Today’s content

• Election forecasts overview
• Data acquisition and management via its own R package
• Statistical modelling
• Dissemination with Shiny, Jekyll and Markdown

To help pitch, hands up if you’ve…

(these aren’t necessarily sequential)

• written one or more lines of R code
• made a plot with ggplot and been comfortable with what aes(...) means
• hated or loved %>% and have an opinion on mutate
• built your own R package
• written a program to fit a statistical model with Stan
• written an article that went viral and destroyed a statistician’s career after a talk to an R users’ group
• stood for Parliament