Applications for the rstudio::conf(2019) are now open! Last year I was lucky enough to be the receipient of an international diversity scholarships to attend rstudio::conf(2018). It was hard to believe at first, but it was true! I live in Uruguay, South America, so it’s extra expensive for ...

Not long ago I came across a FiveThirtyEight post called “The Worst Tweeter In Politics Isn’t Trump”. Well, it was a long time ago actually, but this project was laying in my computer for a while ¯\(ツ)/¯. They gathered some resources from the media discussing that tweets leading to more ...

Welcome, welcome, welcome! One thing my husband and I enjoy a lot is watching Last Week Tonight with John Oliver every week. It is an HBO political talk-show that airs on Sunday nights, and we usually watch it while we have dinner sometime during the week. We love the show ...

This is the third one of the 3-posts-series, where I go from fetching Twitter users and preparing the data to visualizing it (If I wanted to show everything I’ve done in a single post, it would be almost as long as my first one! And believe me: nobody wants ...

This is the second one of the 3-posts-series, where I go from fetching Twitter users and preparing the data to visualizing it (If I wanted to show everything I’ve done in a single post, it would be almost as long as my first one! And believe me: nobody wants ...

It’s been a few days since we witnessed the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States, whose victory over Hillary Clinton came as a shock for most people. I’m not much into politics (and it is not even my country!) bu...