Heading to Snowflake World Tour London? Let’s meet! Visit the Posit booth for a quick look at how Posit is integrated with Snowflake’s Native Apps. Stop by our booth or book a meeting with a Posit expert: posit.co/events/snowf...

💡 What happens when you take everything you've learned about LLMs… and turn it into an app people can actually use? In Part 3 of The Shiny Side of LLMs, we build DeckCheck — a Shiny app (#RStats & #Python) that acts like your Presentation Rehearsal Buddy. Read more 👉 shiny.posit.co/blog/posts/s...

Talks. Keynotes. Connections. That's a wrap on posit::conf(2025)! A huge thank you to everyone who joined us. We loved seeing you soak up knowledge, share your projects, and connect with your data community. We can't wait to see you all again at posit::conf(2026) in Houston! #PositConf2025

Discover how to bridge the gap between powerful open-source tools and enterprise-grade requirements. This guide shows you a 5-step process to build and deploy a secure, interactive LLM application using the Posit Team Native App in Snowflake. Learn more! medium.com/snowflake/fr...

📣 HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT! Drum roll please 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁 Introducing Positron, a free code editor built specifically for data science. Learn more about what you can do with Positron: posit.co/blog/positro...

We’re live in Atlanta — the first day of posit::conf(2025) keynotes, talks, and breakout sessions is here! The energy is high, the sessions are packed, and the community is in full force. Tag your first-day feels → #PositConf2025 #WeGoLive #ReadySetData #AtlantaConfVibes #rstats #python

It was such a pleasure to join PyCon Colombia this past summer, to speak about #Positron, how the work of data science is different, and the tension between exploratory work and reproducible practices. 💫 The recording of my talk is now available, if you'd like to check it out! youtu.be/xiCa6OcXlSs

Over the next few months, we will be hosting a Workflow Demo Series to cover everything you'll need to know as you explore Positron firsthand. 📆 First session: Getting Started with Positron: Quick Tour and Community Q&A on September 24th! Register here - events.zoom.us/ev/Ajss5j9Ve...

posit::conf(2025) starts now! Whether you’re joining us in Atlanta or from your desk, today is all about tuning in, leveling up, and connecting with the community. Wherever you’re tuning in from, your journey begins today. Don’t miss it → posit.co/conference #PositConf2025 #RStats #Python

posit::conf(2025) kicks off TOMORROW, and we are fully in launch mode. 🎒 Pack the essentials. 📲 Download the app. 📍 Check the schedule. Whether you’re flying to ATL or logging in from home, the countdown is officially ON. Let’s make it unforgettable. 💥 #PositConf2025

Announcing the latest release of Posit Workbench, Positron, and RStudio! • Positron is now Generally Available. • RStudio: Quarto 1.7 and package security insights. • New Workbench homepage, Prometheus metrics are GA, and optional session auditing logs. Learn more: posit.co/blog/rstudio...

Posit and AWS have signed a Strategic Collaboration Agreement! This collaboration helps customers modernize their data infrastructure & accelerate their data science journey on the cloud, making it easier for teams to build and run critical data science outcomes. Read now posit.co/blog/posit-s...

@sara-altman.bsky.social and I just shared the second release of the Posit AI Newsletter! In this edition, a landmark settlement on LLM training data and copyright, the emergence of agentic browsers, and more. Read and subscribe on the Posit Blog: posit.co/blog/2025-09...

Announcing a new feature in the Posit Publisher extension! Now you can use push-button publishing to deploy to Connect Cloud directly from #Positron and VS Code to streamline deployment for #Python and #RStats users. Learn more: posit.co/blog/connect...

🎯 Play to Win at posit::conf(2025) Earn points for showing up, joining in, and geeking out. Then cash them in for limited-edition Posit swag. It’s fun. It’s free. It’s happening. Are you game? 🎟️ posit.co/conference #RStats #PositConf2025 #Python

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

{otel} + #rstats is becoming a crazy partnership. This project has driven me to use/write {promises} in ways that makes my 🧠 ache 😅. The reward is worth it! See you at #PositConf2025 where I'll talk about this in more detail

Are you an RStudio user thinking about trying Positron? We put together some resources to help with the transition. Learn how to import your keybindings and handle projects while gaining a more flexible environment for both #RStats and Python. Check out the guide: positron.posit.co/migrate-rstu...

🚨 Virtual Posit fam, this one’s for you. Posit::conf(2025) kicks off in just days—and you don’t have to be in ATL to join the magic. 🎮 Conf::Contest 🎤 Live talks + Q&A 🤝 Discord chaos 🧠 AMA with @richmeister.bsky.social 🏆 Swag Register for Virtual Conf & join the fun Sept 16: posit.co/conference

bigrquery 1.6.0 is now on CRAN. Big feature is that it now uses bigrquerystorage (by Bruno Tremblay) if installed, which should make your downloads way way faster! #rstats

I found this post by Claire Welsh super interesting, outlining how she uses #Positron as someone working in product! 🤩 My own data science skills have been helpful in making product decisions, and I always appreciate learning more about other people who do similar work. posit.co/blog/positro...

The 2025 Table Contest is now open! To inspire you, check out Melissa Van Bussel’s winning 2024 entry. Her Spotify Dashboard is a masterclass in #RStats viz, complete with a YouTube tutorial series: melissavanbussel.github.io/spotify-dash... Submit your entry for 2025: github.com/rich-iannone...

Announcing the Quarto #RStats package version 1.5.0! 🥳 Set Quarto metadata programmatically from R values, add Markdown to HTML tables, and use new helpers for ggplot2 and flextable themes. There are new tools to help you migrate from bookdown and blogdown. Learn more: quarto.org/docs/blog/po...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the Platinum Sponsor of posit::conf(2025)! Attend their live demo on "Building agentic AI apps with Positron + AWS Strands Agents" on Sept 18. On-site attendees, join their event at the Georgia Aquarium on Sept 17. Register & add to your agenda: pos.it/conf25-aws-e...

tidyverse blog: mirai 2.5.0 www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09... This milestone release delivers enhanced observability through OpenTelemetry, reproducible parallel RNG, and key user interface improvements. We’ve also packed in twice as many changes as usual! #Rstats #tidyverse

Announcing a new blog series on LLMs from @veerle.hypebright.nl! In Part 2, “Talking to LLMs: From Prompt to Response”, we get hands-on with LLM-powered apps. This guide is for #Python & #RStats users who want to go beyond the basics. Check it out here: shiny.posit.co/blog/posts/s...

👋 Hi Actuaries! We wrote something you may be interested in... 📈 Posit helps actuaries overcome challenges with data silos and clumsy legacy tools by providing a modern, code-first environment to build more accurate and easily validated models. Read the blog here: posit.co/blog/actuari...

🎉 We added a Virtual Day to posit::conf(2025)! 🗓️ Tues, Sept 16 = talks, trivia, & hangouts. AMA with @richmeister.bsky.social & more. Also? Discord is open to all! Come join us. 🔗 Event portal: pos.it/conf-event-p... 🔗 Virtual Day info: posit.co/blog/posit-c... #positconf2025 #rstats #python

🚀 We’re excited to share the first edition of the Posit AI Newsletter! Curated by Posit’s Sara Altman and Simon Couch, this biweekly newsletter keeps you up to speed with what’s happening in the AI world, both at Posit and beyond. 📫 Read the first issue: posit.co/blog/2025-08...

🍴Join @jumpingrivers.com for a Lunch & Learn on September 18 at posit::conf(2025)! Join fellow attendees to explore package risk together—how to assess it, make informed decisions, and balance risk and compliance across regulated or more flexible environments. 👉 Sign up now at posit.co/conference

For data scientists using VS Code: a new resource just dropped to help you easily migrate your setup to Positron. Check it out here: positron.posit.co/migrate-vsco... #Python #VSCode #Positron

Don’t miss your chance to go hands-on at posit::conf(2025). Workshops on #RStats, #Python, #LLM, Dashboards & more. 👉 Sign up now at posit.co/conference

The impact of your data science work can take years to unfold, says @rdpeng.org. In the latest episode of The Test Set, he shares his rewarding experience seeing research lead to environmental policy changes over time. Listen at thetestset.co, on Spotify, or Apple Podcasts. #RStats #Python

odbc 1.6.2 is now on #rstats CRAN! A good few QOL improvements, especially for Databricks and Snowflake users: github.com/r-dbi/odbc/r...

So stoked to share about the first release of the Posit AI Newsletter! @sara-altman.bsky.social and I have been working on a pilot of this newsletter internally for a few months now—an opinionated and pragmatic snapshot of AI news released every two weeks. First edition: posit.co/blog/2025-08...

Introducing Databot: an AI assistant for exploratory data analysis in #Python and #RStats! A research preview in Positron, Databot is a tireless pair programmer to help you explore data. Learn more about this tool and our philosophy behind it: 🤖 posit.co/blog/introdu... ⚠️ posit.co/blog/databot...

Introducing, our next #pawsit::conf(2025) speaker: Cholula is here to tell us all about {grrr}! 🐾 This talk will show how the new package, grrr, applies purrr functions to the novel k9 data class for seamless mapping in your data workflow. (Thanks for sharing, Libby McKenna!!) #databs #rstats

Announcing the Posit Publisher VS Code extension! This new tool makes it easy for #RStats and #Python users to deploy data science content, like Shiny apps, Quarto docs, and Jupyter notebooks, from #VSCode and Positron directly to Posit Connect. Learn more and install open-vsx.org/extension/po...

I'll be talking about Quarto at PyData in September. Focus will be on how Quarto can be used to get your Notebooks Analysis to the world easily, and under different forms. Don't hesitate to share anything you would like me to tackle, and if it relates I am happy to ! And maybe see you there !

New from Posit! The August Glimpse newsletter is here, featuring the new free IDE Positron, complete with LLM-powered tools Positron Assistant and Databot. Plus, updates to Quarto and Shiny for Python! Check out the post here: posit.co/blog/posit-g... #RStats #Python

Finally got Glimpse out focused on what the Posit open source team has been up to. Turns out its quite a bit! posit.co/blog/posit-g... I continue to be happy with the approach we (Posit) are taking with LLMs and AI. Too impactful to ignore but focus on useful and safe as much as possible.

Whole entire extra day of #positconf, anyone? All Virtual!! Come hang with me on Tuesday Sept 16th (day before talks!) from 11am to 4pm ET. We'll have an AMA with Rich Iannone, a full talk session, a DS Hangout style Q&A session, and a Trivia Night game with swag prizes!! #databs #rstats #python

Extra day of virtual fun added to posit::conf(2025)! Join us on Sept 16 for a full day of virtual talks and activities. P.S. The conference Discord is now open to all. Come hang out! 🔗 Login for Discord instructions: pos.it/conf-event-portal 🔗 Learn about Virtual Day: posit.co/blog/posit-c...

tok is back on CRAN! tok is @hf.co tokenizers for #rstats. It uses the same Rust libray as the python interface. It's pretty fast and fully compatible with tokenizers.json available on hub. See the release notes: github.com/mlverse/tok/...

In working on an eval for an experimental tidymodels AI assistant, I realized that today's frontier LLMs know much more about #rstats tidymodels than I thought. www.simonpcouch.com/blog/2025-08...

Do you like cleaning data? According to @rdpeng.org, it was a big part of a data scientist's job 10 years ago, and he misses it! On the latest Test Set, Roger discusses changes in the field and what to focus on now that AI is taking over rote tasks. Listen: thetestset.co, Spotify, Apple Podcasts

This week on What's New in R: ✅ @ivelasq3.bsky.social shows how she brought her favorite RStudio color theme into Positron ✅ Quick tour of @posit.co 's next-generation IDE ✅ Tutorial by Daniel Lakens on downloading files from the Open Science Framework Read the issue: buff.ly/UpsCj1X #rstats

Announcing Harley's #PawsitConf2025 Talk: "From Tracking Pawprints to Tracking Code Changes" @ivelasq3.bsky.social said it must be about "purrsion control" 😂 I LOVE IT Submit your pet's talk: lnkd.in/gDzRPRTW Deadline? 9/1/25 Submit multiple? Yes! One submission per talk! #databs #rstats #python

Did you miss our latest insurance webinar? Don't sweat it! You can now watch on-demand.. posit.co/webinar/how-... Posit Product Marketing was joined by leaders from Plymouth Rock Assurance, Milliman, and The Hartford to discuss hot data science topics in the insurance realm. Watch now!

Streamline data app development in Positron with the App Preview feature. 🪟 No more context-switching! Now you can run & debug your #RStats and #Python data apps (Shiny, Streamlit, Dash, etc.) right inside Positron's integrated Viewer pane. Learn more: positron.posit.co/develop-data...