Mara Averick 

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former tidyverse 🥑 @rstudio, 🏀 hoop head, gnashgab, blatherskite, #rstats, doggos, and horses
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GitHubhttps://github.com/batpigandme
Bird sitehttps://twitter.com/dataandme
My sitehttps://dataand.me
Show threadMara Averick Sep 20, 2023
@juliasilge No words for the Julia-Silge-sized gap in my life, which we should def rectify after you've recovered from conf! 💜
Show threadMara Averick Sep 20, 2023
@Drmowinckels @minecr Literally just this second opened a letter from @hfrick to find this inside!! 💓
Show threadMara Averick Sep 20, 2023

@Drmowinckels @minecr Just when I think I've evolved beyond FOMO, hearing about all my faves learning together pulls me right back in...

GIF ALT: Adele singing "Hello from the outside."

Show threadMara Averick Sep 20, 2023
@tladeras @juliasilge 😭 I miss you 💔
Show threadMara Averick Sep 17, 2023
@fontikar Hope you post your slides! Super bummed to be missing it.
Mara Averick Jul 22, 2023
CeeJul 21, 2023
New blog post from #USGSvizlab: jazz up your #ggplot! Showing some of our favorite #dataviz design tricks using #rstats https://waterdata.usgs.gov/blog/ggplot-jazz/
Jazz up your ggplots!

Useful tricks to elevate your data viz via `ggplot` extension packages in R

Show threadMara Averick Jul 22, 2023
@jennybryan @jameshwade @hadleywickham Agreed. The numbers are a strange sort of comfort (on an human level), like knowing there are lots of ships at sea, but not the VHF frequency to find them. (Apparently I'm feeling nautical *and* nostalgic this morning) ⛴️
Show threadMara Averick Jul 20, 2023
@djnavarro AWS CLI would be like: “Child, your S3 bucket overfloweth”
Mara Averick Jul 20, 2023
Andrew Heiss Jul 19, 2023

Wrote up some debugging advice for my #dataviz students and figured it's useful for everyone: **Slow down, simplify, and do small things**

https://datavizs23.classes.andrewheiss.com/news/2023-07-05_messy-broken-code-tips.html

It includes a quick example of how to incrementally fix a broken #rstats ggplot

Data Visualization with R - Tips for debugging and cleaning broken code

Show threadMara Averick Jul 20, 2023
@djnavarro I've never considered backing up my local instance... 🫠