#maintainermonth — Public Fediverse posts
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💻️ Thank you to the 37 maintainers from 15 countries who agreed to participate in this #MaintainerMonth spotlights 👏 👏
These people maintain more than 50 packages that collectively serve thousands of researchers and data practitioners worldwide. 📦 🔬
And thanks to all the maintainers in our #RStats community for your work on the software tools that support our disciplines !🤩
Check our website to learn about more packages and more maintainers: https://ropensci.org/packages/
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¡Meet Guada Pascal 🇦🇷! #MaintainerMonth #RStats
She is a Data Science Researcher based in Argentina. As an rOpenSci Champion, she developed matildaNLP, a package that includes a corpus of Spanish text from the Matilda initiative.
Find her at:
🌐 orcid.org/0000-0003-0340-0037
💻️ github.com/guadapascal
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Meet Ezekiel Adebayo Ogundepo 🇳🇬 #MaintainerMonth
Ezekiel is a data scientist with 10+ years of experience in interpreting and analyzing data in a fast-paced environment.
As a rOpenSci Champion, Ezekiel worked on bulkreadr, an #RStats package to simplify and streamline the process of reading and processing bulk data operations.Find him at:
🌐 gbganalyst.github.io
💻️ github.com/gbganalyst
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Today's #MaintainerMonth Highlight is Austin Koontz 🇺🇸
Research Consultant for the Hoban Conservation Lab, studying conservation genetics in oaks with a background in bioinformatics and plant population genetics.
Is the maintainer of SymbiotaR2 package that allows users to access and download specimen and observation-based data from a published Symbiota2 portal.Fin Austin at:
🌐 akoontz11.netlify.app
🐙 github.com/akoontz11
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Meet Mauro Loprete 🇺🇾! #MaintainerMonth #RStats
Mauro is a Data Engineer, a Teacher Assistant, a Statistician, and a Databricks Data Engineer Professional.
As an #rOpenSci 's Champion, Mauro works on metasurvey package that provides a step-based pipeline for reproducible survey data processing.
Find Mauro at:
🐙 github.com/mauroloprete
💻️ linkedin.com/in/mauro-loprete
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#MaintainerMonth Highlight: Bilikisu Wunmi Olatunji 🇳🇬!
Bilikisu is a Data Scientist and an R Shiny developer. She is a RUG and a RLadies+ chapter organizer.
As an rOpenSci Champions she developed and maintains chartkickR, an htmlwidget that seamlessly integrates with the Chartkick JavaScript library, providing R users with a straightforward interface to generate beautiful and interactive charts using R code.Find Bilikisu at:
🌐 business-datalab.com
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👋 Meet Will Pearse! 🇬🇧
Associate Professor of Evolutionary Ecology at Imperial College London. He maintains {suppdata} for rOpenSci: a package that lets researchers download supplementary data files directly from published scientific articles across major journals.
Find Will at:
🌐 pearselab.com
💻 github.com/willpearse
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👋 Meet Alex Koiter! 🇨🇦
Professor & Environmental Scientist at Brandon University focused on soil erosion, watershed management, sediment dynamics, and geomorphology.
He maintains {mbquartR}, a package for working with Manitoba's quarter-section land survey system, useful for watershed and land management research in Canada.Find Alex at:
🐘 @Alex_Koiter
💻 github.com/alex-koiter
🌐 alexkoiter.ca -
👋 Meet Will Landau! 🇺🇸
Statistician and software developer. He maintains {targets} and several related packages to the targets ecosystem. Target is a pipeline toolkit that makes data analysis in R faster and fully reproducible by tracking dependencies and skipping work that is already up to date.
Find Will at:
🐘 fosstodon.org/@landau
💻 wlandau.github.io
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👋 Meet Erick Navarro Delgado! 🇨🇦🇲🇽
PhD candidate in Bioinformatics at the University of British Columbia. He maintains {RAMEN} for rOpenSci, a package for identifying associations between repeated environmental exposures and molecular outcomes, supporting exposome and multi-omics research.
Find Erick at:
🌐 erick-navarrodelgado.netlify.app
💻 github.com/ErickNavarroD
🔗 linkedin.com/in/erick-i-navarro-delgado -
👋 Meet Yi-Chin Sunny Tseng! 🇨🇦 🇹🇼
Bioacoustic ecologist with a career centered on bird-related research. She maintains {bbsTaiwan}, a package she developed as rOpenSci's Champions. The bbsTaiwan package is for accessing and analyzing data from Taiwan's Breeding Bird Survey, supporting bird population monitoring and conservation science.
Find Sunny at:
🌐 https://sunnytseng.ca
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👋 Meet Sam Albers! 🇨🇦
Data Scientist and maintainer of {tidyhydat} for rOpenSci. The package provides access to historical and real-time national hydrometric data from the Water Survey of Canada data sources and then applies tidy data principles.
Sam also helps out with {weathercan} from time to time. 😃Find Sam at:
🌐 samalbers.science
💻 github.com/boshek
🔗 linkedin.com/in/sam-albers -
👋 Today's highlight is Jeroen Ooms! 🇳🇱
Staff Research Engineer at rOpenSci, tidyverse team member, and project lead for R-universe. He also maintains {magick}, {pdftools}, and {gert} for rOpenSci.
Find Jeroen at:
🐘 @jeroenooms
💻 github.com/jeroen
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👋 Meet Micha Silver! 🇮🇱
Postdoc at Ben Gurion University (Sde Boker campus), working with spatial data, satellite imagery, and remote sensing. He maintains {rOPTRAM} for #rOpenSci: a package implementing the OPtical TRApezoid Model for estimating soil moisture from optical satellite imagery.
Find Micha at:
🐘 @Micha_Silver
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👋 Today meet Tad Dallas! 🇺🇸
Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina and maintainer of {helminthR} for rOpenSci. The package provides access to the London Natural History Museum's host-parasite database, one of the largest host-parasite databases currently existing.
Find Tad at:
🌐 taddallas.github.io
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👋 Meet Jonathan Keane!
Engineer at Posit, formerly at Ursa Computing, Voltron Data, and Socure. Jon maintains {dittodb} for rOpenSci: a package that makes testing database code easy by recording and replaying real database interactions, so tests run without needing a live database connection.
Find Jon at:
🐘 @jonkeane
💻 github.com/jonkeane
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👋 Meet Sehrish Kanwal! 🇦🇺
Bioinformatics scientist at the University of Melbourne Centre for Cancer Research.
As part of the Champions program, she maintains {RNAsum} for rOpenSci: a package for summarising and visualising RNA-seq data analysis results, designed for reporting in clinical cancer genomics workflows.
Find Sehrish at:
🐦 @Dr_Sehrish_K
💻 github.com/skanwal
🔗 linkedin.com/in/dr-sehrish-kanwal-1b80bb42 -
👋 Meet Mark Padgham! 🇩🇪
rOpenSci Software Review Lead and maintainer of {pkgcheck}. This package checks whether a package is ready for submission to our software peer review and is very useful for R package developers to check their own packages against our standards.
Find Mark at:
🐘 @mpadge
💻 github.com/mpadge
🌐 mpadge.eu -
👋 Meet Erika Siregar! 🇮🇩 🇬🇧
PhD Student in Data Science at the University of Sheffield and Co-Founder of R-Ladies Jakarta. She maintains {rplaywright} for rOpenSci: an R interface to Microsoft Playwright that enables browser automation and web testing from R.
Fin Erika at:
📸 erikaris15
💻 github.com/erikaris
🔗 linkedin.com/in/erika-siregar -
👋 Meet Karl Broman! 🇺🇸
Professor of Biostatistics & Medical Informatics at UW–Madison and applied statistician working on statistical genomics. He maintains {chromer} and {aRxiv}. Both packages provide programmatic access to APIs: Chromosome Counts Database and to the arXiv repository of electronic preprints for computer science, mathematics, physics, quantitative biology, quantitative finance & statistics.🐘 @kbroman
💻 github.com/kbroman
🌐 kbroman.org
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👋 Meet Will Gearty! 🇺🇸
Paleobiologist, Software Engineer, and Open Scientist. Postdoctoral Researcher at Syracuse University and maintainer of {rredlist} for rOpenSci. The package provides access to the IUCN Red List API, which is a global list of threatened and endangered species.
Find Will at:
🌐 williamgearty.com
💻 github.com/willgearty
🔗 linkedin.com/in/willgearty -
👋 Meet Philippe Massicotte! 🇨🇦
Research Assistant and maintainer of {rnaturalearth}, {rnaturalearthdata}, and {gitignore} for rOpenSci. The first two packages facilitate mapping by providing world vector maps and data. {gitignore} helps you to create useful .gitignore files for your project.
Find Philippe at:
🐘 @philmassicotte
💻 github.com/PMassicotte
🔗 linkedin.com/in/philippe-massicotte-725214260 -
#MaintainerMonth spotlight! Meet Francesca Palmeira
She is a biologist working on conservation conflicts and ecological modeling. Francesca participated on rOpenSci Champions Program, developing {pcir}, a package to calculate, compare, and visualize the Potential for Conflict Index among stakeholders.
Find her at:
🔗 in/francesca-palmeira-06393725a
💻 github.com/fblpalmeira
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👋 Meet Moritz Hennicke! 🇧🇪
PostDoc in Political Economy & Industrial Economics and maintainer of {nuts}, a package to convert european regional data with NUTS codes between versions.Find Morits at:
🌐 hennicke.science
💻 github.com/AAoritz
🔗 linkedin.com/in/moritz-hennicke-65048533 -
#MaintainerMonth highlight #RStats
Meet Pao Corrales 🇦🇷 🇦🇺Pao works as a Research Software Engineer to support research in climate and weather. She is an educator and maintains {agroclimatico}. This R package is a set of functions for calculating climate and hydrological indices and statistics from “tidy” data. It includes a function for graphing georeferenced results and cartographic information.
Find Pao at:
🌐 https://paocorrales.github.io/
💻 https://github.com/paocorrales
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👋 Meet Zhian Kamvar! 🇺🇸
Senior Software Engineer at Recast and maintainer of {tinkr} for rOpenSci. tinkr package cast (R)Markdown Files to XML and Back Again.
Find Zhian at:
🐘 hachyderm.io/@zkamvar
💻 github.com/zkamvar
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#MaintainerMonth spotlight! Meet Andrea Gómez Vargas
Andrea is a sociologist and data analyst focused on population statistics and official data, developing R tools for the public sector. She is part of rOpenSci's Champions Program and maintains {ARcenso}. This R package is designed to democratize access to official data from Argentina’s National Population Censuses, produced by INDEC
Find Andrea at:
🌐 soyandrea.github.io
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👋 Meet Victor Ordu! 🇳🇬🇺🇸
Medical Doctor and software developer. Participant of rOpenSci Champions Program and maintainer of {naijR}, an R package that contains a suite of functions that make it easier to deal with data and datasets about the country Nigeria and its constituent parts.
Find him at:
🌐 victorordu.wordpress.com
💻 github.com/BroVic
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👋 Meet Carolina Pradier 🇦🇷 🇨🇦
She researches gender inequalities in science through bibliometrics.
Maintainer of {eph}, Argentina's Permanent Household Survey Data and Manipulation Utilities. Carolina is a participant in the rOpenSci's Champions Program.Find her at:
🌐 https://cpradier.netlify.app
🐙 https://github.com/caropradier