Georgia State University

Andrew Heiss

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Apparently I now only produce [cross stitch
content](../../../../../blog/tags/cross-stitch/). Thanks, pandemic.

In preparation for season 2 of the incredible *Ted Lasso*, I made a
cross stitch version of the AFC Richmond crest, and I'm really happy
with how it turned out!

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<figure class="figure page-columns page-full">
<p><img
src="https://www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2021/07/20/afc-richmond-ted-lasso-cross-stitch/afc-richmond-cross-stitch.jpg"
title="A cross stitched AFC Richmond crest"
class="img-fluid figure-img" /></p>
<figcaption>A cross stitched AFC Richmond crest</figcaption>
</figure>
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For the world's enjoyment, and to spread the cheer of Ted Lasso, I've
provided the template---along with the raw Illustrator file---for free!
(With a Creative Commons license.)

Believe!

[Download everything here:]{#downloads}

- [AFC Richmond crest cross stitch PDF](afc-richmond-cross-stitch.pdf)
  (v1.0, 2021-07-20)
- [AFC Richmond crest cross stitch Illustrator
  file](afc-richmond-cross-stitch.ai)

[![AFC Richmond crest, from Ted
Lasso](https://www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2021/07/20/afc-richmond-ted-lasso-cross-stitch/afc-richmond-cross-stitch.png "AFC Richmond crest, from Ted Lasso"){.img-fluid}](afc-richmond-cross-stitch.pdf)

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## Citation {#citation .anchored .quarto-appendix-heading}

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BibTeX citation:
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``` {.sourceCode .code-with-copy .quarto-appendix-bibtex}
@online{heiss2021,
  author = {Heiss, Andrew},
  title = {AFC {Richmond} / {Ted} {Lasso} Cross Stitch Pattern},
  pages = {undefined},
  date = {2021-07-20},
  url = {https://www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2021/07/20/afc-richmond-ted-lasso-cross-stitch},
  doi = {10.59350/qvp0m-tr543},
  langid = {en}
}
```

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Heiss, Andrew. 2021. "AFC Richmond / Ted Lasso Cross Stitch Pattern."
July 20, 2021. <https://doi.org/10.59350/qvp0m-tr543>.
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Downloads  Jump to the downloads and get your own free pattern and template files! Apparently I now only produce cross stitch content. Thanks, pandemic. In preparation for season 2 of the incredible
<em>
 Ted Lasso
</em>
, I made a cross stitch version of the AFC Richmond crest, and I’m really happy with how it turned out!

AFC Richmond / Ted Lasso cross stitch pattern

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In the data science world, hex stickers with logos of developers'
favorite packages are all the rage. People collect them at conferences
and events and display them on their laptops (or, like me, keep them in
a pile on their desk because they're too afraid to commit to affixing
them anywhere permanently). There are even [official standard
dimensions](http://hexb.in/sticker.html) and
[templates](https://github.com/terinjokes/StickersStandard) people can
follow.

Just for fun, I make hex logos for each of my classes ([program
evaluation/causal inference](https://evalsp21.classes.andrewheiss.com/),
[microeconomics](https://econs21.classes.andrewheiss.com/), and [data
visualization](https://datavizs21.classes.andrewheiss.com/))---see all
[my class and package hex logos
here](https://github.com/andrewheiss/hex-stickers)---and in non-pandemic
times I print them and hand them out to students at the beginning of
class. They look awesome.

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<figure class="figure page-columns page-full">
<p><img
src="https://www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2021/07/10/hex-cross-stitch/class-hexes.png"
title="Course-specific hex logos" class="img-fluid figure-img" /></p>
<figcaption>Course-specific hex logos</figcaption>
</figure>
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Continuing my pandemic art kick (on this, the four hundred and
eighty-fifth day of sheltering in place), and following my foray into
cross stitch (like [this Bayesian
Sampler](https://www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2021/01/26/bayesian-cross-stitch-sampler/)),
I decided to make cross stitch versions of my hex logos. So I stuck my
program evaluation logo into Illustrator, pixel-art-ified it by hand,
and made the thing.

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<p><img
src="https://www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2021/07/10/hex-cross-stitch/eval-cross-stitch.jpg"
title="A cross stitched hex logo" class="img-fluid figure-img" /></p>
<figcaption>A cross stitched hex logo</figcaption>
</figure>
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The design is a generic
[DAG](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed_acyclic_graph) showing an
exposure, an outcome, an indirect effect, a confounder, and a collider;
the color palette comes from the viridis inferno scale, generated with
`viridisLite::viridis(8, option = "inferno", begin = 0.1, end = 0.9)` in
R.

To help the world create hex logo cross stitch art, I've provided the
Illustrator file for free! (with a Creative Commons license). Make your
own designs---just delete the stuff on the Text and Pattern layers and
add little rectangles filled with some color + a 0.5 point white stroke.

[Download everything here!]{#downloads}

- [Hex logo cross stitch PDF](hex-sticker-template.pdf) (v1.0,
  2021-02-15)
- [Hex logo cross stitch Illustrator file](hex-sticker-template.ai)

[![A Bayesian
sampler](https://www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2021/07/10/hex-cross-stitch/eval-template.png "A Bayesian sampler"){.img-fluid}](hex-sticker-template.pdf)

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## Citation {#citation .anchored .quarto-appendix-heading}

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BibTeX citation:
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``` {.sourceCode .code-with-copy .quarto-appendix-bibtex}
@online{heiss2021,
  author = {Heiss, Andrew},
  title = {Hex Sticker/Logo Cross Stitch Pattern},
  pages = {undefined},
  date = {2021-07-10},
  url = {https://www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2021/07/10/hex-cross-stitch},
  doi = {10.59350/ha58q-xzf62},
  langid = {en}
}
```

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::: {#ref-heiss2021 .csl-entry .quarto-appendix-citeas}
Heiss, Andrew. 2021. "Hex Sticker/Logo Cross Stitch Pattern." July 10,
2021. <https://doi.org/10.59350/ha58q-xzf62>.
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Downloads  Jump to the downloads and get your own free pattern and template files! In the data science world, hex stickers with logos of developers’ favorite packages are all the rage.

Hex sticker/logo cross stitch pattern

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For my latest pandemic art medium (on this, the three hundred and
nineteenth day of sheltering in place), I decided to teach myself how to
cross stitch. I did a ton of needlepoint as a kid and teen, but was
always afraid of cross stitch because it was so much smaller and more
delicate.

I somehow stumbled across [this lesson
repository](https://sgibson91.github.io/cross-stitch-carpentry/index.html)
created by The Carpentries, an organization that normally teaches
workshops on reproducible research and data scientific software like R
and Python. This nifty [Cross Stitch
Carpentry](https://sgibson91.github.io/cross-stitch-carpentry/index.html)
workshop is incredibly helpful and easy to follow, and after downloading
[a pattern from Etsy](https://t.co/7d0BS3A0K9), I successfully made my
first cross stitched thing: [a miniature
porg](https://twitter.com/andrewheiss/status/1353172960119566336?s=21).

I next wanted to make something related to my work with data and stats.
In July, I made [a linocut print of the R
logo](https://twitter.com/andrewheiss/status/1287200192647827459?s=21),
so I considered doing that with cross stitch too, but that seemed like a
lot of thread. Also, I couldn't find a good way to make a good pattern.
There's [a neat Python program named
**ih**](https://github.com/glasnt/ih) that automatically creates
embroidery and cross stitch patterns from images, and there are plenty
of (sketchy?) online resources for converting images to patterns (they
probably rely on **ih** behind the scenes?), but I like having more
control over the output.

After lots of googling, I found that [you can use Adobe Illustrator to
create cross stitch
patterns](https://blog.stitchpeople.com/creating-graph-templates/)
(there's an archived Facebook Live video [showing the process
here](https://www.facebook.com/stitchpeople/videos/day-1-of-cross-stitch-a-portrait-with-lizzy/512456752992667/)),
which is perfect, since I use Illustrator all the time.

So I drew the formula for [Bayes'
theorem](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayes%27_theorem) with little
boxes, added some flourishes and borders, and made my first cross stitch
pattern, which I then made into an actual cross stitch: a Bayesian
[sampler](https://mc-stan.org/docs/2_26/reference-manual/hamiltonian-monte-carlo.html)!

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<figure class="figure page-columns page-full">
<p><img
src="https://www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2021/01/26/bayesian-cross-stitch-sampler/sampler-photo.jpg"
title="A cross stitched Bayesian sampler"
class="img-fluid figure-img" /></p>
<figcaption>A cross stitched Bayesian sampler</figcaption>
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The color palette is inspired from the jewel colors of the 2021
inauguration (via Cianna Bedford-Petersen's [R
package](https://github.com/ciannabp/inauguration)). The density plots
in the corners and center are stylized prior and posterior
distributions. The borders on the top and bottom are stylized trace
plots showing intertwined [MCMC
chains](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_chain_Monte_Carlo).

I've polished the pattern in Illustrator and released it for free! (with
a Creative Commons license). I've also provided the original Illustrator
file so that you can make your own designs---just delete the stuff on
the Text and Pattern layers and add little rectangles filled with some
color + a 0.5 point white stroke.

[Download everything here!]{#downloads}

- ["Bayesian Sampler" PDF](bayesian-sampler.pdf) (v1.0, 2021-01-25)
- ["Bayesian Sampler" paginated PDF](bayesian-sampler-paginated.pdf)
- ["Bayesian Sampler" Illustrator file](bayesian-sampler.ai)

[![A Bayesian
sampler](https://www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2021/01/26/bayesian-cross-stitch-sampler/bayesian-sampler.png "A Bayesian sampler"){.img-fluid}](bayesian-sampler.pdf)

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## Citation {#citation .anchored .quarto-appendix-heading}

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BibTeX citation:
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``` {.sourceCode .code-with-copy .quarto-appendix-bibtex}
@online{heiss2021,
  author = {Heiss, Andrew},
  title = {Bayesian (Cross Stitch) Sampler},
  pages = {undefined},
  date = {2021-01-26},
  url = {https://www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2021/01/26/bayesian-cross-stitch-sampler},
  doi = {10.59350/pdqkh-czk27},
  langid = {en}
}
```

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For attribution, please cite this work as:
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Heiss, Andrew. 2021. "Bayesian (Cross Stitch) Sampler." January 26,
2021. <https://doi.org/10.59350/pdqkh-czk27>.
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Downloads  Jump to the downloads and get your own free pattern! For my latest pandemic art medium (on this, the three hundred and nineteenth day of sheltering in place), I decided to teach myself how to cross stitch. I did a ton of needlepoint as a kid and teen, but was always afraid of cross stitch because it was so much smaller and more delicate.

Messaggi di Rogue Scholar

AFC Richmond / Ted Lasso cross stitch pattern

Hex sticker/logo cross stitch pattern

Bayesian (cross stitch) sampler