R Community Explorer - Exploration of the R community on Twitter

Expanding on ideas developed during previous iterations of R Community Explorer (https://github.com/benubah/r-community-explorer), which was responsible for enhancing the visibility of R User Groups and R projects developed during GSoC, this project intends to use Twitter, a social network that serves as possibly the largest gathering of R users, to retrieve data and develop interactive dashboards that can lead to better analysis of engagement during conferences and meetups, better visibility of key people in the R community and also identify rising trends in the R programming ecosystem.

This will be done initially through two dashboards, one for analyzing the most popular R Twitter hashtag (#rstats) and other that will analyze information regarding the useR! 2021 conference, happening in early July. These initial dashboards will serve as a background for the development of a template repository, which will allow potential users and conference organizers to develop their own Twitter-based dashboards, which can hopefully help by providing insights to their own projects and guide data-based decision making.