About Sharon Machlis
Sharon is an award-winning journalist and data analyst who is equally at home analyzing data, coding tools for journalists, and covering technology. She is currently director of editorial data & analytics at Foundry (an IDG Inc. company), which publishes tech Web sites including Computerworld, CIO, PCWorld, and Macworld; and author of InfoWorld's Do More With R series .
Her book, Practical R for Mass Communication and Journalism, is available from publisher CRC Press and Amazon (you can see Six chapters free online).
Sharon is well known in the R community. She has taught workshops at ProPublica, and Investigative Reporters and Editors conferences and keynoted the 2020 European R User Meeting.
Sharon received an ASBPE national gold award for impact/investigative online excellence (see story) and two ASBPE national golds for best how-to article (see 2014 and 2017 winners) She was also named the Digital Analytics Association's top practitioner in 2021 for her work analyzing data at her job and in her community.
Sharon holds an Extra-class ham radio license and was honored by the Association of Radio Amateurs of Bosnia & Herzegovina "for extraordinary contribution to transmitting humanitarian messages of the citizens of Bosnia-Herzegovina" during the 1992-95 war.
Sharon's other hobbies include photography, travel, hiking, snowshoeing, and classical piano. And, she's somewhat obsessed with the R programming language.
You can follow Sharon on Mastodon at @smach@masto.machlis.com and her searchable app with her Mastodon posts, as well as on LinkedIn. (She is not currently active on Twitter, but you can see her prior tweets at @sharon000.)
Sharon's Recent InfoWorld and Computerworld Articles
Shiny R web framework arrives in Wasm 2023-09-20
5 easy ways to run an LLM locally 2023-08-31
Generative AI with LangChain, RStudio, and just enough Python 2023-08-03
6 ways to find better content on Mastodon 2023-07-20
How to use GPT as a natural language to SQL query engine 2023-07-13
8 ChatGPT tools for R programming 2023-05-30
Sharon's Data-Related Mastodon Posts
It's official: You can now run R Shiny apps without a back-end Shiny server. @posit_glimpse announced 3 different ways this currently works: https://www.infoworld.com/article/3707250/shiny-r-web-framework-arrives-in-wasm.html
#PositConf2023 #rstats #RShiny #InfoWorld #WASM @rstats (2023-09-21 10:14:56) >>
Examples on how to use icons in Quarto documents from Richard Iannone:
https://github.com/rich-iannone/quarto-icons-examples
There are some cool existing
#QuartoPub extensions for using icons, he told #PositConf2023 . lordicon icons are animated! (2023-09-20 20:33:41) >>
If you're interested in newer workflows for #rstats 📦 development, the 2nd edition of the R Packages book - free to read online! - includes a new chapter "The Whole Game" by @jennybryan that goes over a complete process when developing "a small toy package."
https://r-pkgs.org/whole-game.html
#PositConf2023 @rstats (2023-09-20 20:00:16) >>
The drag-and-drop Shiny {shinyuieditor} #rstats 📦 is moving out of alpha into beta. New capabilities including an RStudio add-in and a bit of functionality to help with server code as well as UI, @nstrayer tells #PositConf2023
More info on the package: https://rstudio.github.io/shinyuieditor/
#RShiny @rstats (2023-09-20 19:30:58) >>