I'm just back from a fabulous R-Ladies Auckland meetup, where I was one of several presenters giving lightning talks. Mine was called "turning a twitter hashtag into a word cloud" and was based on the analysis I previously posted about here. It was a brilliant evening with a diverse bunch of R enthusiasts, and we had talks ranging from choosing colours for your ggplot (did you know there's a Harry Potter themed R palette?!) to maps in R using the sf library, which I definitely plan to check out.
I believe there are plans to upload the recordings of the talks, and when they do I'll update this post with the link. Until then, you can access my slides as well as my code on github, or you can download the slides directly from here.
I originally ran this analysis to make a word cloud out of the conference hashtag #NZES18, but this time I used #KindnessInScience (thanks to Tammy Steeves for the suggestion!). My initial result is included in my slides, but just like before, I ran into problems customizing the word cloud with wordcloud2 in R. Tammy had asked to use the word cloud in an upcoming Sciblogs article, so we needed a snazzier version. In the end I had to cheat and use free online software to make the finished product (below), which is annoying. So if anyone has used wordcloud2 and has figured out how to read in external images as a mask, please let me know!
