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About

About

This course is part of a five-week MOOC (that you should sign up for):

Intro to R for Journalists: How to find Great Stories in Data

Who

Andrew Ba Tran is a data reporter on The Washington Post’s rapid response investigative team.

Thanks

Eric Bailey for creating the logo and retouching the CSS for this site
Robert Kabacoff for teaching me so much about teaching
Hadley Wickham for organizing the tidyverse and excellent tutorials that help expand the community
Amber Thomas, Reuben Fischer-Baum, and John Muyskens for great feedback
Ben Welsh for being such a great advocate for reproducible journalism

Packages and libraries

readr - reads rectangular data quickly
dplyr - grammar of data manipulation
tidyr - tidies data
ggplot2 - creates charts based on the Grammar of Graphics
sf - simple features for mapping
ggmap - Google maps features
leaflet - A wrapper for Leaflet.JS for interactive maps
datatable - Interface to the DataTables JavaScript library

Thanks to so many people for contributing to the open source package software that we use in this class and in our every day process.

@hadley 2540 commits

@wch 654 commits

@kohske 232 commits

@thomasp85 87 commits

@jiho 63 commits

@lionel- 56 commits

@karawoo 45 commits

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@BrianDiggs 28 commits

@yutannihilation 23 commits

@JakeRuss 20 commits

@joranE 17 commits

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@JoFrhwld 14 commits

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@DanRuderman 13 commits

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@edzer 3 commits

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Tooling

Blogdown - Creating websites using R Markdown
Hugo - open-source static site framework
Learn theme - Theme for this site

License

The online version of this course is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

© Copyright 2018, Andrew Tran