We're hiring! Applied Epi is looking for a capable epidemiologist for a full-time 1-year remote contractor position. Take a look at our website for more details on the role and how to apply: appliedepi.org/about/join.h... Application deadline: July 31, 2025.

🚨 Rare opportunity! Our advanced R courses start end of July: 📈 Time series & outbreak detection in R 📊 Intro to Stats in R 🗺️ Intro to GIS in R 🖥️ Shiny in R 📝 Advanced R Markdown Plus: Lots of Intro to R courses running all summer! 🌞 Taught live by experienced epidemiologists. 🌍 🔗 appliedepi.org

“I’ve taken several R trainings - this is the BEST!” 📢 New courses posted! Intro to R for public health 🗓️ 40 hours part-time, synchronous, with unlimited 1-on-1 coaching and options for ALL time zones. ✏️ Register: appliedepi.org/training/pub...

📢 Last week to apply for the Applied Epi scholarships! Transition your team to R with free or discounted courses and services. Why apply? ✔️ Full or partial scholarships ✔️ Focused on strengthening public health capacity 🗓️ Apply by Feb 10, 2025! 🌐 appliedepi.org/training/scholarships-ae

📢 Ready to move your team to R? Applied Epi’s scholarships are OPEN! ✅ Funding available for teams in LMICs ✅ Even teams of 1 can apply with leadership support ✅ Deadline: Feb 10, 2025 Why team applications? Collaboration ensures a smooth transition to R! Apply today: 🌐 appliedepi.org

🚨 Applications are NOW OPEN for Applied Epi’s 2025 scholarships! 🚨 💡 For teams in low- & middle-income countries working in epidemiology, this is your chance to access funding for courses and support services that help transition to R. 🗓️ Deadline: Feb 10, 2025 🌐 Apply here: appliedepi.org

🎉 R scholarship applications open on January 20! If your team (government or nonprofit) works in applied epidemiology in a low- or middle-income country, you could get access to our Intro to R course and Support Desk! Details: appliedepi.org/training/sch... #Rstats #epitwitter

🎄 Merry Christmas Eve, everyone! 🎄 To wrap up this advent calendar, here’s our final tip: Did you know you can use your own images in ggplot? Check out this festive example with a cartoon of Santa —on his (surprisingly inefficient?) route tonight! 🎅✨ #DataViz #RStats

Today's post is for anyone with bdays this time of the year. We see you! This includes our Exec Director, an expert in "combo Xmas/bday" presents! Happy birthday Neale! 🎂 On that note, ever work with multiple date columns but need to pick one? Use coalesce() to easily prioritize a value! #Rstats

🎄Day 22: An R Christmas Tree 🎄 There's still time to write your Christmas cards! And what better captures the yuletide spirit than...R... Seriously though, check out the {christmas} package by Jose Barrera-Gomez.. Stunning!

🎄Day 21: Ggplot efficiency part 3🎄 Need many plots with the same style/formatting but slightly different inputs? 💡Create a custom ggplot function! Define your plot upfront in the function, with all the long formatting code. Then run the function for each new plot with different inputs.

🎄Day 20: Ggplot efficiency: part 2 🎄 Visualizing the same variables in different ways (e.g. sex by time/place)? 💡Tip: Easily standardize colour palettes by defining them once at the start of your code. Then reuse the palettes within scale_fill_manual() or scale_color_manual() across plots.

🎄Day 19: Ggplot efficiency: part 1🎄 Do you need a consistent plot style for a document? Try theme_set()🎨 Define the look of fonts, grid lines, backgrounds, axis text etc once inside theme_set(). This will apply to all subsequent ggplots in your R session. No need for long theme() code per plot!

🎄Day 18 🎄 Having a rough day? The {praise} package is there for you. Go on, give praise() a whirl.... ♥️

🎄Day 17: RStudio magic🎄 Want to be in multiple places at once over the holidays? We can't help you with that. But - we can show you how to type in multiple places at once in RStudio! 😮 Useful when you need to make the same edit across your code but Find + Replace isn't suitable.

🎄Day 15: Quiz answers!🎄 I have possibly learned to not post R quizzes on a Saturday. Regardless! Here is why the two "ñ" characters were not the same: their underlying encoding was actually different!

🎄Day 14: Quiz!🎄 Why do these two seemingly identical characters not equal each other in R?

🎄 Day 13: Sound alerts in R! 🎄 Ever find yourself waiting for code to finish running, only to forget and miss when it’s done? Try {beepr}! 🔔Add beep() to the end of your code, and it will ping when done 🎺Prefer a celebratory trumpet sound? Add beep("fanfare") instead! Enjoy!

🎄Day 12: Assessing missing data🎄 Epis know well that missingness can skew analyses, so needs careful review. No fear, {naniar} can help! E.g.: ☑️pct_miss_case(): to check % of rows with NAs ☑️gg_miss_var(): to quickly visualize missingness by column See more in Ch. 20 of the EpiRHandbook.com!

🎄Day 11 🎄: Multi-panel figures! The R package {patchwork} makes professional-looking multi-panel figures like this SUPER easy to do. This means more efficient story telling, saved space, and clearer comparisons between groups. #r #rstats #epi

Day 10: Code readability! Are you making life harder for yourself in R? Or are you using rainbow parentheses and highlighted functions!? Which one does your code look like?

Day 9: Where do the R version names come from? Run R.version on your console to see your version number and name. The current one is 4.4.2: “Pile of Leaves”. Internet chat suggests these names are all inspired by the Peanuts comic strip. And sure enough… #r #rstats #charliebrown #peanuts 🥜

Day 8: Heatmaps! Epicurves are great when you have a few areas. But for dozens or hundreds of categories, if you want to see patterns then heatmaps are the way to go! epirhandbook.com/new_pages/he...

Day 7: Publication-ready tables! How cool is it to run code and instantly generate a fully formatted table! With flextable, you can: 🖍️ Style fonts 🔗 Merge cells 📑 Add layered headings 📐 Adjust dimensions Learn about it in the EpiRHandbook: epirhandbook.com/en/new_pages... #rstats #epi #r

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Day 6: Today’s is Chapter 28 of the EpiR Handbook: GIS because Epis love maps! 🗺️ 🌍 Learn how to make spatial data work for you: www.epirhandbook.com/en/new_pages... But let’s make this even easier. Did you know you can create an interactive map in R with just one line of code? 🤯 Follow along 👇

We’re a bit late but we’ll catch on fast! Starting from tomorrow we’ll be doing our Christmas advent calendar of chapters from the EpiRHandbook. Each day we’ll tell you about one of our chapters and why it’s useful for you as an Epi! So follow along for the next 20 days!

Hello Bluesky! We’re Applied Epi! What do we want? To improve Applied Epidemiology worldwide! When do we want it? Well probably in an achievable timeframe that doesn’t completely destroy a much needed and already existing infrastructure that is overburdened!