Mara Averick is a data enthusiast and R programmer who shares insights, tutorials, and tips on data analysis, visualization, and reproducible workflows. She creates and explores tools in the R ecosystem, including packages like {datapasta}, and enjoys making data more accessible and visually engaging.
31 articles from this blog
A guide on using the {datapasta} R package to quickly create reproducible examples (reprexes) from spreadsheet data or existing R objects.
A technical tutorial on generating color palettes in R using various packages, inspired by movie posters and applied to Archer TV show artwork.
A guide to creating excellent reproducible examples (reprexes) in R, covering the three key principles and a keyboard shortcut tutorial for RStudio.
A data scientist shares ideas for micro-projects for the Summer of Data Science, including manual annotation, package comparisons, and resource curation.
A data visualization tutorial using Flourish to create an animated 'horserace' chart tracking NBA team win percentages.
A guide on using Sourcetree to synchronize a forked Git repository with its upstream source via fetch and rebase operations.
A roundup post celebrating the CRANniversary of the ggraph R package, highlighting its features and community tutorials for network visualization.
A humorous R programming tutorial combining tibbletime, tidyquant, and magick packages to create playful data visualizations with pop culture references.
A curated list of essential Git and GitHub guides, tutorials, and resources for developers to master version control and resolve common issues.
A data scientist's 2017 year in review, highlighting top R, Python, and data visualization resources and projects shared each month.
A curated list of resources and tutorials for using Docker with R to create reproducible research environments and containerized applications.
Tips for writing better R-focused blog posts, covering social sharing, package examples, and syntax highlighting.
Slides and resources from a talk on R programming and data science presented at the EARL Boston conference.
A brief review of Refind, a tool that curates links from tweets into a browsable format for discovering tech articles and resources.
A data scientist explores using the Papyrus font in R and ggplot2, analyzing Avatar box office data with custom visualizations.
A technical guide on updating the Hugo static site generator version for blogdown projects deployed on the Netlify platform.
A technical guide on using R's rvest package to scrape book descriptions and genres from Goodreads, adapting code from an existing project.
A guide showing the 'mousey' (GUI) methods for checking software versions in R/RStudio, acknowledging they are not best practice but helpful for beginners.
A roundup of resources and tutorials for using the blogdown R package to create websites with R Markdown and Hugo.
A guide to creating custom RStudio code snippets for quickly embedding tweets in blogdown posts using Hugo shortcodes.
