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docspo written in large lettering. Below, the word documentation is to the left with an arrow pointing to the first half of the word (doc), and the word inspiration is to the right with an arrow pointing to the second half of the word (spo).

Docspo

notes
documentation
sci-comm
Notes on documentation that inspires me.
Apr 9, 2022
Mara Averick

Adventures with highcharter and the Highcharts Accessibility module. Start point Resources for Data Viz Accessibility, Finish point five blog posts on accessibility with Highcharts and highcharter. Annotation pointing to center of line connecting start and finish reads Me learning things along the way. Red line pointing to that annotation reads THIS TALK.

highcharter a11y talk

talks
video
R
data visualization
accessibility
Highcharts
highcharter
Video and slides from a talk on lessons learned using the highcharter R package with the Highcharts accessibility module.
Mar 9, 2022
Mara Averick

HTML translated into DOM tree translated into visual UI and accessibility tree.

CSS Grid and accessibility

notes
CSS Grid
accessibility
CSS
Further front-end learnings on the power and responsibility that come with CSS Grid, plus more resources for keeping things accessibile.
Feb 14, 2022
Mara Averick

Screenshot of browser with a Quarto page using full-page layout with CSS grid overlay displayed by browser using grid line names, and developer tools open at the bottom of the window.

Down the front-end rabbit hole

notes
Quarto
Sass
SCSS
Bootstrap
CSS Grid
Notes on Sass, Bootstrap, and Bootswatch in the service of understanding Quarto HTML themes.
Jan 1, 2022
Mara Averick

With x-axis range from January 2021 to January 2022, shows relatively steady increase in cumulative sum of books read over time (from zero to ~200, where y-max = 188).

What I read in 2021

R
data visualization
My year in books, by the numbers.
Dec 31, 2021
Mara Averick

yadm in large letters with yet another dotfiles manager written beneath in smaller letters.

Madam, I’m yadm

yadm
dotfiles
Why yadm (Yet Another Dotfiles Manager) is anything but just another dotfiles manager.
Dec 30, 2021
Mara Averick

An annotated line chart illustrates the 8th stage of the 2017 Tour de France cycling race from the start point in Dole to the finish line at Station des Rousses. Altitude is plotted on the Y-axis, and distance is plotted on the X-axis.

{highcharter} and the accessibility module: Part 5

R
data visualization
accessibility
highcharter
Highcharts
The final installment of our series on using the Highcharts accessibility module with {highcharter}, in which we re-create an area chart with lots of annotations.
Nov 16, 2021
Mara Averick

Scatterplot of the palmerpenguins dataset showing data points clustered by species (Adelie, Chinstrap, and Gentoo) using the highcharter package making it possible to focus on one cluster and identify the x and y values of a specific data point. In this case the data point is a Chinstrap penguin observation mapping to a flipper length of 201mm and bill length of 54.2mm.

Accessible {highcharter}: Part 4

R
data visualization
accessibility
highcharter
Highcharts
In which we discuss the screen-reader metadata generated by Highcharts’ accessibility module using {highcharter} with {palmerpenguins} data.
Nov 15, 2021
Mara Averick

Pie chart demonstrating some accessibility features of Highcharts. The chart shows which screen reader is used as the primary screen reader by the respondents, with NVDA currently being the most popular one. The JAWS screen reader is following closely behind.

Highcharts accessibility module with {highcharter}: Part 3

R
data visualization
accessibility
highcharter
Highcharts
Re-creating Highcharts’ accessible pie chart using the {highcharter} R package.
Nov 13, 2021
Mara Averick

Line chart demonstrating some accessibility features of Highcharts. The chart displays the most commonly used screen readers in surveys taken by WebAIM from December 2010 to September 2019. JAWS was the most used screen reader until 2019, when NVDA took over. VoiceOver is the third most used screen reader, followed by Narrator. ZoomText/Fusion had a surge in 2015, but usage is otherwise low. The overall use of other screen readers has declined drastically the past few years.

{higcharter} and the Highcharts accessibility module: Part 2

R
data visualization
accessibility
highcharter
Highcharts
Re-creating Highcharts’ demo accessible line chart using the {highcharter} R package, resulting in an interactive visualization with keyboard navigation and built-in features for screen readers.
Nov 12, 2021
Mara Averick

Highcharts bar chart entitled Fruits. Arrow keys point to bars before and after the active bar, while a tab key points to the Count item in the key.

Adventures with the Highcharts accessibility module: Part 1

R
data visualization
accessibility
highcharter
Highcharts
An introduction to a series of posts using the Higcharts data visualization library’s accessibility module through the {highcharter} R package.
Nov 10, 2021
Mara Averick

The Darth Vader Scale of Derivative Works: Young Anakin (circa Episode 1) is mere aggregation, older (but still young-ish) Anakin (Circa Episode 2) is plug-ins and dynamic linking, older still (circa Episode 3) is static linking, and full-blown Darth Vader is incorporation. Figure from Lindberg 2008.

Notes on re-licensing

notes
open source
Notes taken by me (Mara) in the process of re-licensing packages in the tidyverse, r-lib, and more.
Sep 23, 2021
Mara Averick

Title reads: What's new in dbplyr 2.0.0? Below, is the dbplyr hex logo with an arrow pointing to it labelled: snazzy new logo by Allison Horst. The bottom left-hand corner reads: Mara Averick, Tidyverse Developer Advocate, RStudio.

What’s new in dbplyr 2.0.0?

talks
R
tidyverse
dbplyr
Slides from my lightning talk to the Greater Boston UseR Group on the new features in the dbplyr 2.0.0 release.
Dec 15, 2020
Mara Averick

Screenshot from Upping your storytelling game page shows some R code and a scatterplot of offensive vs. defensive box plus-minus with points labeled using gghighlight and ggrepel packages.

Storytelling with R

talks
R
data visualization
ggplot2
Interactive website and slides on storytelling and data visualization with R from a talk given to a data journalism class at Northeastern.
Mar 28, 2019
Mara Averick

Cover slide with San Francisco skyline in the background. On the right the title reads 'Sustainers of the Tidyverse' with Mara Averick, tidyverse developer adovcate, RStudio written below. On the left is a large circular badge reading San Francisco H2O.ai H2O World 2019.

Sustainers of the tidyverse — H2O World

talks
video
R
tidyverse
open source
sci-comm
Video and slides from my talk at H2O World SF on the technical tools, virtual spaces, and social norms that have empowered community contributions to the tidyverse.
Feb 9, 2019
Mara Averick

Sustainers of the tidyverse written on a celestial background. In the bottom right corner the author and affiliation are written: Mara Averick, tidyverse developer advocate, RStudio.

MLOSS 2018: Sustainable communities

talks
R
tidyverse
open source
sci-comm
Slides and resources from my invited presentation at the Machine Learning Open Source Software (MLOSS) workshop on sustainable communities at NeurIPS 2018.
Dec 8, 2018
Mara Averick

Bold black title on white background reads 'how i found your answer'. Speaker information is in lower right corner: Mara Averick, Tidyverse Developer Advocate, RStudio.

How I Found Your Answer — DC R 2018

talks
video
R
sci-comm
Video and slides from my talk at the first annual DC R Conference on helping others troubleshoot their code, and helping yourself in the process.
Nov 9, 2018
Mara Averick

Phrasing written in bold white letters on a black background. Beneath, the subtitle reads: communicating data science through gifs, tweets, and classic misdirection.

Phrasing — NYR 2018

talks
video
R
sci-comm
Video and slides from my talk at the New York R Conference, Phrasing: Communicating data science through gifs, tweets, and classic misdirection.
Apr 21, 2018
Mara Averick

Title reads: contributing to the tidyverse, with author information below: Mara Averick, tidyverse developer advocate. Left-hand side shows a blue bar with the rstudioconf logo.

Contributing to the tidyverse

talks
video
R
open source
tidyverse
This talk covers the strategies and mechanics of making contributions to ‘mature’ open-source projects, with a particular focus on the tidyverse.
Feb 3, 2018
Mara Averick

Title reads: 'Phrasing: communicating data science through gifs, tweets, and classic misdirection', followed by author information below: Mara Averick, tidyverse developer advocate. Left-hand side shows a blue bar with the rstudioconf logo.

Phrasing: Communicating data science through tweets, gifs, and classic misdirection

talks
video
R
sci-comm
This talk from rstudio::conf(2018) takes you whirlwind tour through the lighter side of learning and communicating data science.
Feb 2, 2018
Mara Averick

Title reads Pilgrim's Progress with the subtitle below that reads a journey from confusion to contribution. A decorative picture of a forest with mist is in the center of the slide.

Data Day Texas 2018

talks
R
open source
tidyverse
Slides from Pilgrim’s Progress: A journey from confusion to contribution, my talk given at Data Day Texas 2018 on my own early contributions to the tidyverse and R packages, and how others can follow suit.
Jan 25, 2018
Mara Averick

leaRning out loud written in bold type on a black background with the R in learning highlighted in green. Below, it reads EARL 2017.

LeaRning Out Loud

talks
R
sci-comm
Slides from my keynote at EARL Boston on contributing to the R community by learning data science ‘out loud.’
Nov 3, 2017
Mara Averick
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