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Big Bud Press with a little CSS

or: your Shiny apps can be cute, I promise!

Star Trek: The Next Generation catchphrases

It was only a matter of time before I reached “The Sopranos Point” of the pandemic and decided to pick up Star Trek. I thought I might …

comparing two data frames: one #rstats, many ways!

today i tweeted asking about packages to compare two data frames (specifically, their variable names and types): anyone aware of an …

crying @ sephora

A few days ago an amazing tweet made the rounds: I made a dataset of Sephora reviews that mention crying ☔️ https://t.co/BNObniWmOM …

opendatatoronto 0.1.0 is on CRAN!

I’m beyond excited to announce that opendatatoronto is now released on CRAN! opendatatoronto is a package for searching and accessing …

RStudio Conf Diversity Scholarships

The RStudio conf diversity scholarship applications just opened! This is a fantastic program, providing free conference registration …

usethis for reporting

👋 Hi! Over the last few weeks I have become totally enamored with the usethis package. It is really useful. Seriously – use it. I …

February 2019: Visualizing my discogs collection

In parts one and two of this series I did a whole lot of API pulling and data cleaning to get my discogs collection into a tidy state 🙏 …

February 2019: More discogging

(Yes, I know it’s March. This is a delayed followup for the February edition of my #mememe2019 project. It involves even more (and …

#chirunconf

I’m in the airport on my way home from the ~first ever~ Chicago R Unconference, and it seems like there’s no better time to write about …