R for the Rest of Us

R for the Rest of Us Podcast Episode #20: Christine Parker


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In this episode, I talk with Christine Parker, the Senior GIS Analyst on the Community Broadband Networks team at the Institute for Local Self Reliance. Christine shares how she used R to clean, combine, and summarize data for a dashboard tracking enrollment in the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP), a COVID-era initiative to help people access affordable internet. The dashboard gained wide attention. It was shared in advocacy circles, referenced in Congress, and discussed with the White House. Christine highlights R's value for performing repeatable data tasks, particularly with regularly updated datasets, and its advantages compared to manual Excel processes.

Important resources mentioned:

  • The ACP dashboard 
  • Code that Christine used to create the dashboard

Connect with Christine on:  

  • X: @birdwrangler
  • LinkedIn: Christine Parker, PhD

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