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
xaringanSlides, 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)