The blog is open to contributions from anyone with interest in deterministic and probabilistic record linkage, entity resolution, data fusion, and statistical matching. See below for contribution instructions.
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RLIG’s blog has 10 posts since 2021-12-20.
The last post was published 84 days ago (JSM 2023: Call for Speakers for Record Linkage Session).
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| Date | Title |
|---|---|
| 2022-09-06 | JSM 2023: Call for Speakers for Record Linkage Session |
| 2022-08-03 | RLIG Breakfast at JSM on Thursday August 11! |
| 2022-04-19 | 📢 Linkage Seminar Series - Thursday April 21 |
| 2022-03-29 | 📢 Record Linkage Methodology Under Fellegi-Sunter Paradigm, with Extensions - Thursday April 7 |
| 2022-03-25 | 📢 Linkage Seminar Series - Friday April 1st |
| 2022-03-22 | 📢 BLS Statistical Seminar on Monday, March 28th |
| 2022-02-17 | deepparse |
| 2022-02-16 | 📢 Linkage Seminar Series - Thursday February 24 |
| 2021-12-23 | Record Linkage at the Duke GPSG Community Pantry |
| 2021-12-20 | Welcome! |
Contribution Instructions
The blog is based on Distill for Rmarkdown, an Rmarkdown extension for scientific and technical writing on the web.
There are two ways to contribute to this blog:
- Contact Olivier Binette to get a blog post published from any source. This blog post can be written in text format, markdown format, rmarkdown format, or another format without complicated formatting.
- If you have familiarity with Rmarkdown and Github, you can follow the steps below to directly contribute to the blog.
System configuration
Make sure you have R and RStudio installed (you can separately install Pandoc instead of RStudio). You will also need to install the following packages in R:
install.packages(c("rmarkdown", "distill"))Creating a new post
Follow these steps to create a new post:
- Fork the Github repository https://github.com/RecordLinkageIG/RecordLinkageIG.github.io
- Create a new RStudio project from version control, using the forked
repository url. Alternatively, clone the forked repository and
cdinto it. - Use the following R command to create a new post:
distill::create_post("My Post Title")- This will create a new folder, named after the current date and
provided post title, in the
_postsdirectory. This folder contains an Rmarkdown document for you to edit. - Edit the Rmarkdown document, referring to https://rstudio.github.io/distill/ for help with formatting and metadata options. You may also use previous posts as templates.
- Run the following R command to render your blog post as an html file:
rmarkdown::render_site()- Commit, push, and create a pull request on https://github.com/RecordLinkageIG/RecordLinkageIG.github.io.
The pull request will be reviewed before your post is published on RLIG’s blog.
Submission requirements checklist
Make sure to review the following items before submitting your post.
- As part of your article’s metadata, you should use the template
below to provide:
- Post title and description
- Current date
- Image preview
- Author information (full name, url/email address, and affiliation)
title: "My Post Title"
description: |
Description of my post.
preview: http://website.com/post-image
author:
- name: Full Name
url: url.com
affiliation: State University
date: 2022-01-01- At the end of your article, as part of the appendix, you should provide as section titled “About the Author(s)” which contains a short bibliography or some information regarding your background and interests. The goal is introduce you to RLIG’s members and to help foster a sense of community. You can use the template below:
## About the Author(s) {.appendix}
The author works at State University. They are [...].Code of Conduct
Please note that the RecordLinkageIG.github.io project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.
Acknowledgements
This document uses code from https://github.com/shannonpileggi/pipinghotdata_distill.
Updated 2022-11-29 10:57:20