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This package is the source code for the education.rstudio.com website, built using blogdown. It contains content files (.md, .Rmd, and .Rmarkdown) that are rendered into the website’s learn, teach, blog, and events sections.
The site uses Hugo and blogdown for rendering, with automatic deployment via Netlify that provides live previews for every pull request. Contributors can add or modify content across different sections including learning resources organized by skill level, teaching materials and tools, blog posts with support for R code and emoji, and event listings. The repository is CC BY-SA licensed and accepts contributions following specific file naming and rendering conventions for each content type.
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Resources featuring education.rstudio.com#
Shelmith Kariuki | rKenyaCensus Package | RStudio
The rKenyaCensus package contains the results of the 2019 Kenya Population Census. The census exercise was carried out in August 2019, and the results were released in February 2020. Kenya leveraged on technology to capture data during cartographic mapping, enumeration and data transmission, making the 2019 Census the first paperless census to be conducted in Kenya. The data was published in four different pdf files (Volume 1 - Volume 4) which can be found in the Kenya National Bureau of statistics website. The data in its current form was open and accessible, but not usable and so there was need to convert it into a machine readable format. This data can be used by the government, non-governmental organizations and any other entities for data driven policy making and development. During the talk, I will explain the reasons behind development of the package, take you through the steps I took during the process and finally showcase analysis of certain aspects of the data.
About Shelmith: Shelmith Kariuki is a Senior Data Analyst based in Nairobi, Kenya. She is an RStudio Certified Tidyverse trainer (https://education.rstudio.com/trainers/) , currently working as a Data Analytics consultant with UN DESA. She previously worked as a Research Manager at Geopoll, and as a Data Analyst at Busara Center for Behavioral Economics. She also worked as an assistant lecturer in various Kenyan universities, teaching units in Statistics and Actuarial Science. She has extensive experience in data analysis using R. She co-organizes a community of R users in Nairobi (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/nairobir/ ) and in Africa (https://twitter.com/AfricaRUsers) . One of the missions of her community work is to make sure that there is an increased number of R adopters, in Africa. She is very passionate about training and using data analytics to drive development projects in Africa
Ahmadou Dicko | Humanitarian Data Science with R | RStudio
Humanitarian actors are increasingly using data to drive their decisions. Since the Haiti 2010 earthquake, the volume of data collected and used by humanitarians has been growing exponentially and organizations are now relying on data specialists to turn all this data into life-saving data products.
These data products are created by teams using proprietary point and click software. The process from the raw data to the final data product involves a lot of clicking, copying and pasting and is usually not reproducible.
Another approach to humanitarian data science is possible using R. In this talk, I will show how to seamlessly develop reproducible, reusable humanitarian data products using the tidyverse, rmarkdown and some domain-focused R packages.
About Ahmadou: Ahmadou Dicko is a statistics and data analysis officer at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) where he uses statistics and data science to help safeguard the rights and well-being of refugees in West and Central Africa. He has an extensive experience in the use of statistics and data science in development and humanitarian projects. Ahmadou was the lead of the OCHA Center for Humanitarian Data team for West and Central Africa and has worked with several humanitarian and development organizations such as IFRC, FAO, IAEA, OCHA. Ahmadou is a RStudio trainer (https://education.rstudio.com/trainers/ ) and he is passionate about the R community. He is currently co-organizing the Dakar R User Group (https://www.meetup.com/DakaR-R-User-Group/ ) and co-leading the AfricaR initiative (https://africa-r.org/ )