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A brief overview of writing DS-related blog posts for your personal website, with a focus on blogging using the {distill} package.

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Example blog posts #1

Open samanthacsik opened 3 years ago

samanthacsik commented 3 years ago

Some examples:

https://www.allisonhorst.com/post/2020-03-02-gt-tables-examples/ (gt tables)
https://www.jamiecmontgomery.com/post/cropping-rasters-down-to-size/ (cropping rasters)
https://ellakaye.rbind.io/posts/2021-05-26-custom-syntax-highlighting-for-distill-part-2-creating-the-palette/ (distill customization)
https://datascidani.com/posts/2020-08-20-packages-r-conference-nyc/ (r conf)
https://alexkgold.space/posts/2019-11-09-custom-fonts-in-ggplot2/ (ggplot custom fonts)
https://emitanaka.org/posts/hexsticker/ (see bottom where you can subscribe, comment, share, and preview other posts)
https://www.ericekholm.com/posts/2021-03-24-improving-ggplots-with-text-color/ (describes both how & when to use this tool)
https://www.hfshr.xyz/posts/2020-06-21-penguins-and-nakedpipes/ (compares a popular tool to a new alternative)
https://hitesh-fulwani.netlify.app/posts/2021-05-15-welcome/ (what not to do)
https://ipums.github.io/pma-data-hub/posts/2021-08-01-covid-batches/ (visualizing data 3 different ways)
https://www.jhelvy.com/posts/2021-03-25-customizing-distill-with-htmltools-and-css/ (relevant b/c I've followed a lot of this for distill customization)
https://kaijagahm.netlify.app/posts/2020-02-10-upping-your-pipe-game/ (problem + solution)
https://www.jvcasillas.com/posts/2017-05-15_analysis_of_justin_bieber_singing_in_spanish_-_despacito/ (honestly just funny but also impressive)
https://udurrani.netlify.app/posts/2020-12-25-elevation-maps-in-r/ (fun ridgeline elevation plots)

samanthacsik commented 3 years ago

Things to cover:

review how to add a blog post -- see: https://www.apreshill.com/blog/2020-12-postcards-distill/ & https://rstudio.github.io/distill/basics.html
citation (at bottom of blog post) -- see: https://distill.pub/guide/
including code chunks
add TOC https://lisalendway.netlify.app/posts/2020-12-09-buildingdistill/

samanthacsik commented 3 years ago

Maybe some useful info here: