Lynley Aldridge

Lynley Aldridge

Biography

I am a PhD qualified research and evaluation analyst, with a background in psychology and sociology. I love data analysis, visualization and interpretation, and have rich experience collecting, managing, analyzing and reporting on both quantitative and qualitative data across a diverse range of research and evaluation projects (primarily in the field of education). I am passionate about the use of data to inform policy and practice.

Interests

  • Social and educational inequality
  • Youth transitions
  • Education
  • Cross-cultural comparative research
  • Rstats

Education

  • PhD Sociology and Social Policy, 2017

    University of Leeds, UK

  • MA Sociological Research, 2011

    University of Essex, UK

  • BPsych (Hons), 2003

    Charles Sturt University, Australia

Recent Posts

Visualizing Data using ggplot2 and ggflags

In this post I explore ways of using ggplot2 and ggflags to plot album sales and chart data from the Taylor Swift and Beyoncé Tidy Tuesday dataset (as shown here). I then create charts comparing sales in the UK and US specifically.
Last updated on Mon, Mar 1, 2021 10 min read
Visualizing Data using ggplot2 and ggflags

Tables with summary rows in gt

This post focuses on ways to customize summary rows in gt tables, to create the summary table shown here (based on the Tidy Tuesday Taylor Swift and Beyoncé data).
Last updated on Tue, Feb 23, 2021 11 min read
Tables with summary rows in gt

Summary tables using gt

In this post, I walk through the various steps involved in creating the summary table shown here (based on the Tidy Tuesday Taylor Swift data), showcasing various capabilities of the gt package.
Last updated on Tue, Feb 23, 2021 26 min read
Summary tables using gt

More experimenting with SQL in R Markdown: Pivoting data, outputting results to R, and creating a summary table using gt

Following on from my previous post, I use SELECT and JOIN statements to pivot the Taylor Swift and Beyoncé Tidy Tuesday data using RSQLite (after normalizing the underlying database), output the results to R, and create a relatively simple summary table using gt.
Last updated on Tue, Feb 23, 2021 17 min read

Why start a blog?

Hello world! In this, my first post, let’s start with a variant on two of those old existential chestnuts, ‘Who am I?’ and ‘Why am I here?’ Or more precisely, what brings me to rstats and why am I wrestling with GitHub, blogdown and Hugo to create this blog at this particular time in my life?
Last updated on Sat, Dec 19, 2020 7 min read

Recent & Upcoming Talks

Grouped bar graphs using facet_grid in ggplot2

Show and tell contribution for R Ladies Sydney.
Tue, Nov 17, 2020 5:30 PM
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Grouped bar graphs using facet_grid in ggplot2

Selected Publications

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Overseas gap years and working holidays in the UK and Japan: Insights from a comparative approach

This presentation explores the difficulties and rewards associated with the cross-cultural comparative methodology adopted for my PhD research.
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Overseas gap years and working holidays in the UK and Japan: Insights from a comparative approach

Cultural differences in athlete attributions for success and failure: The sports pages revisited

This article, based on my psychology honours dissertation, explored whether self-serving attributional biases would be found in attributions for sporting performance made by elite Olympic athletes from Japan and Australia (as extracted from the sports pages of the newspaper).
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