This is basically my Twitter bookmarks section in a more permanent and accessible format.
R and Data Science
RStudio Community is, on the whole, a much more friendly and helpful place to ask R-related questions than e.g. StackOverflow or some other online forums.
Happy Git with R by Jenny Bryan, Jim Hester, and the STAT 545 TA’s. This is the authoritative guide to using Git with R, and I think I open it every single time I need to use Git.
The Distillery, a showcase of websites built with Distill (including this one!) Created by John Helveston.
Guide
to stat_ layers in ggplot by June Choe
An introduction to hierarchical modeling (aka mixed models)–scrolling viz by Michael Freeman that does a great job explaining variance partitioning.
Data Visualization
A
ggplot2 Tutorial for Beautiful Plotting in R by Cédric
Scherer
The Evolution of a ggplot, also by Cédric Scherer
Some very cool weather charts by Taras Kaduk
Creating color palettes for ggplot, by Simon Jackson
Reproducibility and Open Science
Jenny Bryan’s legendary article on keeping a project-oriented workflow: I go back to this all. the. time.
SORTEE (Society for open, reliable, and transparent ecology & evolutionary biology) is a new-ish society working on reproducibility/open science in the EEB field.
What to do when you don’t trust your data anymore by Kate Laskowski, discussing the Pruitt retraction situation.
See also 17 Months by Daniel Bolnick, examining the whole process of auditing the Pruitt papers after the work was finished.
Also by Kate Laskowski: Keeping a Paper Trail: Data Management Skills for Reproducible Science
Utilities
When I was having
trouble getting my links to display the correct preview image on
Twitter, Ijeamaka
Anyene referred me to the Twitter Card
Validator, where you can test your links’ preview images before
posting them.
Miscellaneous Cool Things on the Internet
Ask a Manager is fun reading, and helps me internalize ideas about what a healthy workplace looks like.
Map of carbon footprint by location, debunking the idea that living in a rural area is more eco-friendly.
Interactive city road map-making tool by Andrei Kashcha