TidyTuesday, also noted as Tidy Tuesday, tidytuesday, or #tidytuesday, is a weekly community of practice that is currently organized by the Data Science Learning Community (DSLC). A new data set is highlighted each week for participants to practice exploring, visualizing, and sharing findings. Participants can follow the daily hashtag #tidytuesday on social media.
History
TidyTuesday was started by Tom Mock, a product manager at Posit PBC, on April 1, 2018. The motivations to create this was for newcomers to data and more experienced data scientists to feel less socially isolated and a means to practice skills like acquiring, cleaning, wrangling, visualizing and presenting data. Some participants have shared feeling inspired by others’ data visualizations and noting that most people will share their code in order to replicate their work.
Impact
TidyTuesday has also been used by other groups or features published data. R-Ladies Global have used TidyTuesday datasets as a hackathon to practice data skills. In February 2021, Allen Hillery, Athony Starks, and Sekou Tyler, started
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