Publications by %>% dreams
Quarto dashboard creation and automation
John White Alexander, Study in Black and Green I had the opportunity to present an automated Quarto dashboard on Posit’s Monthly End-to-End Workflow with Posit Team, followed by a Q&A. The project involved a script that retrieves Consumer Price Index (CPI) data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) API, processes and cleans the data, and sav...
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Six not-so-basic base R functions
Leonetto Cappiello, Benedictine R is known for its versatility and extensive collection of packages. As of the publishing of this post, there are over 23 thousand packages on R-universe. But what if I told you that you could do some pretty amazing things without loading any packages at all? There’s a lot of love for base R, and I am excited to p...
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Three packages that port the tidyverse to Python
As I’ve been saying every year for the past seven years or so, I am learning Python. (It’s been a journey.) Python packages like pandas have several ways to work with data. There are several options for indexing, slicing, etc. They have a lot of flexibility but also a lot of conventions to remember. I am familiar with the grammar of the tidyv...
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Finding the Modal School District
My good friend Ryan Estrellado recommended an NPR Planet Money podcast episode on the “Modal American.” Working with Ben Casselman, Planet Money explored the most ‘typical’ American. It was a fantastic, engaging episode about a common statistical technique that I’ve never seen applied in this way before. They ran the numbers on a variet...
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Six Things I Always Google When Using ggplot2
I often use {ggplot2} to create graphs but there are certain things I always have to Google. I figured I’d create a post for quick reference for myself but I’d love to hear what you always have to look up! Remove the Legend Change Legend Title and Labels Manually Change Colors Remove X Axis Labels Start the Y Axis at a Specific Number Use Sc...
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You CRAN Do It
As the @WeAreRLadies curator, I asked the Twitterverse for advice when submitting to CRAN for the first time. Many people replied and offer their tips, experience, and well wishes. I have summarized everybody’s replies below. THANK YOU all for participating! Here’s what to expect when succeeding to get your package on CRAN! I don't know you,...
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Creating an R Package for School District Shapefiles
I would like to introduce {leaidr}, a package for mapping U.S. School District shapefiles! Inspired by my coauthor Joshua Rosenberg, the goal of {leaidr} is to facilitate the download and use of school district shapefiles. School districts in the U.S. have associated local education agency identification numbers (LEAID) used in the National Cente...
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Introducing an R package for school district shapefiles
I would like to introduce {leaidr}, a package for mapping U.S. school district shapefiles! Inspired by my coauthor Joshua Rosenberg, the goal of {leaidr} is to facilitate the download and use of school district shapefiles. School districts in the U.S. have associated local education agency identification numbers (LEAID) used in the National Cente...
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packages
wizehiver: R wrapper for WizeHive’s Zengine API dataedu: R Package Associated with the Data Science in Education Using R Book leaidr: R Package for U.S. School District Shapefiles edreportr: R Wrapper for EdReports API Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: %>% dreams. R-bloggers.com ...
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What It Takes to Tidy Census Data
The U.S. Census releases aggregate data on their Household Pulse Survey. These data are super interesting and cover a range of important topics, particularly those related to the COVID-19 pandemic. First of all, let me clarify that I think that the work that the Census does is amazing and I am so glad that these data are available. But, when you ...
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