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Management School Professor-Quantitative Methods/Data Scientist, Dad, Arsenal fan, political economy, applied statistics, R. Personal account. (he/him/his)

Jun 5, 2021, 38 tweets

You really otter be at #cascadiaRconf....

May as well try to thread tweets.

Governments can deliver service value. They can also generate public goods in data and analysis! Look at this amazing collection! #cascadiaRconf

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Move at the speed of `trust`! What a great mantra for data science team leads internally and data science groups in bigger organizations! @stephhazlitt gives a recipe for success in incorporating R into BC government. #cascadiaRconf

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Next up, sharing R with pagedown...
#cascadiaRconf
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R Users are not designers... I feel seen!

#cascadiaRconf

Though that does not mean that designers are not SUPER welcome [saves so many blushes for people that are terrible at it like me]

#cascadiaRconf

The solution: {pagedreport} an accessible beautiful package and template collection for .pdf reporting from R

#cascadiaRConf

Now to gaps in data accessibility using R Shiny....

#cascadiaRConf

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Putting data on the internet doesn't mean it is actually publicly accessible, it often means publicly available [at great cost to potential users]

#cascadiaRConf

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Solving those barriers....
#cascadiaRConf

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Reproducible research with NMFS Reports....
#cascadiaRConf

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The to-do list...
#cascadiaRConf

The glory of markdown....
#cascadiaRConf

Q and A. accessible through and through....

A new session: Shiny

#cascadiaRConf

Spreadable
Adaptable
Reliable
Desirable
yield SARD, a quartz rock, that can be shined to make it Shiny!!!!
#cascadiaRConf

The capture for the aforementioned text....
#cascadiaRConf

{ggirl} ggplots in real life by @skyetetra

And, come Tuesday, it will apparently be able to handle generative aRt!!!! Missed the slide.

#cascadiaRConf

Next up, Joe Cheng shows how to extend Tableau using R and Shiny
#cascadiaRConf

Why do we care about Tableau is a question that I have often asked.
#cascadiaRConf

{shinytableau} oh my.... tableau can violin plot [but not without R]

200+ lines in two languages or 67 in R. Personally, still asking the why tableau question.....
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And the Q&A to conclude this session....
#cascadiaRConf

oohhhh.... {shinyvalidate} never seen that.
#cascadiaRConf

rstudio.github.io/shinyvalidate/

New session: sharing R love....

#cascadiaRConf

First up, Kate Hertwick on coordination and collaboration in teams using R. Teams of all kinds....

#cascadiaRConf

@k8hert says: facilitate participation by all in a distributed tech product....

It is tech and people and you have to pay attention to both....
#cascadiaRConf

Next up is @kdillmcfarland on being the first bioinformatician in a department.

R users know how wonderful it is. Marketing it internally is important: @kdillmcfarland discusses the importance of getting buy-in through workshops, office hours, and making things accessible and obviously useful.
#cascadiaRConf

Experts have to model vulnerability and learning because no one knows everything. So true.
#cascadiaRConf

Next up is Chante Davis presenting her work with Emily Markowitz and Diana Dishman on teaching colleagues to use R.
#cascadiaRConf

Find community and identified needs:
#cascadiaRConf

The good kind of conspiracy:
#cascadiaRConf

A great talk! The recipe for success:
#cascadiaRConf

Now to the Q&A

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