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Teaching materials, workshops, and recommended references

This section brings together authored resources, workshop materials, and the external references that I return to most often when teaching statistics, R, data science, and scientific communication.

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Books & teaching resources

Browse authored books, educational collaborations, and classroom-ready materials.

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Talks & workshops

Find slide decks, workshop pages, and course materials for invited sessions and training.

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News & writing

Read posts and reflections linked to teaching practice, outreach, and professional development.

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Recommended reading

R tools

  • Free icons from Font Awesome and the {fontawesome} R package for bringing icons into slides, websites, and documents.

Data visualization

  • A ggplot2 Tutorial for Beautiful Plotting in R
  • Beautifully Annotated: Enhancing your ggplots with Text, by Cara Thompson

Reporting & presentations

  • Quarto
  • Meet xaringan: Making slides in R Markdown, by Allison Hill
  • Sharing Your xaringan Slides, by Garrick Aden-Buie

Learning materials

  • The Big Book of R
  • Allison Horst’s Data Science Illustrations
  • Mastering Shiny, by Hadley Wickham
  • Happy Git and GitHub for the useR, by Jenny Bryan
  • R for Data Science, by Hadley Wickham
  • W3Schools, especially for HTML and CSS tutorials

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