Recording now available!
Couldn’t make it to our latest R-Ladies Rome event? You can now watch the full talk (in Italian) by Rita Giordano (@rgiordano79)

Watch the full video here: https://rladiesrome.org/talks/2025/meetup/07222025_RitaGiordano.html

@fgazzelloni #RLadies #RLadiesRome #RStats #HealthData #DataViz

Last week, I crafted my first-ever gauge chart to showcase partial radial plots for our #ggplot2 [un]charted lesson on "coordinate systems".

Thanks to coord_radial(), partial circles like those are super easy now — and of course I couldn’t resist making a polished and animated version

June 2025 data is now available for both Antarctic sea-ice thickness/volume (https://zacklabe.com/antarctic-sea-ice-extentconcentration/) and global sea-ice volume (https://zacklabe.com/global-sea-ice-extent-conc/) from GIOMAS.

Last month's global sea-ice volume has fallen to near-record low levels for the month of June in this dataset.

Avviso importante per chi partecipa all’evento R-Ladies Rome di oggi

Il server di Meetup è attualmente non disponibile e alcuni di voi potrebbero non riuscire ad accedere al link dell’evento.

Nessun problema! Ecco il link diretto per partecipare:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86435081388?pwd=fY8WSXFXWi17rvfdcazPYT6APuHctQ.1

Ci vediamo tra poco!

This week's #TidyTuesday data is all about art in New York subway and train stations - thanks to @georgios for curating this week's data! I made an interactive chart showing information about the sentiment of the art descriptions!

Sentiment analysis with {tidytext}
Basic plot made with #ggplot2
Tooltips added with {ggiraph}

Code: https://github.com/nrennie/tidytuesday/tree/main/2025/2025-07-22

**Global inequality is the result of two centuries of uneven economic growth**

"_Two hundred years ago, people in all regions were similarly poor. Today, the average incomes of people in Australia, the US, or Denmark are more than 15 times higher than those in Sub-Saharan Africa._"

https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/global-inequality-is-the-result-of-two-centuries-of-uneven-economic-growth.

#Economics #Inequality #Graph #Chart #Data #DataViz @economic

Among local governments, St. Louis city is in a class by itself with its glacial handling of records requests.

For a third straight year, the city took more than 100 days to answer the Post-Dispatch's annual request for payroll data.

St. Louis County needed just 8.

https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/government-politics/article_fdf898ea-5cb1-433d-bff5-3515b7e4f8c2.html

Curator: @jonthegeek
https://DSLC.io welcomes you to week 29 of #TidyTuesday! We're exploring MTA Permanent Art Catalog!

https://tidytues.day/2025/2025-07-22
https://www.mta.info/agency/arts-design/permanent-art

Submit a dataset! https://github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/blob/main/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md

**One-third of cars on the road in Norway are now electric**

"_Almost every new car sold in Norway is electric. Hardly anyone buys a combustion engine car anymore._"

https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/one-third-of-cars-on-the-road-in-norway-are-now-electric.

**Americans are increasingly likely to say AI will negatively affect society**

"_The share of Americans who believe that the effects of artificial intelligence on society will be negative has steadily increased, from 34% in December 2024 to 40% in March 2025 to 41% in April and to 47% in June._"

https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/52615-americans-increasingly-likely-say-ai-artificial-intelligence-negatively-affect-society-poll.