You may think of R as a tool for complex statistical analysis, but it's much more than that. From data visualization to efficient reporting, to improving your workflow, R can do it all. On this podcast, I talk with people about how they use R in unique and creative ways.
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We discuss R packages, techniques, code, useR conferences, and interview folks in the #rstats community.
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TidyTuesday is a weekly podcast and community activity (https://github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday) brought to you by the R4DS Online Learning Community (http://r4ds.io/). Our goal is to help R learners learn in real-world contexts.
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Data & Fun. Weekly updates from the R programming language open source community. #rstats
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R for the Rest of Us Podcast Episode #18: Miles McBain
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In this episode, I speak with Miles McBain, a data scientist and R package developer from Brisbane, Australia, about patterns and anti-patterns in data analysis reuse. Miles shares his journey from a generalist software developer to a data science specialist, his passion for R, and the evolution of his coding practices. We delve into the intricacie…
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R for the Rest of Us Podcast Episode #17: Meghan Harris
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In this episode, I speak with Meghan Harris, a data scientist at the Prostate Cancer Trials Consortium at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Meghan is one of the people who does generative art in R. She talks about why she likes making generative art in R and how making generative art has helped her improve her R skills in other areas. Imp…
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R for the Rest of Us Podcast Episode #16: Cara Thompson
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In this episode, I speak with Cara Thompson about color, delving into several aspects of its use in data visualization. Cara is a UK-based data visualization consultant with over 15 years of experience in transforming data insights into clear, compelling visual stories. We explore how she finds inspiration for selecting colors, her reasons for not …
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R for the Rest of Us Podcast Episode #15: Nicola Rennie
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In this episode, I talk with Nicola Rennie about making data viz for mobile devices. Nicola is a lecturer in health data science based within the Center for Health Informatics, Computing, and Statistics at Lancaster University in the UK. She recounts her initial encounter with R and how she got deeper into data visualization in R as a means of crea…
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R for the Rest of Us Podcast Episode #14: Will Landau
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In this episode, I’m joined by Will Landau, a statistician and software developer currently working with Eli Lilly and Company. Will specializes in Bayesian methods, high-performance computing, and reproducible workflows. He is the creator of the {targets} R package, a pipeline tool for reproducible computation in statistics and data science. The p…
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R for the Rest of Us Podcast Episode #13: Using R in the Humanitarian Data Space (Ahmadou Dicko)
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In this episode, I talk with Ahmadou Dicko, a statistician based in Senegal working with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Ahmadou shares insights on utilizing data-driven approaches to address development obstacles, especially within humanitarian settings. He explores the innovative packages and strategies developed by his…
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R for the Rest of Us Podcast Episode #12: R and Covid-19 (Chris Knox)
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In this episode, I speak with Chris Knox, who is currently the Head of Data Journalism at the New Zealand Herald. Prior to that, he worked at the New Zealand ministry of health, where he led an analytics team focused on New Zealand's COVID response. During our conversation, Chris highlights why he considers R as the optimal tool for data analysis a…
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R for the Rest of Us Podcast Episode #11: Creating a package (Travis Gerke and Garrick Aden-Buie)
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In this episode, Travis Gerke and Garrick Aden-Buie join me to demystify the process behind developing custom packages in R. Travis is the Director of Data Science at The Prostate Cancer Clinical Trials Consortium (PCCTC), and Garrick is a Data Science Educator and R developer at R Studio. During the discussion, Travis and Garrick highlight the num…
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R for the Rest of Us Podcast Episode #10: tidycensus (Kyle Walker)
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In this episode, I speak with Kyle Walker, Associate Professor of Geography and Director of the Center for Urban Studies at Texas Christian University. Kyle has developed several packages, but the one we talk about in this chat is called tidycensus. tidycensus allows R users to return Census and ACS data as tidyverse-ready data frames. Kyle had a r…
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R for the Rest of Us Podcast Episode #9: Pull in survey results (Meghan Harris)
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In this episode, I speak with Meghan Harris, a data integration specialist at the Primary Care Research Institute, University of Buffalo. There, she brings together data from multiple sources to create insights that benefit people affected by opioid use disorder. Meghan talks about how she uses R to pull data directly from Google Sheets, and highli…
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R for the Rest of Us Podcast Episode #8: Websites (Matt Herman)
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In this episode, I chat with Matt Herman about building websites in R. Matt shares lessons from his experience building a self-updating Covid-19 tracking site for Westchester County. Matt is a Data Scientist at the Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center, where he focuses on research and policy analysis. Matt has created automated and rep…
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R for the Rest of Us Podcast Episode #7: Presentations (Silvia Canelón)
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In this episode, I talk with Silvia Canelón, a postdoctoral research scientist in the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics at the University of Pennsylvania. Silvia why she loves using xaringan to create captivating, audience-friendly presentations directly from R markdown. Making presentations with R Markdown not only saves h…
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R for the Rest of Us Podcast Episode #6: Parameterized Reporting at the Urban Institute
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In this episode, I talk with Aaron R. Williams, Livia Mucciolo and Safia Sayed about their experience using parameterized reporting to make State Fiscal Briefs. They discuss their approach and share advice for those contemplating parameterized reporting. Read more about Generating Multiple Reports at Once With Parameterized Reporting in Chapter 7 o…
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R for the Rest of Us Podcast Episode #5: Alison Hill
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In this episode, I talk R Markdown with Alison Hill, the Director of Knowledge at Voltron Data. Before taking on this position, she held data science and education positions at IBM and RStudio. Alison has a passion for helping individuals improve the efficiency, accuracy, and reproducibility of their work through the use of R Markdown. During our c…
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R for the Rest of Us Podcast Episode #4: Abdoul Madjid
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In this episode I speak with Abdoul Madjid about his journey to R. To learn more about Abdoul, you can find him on Twitter and on Mastodon. His data visualization, done as part of Tidy Tuesday, is on GitHub. To view all of our courses, go to https://rfortherestofus.com/By David Keyes
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R for the Rest of Us Podcast Episode #3: Tom Mock on Learning R and Making Tables
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In this episode, I speak with Tom Mock. Tom works at Posit (formerly RStudio) where he helped customers use that company's suite of products. Tom also loves building tables. I spoke with Tom about how he learned R, how he uses it today, and why he is so into making tables in R. You can find Tom on Twitter at https://twitter.com/thomas_mock. The blo…
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R for the Rest of Us Podcast Episode #2: Nassos Stylianou and Clara Guibourg Discuss Making a Custom ggplot Theme for the BBC
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In 2017, BBC data journalist Nassos Stylianou was working with a backend developer on a particularly large data set. Nassos was primarily an Excel user at the time, but this data was too large for Excel. Seeing the developer work through the data with ease, a light bulb went off for Stylianou: if he and his data journalism team learned to use R, th…
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R for the Rest of Us Podcast Episode #1: Cédric Scherer and Georgios Karamanis
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In this first episode of the R for the Rest of Us podcast, I speak with designers Cédric Scherer and Georgios Karamanis about how they learned data viz, why they use R for their work, and how they get inspired. We also discussed how they made their Scientific American data viz. You can find that on YouTube. To learn more about Cédric, find him on T…
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Follow the show at @tidypod on Twitter! For show notes and to subscribe see tidytuesday.com Join us at r4ds.io @R4DSCommunity Host: Jon Harmon @jonthegeek jonthegeek.com Support us at patreon.com/tidytuesday Last week's data on college tuition, diversity, and pay: github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/tree/master/data/2020/2020-03-10 Julia Silge's…
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Follow the show at @tidypod on Twitter! For show notes and to subscribe see tidytuesday.com Join us at r4ds.online @R4DSCommunity Host: Jon Harmon @jonthegeek jonthegeek.com Support us at patreon.com/tidytuesday Last week's data on the New Zealand Bird of the Year: github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/tree/master/data/2019/2019-11-19 Julia Watzek…
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Follow the show at @tidypod on Twitter! For show notes and to subscribe see tidytuesday.com Join us at r4ds.online @R4DSCommunity Host: Jon Harmon @jonthegeek jonthegeek.com Support us at patreon.com/tidytuesday Last week's data on SQUIRRELS!: github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/tree/master/data/2019/2019-10-29 Maggie Sogin's Chord Diagram The c…
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Follow the show at @tidypod on Twitter! For show notes and to subscribe see tidytuesday.com Join us at r4ds.online @R4DSCommunity Host: Jon Harmon @jonthegeek jonthegeek.com Support us at patreon.com/tidytuesday Last week's data on horror movies: github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/tree/master/data/2019/2019-10-22 David Smale's Blood Chart Evan …
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Follow the show at @tidypod on Twitter! For show notes and to subscribe see tidytuesday.com Join us at r4ds.online @R4DSCommunity Host: Jon Harmon @jonthegeek jonthegeek.com Support us at patreon.com/tidytuesday Last week's data on fuel efficiency: github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/tree/master/data/2019/2019-10-15 Colin Fay's Shiny app Check o…
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Follow the show at @tidypod on Twitter! For show notes and to subscribe see tidytuesday.com Join us at r4ds.online @R4DSCommunity Host: Jon Harmon @jonthegeek jonthegeek.com Support us at patreon.com/tidytuesday Last week's data on International Powerlifting: https://github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/tree/master/data/2019/2019-10-08 Christian …
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Follow the show at @tidypod on Twitter! For show notes and to subscribe see tidytuesday.com Join us at r4ds.online @R4DSCommunity Host: Jon Harmon @jonthegeek jonthegeek.com Support us at patreon.com/tidytuesday Last week's data on Pizza: https://github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/tree/master/data/2019/2019-10-01 David Smail's visualization: ht…
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Follow the show at @tidypod on Twitter! For show notes and to subscribe see tidytuesday.com Join us at r4ds.online @R4DSCommunity Host: Jon Harmon @jonthegeek jonthegeek.com Support us at patreon.com/tidytuesday Last week's data: https://github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/tree/master/data/2019/2019-09-24 Joshua Feldman's visualization: https://…
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Follow the show at @tidypod on Twitter! For show notes and to subscribe see tidytuesday.com Join us at r4ds.online @R4DSCommunity Host: Jon Harmon @jonthegeek jonthegeek.com Support us at patreon.com/tidytuesday Last week's data: https://github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/tree/master/data/2019/2019-09-17 Amit Levinson's visualization: https://t…
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Follow the show at @tidypod on Twitter! For show notes and to subscribe see tidytuesday.com Join us at r4ds.online @R4DSCommunity Host: Jon Harmon @jonthegeek jonthegeek.com Support us at patreon.com/tidytuesday Last week's data: https://github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/tree/master/data/2019/2019-09-10 Ariane Aumitre's visualization: https://…
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Follow the show at @tidypod on Twitter! For show notes and to subscribe see tidytuesday.com Join us at r4ds.online @R4DSCommunity Host: Jon Harmon @jonthegeek jonthegeek.com Support us at patreon.com/tidytuesday Last week's data: https://github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/tree/master/data/2019/2019-09-03 Gil Henrique's visualization: twitter.co…
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Follow the show at @tidypod on Twitter! Join us at r4ds.online @R4DSCommunity Host: Jon Harmon @jonthegeek jonthegeek.com Support us at patreon.com/tidytuesday Last week's data: github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/tree/master/data/2019/2019-08-27 Gil Henrique's visualization: twitter.com/_Gil_Henriques/status/1166440262773567488 Gina Reynolds' w…
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Follow the show at @tidypod Join us at r4ds.online @R4DSCommunity Host: Jon Harmon @jonthegeek jonthegeek.com Support us at patreon.com/tidytuesday Last week's data | Our World in Data Blog Cedric Scherer's visualization #TidyTuesday tidytuesday.rocks by Neal Grantham colorspace package Claus's trick Claus Wilke on Twitter This week's data | Wikipe…
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About R 3.4.1, new dplyr & dbplyr, UseR! 2016 & 2017. https://rweekly.org/2017-27.html Read R Weekly 2017 issue 27 Support with Patreon Twitter @rweekly_org Follow FacebookBy R Weekly
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About readers' feedback, rOpenSci Unconference 2017, Keras and more. Read R Weekly 2017 issue 23 Support with Patreon Twitter @rweekly_org Follow Facebook Music by GillicuddyBy R Weekly
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2017 May - New R packages to handle binary files
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About R 3.4.0 new features, R packages to handle binary files and more. Read R Weekly 2017 issue 18 Support with Patreon Twitter @rweekly_org Follow Facebook Music by GillicuddyBy R Weekly
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About dplyr new features, report on the 2017 Society of American Archaeology meeting about R and more. Read R Weekly 2017 issue 16 Support with Patreon Twitter @rweekly_org Follow Facebook Music by GillicuddyBy R Weekly
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About R Consortium Q1 2017 ISC Grants, the latest R Core updates and more. Read R Weekly 2017 issue 15 Support with Patreon Twitter @rweekly_org Follow Facebook Music by GillicuddyBy R Weekly
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About collaboration with R, 20 years of CRAN and more. Read R Weekly 2017 issue 14 Support with Patreon Twitter @rweekly_org Follow Facebook Music by GillicuddyBy R Weekly
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About how to find new R packages, use of an R package to facilitate reproducible research, registering routines with Rcpp and more. Read R Weekly 2017 issue 13 Support with Patreon Twitter @rweekly_org Follow Facebook Music by GillicuddyBy R Weekly
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About the levels of data science class, learning to learn programming languages, hexagon sticker with R and more. Read R Weekly 2017 issue 12 Support with Patreon Twitter @rweekly_org Follow Facebook Music by GillicuddyBy R Weekly
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