My first article for Africa in Fact is featured in this brilliant 'Environment' edition! 😁

#GenderBasedViolence in Kenya: 1500 *reported* cases every 72 hours. @Akothcarole sharing her work with Women in GIS Kenya (WiGISKe) and #GBV data and research at our R-Ladies Cape Town meetup right now.

Our NEW course “Introduction to R (#rstats)” is available online: erbiostat.wixsite.com/rintro. More information about new courses will be available in FB (ER-BioStat) #datascience #openscience #opensource #useR2020 #AfricaR Forwards #RLadies R-Ladies Cape Town

#rstats folk in #SouthAfrica, have you submitted a talk for rstudio::global? If not, then there's still time: the deadline has been extended to 28 August 2020. Get your proposal in now! blog.rstudio.com/2020/07/17/rst…

💥 Woop woop! Very excited about this. 💥 #rstudioconf #rstats #dataviz

Queer peeps in Cape Town 🙂Matt Dennis and I have built a searchable repository of LGBTQIA+ businesses, orgs and individuals. You can find it here: astridite.shinyapps.io/RainbowPages/ If you feel safe to do so, please add yourself to the repository 🙂 You can do so under the sign-up tab

Scrapetober! Join us for 4 sessions in the month of October to learn how to do #webscraping in #rstats. Every Wednesday, 5:30-7pm SAST, starting next week. More details on the first event here: meetup.com/rladies-cape-t… #Rladies Andrew B. Collier Astrid Radermacher, PhDingus @mbeckett_za

Our #webscraping with #rstats meetup is in full swing - one of our largest online, in terms of attendance, yet!

New in RStudio 1.4 preview: select Python interpreters, see your Python data in the Environment pane, and view plots from matplotlib & seaborn. blog.rstudio.com/2020/10/07/rst…

Excellent to hear! 💥👏 And it's not too late to still join in for our "Scrapetober" sessions - one per week for the month of October. Next week's details are here: meetup.com/rladies-cape-t… #Rladies #rstats #webscraping #data

If you missed out and still want to join next week, catch up with the recording from this last week, now available online: youtu.be/EaWDZUReN9s #rladies #rstats

If you've ever wondered exactly how Shiny's reactive graph works, I have new "Mastering Shiny" book chapter up: mastering-shiny.org/reactive-graph… #rstats. As always, your feedback is much appreciated!

Since it's #openaccessweek2020 let me recommend publishing a #preprint whenever you submit an article to a journal/conference. Unsure if you are allowed to do so? Check: v2.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/

Have you been joining in for our weekly Wednesday web scraping sessions with Andrew B. Collier?! Tomorrow is session 3 with rvest. RSVP here: meetup.com/rladies-cape-t… And, catch up on: Session 1 - youtu.be/EaWDZUReN9s Session 2 - youtu.be/VQFdXCo9UVU #rstats #webscraping #data

The CGIAR Crop Yield Prediction Challenge is live on Zindi! Enroll now and create a model that predicts maize yields on East African farms using satellite data! 😁🌱🌈🌍 👉bit.ly/31GF7Ra

The last of 4 sessions on #webscraping with #rstats with Andrew B. Collier is this evening at 5:30pm. Focus is on using #Selenium - it promises to be dynamic! More details here: meetup.com/rladies-cape-t…