sometimes-you-just-need-words.md

talk_id	talk_slug	talk_type	talk_tags	session_slug	sched_url	talk_title	talk_title_short	talk_materials_url	speakers
22175	sometimes-you-just-need-words	regular	communication interop	rmarkdown-quarto	https://rstudioconf2022.sched.com/event/11iZU	Sometimes you just need words	Sometimes you just need words	https://github.com/lmkirvan/presentation	name affiliation url username photo bio Lewis Kirvan Consumer Financial Protection Bureau webpage twitter github linkedin affiliation https://www.duck-rabbit-soup.com/ https://lmkirvan.github.io/index.html https://www.linkedin.com/in/lewis-kirvan-9013392b/ https://www.consumerfinance.gov/ lewis_kirvan /assets/img/2022Conf/_talks/22175_lewis-kirvan.jpg I'm a researcher at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, where I've spent the last (nearly) 10 years recovering from getting a law degree. I mostly work to understand consumers experiences by listening to them at scale.

This talk will trace the evolution of a report from a mostly text free dashboard into a text heavy R markdown report with dynamic text blocks. The report in question is provided to the largest financial institutions in the U.S., but the audience for the data largely is composed of compliance experts and lawyers.

The interface between data products, and people who make decisions is often the most difficult piece in a project. Frequently, what your audience really needs is words! This talk will help you recognize when you need more narrative and will provide some helpful technical advice to get you there, including how to use existing word templates and how to use whisker:: and glue:: to help you dynamically generate text.