All in 2020
#BlackInDataWeek is a free, online data conference taking place November 16-21, 2020
It's a week-long celebration to (1) highlight the valuable work and experiences of Black people in the field of Data, (2) provide community, and (3) educational and professional resources.
Learn how to display your pretty R tables in GitHub by hosting your .Rmd html output with GitHub pages.
See which US states are most excited about Thanksgiving. Explore Google search popularity for the keyword “thanksgiving” using gTrendsR while creating easy US maps in R using the usmap package.
Wizard zines hosts a collection of awesome programming zines and posters by Julia Evans. The zines cover a wide range of technical topics like Linux, networking, debugging, containers, SQL, Git and more!
Image credit for SQL statement processing: wizard zines website.
The big book of R is an open-source web page created by #rstats community member Oscar Baruffa. The page functions as an easy to navigate, one-stop shop for available books on the R programming language.
Data Illustrator is an easy and powerful data visualization tool that bridges the gap between traditional BI tools and design tools.
I just released my first open-source package: pelotonR! The package was created to provide users with sample access to Peloton data through R. Learn more at the website: https://lgellis.github.io/pelotonR/
Check out your twitter bot created in R by Thomas Serrano and shared by Bryan D Martin!
Sharing some of my favorite data science and data foundation books for young kids!
A week full of very easy data gathering and visualization activities to do with your young kids!
A tutorial demonstrating how to create geographical maps in R using ggmap. Technologies include: R, Watson Studio and IBM Cloud.
A few weeks ago, my tweet on the R patchwork package went nerd viral. I analyze the tweet performance and possible impact on the patchwork package downloads. I’ll arrange the resulting graphs with patchwork!
As a bonus, I’ll show y’all how I added an image to the patchwork layout by placing it within a ggplot graph and fixing the coordinates to avoid weird scaling issues.
I am very excited to let y’all know that my work bestie, Tiffany Cross, and I will be delivering a keynote talk at the Postgres Conference in March. The title of our talk is: “Data Democratization: Enabling Citizen Data Scientists”.
A step by step approach to breaking down your business problem into a less intimidating data problem.
