Using StackOverflow data to find the top 25 R users to follow

Who to follow on SO based on R-tag votes.

I created a data.Stackexchange query to filter the top 25 users by votes and their website. The query only looks at the r tag, returns the gross number of votes, not net, and filters out users who do not have a website. It’s not a perfect filter or technique, but it is both a start and an idea.

top25 <- read.csv("~/R/seasmith.github.io/posts/reference/top25_r_users.csv")
# htmlTable::htmlTable(top25, align = c("l", "r", "r", "l"), margin.left = "2px")
knitr::kable(top25, align = c("l", "l", "r", "l"))
DisplayName Id totalVotes WebsiteUrl
Dirk Eddelbuettel 143305 16506 http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com
A Handcart And Mohair 1270695 9883 http://news.mrdwab.com
Gavin Simpson 429846 9612 http://www.fromthebottomoftheheap.net
Joshua Ulrich 271616 9212 http://www.fosstrading.com
joran 324364 9033 http://statisticalskier.com
Andrie 602276 8945 http://rfordummies.com/
Ben Bolker 190277 8124 http://www.math.mcmaster.ca/bolker
agstudy 1838509 6419 http://www.linkedin.com/in/aminegassem
Arun 559784 6400 https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table/wiki/Getting-started
Joris Meys 428790 5970 http://biomath.ugent.be/biomath/index.php
hadley 16632 5538 http://hadley.nz
MrFlick 2372064 5528 http://www.matthewflickinger.com
Shane 163053 5454 http://www.statalgo.com
David Arenburg 3001626 5196 http://www.linkedin.com/pub/david-arenburg/1a/432/9b4
Richie Cotton 134830 5055 http://4dpiecharts.com/
flodel 1201032 4512 http://www.linkedin.com/in/florentdelmotte
Sven Hohenstein 1627235 3882 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9708-1593
Didzis Elferts 1857266 3782 http://delferts.github.io
thelatemail 496803 3708 http://www.daleidoscope.com
Spacedman 211116 3708 http://barry.rowlingson.com/
kohske 314020 3631 http://www.fennel.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp/profilee_ktakahashi.html
Tyler Rinker 1000343 3228 http://trinkerrstuff.wordpress.com/
Chase 415635 3212 http://www.rsginc.com
baptiste 471093 3153 http://baptiste.github.io
Paul Hiemstra 1033808 3100 http://www.numbertheory.nl

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