As mentioned in the first post in this series, this post will cover how to build a Mastodon bot. This can be fairly straightforward, but - as always - there are multiple ways to “make it work”. Fortunately, there are already some fantastic tutorials out there that can help you ...

I spent the last weeks building two small Mastodon bots with the goal in mind to make contributions by PyLadies and R-Ladies more visible. PyLadies and R-Ladies are global non-profit organizations that seek to empower and promote greater diversity in t...

Together with Andreas Küpfer I spent the last months writing and thinking about how to best explain BERT (using huggingface), apply it to a typical social science problem, and show the functionality of explainable AI. When working with large language m...

Thank you all for a fantastic year at R-Ladies Cologne! We had a series of great events which gave us the chance to meet so many wonderful and kindhearted people across the globe. This is one thing that always makes me so thankful to be part of the com...

Today, we’ll discover how you can use the power of R (and RStudio) to create, for instance, an interactive visualization with the ShinyApp framework. 💡 What is a ShinyApp? Shiny is a framework that allows you to create web applications - ShinyApp...

Writing a package sounds big - and it can for sure be. But in its simplest form, it’s not that much more than putting a function in a package structure. The R community is great and came up with multiple great helpers that make your life easier! 💡 What...

The beauty of R is its versatility and of course the community 💜 you can use R for literally anything (I use blogdown to set up and maintain my website, xaringan to create slide decks, Shiny to build web applications, ….). All these great tools build u...

Let’s talk about version control and collaboration today and one of its powerful tools: git ✨ 💡What is Git? Using Git can be a lifesaver (and it has often been one in the past for me 🙏). It’s basically like a mini time travel machine that you use - it ...

I had an incredible pleasure (and honor) to curate R-Ladies' Twitter account this week. To make it short: It’s been a blast and a fantastic experience that I can only recommend! If you are interested, there are multiple posts that I all read beforehand about what it is like ...

Together with PyLadies Tunis and PyLadies Munich we kicked off a fantastic event last Wednesday - and I’m still overwhelmed and touched by the impressions. When I started the R-Ladies Cologne chapter in 2021, I envisioned an event that seeks to bring both R and Python communities together. From my ...

New year, new website? Well, not really. But when starting to set up and move RAM’s website, I decided that it was probably also time for a fresh look on my own little blog. As always, coming up with the perfect theme and moving everything to your new and ...

overviewR (v 0.0.10) is on CRAN and comes with new features 🚀 The package is meant to serve as a Swiss army knife for exploratory data analysis. The basic functions allow you to investigate sample coverage across different time points, missing values a...

R-Ladies Cologne is a new R-Ladies chapter which was founded in September 2021. It joins R-Ladies' mission to promote and support gender equality in the field. Together with Luciana and Gabe, we have hosted three events so far. Kicking it off, we had a...

I am thrilled to share that my article “Bringing the World to the Classroom: Teaching Statistics and Programming in a Project-Based Setting” is published in PS: Political Science and Politics as an open-access article. I set up and teste...

When you have your website up and running and probably already started a little blog about data science related topics, you may want to share it with an even broader community. Here, R-bloggers and Python-bloggers are a great venue! Both websites pub...