Learning R with humorous side projects

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Uses R to build side projects that teach tools: tidytext for TV/movie drinking-game counts (Jurassic Park → 80 drinks; Golden Girls season five ~10 more drinks than season six and needs ~400 minutes/16 episodes to match season four), gganimate to map character movement after manually annotating frames, and Keras R models to generate dinosaur names. Builds a Twitter bot that posts colored dinosaur posters (uses filopic API, geomeraster, trig math, Wikipedia scraping) and packages a bricker tool that converts images into LEGO mosaics and instructions, which helped land a LEGO Group job.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 2:28Which Season Should You Watch
3. 4:24TidyText
4. 5:21GigaGG
5. 6:35Dinosaur
6. 7:57Twitter Bot
7. 10:31Naming a Dinosaur
8. 11:14Using a Side Project
9. 13:20Lego Mosaic
10. 14:20Bricker

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