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title: "How the R4DS Online Learning Community Made Me a Better Student"
author: "Lydia Gibson"
# institute: "posit::conf(2023)"
# date: "09-20-2023"
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  data-notes: "Hi Everyone! My name is Lydia Gibson, and I'm really excited to be in front of you all today speaking about a community that is very near and dear to my heart. Today I'll be speaking to you about how the R4DS Online Learning Community Made Me a Better Student."
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## About Me

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-   M.S. Statistics, May 2023

-   Data Scientist at Intel
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-   Graduated in May with M.S. Stats

-   Following month Data Scientist at Intel

-   Couldn't have imagined this two years ago
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## My backstory

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-   I wanted to be a fashion designer

-   I fell in love with clothing from a young age 

-   Grandma used to make Karen and I matching outfits
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## Fashion Drawing

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_   As I got older, I'd sketch clothes for myself

-   Taking inspiration from teen vogue and seventeen magazine
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## Prom Dress

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_   I even designed my own prom dress

-   Which my grandma constructed for me
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[**I didn't care about R...**]{.r-fit-text .absolute top="200"} 
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> "Nobody cares about R.... ***They care about what you can do with R.***"

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-**David Keyes**, 

*2023 Cascadia R Conference*
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-   I wasn't passionate about Data Science

-   I had no previous programming skills

-   I didn't care about R.
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## 

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[**until I learned about DataViz.**]{.r-fit-text .absolute top="300"} 
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-   Dataviz was the closest thing to fashion design

-   Underlying grammar of graphics for how to construct a graph

-   Similar to elements of design like line, shape, silhouette, color,  texture 

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## 


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> "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."
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-**Jon Harmon**, 

*R4DS Chief Community Manager*
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-   That's where R4DS comes into the picture

-   R4DS is a Slack Workspace with learner of all skill levels

-   Each week they have several concurrent book clubs

-   I joined the ggplot2 book club
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## My takeaways

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- 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.
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## Get Involved!


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- **Join:** *r4ds.io/join*

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

- **Donate:** *r4ds.io/donate*
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## Thank you

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## 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>