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@dgkeyes
Jan 9, 2019 • 3 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
You don’t need a PhD in statistics or years of coding experience to learn R. Anyone can learn the most powerful tool for data analysis and visualization. I just launched @rfortherest to help the rest of us learn #rstats. Learn more at rfortherestofus.com
For those wondering, @rfortherest builds on what we created with R for Eval. I've decided to do R training as a solo project and expand the focus beyond just #eval. Folks in public health, social work, and auditing, I'm coming for you!
If there are other fields that haven't embraced the gospel of #rstats and could benefit from being converted, please let me know!

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Sep 28, 2020
When I started learning R, I thought it was just for stats.

I've since come to see it as a workflow tool (bit.ly/349GOHh).

Here's a thread about how I recently used R that is a great example of its power to improve your workflow.

#rstats
I've been supporting Prosper Portland, the business development agency for the city of Portland. For the last two weeks, they were taking applications from businesses affected by COVID.

The applications were submitted in five languages. Applications for each language went to a separate Google Sheet.

I began by using the {googlesheets4} package to import and bind all of the applications together.
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Aug 10, 2020
What's your favorite example of a visually appealing report?
Looking in particular for examples that communicate with data to non-technical audiences.
One more clarification: looking for static reports right now. Love me some digital ones, but I'm designing a PDF-based report and need some inspiration for that.
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May 1, 2020
Teaching students to use software they won't have access to after graduation is immoral.
I'm not a hot takes kind of guy. This is my one medium spicy take.
It's like teaching construction workers to use some crazy kind of hammer they'll never see on an actual jobsite. Why would you do that?
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Apr 20, 2020
ggplot is, to me, the perfect level of abstraction: complex enough that it forces you to think about what you're doing, but simple enough to pick up (semi) quickly. #rstats
With Excel, I always felt like I was just hacking things together without thinking about the underlying issues.

Moving to #rstats forced me to think more deeply about data viz — and become better in the process.

rforthe.rest/data-viz-dabbl…
If Excel is on end of the simple-to-complex continuum, D3 is way on the other end. I've tried to learn D3 and ... it did not go well.
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Mar 26, 2020
Yes, please!

My wife, who is a primary care provider, spent half of yesterday working in a fever clinic.

What better way to show that we value the work of people like her than to wipe their (often incredibly burdensome) student loan debts?
The more likely scenario, though, is that this doesn't happened.

Which is scary at a time when she's actually worried her salary will be lower this year because she's not doing things like procedures.
It's not that she wants to be doing things like procedures. It's that, in our fee-for-service model, this is what providers are paid for.

By the perverse logic of the market, her seeing patients who may have COVID is of lower value.
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Mar 5, 2020
I've always had good experiences with RStudio Cloud in teaching #rstats. Here's what I've done:

Created a project that anyone can access (see rstudio.cloud/learn/guide#yo…).

Students copy this project to their own workspace and work on it (make sure they save a permanent copy!).
I don't use private spaces, which I feared might lead to issues with bandwidth.

This works fine for me because I'm typically doing one- or two-day workshops and I don't need people to "turn in" materials, which can only be done with private spaces.
I also send out a link to a zip file with materials to all students beforehand and tell them to download it and have it as a backup.

If you're having internet issues, the chances of folks being able to download large files is slim.
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