Talks

Title	Date	Description
Building a Blog With R	Jan 25, 2022	A blog is a wonderful opportunity to record your data stories, gain exposure for your expertise, and support others in their R journey. In this talk, I discuss possible reasons for creating a blog and explore tools that make it easy to showcase your R skills.
Packages for Using R With Python, Tableau, and Other Tools	Dec 10, 2021	R is a powerful programming language for statistics and data science with an accompanying ecosystem that supports its use. Interoperability is part of what makes the R ecosystem so rich, enabling users to apply R in a variety of contexts. In this talk, I discuss packages that allow you to integrate R together with other tools, including Python and Tableau.
Around the World in a Single Table (gt Walkthrough)	Oct 27, 2021	Tables are a format for communicating information. In this talk, I walk through creating a table using the {gt} package.
Git Through April	Apr 23, 2021	A walkthrough on using Git in the RStudio GUI.
Longitudinal Analysis with Federal Students with Disabilities Data	Mar 31, 2021	A Data Science in Education Using R bookclub session on longitudinal data analysis.
What do penguins have to do with being anti-racist?	Aug 5, 2020	A talk on why being anti-racist matters in data science.
Package Management for Reproducible Data Science in R	May 7, 2020	Reproducible data science encompasses a broad range of practices including, but not limited to, version control and literate programming. One practice that is often overlooked is proper management of packages. Code that works with software or package version you have installed may break when run with different software or package version. In this webinar, we will discuss R package management solutions for two scenarios. Isabella will show how to maintain installed packages when upgrading to a new version of R, using the recent release of R 4.0 as an example. Mike will demonstrate how the renv package can be used to maintain packages within individual data science projects.
Taking a Peek at Hiking Data Using R	Jul 16, 2019	An analysis of hiking routes and metrics.
Blogdown for What	Jul 23, 2018	A walkthrough on creating a website using the {blogdown} package.