data

Oh, I'm sure it's probably nothing

How we do (or don't) think about null values and why the polyglot push makes it all the more important

Using databases with Shiny

Key issues when adding persistent storage to a Shiny application, featuring {golem} app development and Digital Ocean serving

Make grouping a first-class citizen in data quality checks

Which of these numbers doesn’t belong? -1, 0, 1, NA. You can't judge data quality without data context, so our tools should enable as much context as possible.

A lightweight data validation ecosystem with R, GitHub, and Slack

A right-sized solution to automated data monitoring, alerting, and reporting using R (`pointblank`, `projmgr`), GitHub (Actions, Pages, issues), and Slack

Understanding the data (error) generating processes for data validation

A data consumer's guide to validating data based on the failure modes data producer's try to avoid

A Tale of Six States: Flexible data extraction with scraping and browser automation

Exploring how `Playwright`'s headless browser automation (and its friends) can help unite the states' data

Embedding column-name contracts in data pipelines with dbt

dbt supercharges SQL with Jinja templating, macros, and testing -- all of which can be customized to enforce controlled vocabularies and their implied contracts on a data model

Causal design patterns for data analysts

An informal primer to causal analysis designs and data structures

Generating SQL with {dbplyr} and sqlfluff

Using the tidyverse's expressive data wrangling vocabulary as a preprocessor for elegant SQL scripts. *(Image source [techdaily.ca](https://techdaily.ca))*

Introducing the {convo} package

An R package for maintaining controlled vocabularies to encode contracts between data producers and consumers