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This package is the source code for the education.rstudio.com website, built using blogdown. It contains content files (.md, .Rmd, and .Rmarkdown) that are rendered into the website’s learn, teach, blog, and events sections.

The site uses Hugo and blogdown for rendering, with automatic deployment via Netlify that provides live previews for every pull request. Contributors can add or modify content across different sections including learning resources organized by skill level, teaching materials and tools, blog posts with support for R code and emoji, and event listings. The repository is CC BY-SA licensed and accepts contributions following specific file naming and rendering conventions for each content type.

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Resources featuring education.rstudio.com#

Building Posit Academy, On-Demand Learning for Data Scientists | Ryan Johnson | Data Science Hangout

ADD THE DATA SCIENCE HANGOUT TO YOUR CALENDAR HERE: https://pos.it/dsh - All are welcome! We’d love to see you! This week’s guest was Ryan Johnson, Data Science Advisor at Posit! Some topics covered in this week’s Hangout were transitioning from academia to industry, navigating PhD experiences and career pivots, creating educational content and workshops, and the new Posit Academy platform (linked in the resources section! Includes free and open training). One community member asked: “As someone who came from academia, what kind of skills do you find useful in industry versus what are some things you needed to learn?” Ryan’s paraphrased answer: Critical thinking from a PhD is invaluable. The scientific method applies beyond science. In his role designing workshops, he collects data, forms hypotheses about what adds value, tests with internal cohorts, and iterates based on feedback. Presenting frequently in academia also prepared him for daily presentations in industry. But working with customers was a new skill he had to learn. In academia, you’re focused on your research and getting published, but in industry, navigating customer relationships is a different challenge that requires developing people skills and understanding customer needs. Resources mentioned in the video and chat: Posit Academy (New Learning Platform) → https://academy.posit.co/ Posit Open Source Website → https://opensource.posit.co/ PhD Illustrated: Matt Might’s Visualization → https://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/ The animated guide to a Ph.D. → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We760YM5-iM Cascadia R Conference → https://cascadiarconf.com/ OTESSA Conference 2026 → https://otessa.org/2026 Andrew Heiss on AI and Education → https://stats.andrewheiss.com/pinky-lychee/ r/PhD Reddit Community → https://www.reddit.com/r/PhD/ Tsundoku (Acquiring Books Without Reading Them) → https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsundoku Finnish PhD Doctoral Sword → https://www.jyu.fi/en/feature-article/doctoral-sword Ryan’s Blue Sky Post on Education Platform Future → https://bsky.app/profile/ryjohnson09.bsky.social/post/3mi2gu6y24c2s ► Subscribe to Our Channel Here: https://bit.ly/2TzgcOu Follow Us Here: Website: https://www.posit.co Hangout: https://pos.it/dsh The Lab: https://pos.it/dslab LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/posit-software Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/posit.co Thanks for hanging out with us! Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 05:13 “How did you get from a PhD in microbiology to industry?” 15:39 “What kind of skills from academia do you find useful in industry, and what did you need to learn?” 20:37 “What are your thoughts on the future of education.rstudio.com and where it should be headed?” 23:33 “Could you tell us about the new Posit Academy?” 29:52 “What does an average day or week look like for you as an educator at Posit?” 34:28 “How has AI changed the kinds of questions you are asked in workshops, and have you noticed changes in baseline understanding?” 37:21 “How can people request topics for Academy courses?” 40:10 “What was your experience pushing for an on-demand learning management system at Posit?” 44:26 “Does anyone know of communities for people going through a PhD?” 45:34 “Can you share thoughts on open source software growth, especially in the European Union?” 49:05 “What do you think people don’t realize they can do with Posit Team?” 52:15 “Would you recommend people get a PhD in the age of AI?”

Shelmith Kariuki | rKenyaCensus Package | RStudio

The rKenyaCensus package contains the results of the 2019 Kenya Population Census. The census exercise was carried out in August 2019, and the results were released in February 2020. Kenya leveraged on technology to capture data during cartographic mapping, enumeration and data transmission, making the 2019 Census the first paperless census to be conducted in Kenya. The data was published in four different pdf files (Volume 1 - Volume 4) which can be found in the Kenya National Bureau of statistics website. The data in its current form was open and accessible, but not usable and so there was need to convert it into a machine readable format. This data can be used by the government, non-governmental organizations and any other entities for data driven policy making and development. During the talk, I will explain the reasons behind development of the package, take you through the steps I took during the process and finally showcase analysis of certain aspects of the data. About Shelmith: Shelmith Kariuki is a Senior Data Analyst based in Nairobi, Kenya. She is an RStudio Certified Tidyverse trainer (https://education.rstudio.com/trainers/), currently working as a Data Analytics consultant with UN DESA. She previously worked as a Research Manager at Geopoll, and as a Data Analyst at Busara Center for Behavioral Economics. She also worked as an assistant lecturer in various Kenyan universities, teaching units in Statistics and Actuarial Science. She has extensive experience in data analysis using R. She co-organizes a community of R users in Nairobi (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/nairobir/) and in Africa (https://twitter.com/AfricaRUsers). One of the missions of her community work is to make sure that there is an increased number of R adopters, in Africa. She is very passionate about training and using data analytics to drive development projects in Africa

education.rstudio.com rstudio tidyverse Rstudio Data Science Machine Learning Python Stats Tidyverse Data Visualization Data Viz Ggplot Technology Coding Connect Server Pro Shiny RMarkdown Package Manager CRAN Interoperability Serious Data Science Dplyr Ggplot2 Tibble Readr Stringr Tidyr Purrr GitHub Data Wrangling Tidy Data Odbc Rayshader Plumber Blogdown Gt Lazy Evaluation Tidymodels Statistics Debugging Programming Education Forcats Rstats Open Source Oss Reticulate Shelmith Kariuki RKenyaCensus

Ahmadou Dicko | Humanitarian Data Science with R | RStudio

Humanitarian actors are increasingly using data to drive their decisions. Since the Haiti 2010 earthquake, the volume of data collected and used by humanitarians has been growing exponentially and organizations are now relying on data specialists to turn all this data into life-saving data products. These data products are created by teams using proprietary point and click software. The process from the raw data to the final data product involves a lot of clicking, copying and pasting and is usually not reproducible. Another approach to humanitarian data science is possible using R. In this talk, I will show how to seamlessly develop reproducible, reusable humanitarian data products using the tidyverse, rmarkdown and some domain-focused R packages. About Ahmadou: Ahmadou Dicko is a statistics and data analysis officer at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) where he uses statistics and data science to help safeguard the rights and well-being of refugees in West and Central Africa. He has an extensive experience in the use of statistics and data science in development and humanitarian projects. Ahmadou was the lead of the OCHA Center for Humanitarian Data team for West and Central Africa and has worked with several humanitarian and development organizations such as IFRC, FAO, IAEA, OCHA. Ahmadou is a RStudio trainer (https://education.rstudio.com/trainers/) and he is passionate about the R community. He is currently co-organizing the Dakar R User Group (https://www.meetup.com/DakaR-R-User-Group/) and co-leading the AfricaR initiative (https://africa-r.org/)

education.rstudio.com rmarkdown rstudio tidyverse Rstudio Data Science Machine Learning Python Stats Tidyverse Data Visualization Data Viz Ggplot Technology Coding Connect Server Pro Shiny RMarkdown Package Manager CRAN Interoperability Serious Data Science Dplyr Ggplot2 Tibble Readr Stringr Tidyr Purrr GitHub Data Wrangling Tidy Data Odbc Rayshader Plumber Blogdown Gt Lazy Evaluation Tidymodels Statistics Debugging Programming Education Forcats Rstats Open Source Oss Reticulate Ahmadou Dicko Data for Good

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Contributors#

Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel

Jenny Bryan

Julia Silge

Charlotte Wickham

Garrick Aden-Buie

Hadley Wickham

Greg Swinehart

Resources featuring education.rstudio.com#

Building Posit Academy, On-Demand Learning for Data Scientists | Ryan Johnson | Data Science Hangout

Shelmith Kariuki | rKenyaCensus Package | RStudio

Ahmadou Dicko | Humanitarian Data Science with R | RStudio