Hi! I’m Meghan.
I am a data manager in higher ed. I contribute to the public sports analytics community by helping beginners learn R as well as by writing and presenting on various aspects of hockey analysis as a member of Hockey-Graphs. I was previously a data scientist at Zelus Analytics.
I frequently deliver talks and workshops on R—for useR groups, R-Ladies groups, and conferences such as the Carnegie Mellon Sports Analytics Conference and Hockey (Analytics) Night in Canada. In the summer of 2021, I taught an undergrad course on data visualization at Carnegie Mellon University.
R and/or spoRts
Creating Custom Color Palettes with ggplot2
How to define custom colors and color palettes in R and create your own scale_color and scale_fill functions to use in ggplot2.
Read moreTips for Custom Parameterized PDFs in Quarto
Tips and tricks for creating parameterized reports with R and Quarto and customizing the PDFs with LaTeX.
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CMU Data Viz Course
Course materials for 36-315, a full-credit undergraduate course at Carnegie Mellon University on data visualization in R.
Read moreBetween The Pipes
I built this package to hold sample data and learnr tutorials, all about learning the tidyverse with hockey data.
Read moreTalking on R
Keeping it Tidy
Using the tidyverse to organize, transform, and visualize data.
Read moreCultivating Your Own R Ecosystem as a Solo Contributor
Learn how you can begin to build your own R ecosystem, step by step, to increase the efficiency and impact of your work, even as a solo contributor.
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