Luke Shaw

I made fun/silly thing in #rstats using #tidytuesday data. Introducing BeyonTay:

I love @ONS* I love that the Beginner's Guide to UK Geography - titled 'In Brief' - is 40 pages long, 111 with the Annexes ❤️ geoportal.statistics.gov.uk/documents/a-be… *I'm biased as I used to work there

We at @RoyalStatSoc frequently call out governments for being naughty with data. But today I'd like to talk about a different sector... charities. (1)

Been great to attend the @infobeautiful workshop today, I have especially valued the approach of starting from concept, goal, then metrics. Not the elephant trap of starting from metrics we know exist #iibwab

@iaroslav_domin Just used this, thank you for making and sharing.

A tiny package to help you choose the right picture size for your ggplot. github.com/idmn/ggview #RStats #ggplot2 #TidyTuesday #dataviz

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Be my manager! :) Really excited about the (brand new) Head of Data role in Samaritans. 18 Sep application deadline

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Hello! I am looking for guest speakers (and guests) for our regular data open session. The relevant information is in this blog post dasbarrett.medium.com/our-data-open-…

I'd like a text editor where I can have 3 different colours (or similar identifier) depending on whether I'm making notes before/during/after a meeting. Highlighting, commenting, or splitting into different sections feels suboptimal. Help wanted :)

Job Opportunity: samaritans.peoplehr.net/Pages/JobBoard… Great cause, great data, great colleagues, and we have an #Rstats community if that's your thing :)

Going to learn a lot about good teaching practice from @thecarpentries training and @matkuzak + @AnneFouilloux the next days, together with @NatForsdick, @LilithElina, @lukefshaw, @katuwal_mandira, @MarieHouillon, @grippish and many more!

Come join the team as a Data Analyst at @samaritans samaritans.peoplehr.net/Pages/JobBoard… It's a really great role (I should know, I do it). Come work with me, we'll have a great time and get lots done for a wonderful charity. DMs open for any questions about the role :)

We had some fantastic entries for our joint @RoyalStatSoc @HistoryofStats @statsyss #dataviz challenge celebrating the work of Mary Eleanor Spear 📈tinyurl.com/CotnVizEntries📉 The judges have picked their #CottonViz winning entries 🥁 📷@lizbravob

I'm fed up of seeing Muslim characters on screen either negative or non existent. The industry must change. Our new study proves what many of us always felt about #MuslimsInFilm. The cost is measured in hate & lost lives. Full speech here: youtu.be/Ssuhvv0l3bk

Big opportunity: Nine full-time paid positions to use data science + programming skills to solve real world problems for public benefit. Please share + send to people who may be interested in this, starting October 2021, deadline 4th July.

@jilldlevine Nice plot! :) as to why missing two boxes, in line 104 of github.com/jlevine23/casc… the fn "rep" floors the values for the second argument. Could resolve by rounding the var column of animaldf, or go more precise with a bigger waffle-grid.

@ShinyBlackShoe AMAZING thank you. Calum, I owe you a coke.

@lukefshaw If you always want the previous month when run you don't even need Param just set the month in the Rmd from sys.date

Ok #RStats: parameterised RMarkdown reports (eg monthly automated) - how best to do? Recommendations welcome. Will probably output to Word with manual comments added in by a non-Rstats-user

@ShinyBlackShoe Yeah fair point. I guess i want to know how to set it up so the .RMD file doesn't need changing - do I have a separate config file and reference? How can I get the title to have the month name? Should I use glue or some other packages? Sorry still not a well-defined Q

@lukefshaw What is the actual question? How to make the monthly happen? (? Platform: *nix based -> cron job) How to do the commentary? (`r if_else(this_a > previous_a, "The a has increased this month", "The a is no better this month")` ) also {glue}