How the R4DS Online Learning Community Made Me a Better Student

Lydia Gibson

About Me

  • M.S. Statistics, May 2023

  • Data Scientist at Intel

My backstory

Fashion Drawing

Prom Dress

I didn’t care about R…

“Nobody cares about R…. They care about what you can do with R.”

-David Keyes,

2023 Cascadia R Conference

until I learned about DataViz.

“I’m very excited to see how far we can take this. I want to make quality, free data literacy education available to anybody who wants it.”

-Jon Harmon,

R4DS Chief Community Manager

DataViz Mentorship Program

My takeaways

  • Find what you’re passionate about and explore it’s depths.

  • Being surrounded by folks more advanced than you is a gift, not a curse.

  • Teaching is the best way to learn.

Get Involved!

  • Join: r4ds.io/join

  • Mentor: r4ds.io/join (ping @jonthegeek)

  • Donate: r4ds.io/donate

Thank you

Appendix

You can find this presentation at: https://lgibson7.quarto.pub/how-the-r4ds-online-learning-community-made-me-a-better-student/

The GitHub repo for this presentation is: https://github.com/lgibson7/R4DS_Made_Me_Better

For more information about joining your first R4DS book club, check out: https://github.com/lgibson7/joining-your-first-R4DS-book-club

The code for my very first R4DS presentation can be found at: https://github.com/lgibson7/my_first_r4ds_slides