Jack Kennedy 🐀 @_jcken@social.cleverlibre.org

Getting ready for my #northeast #datascience #meetup talk by re-reading Cole Knaflic’s super book Storytelling with You!

This is the first talk I’ve given after reading it, the book is having a biggg impact on how I’m preparing. Lots of actionable, useful advice!

Also I use a really nice font for my slides (vulf mono), so im excited to show that off

mastodon vs twitter (updated)

Right then, finally an #introduction post for me.

I am #Irish, but live in #Bristol (UK).
I am an applied statistician working in academia, mainly teaching #rstats at undergraduate and postgraduate level.

I'm a statistical ambassador for the Royal Statistical Society https://rss.org.uk/membership/promoting-statistics/rss-statistical-ambassadors/

I have been involved in running the European Juggling Convention each year since 2005 - occasionally on the organising team. Summer 2023 it's back in Ireland in #Gormanston

#statistics #juggling #stats

My #data story today is about https://realworlddatascience.net/, the new #datascience site I'm building at the Royal Statistical Society.

We're looking to publish:

- case studies
- explainers
- exercises
- advice
- career profiles
- interviews

for #datascience students, practitioners, leaders and educators. We want it to be a space where people can share, learn about and be inspired by real-world uses of #datascience.

If you'd like to be involved, please get in touch.

Source: https://realworlddatascience.net/contributor-docs/call-for-contributions.html

I saw another "for loops in #rstats are bad" take on the bird site this afternoon.

Just pre-allocate your vectors, folks! All is well!

I had to do a bit of a hack to get a youtube video to embed into quarto (html output) slides - just inserting it into the raw html after compiling.

Can anyone point to a successful implementation of embedding youtube videos into quarto slides?

Using a html code block didn't work (and I was making the slides last minute, so didn't have much time for faff).

#quarto #revealjs #html #rstats

This week's #TidyTuesday is on US radio stations. 📻

It's my first attempt at using mapping using #ggplot, so I focused on making something aesthethically pleasing rather than statistically interesting.

This taught me a lot, including custom colour scales and legend placement.

Code: https://github.com/zakvarty/tidy-tuesday/tree/main/2022/2022-11-08

Please make sure to add alt text to your images. I don't know how to enforce that in our instance but it should be something that we're all cognizant of each time we post images.

Inspired by Calle Börstell to make something akin to radio dials for this week's #TidyTuesday dataset on radio stations in the USA!

Thanks to Frank Hull and Erin for the data this week!

Code: https://github.com/nrennie/tidytuesday/tree/main/2022/2022-11-08

#rstats #r4ds #DataViz #DataVisualisation #DataVizualisation

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