R Weekly 2017-47 Live in US, Blog, Successful Unconference

20 Nov 2017

Highlight

• Where to live in the US

• Advice to aspiring data scientists: start a blog

• Six tips for running a successful unconference

Insights

• What are the main limits to R in a production environment?

• Advice to aspiring data scientists: start a blog

R in Organizations

• Six tips for running a successful unconference

• 2017 rOpenSci ozunconf :: Reflections and the realtime Package

• An update for MRAN

• Highlights from the Connect(); conference

R in the Real World

• Wisconsin State Hex Grid - Mapping 2016 Presidential Results

• Analysis of Feedback from satRday [Cape Town] 2017

• New IBM Plex Sans Support in hrbrthemes + Automating Axis Text Justification

• Half the people of Germany live in these few areas (drawing up the map with R)

• Turning public transport journey history into a network that can be mapped in R with tidygraph, ggraph and ggmap

• Banner Ads Considered Harmful

• Creating integer64 and nanotime vectors from C++

• Hacking Homelessness & PDF Prisons with hexmapr & tabulizer

• Where to live in the US

• Twitter Outer Limits : Seeing How Far Have Folks Fallen Down The Slippery Slope to “280” with rtweet

• Shiny App for making Pixel Art Models

• Giving My First Data Science Talk – 3 accepted abstracts after 3 rejected!

• Tidying the Australian Same Sex Marriage Postal Survey Data with R

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

• Binder for R examples

• available - Check if the Title of a Package is Available, Appropriate and Interesting

Package Releases

• Petpy v1.0

• doconce 1.4.4 - Lightweight markup language - document once, include anywhere

Tutorials

• Update on coordinatized or fluid data

• Updated curl package provides additional security for R on Windows

• Using Shiny with Scheduled and Streaming Data

• Data Wrangling at Scale

• Visualizing classifier thresholds

• Good practices for sharing data in spreadsheets

• The City of Chicago uses R to issue beach safety alerts

• Average Journey Times of Trains into London in 1968

• Adding Syntax Highlighting to Blogdown Posts

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

• New function getDefaultCluster() in package parallel to get the default cluster set via setDefaultCluster().

Upcoming Events

• RStudio conf 2018 January 31 to February 3
  rstudio::conf is about all things R and RStudio!

• satRday Cape Town 2018 March 17
  satRday Cape Town

• R/Finance 2018 June 1 and 2
  Applied Finance with R.

• 7eme Rencontres R 5 & 6 July 2018
  Rennes - Agrocampus

• useR! 2018 July 10, 2018
  The annual useR! conference is the main meeting of the international R user and developer community.

More past events at R conferences & meetups.

Call for Participation

• satRday Cape Town 2018 - Call for papers

Your support will keep R Weekly team moving! 💡

Quotes of the Week

"if you’re early in your career as a data scientist and you start a data-related blog, tweet me a link at @drob and I’ll tweet about your first post" 👌☄ https://t.co/FaXrgVcE0P

— R-Ladies Global (@RLadiesGlobal) November 14, 2017

Who wants a #rstats couch?? pic.twitter.com/tl0MCvhjNA

— C Kittrell (@mardidavril) November 14, 2017