📢 Use R for public health - Enroll now! Synchronous courses with 1-to-1 tutoring by applied epidemiologists 😲. Intro & advanced (GIS, time series, Shiny, Quarto, statistics), in English and Spanish, options for all time zones. appliedepi.org/training/pub...

🗣️ Applied Epi is hiring! Seeking R users in public health to support epidemiologists globally in English and French, Spanish, or Portuguese, as: 🔵 Instructors: Lead online R courses 🟡 Technicians: 1-on-1 online R mentorship Apply by April 5th: 🔗 appliedepi.org/about/join.h... #PublicHealth #Epi

🌍 Join the Board of Applied Epi! We’re seeking new Board Members passionate about global health & Epidemiology. Help guide a nonprofit that trains 1000s worldwide in data-driven public health response. ⏰ ~2 hrs/month | Apply by 31 Dec 2025 🔗 tinyurl.com/4yp5fu93

🌍 Join the Board of Applied Epi! We’re seeking new Board Members passionate about global health & Epidemiology. Help guide a nonprofit that trains 1000s worldwide in data-driven public health response. ⏰ ~2 hrs/month | Apply by 31 Dec 2025 🔗 tinyurl.com/4yp5fu93

We're hiring! Applied Epi is looking for a capable epidemiologist for a full-time 1-year remote contractor position. Take a look at our website for more details on the role and how to apply: appliedepi.org/about/join.h... Application deadline: July 31, 2025.

🚨 Rare opportunity! Our advanced R courses start end of July: 📈 Time series & outbreak detection in R 📊 Intro to Stats in R 🗺️ Intro to GIS in R 🖥️ Shiny in R 📝 Advanced R Markdown Plus: Lots of Intro to R courses running all summer! 🌞 Taught live by experienced epidemiologists. 🌍 🔗 appliedepi.org

“I’ve taken several R trainings - this is the BEST!” 📢 New courses posted! Intro to R for public health 🗓️ 40 hours part-time, synchronous, with unlimited 1-on-1 coaching and options for ALL time zones. ✏️ Register: appliedepi.org/training/pub...

📢 Last week to apply for the Applied Epi scholarships! Transition your team to R with free or discounted courses and services. Why apply? ✔️ Full or partial scholarships ✔️ Focused on strengthening public health capacity 🗓️ Apply by Feb 10, 2025! 🌐 appliedepi.org/training/scholarships-ae

📢 Ready to move your team to R? Applied Epi’s scholarships are OPEN! ✅ Funding available for teams in LMICs ✅ Even teams of 1 can apply with leadership support ✅ Deadline: Feb 10, 2025 Why team applications? Collaboration ensures a smooth transition to R! Apply today: 🌐 appliedepi.org

🚨 Applications are NOW OPEN for Applied Epi’s 2025 scholarships! 🚨 💡 For teams in low- & middle-income countries working in epidemiology, this is your chance to access funding for courses and support services that help transition to R. 🗓️ Deadline: Feb 10, 2025 🌐 Apply here: appliedepi.org

🎉 R scholarship applications open on January 20! If your team (government or nonprofit) works in applied epidemiology in a low- or middle-income country, you could get access to our Intro to R course and Support Desk! Details: appliedepi.org/training/sch... #Rstats #epitwitter

🎄 Merry Christmas Eve, everyone! 🎄 To wrap up this advent calendar, here’s our final tip: Did you know you can use your own images in ggplot? Check out this festive example with a cartoon of Santa —on his (surprisingly inefficient?) route tonight! 🎅✨ #DataViz #RStats

Today's post is for anyone with bdays this time of the year. We see you! This includes our Exec Director, an expert in "combo Xmas/bday" presents! Happy birthday Neale! 🎂 On that note, ever work with multiple date columns but need to pick one? Use coalesce() to easily prioritize a value! #Rstats

🎄Day 22: An R Christmas Tree 🎄 There's still time to write your Christmas cards! And what better captures the yuletide spirit than...R... Seriously though, check out the {christmas} package by Jose Barrera-Gomez.. Stunning!

🎄Day 21: Ggplot efficiency part 3🎄 Need many plots with the same style/formatting but slightly different inputs? 💡Create a custom ggplot function! Define your plot upfront in the function, with all the long formatting code. Then run the function for each new plot with different inputs.

🎄Day 20: Ggplot efficiency: part 2 🎄 Visualizing the same variables in different ways (e.g. sex by time/place)? 💡Tip: Easily standardize colour palettes by defining them once at the start of your code. Then reuse the palettes within scale_fill_manual() or scale_color_manual() across plots.

🎄Day 19: Ggplot efficiency: part 1🎄 Do you need a consistent plot style for a document? Try theme_set()🎨 Define the look of fonts, grid lines, backgrounds, axis text etc once inside theme_set(). This will apply to all subsequent ggplots in your R session. No need for long theme() code per plot!

🎄Day 18 🎄 Having a rough day? The {praise} package is there for you. Go on, give praise() a whirl.... ♥️

🎄Day 17: RStudio magic🎄 Want to be in multiple places at once over the holidays? We can't help you with that. But - we can show you how to type in multiple places at once in RStudio! 😮 Useful when you need to make the same edit across your code but Find + Replace isn't suitable.

🎄Day 15: Quiz answers!🎄 I have possibly learned to not post R quizzes on a Saturday. Regardless! Here is why the two "ñ" characters were not the same: their underlying encoding was actually different!

🎄Day 14: Quiz!🎄 Why do these two seemingly identical characters not equal each other in R?

🎄 Day 13: Sound alerts in R! 🎄 Ever find yourself waiting for code to finish running, only to forget and miss when it’s done? Try {beepr}! 🔔Add beep() to the end of your code, and it will ping when done 🎺Prefer a celebratory trumpet sound? Add beep("fanfare") instead! Enjoy!

🎄Day 12: Assessing missing data🎄 Epis know well that missingness can skew analyses, so needs careful review. No fear, {naniar} can help! E.g.: ☑️pct_miss_case(): to check % of rows with NAs ☑️gg_miss_var(): to quickly visualize missingness by column See more in Ch. 20 of the EpiRHandbook.com!

🎄Day 11 🎄: Multi-panel figures! The R package {patchwork} makes professional-looking multi-panel figures like this SUPER easy to do. This means more efficient story telling, saved space, and clearer comparisons between groups. #r #rstats #epi

Day 10: Code readability! Are you making life harder for yourself in R? Or are you using rainbow parentheses and highlighted functions!? Which one does your code look like?

Day 9: Where do the R version names come from? Run R.version on your console to see your version number and name. The current one is 4.4.2: “Pile of Leaves”. Internet chat suggests these names are all inspired by the Peanuts comic strip. And sure enough… #r #rstats #charliebrown #peanuts 🥜

Day 8: Heatmaps! Epicurves are great when you have a few areas. But for dozens or hundreds of categories, if you want to see patterns then heatmaps are the way to go! epirhandbook.com/new_pages/he...

Day 7: Publication-ready tables! How cool is it to run code and instantly generate a fully formatted table! With flextable, you can: 🖍️ Style fonts 🔗 Merge cells 📑 Add layered headings 📐 Adjust dimensions Learn about it in the EpiRHandbook: epirhandbook.com/en/new_pages... #rstats #epi #r

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Day 6: Today’s is Chapter 28 of the EpiR Handbook: GIS because Epis love maps! 🗺️ 🌍 Learn how to make spatial data work for you: www.epirhandbook.com/en/new_pages... But let’s make this even easier. Did you know you can create an interactive map in R with just one line of code? 🤯 Follow along 👇