If you don’t already have a twitter account, make one. The data science community is strong and supportive on twitter. Here is a good list to get you started filling your feed full of data science goodies.
- #rstats - News, accomplishments, conferences, and people asking for rstats help
- #TidyTuesday - Take part of a weekly wrangling and visualization challenge in the DS community
- #accidental_aRt - See peoples accidents while creating R graphics. Not everyone is perfect!
Organizations
- R4DScommunity - Weekly Tidy Tuesday announcements are posted here. They’ll likely retweet your post.
- rstudio - They highlight conferences and new versions of RStudio
- rstudiotips
- DataCamp - They highlight new and exciting courses
- kaggle
Conferences
Well Known Data Scientists
- hadleywickham - The man himself, developed most of the tidyverse, Chief DS at RStudio
- StatGarrett - Wrote R for Data Science along with Hadley W.
- drob - Works at Data Camp
BYU-I Students & Alumni Data Scientists
Just for Fun
- tylermorganwall - developed rayshader, a cool R package for visualizing topographical data