Erin Grand

New Blog - Who Dis?

blog

quarto

I started my blogging journey as a homework assignment in grad school. At the time, Jekyll was new, exciting, and easy to spin up. I found a theme I liked, contributed to it…

Best Practices for Cleaning Data in R

duplicate data

A few months ago, I gave a talk at the previously known as NYC R conference, now known as New York Data Science and AI. (Watch it here!) My presentation focused on my…

Reviewing my old live journal posts

sentiment

tidytext

I’m about to BARE MY SOUL to the internet. Well, the soul of my teenage self. Get ready!

Data science jobs in the not-for-profit sector

data science

careers

I’ve been a data scientist in the non-profit sector for 5+ years. In an earlier conversation with people starting their transition into data science, we talked about how…

Twitter’s Favorite Lesser Known Packages

twitter

At the 2018 December NYC R Ladies meetup (yes this post has been sitting in my drafts for over a year), a group started talking about how a few tiny functions in a…

Scraping APOD Descriptions

tidytext

astronomy

A long while ago now, Nujchare tweeted about an awesome vis she did using rvest and PowerBi.

Faces of rstudioconf

twitter

conference

I was reminded today by Daniela that everyone should blog - and on top of that you can totally blog something small and simple just to get something out there.

R in the World of Education

education

rladies

duplicate data

I recently gave a r-ladies presentation about my work cleaning and working with really messy education data. This blog post is an attempt at summarizing the main points of…

Update to Lizzie Bennet Text Analysis Using Plotly

sentiment

tidytext

LBD

plotly

rladies

Daniela Vázquez recently published her blog post on Last Week Tonight. She used a bunch of code from my previous LBD analysis (THANKS FOR THE LOVE DANIELA! :heart:) and also…

Text Analysis of The Lizzie Bennet Diaries

rladies

tidytext

sentiment

LBD

Inspired by Julia’s Silge’s recent talk on Tidytext as part of NASA Datanauts, and her blog posts, I decided to try my hand at some text analysis. Julia’s examples focus on…

New York Rstats Conference

conference

rladies

Last weekend was the 2017 RStatsNYC conference. I had a great time talking to friends and meeting new friends throughout the weekend. The speakers covered a variety of…

Graphics in Science

visualization

data science

python

Graphics and visualizations are used for promotion, advertisement to promote a product or idea. In science, graphics tend to fall into one of two categories: for use in…

Educational Graphics in Science

Educational graphics are often used as a way to teach one concept. As such, they tend to generalize the information in such a way that leaves out important information.