A while back, I wrote this tweet showing many (not all!) of the ways one might search for a particular set of columns in a data frame using R. Several of these approaches used the {magrittr} pipe (%__%) and the native R pipe (|__), the lat...

Getting started in #rtistry Artists in the R community have been using the #rtistry hashtag to demonstrate their gorgeous, dynamic art using only the R programming language. Their creations are amazing and they inspired me to try out generative art ...

R users are incredibly fortunate to work in an open source community that creates and shares resources that make our work even better. The {ggplot2} package comes with incredibly useful geoms (geometric objects) to create visualizations. A full list ...

My co-authors Ryan, Emily, Jesse, Josh, and I published our book last year, but it had actually been around since the moment we started writing it. Data Science in Education Using R is available online as a bookdown on a website, available to all. {b...

The Problem State of the Code Editors Installation Configuration Writing an R Package Using VS Code Live Share Tutorial Final Thoughts The Problem Way back in the Before Time, my older brother and I worked together on an R package called {wizehiver}. To collaborate, we used many tools. We had ...

leaidr Update A few months ago, I created {leaidr} for easier download of U.S. school district shapefiles. Daniel Anderson went through and greatly improved the package, making it even easier to download and use the shapefiles (thanks Dan!). Now, instead of having to run lea_prep(), you can download ...

Blogdown Bookdown Shiny Blogdown R-Ladies Seattle Website https://rladiesseattle.org/ Bookdown Data Science in Education Using R Open Version https://datascienceineducation.com/ Shiny Spurious COVID Correlation Creator https://ivel...

The U.S. Census releases aggregate data on their Household Pulse Survey. These data are super interesting and cover a range of important topics, particularly those related to the COVID-19 pandemic. First of all, let me clarify that I think that the wo...

wizehiver: R wrapper for WizeHive’s Zengine API dataedu: R Package Associated with the Data Science in Education Using R Book leaidr: R Package for U.S. School District Shapefiles edreportr: R Wrapper for EdReports API

I would like to introduce {leaidr}, a package for mapping U.S. School District shapefiles! Inspired by my coauthor Joshua Rosenberg, the goal of {leaidr} is to facilitate the download and use of school district shapefiles. School districts in the U.S....

I often use {ggplot2} to create graphs but there are certain things I always have to Google. I figured I’d create a post for quick reference for myself but I’d love to hear what you always have to look up! Remove the Legend Change Legend Title and Labels ...

My good friend Ryan Estrellado recommended an NPR Planet Money podcast episode on the “Modal American.” Working with Ben Casselman, Planet Money explored the most ‘typical’ American. It was a fantastic, engaging episode about a common statistical technique that I’ve never seen applied in this way before. They ran ...