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🎄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

I love to use alternative data to provide valuable health insights.

São Paulo's Citizen Service collects reports from residents about their concerns. When someone spots a bat, pigeon, scorpion, or rat, they can report it.

Using this data, I built a Shiny app to monitor synanthropic animals

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?

Today's challenge: analyzing vegetation coverage across São Paulo’s 96 districts! 🌿I'm working with over 200k polygons of significant vegetation and intersecting them with district boundaries to calculate green area per district 🥵.
Thanks to @qgis.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
#GIS #QGIS #DataAnalysis

I wish Spotify wrapped would share open data on the average music listening time by region and music genre. I'm sure we could gather some valuable insights from it.

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!