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Championing open data science for kinder, better science for future us / @openscapes, @ucsb_nceas, #rstats, @Mozilla, @RLadiesSB / she / Fired up, ready to go.
Oct 12, 2020 10 tweets 6 min read
.@allison_horst and I created an illustrated series about tidy data and why it’s such a powerful concept for data analysis. Tidy data helps you be more efficient, reproducible, and collaborative. Why? Thread 1/9: First, what is tidy data? Tidy data is a way to describe data that’s organized with a particular structure – a rectangular structure, where each variable has its own column, and each observation has its own row 2/9
Nov 15, 2019 17 tweets 4 min read
"Yihui is a legendary type of hero in the R community." #Truth
slides.yihui.org/2019-dahshu-rm…
1. tinytex is a small, powerful alternative to mactex
2. generate Rmds from your R scripts w/ a special syntax for comments: #`