Digging a Pit of Success for Your Organization
summary
USAID Office of HIV/AIDS moves from Excel to R to analyze tens of millions of records from ~30,000 sites in over 50 countries, automating quarterly workflows and cutting repeat work from hours or days to seconds. The team builds R packages like glamr for folder and secrets handling and glitr for branded ggplot visualizations, runs a tailored 12‑part R for Data Science training series, and pairs mentorship plus Slack support to grow users and produce higher‑quality, reproducible outputs.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:01Why organizations need pit of success
- 5:08Infrastructure with R packages
- 7:38Leadership and colleague buy-in
- 10:07Supportive R user community
- 12:36Results and next steps
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