I used the ravelRy R package by Kaylin Pavlik to easily access the Ravelry api. I wrote some R code to fetch the 20 top “hot right now” patterns, some additional details about the patterns and their designers, and used the gt package to display the results in a beautiful table hosted in a Quarto dashboard with GitHub pages. Using my Github action (which runs automatically each day) I store the most recent data so I can check the history and see if a pattern has ranked up or down. I also included a 7-day nanoplot to see a pattern’s rank history. Finally, I used CSS and JS to add a lightbox to view a bigger version of each photo in the table.

I am not overly familiar with (nor do I enjoy working with) CSS or JS so I borrowed some style code (which I then modified to suit my needs) from my friend, colleague, R-Ladies co-organizer, and last year’s table contest winner, Melissa Van Bussel.