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joining rbind / *.rbind.io subdomain #19

Closed ewenme closed 7 years ago

ewenme commented 7 years ago

Hi,

Progressing through blogdown and ready to pull the trigger on Netlify...looking to share opinionated analysis and ethical applications of machine learning. An invite to rbind would be much appreciated!

Thanks,

Ewen

yihui commented 7 years ago

We have sent the invite. Let me know your preferred subdomain name as well as your Netlify subdomain, so we can configure the DNS.

ewenme commented 7 years ago

great stuff. preferred subdomain: ewenme Netlify subdomain: accountant-lucy-75200

yihui commented 7 years ago

Done. You need to set the custom domain ewenme.rbind.io on Netlify.

And feel free to transfer your repo to rbind any time you like. Thanks!

ewenme commented 7 years ago

I've transferred it over, assume I'll need to update the Github-Netlify link to the new repo. Thanks back!

yihui commented 7 years ago

Perfect. Could you write a short post to introduce your website on https://support.rbind.io when you feel ready?

ewenme commented 7 years ago

Yes, hope this does the trick!

A little bit on me

I'm Ewen, an analyst and data science hopeful with a social sciences background, currently working in UK government. I'm about to join the Bank of England, the central bank for the United Kingdom, having been working for Transport for London (government body responsible for the transport system in London) for a while.

Why start a site?

I've been using R for data science-type workflows pretty intensively for about a year-and-a-half, and I had the realisation a few months back that I felt ready to add something to this conversation. I was also listening a lot to a journalism podcast, Longform, and they made writing sound quite noble/fun. Unfortunately for me, this realisation came before I discovered blogdown, so at first I put together a site using Github Pages and Jekyll (boo - the source files will remain over at this Github repo).

After coming across Yihui's tour-de-force Blogdown package soon after (I think it was in this rstudio::conf talk), I knew that jumping across to this set-up sooner rather than later would save me time and make my new blogging life a good deal nicer. So, I wasted no time...

Going live

My website ewenme (pronounced you-n-me) is now live, and part of the Rbind family (source files over here. It's hosted over at Netlify, which (I'm sure everyone has said already) was easy to get going with (and integrate with Git).

The theme

It was built using the hugo-creative-portfolio-theme by Kishan B, powered by Blogdown, and has a few things over there just now. The theme itself is probably intended for use by designer types, but I quite liked the idea of subverting this portfolio style for the purposes of an analytics blog. This is also a good moment to thank Amber (thanks, Amber!) for this sick guide that helped keep me mostly calm throughout this process.

What now?

I intend to keep the 'brief' pretty simple (for now) - that is, write and think about (and advocate for) data science in an opinionated but humane, ethical way, and to document the diversions I take in this field. I hope you can pick up something worthwhile on the way (there should be memes and puns worth stealing, at the very least).

yihui commented 7 years ago

Thanks! That looks pretty good. Do you know how to send a pull request on Github?

rpodcast commented 7 years ago

@ewenme Would you like some assistance with submitting a pull request to our Rbind support site? I'm happy to help, just send me a note.

yihui commented 7 years ago

The PR #21 has been merged.