What to know before you adopt Hugo/blogdown
Fancy (re-)creating your website using Hugo, with or without blogdown? Feeling a bit anxious? This post is aimed at being the Hugo equivalent of “What to know before you adopt a pet”. We shall go through things that can/will break in the future, and what you can do to prevent future pain. I’m writing this post with R users in mind, which means I shall use R analogies and mentioning blogdown, but I hope some aspects are generalizable to other potential Hugo adopters.
Obtain & wrangle OpenAQ data with R: ropenaq and beyond
OpenAQ is a non-profit fighting air inequality by harmonizing disparate real-time and historical AQ open data. In my talk I explained how to get OpenAQ data into R via my own ropenaq package, and via Amazon Web Services Athena.
How to pronounce my name
My last name is Salmon like the fish and the colour, and you can pronounce it like that if you want. My first name, Maëlle, is derived from a Celtic word that means princess or chief. It’s pronounced “Ma-El” as “ma” in “macaroni” and as the Spanish “El”.