I get an automated email in my inbox every single morning describing what changed overnight in a harmonized dataset from 50+ open data portals.
Data science is messy, and hard, and the reality is not that glamorous.
⬇️ Check out our reflections on a year of maintaining the Live Crime Tracker!
This is a fun piece on denominators to share with your friends, written with my @wakeforest.bsky.social colleague Jeff Camm!
Monash University has made many positions available specifically for young and early career researchers who would like to take some time away from the USA. These are case by case, not advertised. So if you are interested or know anyone interested have them get in contact with someone at Monash.
Congrats Lucy!!!! 🎉
i'd fork this repo
Unfortunately, all Census TIGER/Line and cartographic boundary shapefiles are down as of this evening.
This means that the tigris #rstats and pygris #Python packages will not work, and geometry support in tidycensus will also fail.
The Census API, for now, is still up.
Crime dropped in 2024. How much? Record-breaking amounts in several categories. www.norc.org/research/lib...
SAVE THE DATES!!! Great news: useR 2025 will take place at Duke University, in Durham, NC, USA, August 8-10! More details to announced shortly, so stay tuned via duke-university-ocmd.read.axioshq.com/signup/user_...
www.linkedin.com/posts/user-c...
this but for my unread emails
anyways this is just a sampling of the insanity (20 questions, highest score was 8/20) but please send me evil R trivia ideas so I can annoy my colleagues again this year thank youuuu
The best part of the colors one is that the answer WAS {bluey} and technically still is, but after this someone DID make a bluey color palette package on GitHub:
ekholme.github.io/blueycolors/
Slide with the question "There are many color palette packages that take inspiration from a variety of sources. Which of the following is NOT a package on CRAN?" and response options of: trekcolors, colorr, PNWcolors, wesanderson, bluey, fishualize, legocolors, and MetBrewer.
#rstats is very into colors what can i say
Slide with the question: "Which of these random sets of 4 consonants is the name of an R package on CRAN?" and response options of gbmt, gdpc, gcmr, and gbfs
reader, they are all names of R packages on CRAN
Slide with question "Which of the following is NOT the name of a package currently on CRAN?" and response options of avocado, burgeR, cheese, and lemon.
was i hungry while making trivia questions? who's to say
Slide with the question "Which of the following is NOT the name of a package currently on CRAN?" and response options of water, earth, FiRE, and air.
everything changed when the FiRE package attacked
Slide with the question "What package has the most verisons" and response options of lattice, Matrix, nlme, and survival.
this question was just me venting my annoyance with the Matrix package's 400+ versions, tbh.
I'm sure this is higher now but very few people were close to the answer at the time (20,233).
Slide with the question "R package have a history of open-source collaboration. Which of these packages has the highest number of authors?" and possible answers: DescTools, broom, mlpack, and rcorpora
The correct answer to this one had 147 unique credited authors!
Last year I started an annual "R Trivia Night" at our org's R Users Group as a fun way to close out the year. In prepping for this year's, I'm reviewing my (diabolical) questions from the inaugural event. Enjoy.
#rstats
(answers as of Dec. 18, 2023)
⬇️ find the stat graphics squad!
late to sharing this over here but wheeee posit::conf(2024) talks are up on YouTube!! go check out my talk "Wait, That's Shiny?" if you like thinking creatively about what Shiny can do and/or like dorky concept graphics
youtu.be/SAbV6d7Pn0U?...
Thought I might as well get around to introducing myself over here :)
I'm a #DataViz, #RStats, #Reproducibility, and #SciComm person. If you want to learn more about what that means, check out my website (built in Quarto!):
kiegan.github.io
