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1974…bird attacks?

Losing icons: Disappearing glaciers of Glacier National Park, MT (1966 - 2015)

Data visualization - glaciers at Glacier National Park (1966, 1998, 2005, and 2005).

Exploring tree outcomes following fires

Basically, there’s this awesome dataset on tree survival following fires, the Fire and Tree Mortality Database, and I want to go exploring & compare fire survival across…

Northwest Reno streetmap - dataviz fun on the side

In this project, I create a little map of northwest Reno, NV, streets using the osmdata (OpenStreetMap) package.

Scraping, wrangling & viz, oh my! Fun with Columbia Basin DART (fish passage data)

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As a little side project, I decided to scrape data from the Columbia Basic Research DART (Data Access in Real Time) to explore fish passage and seasonal trends over time.

Merge conflicts: helping data science students merge their advanced skills into existing teams

What do we do to prepare students trained in R and Python for jobs with Excel, Google Sheets and Access?

This post was written collaboratively by Jacqueline Nolis and me. Original data science language icons artwork (above) by Jacqueline Nolis.

Allison Horst and Jacqueline Nolis

Penguin wrangling in dplyr - a learnr tutorial

data science

R

RStudio

dplyr

I recently made a learnr tutorial introducing some functions in dplyr for data wrangling. Check it out:

palmerpenguins on CRAN

data science

R

RStudio

With Drs. Alison Hill and Kristen B. Gorman, we developed a data package with structural size measurements (and more!) for 3 species of penguins recorded at islands in…

Teach R with learnr

A powerful tool for remote teaching

teaching

R

RStudio

Cross-posted from the RStudio Education blog.

Tidy data for collaboration, efficiency and reproducibility

Dr. Julia Lowndes spearheaded a collaboration to create a visual explanation of how working with tidy data can make data science more efficient, reproducible, and…

Birds of a feather, drawn together

R

art

RStudio

By Allison Horst, Curtis Kephart, and Yanina Bellini

Allison Horst, Curtis Kephart, Yanina Bellini

R for Excel Users Workshop

community

This course is for Excel users who want to add or integrate R and RStudio into their existing data analysis toolkit. It is a friendly intro to becoming a modern R user, full…

Allison Horst and Julie Lowndes

RStudio Artist-in-Residence 2019/2020!

art

R

RStudio

Since I started drawing R- and stats-related illustrations for my students in 2018, I have been overwhelmed by the reception from the #rstats community on twitter.

Openscapes Champions Case Study: Horst Lab

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champions

Note: I, with my teaching assistant extraordinaire Jessica Couture, participated in the 10-week Openscapes Mentorship Program led by Dr. Julia Lowndes in 2019. Here’s a…

Starting our #tidytuesday hacky hours

community

champions

This is our first community blog post by Openscapes Champion Allison Horst!

Sharing (R lab) keys for success

R

teaching

I just finished my sixth year of teaching intro stats and data analysis in R to environmental studies grad students. For the first five, I convinced myself that I shouldn’t…

There’s value in trying your [dataviz] worst

R

In the past I’ve always asked students to create their best possible graphs in ggplot2 to practice creating clear, engaging data visualizations. Recently, I’ve realized…