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Jovi Dai @jovidai.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

NEW: The most recent available data shows that in 2022, Catholics occupied 19.7% of Africa’s population, 64.1% in the Americas, 3.3% in Asia, 39.5% in Europe and 26% in Oceania. Where Roman Catholics live around the world and in the Bay Area. www.mercurynews.com/2025/05/08/m...

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Where Roman Catholics live around the world and in the Bay Area

Numbers of Catholics rose around the world, except in Europe.

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Jovi Dai @jovidai.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

After the fall of Saigon to Communist forces on April 30, 1975, more than 2 million Vietnamese people fled the country by sea in search of safety and freedom. Charts show Bay Area Vietnamese population, education level and income. www.mercurynews.com/2025/04/27/b...

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Charts show Bay Area Vietnamese population, education level and income

Data shows the demographics of the Vietnamese population in the Bay Area.

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Jovi Dai @jovidai.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

NEW: April 15 is the Tax Day. New data reveals how tax refunds vary by state, county, and income level—and what this means for Bay Area residents. @mercurynews.com www.mercurynews.com/2025/04/14/r...

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Many Bay Area taxpayers might get a refund from Uncle Sam

Among California’s 58 counties, seven of the 10 with the highest average federal tax refunds are in the Bay Area, data shows.

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Silvia Canelón @silviacanelon.com · 01/03/2025

My first #NICAR2025 conf is right around the corner & there are 213+ sessions! 🤩📊 If you're like me & prefer a calendar view, I made a tool just for you! It's an #RShiny app that lets you search & select sessions to export as an .ics calendar file GIve it a try! tiny.cc/nicar-2025 #RStats #RLadies

Shiny app table of NICAR 2025 sessions, displaying fields including session type, time, length, skill level, location, and whether the recorded. The interactive options to filter the sessions include a keyword search bar, a radio button for the day of the conference, a slider for the time of day, a search bar for speakers, session type, and skill level, and lastly, a radio button for whether the session will be recorded. Official conference schedule is posted online at https://schedules.ire.org/nicar-2025/index.html

About page of the Shiny app which has information about me and the app, about the conference, and about the main packages used to build the app. Text displayed to follow:

Hi there! My name is Silvia Canelón and this is my first time attending NICAR. ️👋 If you see me around, please say hello! You can also get in touch on Bluesky or through my website. This app was built with ♥ using the official NICAR 2025 schedule, Shiny, and the R packages below. You can find the full source code for this app on GitHub (adapted from an app created by Garrick Aden-Buie).

NICAR 2025
March 6-9, 2025 — Minneapolis, MN

From Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE):
Join us for our annual data journalism conference where you'll have access to trainings on some of the most powerful tools a journalist can have in their kit. Sessions will also feature the most tried and tested data analysis techniques and investigative skills out there.

Packages section of the About page displaying 6 packages: Shiny, BSLib, RVest, Lubridate, Glue, and R6. More details to follow.

Shiny: Shiny is an R package that makes it easy to build interactive web apps straight from R.

BSLib: ools for creating custom Bootstrap themes, making it easier to style Shiny apps & R Markdown documents directly from R without writing unruly CSS and HTML.

RVest: The rvest package helps you scrape (or harvest) data from web pages.

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Jovi Dai @jovidai.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Thank you @ire-nicar.bsky.social for hosting another amazing year of #NICAR25 to learn a lot of new skills and meet friends old and new! Can’t wait to apply new skills learned to my future stories.

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Jovi Dai @jovidai.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

#NICAR25 So great to see many people show up at my R session about learning visualization packages in Studio this morning. Here’s a link to the files for you to review if you’d like to go through them after the conference. @ire-nicar.bsky.social docs.google.com/presentation...

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nicar25-r-packages

Learn visualization packages in RStudio to make a variety of charts Jovi Dai, San Jose Mercury News & East Bay Times Julie Christie, Independent journalist bit.ly/nicar25-r-packages-slides

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Jovi Dai @jovidai.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

I’m excited to have two hands-on sessions about HTML, CSS and JavaScript for #NICAR25 with @matt-kiefer.bsky.social, @yolimartinez.bsky.social and Rosmery Izaguirre. If you’re interested in learning them, please join us this morning! @ire-nicar.bsky.social schedules.ire.org/nicar-2025/i...

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NICAR 2025 schedule | March 6-9, 2025 | Minneapolis

Welcome to the #NICAR25 conference schedule!

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