS feed, which aggregators such as R-bloggers consume. A blog of one’s own turns the working record into a channel of circulation that does not depend on any closed network.
The cadence of the notes follows the rhythm of research work, without a rigid editorial calendar. The first commitment is to verifiable content, not to frequency.
What this site collects: nothing
There is a design decision worth stating explicitly. This site collects no data about its visitors. There is no form, no tracking cookie, no analytics script, and the typefaces are served from the domain itself, with no request to third-party servers.
Minimization at the source is the cleanest way to handle data protection: what is not collected does not need to be stored, audited or discarded, and it creates no retention obligation. A site that discusses responsible data governance gains in coherence when it practices what it writes.
Content published here is available under the CC BY 4.0 license where applicable. The next notes will arrive as the work advances.