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.

My new map of Europe shows % of people who work in science & technology field in 2019#science #tech #DataScience #dataviz #maps #rstats pic.twitter.com/L74OqyVBks
— Milos Popovic/Милош Поповић (@milos_agathon) February 23, 2021

Hadley needs no intro and good to see RStudio diversify their product base.

As well as package stickers the RStudio swag store (https://t.co/JoQ3raQujN) now includes a small supply of dplyr masks: https://t.co/9bCbbZyajr #rstats pic.twitter.com/nA5GHoIR8j
— Hadley Wickham (@hadleywickham) March 24, 2021

If picture is worth a thousand words then a GIF is worth 1000 x n-frames, as this fantastic example from Indrajeet shows.

I am often asked why I insist on complicating a plot by overlaying a violin plot on top of a box plot when the latter already gives a good visual summary of the distribution.

This gif provides a reason.

For a more nuanced argument, see:https://t.co/GhGmqxRoLi #rstats #dataviz pic.twitter.com/Qk1lQMuBJm
— Indrajeet Patil (इंद्रजीत पाटील) (@patilindrajeets) March 25, 2021

This thread is a thing of beauty and Virginia knows the value of good meme-creation skills.

Asked my students to do stats memes for extra credit and *was not disappointed*.#rstats #memes #statistics pic.twitter.com/3um9qXLTmL
— Virginia Matzek (@v_matzek) March 30, 2021

You had me at “I want to remove my plot legend”

I think it’s pronounced “gee-giraffe”.

ggiraph + shiny is fantastic!
~30 lines of code.#dataviz #rstats pic.twitter.com/cEsK4PFROx
— Claus Wilke (@ClausWilke) April 20, 2021

Every tweet gets a “Hadley bump” when you’re Hadley :). This book is changing lives.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 ;).

New dataviz: The Humanity Globe. Population density across the world, visualized in 3D with #rayrender (using #RStats and #rayshader to process the data).

Code:https://t.co/lW0JrOgvk3

Rayrender:https://t.co/iB5nWhpnfN #dataviz #DataVisualization pic.twitter.com/kgnPLrz0iU
— Tyler Morgan-Wall (@tylermorganwall) August 17, 2021

#RStats is filled with educators who generously share their material and products. Thanks Stephanie!

Teaching R this fall? Me too!

I'm so excited to share this (work-in-progress, but stable for now) new #rstats package I'm been working towards. Announcing the {introverse}, a one-stop-shop for computing novices heading into R and the tidyverse. https://t.co/b543RhqZx6 1/9
— Stephanie Spielman, PhD (@stephspiel) August 24, 2021

Another awesome Tyler post that’ll hypnotise you.

New #dataviz! The Earth's submarine fiber optic cable network, visualized in #RStats with #rayrender.

Code:https://t.co/6tFsS4vfAK

Rayrender Github:https://t.co/iB5nWhGY7l pic.twitter.com/1FTKM0FPHr
— Tyler Morgan-Wall (@tylermorganwall) September 22, 2021

No need to wait for that Hogwarts letter. Cédric the Vizard is teaching you his wizarding magic right here.

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?

Tutorials on using #rstats for geospatial analysis: https://t.co/38LSKl6opX #gis pic.twitter.com/AfyplE3Mn0
— Sharon Machlis (@sharon000) October 11, 2021

R’s not just a programming language, but a love language too. He’s a keeper Rebecca!

Somehow flotsam is living their best life, just churning our rayshader geospatial beauties like this one. “Slinky Chile” lives in my head rent-free.

A population density map of long, slinky Chile. Took a bit of time to find an angle I like.#rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale pic.twitter.com/ulU36V34tw
— flotsam (@researchremora) October 23, 2021

R in the front, kids in the trunk #SquadGoals.

When it’s time to go home but your code isn’t done running. #RStats pic.twitter.com/cuhlQ8mKFF
— Matt Cheng (@MLCheng3) October 24, 2021

Another example of people sharing their bountiful knowledge. Thank you Andrew!

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.

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:

I’ve co-authored a book! Twitter for R Programmers

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