Add JavaScript data viz to your data science toolkit with Observable Plot

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Hi R-Ladies SB!

We are thrilled to welcome Allison Horst & Ananya Roy for our first ever JavaScript lesson using Observable Plot -- this hands-on workshop-style event may be a slight departure from our R-based meetups in the past, but fear not -- you can expect to see hints of {ggplot2}'s influence in this new-to-us tool!

Please see Allison & Ananya's event description below for more details, and note that this is a virtual-only event (Zoom link will be distributed closer to the event).

Be sure to fill out this fun survey if you haven't already (seriously, it's fun and had us laughing through it all) by Monday 5/19 @ 5pm PT so that we have a rad dataset to explore during the workshop!

See you there!

~ Sam, An, Danielle, & Camila

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Description: We're increasingly seeing different languages and tools combined in computational notebooks. For example, Quarto makes it possible to add Observable JavaScript to .qmd documents, creating exciting opportunities to include custom interactive data visualizations for the web alongside your R code and analyses. How can you get started with data visualization in JavaScript?

In this session, we'll introduce Observable Plot - a JavaScript package with a goal of getting you to "a meaningful visualization quickly." In particular, we'll highlight how your grammar of graphics and ggplot2 knowledge maps closely onto Plot code, and explore how Observable Inputs get you quickly from static to interactive web-ready visualizations.

Beforehand: We'll be working in Observable notebooks. If you want to save your work from this session, you can create a free account at observablehq.com. Or, you can follow along and make changes to our shared notebook without creating an account to test it out (in that case, your changes just won't get saved).

Pre-meetup fun survey: We want to explore some data that feels relevant. Can you help us out? We've made this fun little survey to build a play dataset for use during the session. Thank you for filling it out by 5pm PT on Monday 5/19!