Ian Lyttle
@ijlyttle.bsky.social
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βοΈ π πΆ πΈ Protect Trans Kids πΈ Black Lives Matter
asking for a favorite track is a trap... for me, this is less of an album, and more of an old friend: there when needed
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10 days ago
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We Are R-Ladies
20 days ago
Want to manage multiple R versions without pain? π§° The rig (R Installation Manager) tool makes installing, removing, and switching between
#RStats
versions simple; works across macOS, Windows, and Linux. π§
github.com/r-lib/rig
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Crystal Lewis
20 days ago
While I had been using rainbow parentheses for a while, I only recently found out about rainbow indentation thanks to
@ijlyttle.bsky.social
and
@3mmarand.bsky.social
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Emil Hvitfeldt
21 days ago
I'm exited to announce a new resource about making slides with quarto and revealjs. This book is the combination of all the work I have done in this area, reordered and polished up There isn't a lot of new information yet, but this format allows me to add more easily
slidecrafting-book.com
#quarto
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Crystal Lewis
22 days ago
RDM Weekly Issue 14 is out! π¬ After attending posit::conf last week, I decided to highlight some recent and past data management related talks from the conference.
#rstats
- AI Coding Assistants - Spreadsheet formatting - Creating R Data Packages and more!
rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...
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RDM Weekly - Issue 014
A weekly roundup of Research Data Management resources.
https://rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly-issue-014
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DuckDB
about 1 month ago
π π€ Timestamps and time zones can be confusing! π΅ π‘ To help you make sense of time zones in SQL, Richard Wesley wrote a short guide that covers some typical pitfalls:
duckdb.org/docs/stable/...
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Timestamp Issues
Timestamp With Time Zone Promotion Casts Working with time zones in SQL can be quite confusing at times. For example, when filtering to a date range, one might try the following query: SET timezone = ...
https://duckdb.org/docs/stable/guides/sql_features/timestamps
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Libby Heeren
about 2 months ago
Does Jenny Bryan
#VibeCode
? π€ She shared on the Hangout that she's been thankful that she gets to learn
#rust
and
#typscript
in the age of
#AI
and these are her thoughts on
#LLM
use. (We really need a
#RubberDuck
emoji π¦)
#rstats
#databs
#VibeCoding
#DSHangout
#python
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Really looking forward teaching again with
@3mmarand.bsky.social
: all sorts of good stuff, including: π getting started with functions β‘οΈ writing functions with tidy evaluation πββοΈiterating over columns of data frames π intro to functional programming with purrr Hope you can join us!
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about 2 months ago
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David Daniel
2 months ago
This is awesome: a "WKRP in Cincinnati" fan created a three-hour Johnny Fever radio block, by using clips from the TV show and dropping in the full songs on his intros and outros, plus commercials and Les Nessman news breaks.
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WKRP: Johnny Fever
https://www.awphooey.com/wkrp
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Lucy DβAgostino McGowan
2 months ago
this is my TS album drop π€©
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I have drifted from Observable lately, and I could use a distraction today. I've got my morning coffee, let's do this!
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2 months ago
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Hadley Wickham
4 months ago
At Posit, we love
@typst.app
: β‘ Make PDFs in milliseconds, not minutes β¨ The power of LaTeX with today's technologies βοΈ Modern typography (including emojis!) π§ Clear mental model So I'm thrilled to announce that we're now supporting its development:
posit.co/blog/posit-a...
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Posit
Weβre happy to announce that weβre supporting Typst by funding one of their full-time engineers.
https://posit.co/blog/posit-and-typst/
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Connor McDavid in the elimination game against Dallas, 2024:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-ea...
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Gotta See It: Connor McDavid Shows Off Sweet Moves to Bury Goal
YouTube video by SPORTSNET
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-earI3cj5k
5 months ago
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Lucy DβAgostino McGowan
5 months ago
This is a fun piece on denominators to share with your friends, written with my
@wakeforest.bsky.social
colleague Jeff Camm!
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The New York Times
5 months ago
Robert βEdβ Smylie, the NASA official who saved the Apollo 13 crew in 1970, has died at 95. He cobbled together an apparatus made of cardboard, plastic bags and duct tape after an explosion crippled the spacecraft as it sped toward the moon.
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(repeat to self) Python argument-defaults are mutable, Python argument-defaults are mutable, Python argument-defaults are mutable...
docs.python-guide.org/writing/gotc...
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Common Gotchas β The Hitchhiker's Guide to Python
https://docs.python-guide.org/writing/gotchas/#mutable-default-arguments
5 months ago
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Alex Kirshner
5 months ago
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this:
www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
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Gregor Aisch
5 months ago
Last week I had the pleasure of finally releasing the
#SveltePlot
alpha version during my talk at the
#SvelteSummit
in Barcelona. It's a new visualization framework for
@svelte.dev
that I've been working on for the past 18 months, so it's about time for a π§΅
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Isaiah D. Colbert
5 months ago
As promised.
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Kerry Kole
6 months ago
This is why I can't sleep at night...
www.reddit.com/r/dataengine...
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From the dataengineering community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the dataengineering community
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataengineering/s/1a8Mf6rjRw
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Thomas Lin Pedersen
6 months ago
For the last couple of months I've been working on something and I'm excited to finally share an early preview: Say hello to plumber2 π plumber2 is a full rewrite of the plumber package for creating powerful webapis in
#rstats
. It takes everything we have learned from plumber and adds even more
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What the Package Does (One Line, Title Case)
What the package does (one paragraph).
https://posit-dev.github.io/plumber2/
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Star Trek Minus Context
7 months ago
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just finished the Severance finale, what an amazing combination (reintegration?) of Andor and The Princess Bride
7 months ago
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Posit
7 months ago
We're delighted to announce Jonathan McPherson β software architect at Posit β as keynote speaker at posit::conf(2025)! If you're curious about how thoughtful design principles can improve the data science tools you use, you won't want to miss this! Join us Sep 16-18 in Atlanta.
pos.it/conf
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Nick Tierney
7 months ago
Hi
#rstats
friends! I'm starting consulting! I've had a great journey in academia working with brilliant people, and while it's bittersweet (and a bit scary!), I'm excited for this next step. I'll still be maintaining {greta} and am hoping to be even more involved with the R community. 1/n
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find yourself someone who looks at you like Leon Draisaitl looks at Calvin Pickard after scoring an overtime goal
7 months ago
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Frank Harrell
7 months ago
Voyagers I and II are two of the greatest wonders of humankind and are testimonies to the value of having an aspirational US federal government β¦
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Alison Hill
8 months ago
The community effort to make the penguins data accessible to all R users took almost exactly 2 years to date!! Our first email exchange was February 19, 2023. Thank you to our international forces of nature that made this happen!
@ellakaye.co.uk
@HeathrTurnr.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
π§π§π§π§π§π§
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Davis Vaughan
8 months ago
@lionelhenry.bsky.social
and I are so excited to finally announce Air - an extremely fast R code formatter! π With Air, you'll never need to worry about styling your
#rstats
code ever again. All you need to do is save, and Air takes care of the rest.
www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/02...
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Air, an extremely fast R formatter
We are thrilled to announce Air, a new R formatter.
https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/02/air/
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AndrΓ© K. Isaacs
8 months ago
Diversity is our greatest asset, even if the government disagreesβ¦ They not like us! POC in STEM are here to stay. They tried to rig the game but you canβt fake influence! Mustard on the [Be][At] bro. Happy Black History Month!
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LuUuUuUuke Knox π»
8 months ago
this haptic display absolutely rocks. basketball is for everyone.
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Posit
8 months ago
We're excited to announce Catherine Nelson as keynote speaker at posit::conf(2025)! Author of "Software Engineering for Data Scientists," she'll share how data scientists can benefit from software engineering best practices! Sept 16-18 in Atlanta.
pos.it/conf
#PositConf2025
#Python
#rstats
#pydata
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Posit
9 months ago
We're jazzed to announce that Kieran Healy (
@kjhealy.co
) as a keynote speaker at posit::conf(2025)! Tools for science are better than ever, but it's also easier to make stuff up. If Honest Data Visualization interests you, join us! Sept 16-18, Atlanta.
pos.it/conf
#PositConf2025
#Python
#RStats
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R-Ladies Bot
9 months ago
π "Where does the U.S. Government Keep its Data?" π€ Sam Tyner-Monroe π US Govt data sources: R packages & agency APIs for economic, justice, labor, & more! Unlock data insights. π
https://sctyner.me/post/2018-11-16-us-govt-data/
#rladies
#rstats
#oldiebutgoodie
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Posit
9 months ago
We're delighted to announce Cat Hicks
@grimalkina.bsky.social
β psychologist for software teams β will be a keynote speaker at posit::conf(2025)! Discover psychology tips for better dev teams and much more at conf. Register at
pos.it/conf
#PositConf2025
#DataScience
#OpenSource
#Python
#RStats
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Jeff Stevens
10 months ago
Interested in upping your ggplot2 game? Check out a blog post on Dr. Heike Hofmann's talk "Extensions to ggplot2 are easy β right?"
neb-rug.github.io/posts/ggplot...
This was the inaugural talk for the new Nebraska R User Group. Register for future talks at
www.meetup.com/neb-rug/
#RStats
#DataViz
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This is a wonderful article, which reminds me that I need to find some time to get back into maintaining {boxr}, including a PR from
@thomas-sandmann.genomic.social.ap.brid.gy
!
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11 months ago
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Laura Belin
11 months ago
I don't think anyone else created a starter pack for Iowa reporters, so here goes. Let me know who's missing! New people are signing up here every day.
go.bsky.app/96bgC3
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Kenneth Field
11 months ago
Just spent a couple of hours at The Map House nerding over their current tube map exhibition, which has some fantastic rare Beck sketches, and proofs and drafts annotated by the man himself.
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Elizabeth Smith
11 months ago
For those going home to visit family this weekend: β’ Samsung calls it Auto Motion Plus β’ LG calls it TruMotion β’ Sony calls it Motionflow β’ Roku calls it Action Smoothing β’ Google TV calls it Motion Enhancement β’ Vizio calls it Smooth Motion Effect.
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@josiahparry.com
's blog post on argument-validation is one of my favorite bits of R-related writing from the past few years.
@3mmarand.bsky.social
and I taught a workshop at last year's posit::conf(); we riffed off of Joisah's work for a self-paced module:
posit-conf-2024.github.io/programming-...
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11 months ago
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Josiah
11 months ago
I now dedicate the first 20+ lines of my user facing functions to argument validation. I cannot emphasize how helpful this is for preventing bugs. Read about r-lib standalone check:
josiahparry.com/posts/2024-0...
#rstats
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Jenny Bryan
11 months ago
π¦ usethis 3.1.0 π¦ is released. `use_vignette()` and `use_article()` can now help you initiate a Quarto (.qmd) vignette or article.
#rstats
usethis.r-lib.org/news/index.h...
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https://usethis.r-lib.org/news/index.html#usethis-310
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Jeffrey Heer
11 months ago
Our research lab is now here on Bluesky! ππ
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Elaine Houskeeper
11 months ago
I have been working from a hypothesis that so far seems to be correct but Iβd love to get some constructive input especially from
#duckdb
folks Hypothesis: Using JavaScript and DuckDB-wasm allows for the public deployment of data apps with minimal server costs and ongoing maintenance. Caveats in π§΅
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A while ago I got interested in computing on color, to help design sets of color palettes that account for both light and dark mode, and color-vision deficiency. I wrote a collection of fun
@observablehq.com
notebooks - this seems a good excuse to discuss them
observablehq.com/@ijlyttle/co...
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Color-Space Viewer
Use this notebook to get a sense of how different color-spaces and models of color-vision deficiency work. You can use your mouse to rotate and zoom the view. In all cases, the same set of (roughly 15...
https://observablehq.com/@ijlyttle/color-space-viewer?collection=@ijlyttle/color
11 months ago
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I'm very happy to be helping
@huizezhangsherry.bsky.social
and
@visnut.bsky.social
on the CRAN Task View for Dynamic Visualizations and Interactive Graphics:
cran.r-project.org/web/views/Dy...
If you have any ideas you'd like to contribute, please let us know!
#rstats
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CRAN Task View: Dynamic Visualizations and Interactive Graphics
Dynamic visualizations include interactive graphics which offer the flexibility for users to interact with the plot, with mouse or cursor selection, for example. This can be useful to query additional...
https://cran.r-project.org/web/views/DynamicVisualizations.html
11 months ago
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