useR2024.qmd

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# DSLC who?

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## From R4DS to DSLC

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🤝 Name is inviting
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We're still the same community.
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-   You may know us as R4DS or the R4DS Online Learning Community
-   Started as a book club for that one book in 2017, but
    -   We've never been affiliated with that book
    -   We cover much more than that one book
-   Now we're the data science learning community (as of April 2024)
-   If you want to learn anything about data science, we're here to help.
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## Our mission

> To provide tools and resources to foster a diverse, friendly, and inclusive community of data science learners and practitioners.

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**[DSLC.io](https://dslc.io)**
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📚 Learning together
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👩‍🏫 Helping one another
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📢 Learning out loud
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🖇️ Making connections
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-   I was lucky when I started to learn Data Science.
    -   Found a friendly community on social media.
    -   I have advantages that not everybody has.
-   Let's make sure everybody has a good learning experience.
-   Tools and resources are focused in these areas:
    -   Learning together
    -   Helping one another
    -   Learning out loud
    -   Still to come: Making connections
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# What do you do?

## Learning Together with Book Clubs

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📚 Over 60 free, online data science books
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`{r} fontawesome::fa_i("users-rectangle")` Small groups to encourage discussion
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`{r} fontawesome::fa_i("youtube", style = "color: red;")` Videos on YouTube to catch up
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`{r} fontawesome::fa_i("slack")` Slack channel per book for asynchronous discussion
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-   Start: R4DS
-   (move through fast)
-   Added Advanced R in April 2020 (bored at home)
-   Also books in other languages.
-   Books from "Advanced R" to "What They Forgot to Teach You About R"
    -   If anybody knows a data science book that starts with "Z" to make that work better, please let me know!
-   Books and book-like things like online courses and even pkgdown sites.
    -   Just needs to be free (legally) online.
-   The name "R4DS Online Learning Community" became less and less accurate.
-   5-6 is ideal.
    -   (Don't move forward yet)
    -   1-hour weekly meeting
    -   Shared slide decks that we're developing collaboratively
    -   I've worked in educational publishing for about 25 years, sneak in best practices
-   (Next slide) Vids on YouTube, so it's ok to miss a week
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## Helping Each Other with Friendly Q&A

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🙋‍♂️ Supportive community for asking questions
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🤝 Culture of collaboration -- it's ok to not know!
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🎦 [Learning by Teaching](https://posit.co/resources/videos/learning-by-teaching-mentoring-at-the-r4ds-online-learning-community/) me @ rstudio::conf(2020)
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-   #help- channels to ask and answer questions
    -   From the start: code of conduct has encouraged friendliness.
    -   "The anti stack overflow." Don't make people feel bad for asking questions.
-   Everyone has things they don't know yet.
-   Lightning talk: "Learning by Teaching", because answering questions is a great way to practice and cement skills
    -   Step up from book clubs.
    -   Strongly encouraged at all skill levels.
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## Finding Unanswered Questions

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-   Mentordash = unanswered question tracker
-   This one is older, and has had more help from the community.
    -   Tan Ho did most of the UI.
-   We try to keep that at 0, but here it was relatively high!
-   Loads live data from Slack
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## Learning Out Loud with #TidyTuesday

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👩‍💻 Participants share: \
&nbsp;&nbsp;`{r} fontawesome::fa_i("chart-line")` data visualizations \
&nbsp;&nbsp;`{r} fontawesome::fa_i("file-code")` code
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-   Weekly social data project
-   Started by Tom Mock back in April 2018
-   Now me and Tracy Teal curate datasets
-   Datasets on social media & tidytues.day
-   Nicola Rennie from March 2024
-   Used in college courses for projects
    -   See github.com/r4ds/ttmeta
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## TidyTuesday in Education

[DSLC.io/ttsurvey23](https://dslc.io/ttsurvey23)

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-   If you use TidyTuesday in education (as a student or as a teacher), please fill out this survey!
-   In part, we're using this to decide what to do in ttmeta tool.
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# How can I help?

## Contribute

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`{r} fontawesome::fa_i("comments")` Answer questions on Slack: [dslc.io/mentordash](https://dslc.io/mentordash)
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`{r} fontawesome::fa_i("book-open-reader")` Facilitate a book club cohort 
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✨ Contribute to Shiny apps 
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-   Come to DSLC.io to join our Slack!
    -   Answering questions is a great way to learn!
    -   Try to keep replies in threads so mentordash can keep track
-   Must participate in a club first, but 
    -   after you do we can always use facilitators
    -   Times are chosen out of your choices, so it's guaranteed to work for you
-   Convince me to let you contribute!
    -   I'm trying to make the github repos welcoming
    -   Bookclubber exists because Priyanka Gagneja made a v1.
    -   Automatic processing happens because Kevin Kent sorted out how to interact with the YouTube API. 
    -   I mentioned needing help, they ran with them.
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## Sponsorship

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🔍 Seeking a new fiscal host
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💸 Grants and sponsorships helpful!
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🙏 Grateful for all contributions
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-   We're a collective in the Open Collective Foundation, which makes us count as a 501c3 charitable organization for US taxes.
    -   OCF dissolved suddenly in March 2024
    -   Need a STABLE new host by end of this year
    -   Application in progress!
-   Even before then we can start working out details of grants and sponsorships!
    -   I don't get paid for any of this yet.
    -   My dream is to work on this full time.
-   We had a fundraiser in March 2024 while we still could, and my heart is warmed by the response.
    -   Will let us keep things running, but won't get us all the way to where I envision us going.
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## Join the community!

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`{r} fontawesome::fa_i("mastodon")` [@DSLCvids](https://fosstodon.org/@DSLCvids)
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-   If the join link fails, let me know at jon@dslc.io!
-   When you join, post in the #0-intros_and_welcome channel!
-   Ok to ping me for DSLC questions, but ask your help questions in the open in the help channels, so everyone can learn together!
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