My name is Ryo Nakagawara. Born in Japan, grew up in America & Israel, having also lived in Germany & the UK, I am currently residing in Tokyo, Japan. I'm quite proud to say that I am a citizen of the world!
Currently working for ACDI/VOCA, an international development NGO, as a Data Scientist. For the past 4 years I have been doing work as both a reporting analyst & a software developer in R & SQL. My main job has been improving ACDI/VOCA's data pipeline & create R packages, reproducible reports, dashboards, & Shiny apps to communicate how our projects worldwide are progressing. I also manage our entire R code base that includes various ETL scripts, R packages, & software applications for data collection/management.
I am also very involved in the R community (in Japan through Tokyo.R & internationally) through my volunteer work as an editor on the RWeekly newsletter (from April 2019). In 2020, I also did some work as a soccer analytics consultant for 11tegen11.
- soccer_ggplots repository: Collection of my soccer analytics blog posts & R code for data visualizations.
- One of the authors of ggshakeR: Analytics & Visualization R Package for Soccer Data.
- tvthemes: ggplot2 themes & palettes based on your favorite TV shows.
- bulletchartr: Create Bullet Charts For Visualizing KPIs.
- centralperk: R Client For The "Friends" Quotes API.
- In July 2018, I gave a presentation at the TokyoR User Group on "Visualizing the World Cup with R!" - Check it out here!
- Back in October 2019, I gave a presentation at the TokyoR User Group on a new version of the "bulletchartr" package - Check the slides out here!
- In
2022, I co-hosted a webinar about "Managing Large Codebases in R!"
- Modding Rome Total War (Avatar, The Last Airbender mod) using R!
- Managing Large R Codebases webinar (summary and slides)
- J.League Soccer 2022 Season Review!
- 101st TokyoR Meetup Roundup: Palmer penguins, fractal analysis, and more!
- Developer diary for {ggshakeR} 0.2.0 (a package for soccer analytics viz): Working smoothly as a team on GitHub for R package development!