The Minard System in R, ggplot2 wizardry, a slackbot created with plumber and googleCouldRunner Episode Links This week's curator: Tony Elhabr (@TonyElHabr (https://twitter.com/tonyelhabr)) "The Minard System" in R (http://minard.schochastics.net/) A guide to creating a Slackbot that sends weekly updates via plumber, googleCloudRunner and Cloud Run (https://code.markedmondson.me/googleCloudRunner/articles/usecase-slackbot-google-analytics.html) ggplot2 Wizardry: My Favorite Tricks and secrets for Beautiful Plots in R, Cédric Scherer (https://www.cedricscherer.com/slides/useR2021.pdf) Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W13 (https://rweekly.org/2021-W13.html) Supplemental Resources DataViz History Series: Edward Tufte, Charles Minard, Napoleon and the Russian Campaign of 1812 - Part 2 (https://datavizblog.com/2013/05/18/dataviz-history-edward-tufte-charles-minard-napoleon-and-the-russian-campaign-of-1812-part-2) and Part 5 (https://datavizblog.com/2013/05/26/dataviz-history-charles-minards-flow-map-of-napoleons-russian-campaign-of-1812-part-5) {ggplot2} Wizardry recorded talk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KHvEXYtnOo) from UseR Oslo meetup (25 March 2021) Introducing googleCouldRunnner - serverless R on Google Could Platform (https://code.markedmondson.me/googleCloudRunner-intro/)