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Dr Di Cook Jun 10, 2025

Jun 10, 2025

I'm excited to go to my first
@useR_conf and give a workshop with Stephanie Zimmer and Rebecca PowelL!

We'll be doing a tutorial on survey analysis in #RStats. Tutorials are included in the cost of the conference. Workshops are followed by two days of stunning talks 🤩

Join us in Durham! https://user2025.r-project.org/register

Dr Di Cook Nov 26, 2024

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Heather Turner

Nov 26, 2024

From Sweave to R Markdown

Yinxiang Huang presents an extension to the {texor} package that converts
Sweave files to R Markdown. Intended to facilitate switching Sweave vignettes
to R markdown.

This is the result of a Google Summer of Code project mentored by
Abhishek Ulayil, @visnut and me.

https://youtu.be/Vo0olQlVpUs?list=PL9-E3cL2KgKlcm5fId6X6LFVkRin87jZm (17 min)

#LatinR2024 #Rstats

From Sweave to R Markdown (Huang et.al)

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Dr Di Cook Nov 18, 2024

Holly Kirk Nov 18, 2024

Melbourne-based folks!
The #SuperbCityWrens team are partnering with 14 LGAs and community groups across Greater Melbourne to conduct the first-ever city-wide 'Wren-Watch'!🐦
https://superbcitywrens.com/2024/11/07/melbourne-wide-bird-bioblitz-coming-up/
The #urbanBird bioblitz is from 24th – 30th November, check link for info!

Melbourne-wide bird bioblitz coming up!

You can be part of our first ever Melbourne-wide Urban Bird Bioblitz from 24th-30th November! We’re partnering with local governments and community organisations across Greater Melbourne to c…

Superb City Wrens

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Dr Di Cook Oct 22, 2024

@deanmarchiori try https://numbats.github.io/alt-text-for-data-plots/

Some Guidance for Writing alt text for Data Plots

This is a repo that explains how to make alt-text for data plots

alt-text-for-data-plots

Dr Di Cook Oct 22, 2024

Examples and guidelines for writing alt text for data plots at https://numbats.github.io/alt-text-for-data-plots/ resulting from #OceaniaR hackathon, yeh @deanmarchiori , #statsocaus (https://www.statsoc.org.au/) and all the participants. Was a fun day! More events like this to come we hope!

Some Guidance for Writing alt text for Data Plots

This is a repo that explains how to make alt-text for data plots

alt-text-for-data-plots

Dr Di Cook Oct 21, 2024

Fonti Kar

Oct 21, 2024

The #OceaniaR hackathon was a lot of fun! Lots of cool projects and clever solutions. There were hex stickers/cookies/tables!

@visnut @deanmarchiori thanks for hosting us! 💜

We worked on a #data bias problem using data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics: https://github.com/StatSocAus/oceaniaR-hack/issues/17

Very proud of our group! 💥

Data biases in Oceania - Inspired by 'Invisible Women' 💜 and 'Queer Data' 🌈 · Issue #17 · StatSocAus/oceaniaR-hack

This is not a fully formulated idea but it is inspired by the books Invisible Women and Queer Data which discusses the data biases again women and queer folks. Biases are prevalent from policy, urb...

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Dr Di Cook Oct 16, 2024

Hi everyone, just want to let you know that the WOMBAT 2024 tutorials on Oct 22 are now available for virtual registration. I’ll be teaching one on Creating Effective Data Plots. Details are at https://wombat2024.numbat.space/

WOMBAT: Workshop organised by Monash Business Analytics Team

Dr Di Cook Sep 25, 2024

Achim Zeileis Sep 25, 2024

New CRAN Task View: Dynamic Visualizations and Interactive Graphics
#rstats #dataviz

By Sherry Zhang @huizezhangsh Dianne Cook @visnut

URL: https://CRAN.R-project.org/view=DynamicVisualizations

CRAN Task View: Dynamic Visualizations and Interactive Graphics

Dynamic visualizations include interactive graphics which offer the flexibility for users to interact with the plot, with mouse or cursor selection, for example. This can be useful to query additional details, such as using mouse-over to provide additional information about a point or line in the plot. For exploratory data analysis, it is beneficial to view and link multiple plots using highlighting or brushing. Most interactivity is provided by interfacing R with external libraries like JavaScript (JS). Dynamic visualizations also include animations which are generated by rendering successive frames in the plot window.

Dr Di Cook Sep 15, 2024

We'll be hosting a set of tutorials and workshop in Melbourne, Oct 22-23 on the theme "Open the World with Open Source". There are eight choices of tutorials covering developing web apps, migrating to open source from Excel, creating effective data plots, applied forecasting, turning your code into production quality, extreme value analysis, causal analysis, and scaling up your programming skills. Michael Lawrence will lead the workshop day on the topic "S7: A New Object-oriented System for R". This is also preceded on Oct 21, by the OceaniaR Hackathon. Details can be found at https://wombat2024.numbat.space. Registration opens today.