🌹 The Genesis of The Rose of Philanthropy
Detailing the Sauce.
So how did The Rose of Philanthropy get up and running?
The genesis lies in the transformative potential of a single tool I began working with in 2019 : R.
At the time, I was actively discovering the open-source data ecosystem—tools that were powerful, reproducible, and adaptable.
R provided an easily accessible means to all of that and more. What started as a way of solving technical puzzles quickly grew into a framework for exploring deeper questions and problem solving in food systems, public health, and environmental justice.
Over the years, I’ve used R across a broad spectrum of projects. Each challenge helped me unlock new approaches—not just technically, but philosophically. The Rose of Philanthropy was born as a way to share those discoveries and cultivate a space where technology meets ethical data stewardship.
🧪 Problems I’ve tackled with R include:
- Automating QA for public health and census datasets
- Visualizing spatial disparities in food access
- Building dashboards to support community health interventions
- Modeling pollinator stressors and environmental risks
- Cleaning and integrating 30+ years of taxation and development data
- Developing pipelines to support genomics research and policy evaluation
The goal of The Rose of Philanthropy isn’t just to showcase what R can do—it’s to build bridges: between open science and applied equity, between code and compassion. It’s an invitation to take a learning journey with R, and to leverage data for meaningful, reproducible impact.
Stay tuned for content on building your own technical path—from dashboards to spatial modeling to FAIR data frameworks. I’ll be sharing lessons, templates, and stories to guide fellow changemakers along the way.
Thank you for being here. 🌱
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