Top 21 #RStats tweets of 2021
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13 December 2021
The R Community has been as active as ever on Twitter during 2021. Here’s a selection of the top 21 tweets of the year.
Not on Twitter and don’t know where to start? Don’t worry! I co-authored the free book Twitter for R programmers with Veerle van Son to give you a gentle introduction to the platform and awesome community.
Without further ado, let’s go on a trip down memory lane 
Milos is a prolific map creator and he has a tonne of tutorials on his blog. His posts often generate a lot of discussion outside of R communities.
Hadley needs no intro and good to see RStudio diversify their product base.
If picture is worth a thousand words then a GIF is worth 1000 x n-frames, as this fantastic example from Indrajeet shows.
This thread is a thing of beauty and Virginia knows the value of good meme-creation skills.
You had me at “I want to remove my plot legend” 
In an age where virtual assistant programs have become ubiquitous, you may also wish to have one that helps you find solutions to common ggplot formatting problems.
— R Function A Day (@rfunctionaday) April 15, 2021
The {gghelp} function {ggx} mimics behavior of such an assistanthttps://t.co/6VQzRqbrgp#rstats #DataScience pic.twitter.com/esK1W6xMEj
I think it’s pronounced “gee-giraffe”.
Every tweet gets a “Hadley bump” when you’re Hadley :). This book is changing lives.
Mastering Shiny has just gone into production
— Hadley Wickham (@hadleywickham) April 29, 2021, so now's a great to pre-order if you want a physical copy! https://t.co/r5BnEMiOBd (Or continue to read online for free at https://t.co/aby9kfwmQu) #rstats pic.twitter.com/PKNvsIHFxJ
I remember the day when Moriah released this treasure trove of a thread. Still brings a tear of a joy to my eye 
. She’s also a twitch streamer streaming games and R.
Having trouble picking a color palette for your #Rstats visualization? Well here's a MEGA thread about all the ways you can choose a palette!
— Moriah Taylor (she/her) (@moriah_taylor58) May 20, 2021[1/22]
The ultra cool Mara “M. Averick” Averick boosting another great post from Cédric (he’s got a few of his own posts below) . Follow her.
— Mara Averick (@dataandme) May 25, 2021
This really is such a bookmark-worthy post:
“The Evolution of a ggplot (Ep. 1)” by @CedScherer https://t.co/AL2AHY6FFt #rstats #dataviz
[GIF: shows each stage of evolution of the plot] pic.twitter.com/kxQ5R8JqfQ
If you know #RStats, you probably know Cédric, a data vizard who’s trying to convince us he’s a mere mortal but keeps producing magic like this.
— Cédric Scherer (@CedScherer) June 6, 2021
New blog post!
I finally finished the post on “Visualizing Distributions with Raincloud Plots with #ggplot2” showing why such hybrid charts are a good alternative to boxplots and numerous ways how to create them in #rstats with #ggplot2. #datavizhttps://t.co/ImrmFteeig pic.twitter.com/RGk15s20e6
When he’s not co-authoring amazing works like Supervised Machine Learning for Text Analysis in R, Emil casually lobs something this into the Twittersphere.
If you are reading the 2nd edition of “An Introduction to Statistical Learning” and want to pick up #tidymodels at the same time, then you are in luck
— Emil Hvitfeldt (@Emil_Hvitfeldt) August 9, 2021
I have compiled complementary labs using tidymodels for all of you to use and teach withhttps://t.co/BzPaGBI052 #rstats pic.twitter.com/BepjogEIaM
Tyler. What can one say other than he’s an R alchemist. Most of his tweets get very popular especially when rendering pigs in 3D but alas none of those were as liked as this one. Still pretty cool though ;).
#RStats is filled with educators who generously share their material and products. Thanks Stephanie!
Another awesome Tyler post that’ll hypnotise you.
No need to wait for that Hogwarts letter. Cédric the Vizard is teaching you his wizarding magic right here.
— Cédric Scherer (@CedScherer) September 23, 2021
Talks, seminars, blog posts, hands-on notebooks, codes, and more!
#rstats #ggplot2 #tidyverse #datavizpic.twitter.com/eMY2DqghNL
Sharon, author of Practical R for Mass Communication and Journalism, shares a lot of cool stuff on her feed. Did you know she also posts a tonne of handy R screencasts over at Do More with R youtube playlist?
R’s not just a programming language, but a love language too. He’s a keeper Rebecca!
Husband surprised me with a new license plate when he renewed our car’s registration
— Rebecca Janis (@rbjanis5) October 14, 2021#rstats pic.twitter.com/HosfddRpvR
Somehow flotsam is living their best life, just churning our rayshader geospatial beauties like this one. “Slinky Chile” lives in my head rent-free.
R in the front, kids in the trunk #SquadGoals.
Another example of people sharing their bountiful knowledge. Thank you Andrew!
I've become a big fan of using multilevel models with panel data (i.e. country/year data), but I always forget how to specify them and can't remember how all the moving parts work, so I created a new practical guide for doing this with #rstats and brms https://t.co/mHea6C9cOz pic.twitter.com/kDAvZXqDb1
—Andrew Heiss
(@andrewheiss) December 1, 2021
And ending off 2021 with a absolute bang. Checkout the quote tweets and replies if you want to see full grown adults losing their minds. I think Sean moonlights as Santa.
Today is launch day!
— Sean Kross (@seankross) December 4, 2021
I am super excited to introduce *Tidy Data Tutor* a web application for visualizing your #rstats #tidyverse data analysis pipelines: https://t.co/7DuRg1ilMm
(Developed with Philip Guo) pic.twitter.com/kHzi1GGoYM
Thank you joining me on this little trip down memory lane. I hope you enjoyed those and maybe found a few you missed :). I don’t know what 2022 will bring but we can be sure there be more amazing tweets from awesome peeps.
Want to try Twitter out for yourself? Veerle van Son and I have you covered:
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