It is the day after rstudio::conf(2022), and I’m sitting in the lobby of the ridiculously oversized conference hotel, trying to collect my thoughts and impressions. It was a densely packed two days of presentation and events (plus the earlier two d...

It’s summer, and the long-awaited Rstudio conference for 2022 is only days away. Next week, a large number of R aficionados will gather in Washington DC for the first time in person since the beginning of the pandemic. A pandemic, mind you, that is far from over. But Covid precautions ...

A few days ago, the Kaggle community crossed the amazing milestone of 10 million registered users! In celebration, I’ve put together a forum post that visualises the accelerated growth over the years. Here I show the R code behind those plots and t...

This week, the Kaggle Hidden Gems Competition is featured in a special crossover event with the fantastic TidyTuesday project to further strengthen the connections between the R & Kaggle communities. The TidyTuesday participants are invited to expand their beautifully crafted data visuals into narrative notebooks on the Kaggle platform, and receive ...

Two weeks ago, I launched my first very own competition on the Kaggle platform, the goal of which is to design engaging data science notebooks with great visuals, narration, and insights. Today, at the half-way point of the competition, I want to w...

In my final post on setting up yearly goals I will write about how to track progress and finally add some data visuals. Building your own progress dashboards adds a nice meta level of data science to the journey and gives you more control over how to track your goals. ...

This is a brief post on collecting and analysing tweets. I will show how to use the rtweet package to extract Twitter posts about the R community. This ties into last weeks post on rstudio::conf and community values, and is also related to my previous intro post on web ...

This is a brief post on collecting and analysing tweets. I will show how to use the rtweet package to extract Twitter posts about the R community. This ties into last weeks post on rstudio::conf and community values, and is also related to my previous intro post on web ...

Two weeks ago, I was fortunate to attend my very first Rstudio conference. Spoiler: it was an amazing event - packed to the brim with new ideas, tools, impressions, and most important of all: smart and kind people. This was the first time that San F...

Two weeks ago, I was fortunate to attend my very first Rstudio conference. Spoiler: it was an amazing event - packed to the brim with new ideas, tools, impressions, and most important of all: smart and kind people. This was the first time that San F...

In my first post of the year I will provide a gentle introduction to web scraping with the tidyverse package rvest. As the package name pun suggests, web scraping is the process of harvesting, or extracting, data from websites. The extraction process is greatly simplified by the fact that websites ...

In my first post of the year I will provide a gentle introduction to web scraping with the tidyverse package rvest. As the package name pun suggests, web scraping is the process of harvesting, or extracting, data from websites. The extraction process is greatly simplified by the fact that websites ...