Announcing 2020 Interns

We received almost two hundreds applications for this year’s internship program , and while we wish we could have offered positions to everyone, in the end we were only able to select five:

Simon Couch : tidymodels package support
Ezgi Karaesmen : interactive tutorials for tidymodels.
Devin Johnson : support for people working with spreadsheets in R.
JooYoung Seo : accessibility improvements.
Nischal Shrestha : interactive tutorials for Python.

They will all start in May, and will blog here regularly about their progress—we are looking forward to working with them.

Mar 12

Recreating Septa Transit Timetables in Python

Recently, Rich and I were poking around transit data, and we were struck by the amount of structuring that goes into transit timetables. For example, consider this weekend rail schedule table from SEPTA, Philadelphia’s transit agency. Notice these big pieces: The vertical text on the left indicating trains are traveling “TO CENTER CITY”. The blue header, and spanner columns (“Services” and “Train Number”) grouping related columns. The striped background for easier reading. Also the black background indicating stations in Center City (the urban core). Tables like this often have to be created in tools like Illustrator, and updated by hand. At the same time, when agencies automate table creation, they often sacrifice a lot of the assistive features and helpful affordances of the table.

Mar 5

Outgrowing your laptop with R and Positron

R-Ladies Abuja has posted a recording of a recent talk on Positron, and you can find it here!

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PDF Accessibility and Standards

Quarto 1.9 brings PDF accessibility and standards support, building on new tagging features in LaTeX and Typst.

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