John Little

John Little

Data Science Librarian

Duke University Libraries

As of July 2015, I am a happily retired Data Science Librarian/Consultant, formerly working in the Center for Data & Visualization Sciences. My workshop series – AKA (Rfun) or R we having fun yet?! – offers practical tips in data analytics and reproducbile data workflows.

My presentations focused on using R as a data-first coding language via the Tidyverse, reproducibility with Quarto, and a love of tidy data. Topics include: Text mining and sentiment analysis, APIs, web scraping, data parsing, data cleaning, and data visualization. Check out my previously recorded video streaming.

After March 2026, contact me for side-hussle and gig opportunities.


Interests
  • Data Science
  • Reproducibility / Git
  • Data Cleaning
  • Tidyverse / Quarto / R / RStudio
Education
  • MSLS Library & Information Science, 1992

    UNC Chapel Hill

  • BA Sociology, 1990

    UNC Greensboro

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