resources

It’s finally time for an upgraded notebook! I’ve been Slacking myself (and subsequently burying) links to resources for far too long, so my favorites will now live here.

learning materials

• Ever feel like you need a pick-me-up while learning stats or a new R tool? Look no further than Allison Horst’s Data Science Illustrations, featuring the cutest and most educational fuzzy monsters you’ll ever see!

• Mastering Shiny, by Hadley Wickham

• Happy Git and GitHub for the useR, by Jenny Bryan

• R for Data Science, by Hadley Wickham

• Hitchhiker’s Guide to Python, by Kenneth Reitz & Tanya Schlusser

• Data wrangling essentials: comparisons in JavaScript, Python, SQL, R, and Excel, by Allison Horst & Paul Buffa

• W3Schools, particularly for their HTML & CSS tutorials

data viz

• from Data to Viz, a choose-your-adventure-type experience for creating your best data visualizations

• Fundamentals of Data Visualization, by Claus O. Wilke

• The Sessions College Color Calculator, for creating color palettes

• Beautifully Annotated: Enhancing your ggplots with Text, by Cara Thompson, a seriously wonderful talk on using annotations in your ggplots

r tools

• free icons from fontawesome + the {fontawesome} R package for infusing your slides, website, RMarkdowns/Quarto Markdowns, and more with an extra splash of fun

reporting & presentations

• Quarto is all the rage these days (and by these days, I mean post-March 2022). Download and find some great tutorials here to get started

• Meet xaringan: Making slides in R Markdown, by Allison Hill

• Sharing Your xaringan Slides, by Garrick Aden-Buie

data science communities

While these groups are primarily based in SoCal/Santa Barbara, there are tons of awesome groups like these all over the world. Google around to see what’s near you!

• R-Ladies Santa Barbara and R-Ladies Global, which work to promote gender diversity in the R community

• EcoDataScience, an environmental data science study group at UCSB
  

• Southern California R Users, an alliance of R user groups in Southern California
  

• Santa Barbara Women in STEM, while not specifically data science-focused, this group holds some really great career and networking events, panels, flash talks, and more

web accessibility

• The A11Y Project is a community-driven effort to make digital content more accessible. I still have a long way to go in making my own website WCAG compliant – the A11Y Project not only has a ton of great blog posts, but also WCAG compliance checklist that I will definitely be returning to over and over again.

• Coblis, a color blindness simulator – just upload a file and view your color palettes as they would appear under different types of color deficiencies

misc.

• Discover new music to jam out to while you hack at Every Noise at Once (HT: Jeanette Clark)