Accessibility often gets lost once dashboards become interactive. This post shows how to use {ellmer} to generate dynamic alt text for ggplot2 charts in Shiny apps, keeping screen reader users aligned as plots change. Read more: www.jumpingrivers.com/blog/ellmer-...

We're still buzzing from last night ✨ Our January meetup on Operational AI and Modern Data Governance had great talks, thoughtful questions & a brilliant crowd. Thank you to Mark Pybus, Boyang Chen, and everyone who joined us. Join the community for future events: www.meetup.com/leeds-data-s...

Thanks for including Myles' RAG post this week @rpodcast.bsky.social

Accountable for AI outcomes? Success depends less on models and more on how systems behave once users, data, and constraints show up. Our first Leeds Data Science Meetup of 2026 covers operational AI and modern data governance. 📅 Jan 20 · Leeds 🔗 Register here: www.meetup.com/leeds-data-s...

Well it took a long time to work out it should have been MyForm(data=...) rather than MyForm(obj=...). So many moving parts. #python #flask

@warringtonruncorn.com youre on 6 music

Well, the L-Sit is a beast

Love a math rock gig. Its like a nerdy, dancing, moustache party

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.

Tell me #rstats of this tiedye-verse that is so celebrated.

On the train back, I was contemplating the Pontefractal Dimension of UK place names. You know, the hidden variable underpinning whimsicality, bumpkinerry, catname-acceptability, and mirth-rising. Paper due soon

Playing the foundations of Electro Swing to my 6yo. What's this called, dad? Erm, erm ... booty swing, hon.

Mining the Beckipedia, an old @drob.bsky.social post #rstats #beck

Why should I, a voter and taxpayer working with digital identity, have to pay over £300 to listen to and discuss the government's plans for digital identity online?

Delia Derbyshire, Suzanne Ciani, Daphne Oram and Wenday Carlos - diy card dioramas from heykidsrocknroll.etsy.com fun summer projects for people who want to stay cool!

I've been out of bioinformatics for a while. Did they ever have Omic-Con? Who went as McClintock?

Talking at Manchester #rstats meetup tonight. There will be maps, geology, plesiosaurs, software design and pizza / beer. meetu.ps/e/Nx6kN/rmsg... (First new talk in a year, still under edit) Also Mark Webster is talking about {autodb} cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

Does your local venue/pub have better wordplay than "The Puzzle Hall" and can you prove it

In my head, it's still 'latecks'

Send some love over to this cracking playlist #mathrock #piano

Hola! Join us tomorrow as @fentonsteve.bsky.social takes the reigns for his 3rd Listener's Choice. 11am on @allfm.bsky.social DAB and allfm.org - there's some excellent selections! Here's a painting of Ed Sheeran we saw in a "vintage" emporium in Hebden Bridge. It might still even be there!

FYI Glasser is amazing

#randomWiki 'Skinny Puppy released the album Weapon in 2013 and later sent an invoice totaling $666,000 to the US Dept of Defense for the use of its music during torture sessions at Guantanamo Bay detention camp. Key explained that he was troubled by the use of their music as a means of torture'

Omg, all these great bands and their monochrome black t-shirts. Throw us a stab of paint, you!

Anyone at #strangeforms in #Leeds this weekend?

Ooft that violin in Fargo 😍 #OSTsky

Announcing the Jumping Rivers Data Science Gallery! We are thrilled to release a new Data Science Gallery to showcase our expertise with data dashboards using Shiny, D3 and other web technologies. Read the full details in out latest blog post! #RShiny #datascience #datavis #D3

R 4.5.0 is released and includes the `penguins` data popularised by {palmerpenguins} 📦! Some variable name changes means that scripts need editing to use the built-in datasets. The new {basepenguins} 📦 automates that! ellakaye.github.io/basepenguins #RStats

Let's make it viral, people #rstats

What places are frequently mispronounced? Asking for a concept album....

#rstats biscuits are popular in Newcastle

Good stuff. Come and disagree with my opinions about AI staying in its lane at Leeds Data Science on Tuesday.

R 4.5.0 is coming in less than a month! You can easily test the alpha with rig: rig add next R-next This works on macOS (arm64, x86_64), Windows (x86_64), Linux (aarch64, x86_64) with Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSUSE, RHEL & derivative distros. github.com/r-lib/rig#re... #RStats

We are looking for a Data Analyst to support performance functions of Tottenham Hotspur. Lots of interesting projects ahead, a lot to learn about football and lots of space to develop tech skills (I'll help here). More details on LinkedIn. www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/41...

📊Looking to re-decorate your #dataviz office? You need Boxplot Shelves! |----[ ]--|

Enjoying the daftness of "Resident Alien" at the mo.

Is the positron IDE changelog called Emissions yet?

Parents have introduced me to the 1%. I'm hooked. Plus....send help

Shazam, but for aromas

Part 2 of "Porting a Shiny App to Observable" is now up on our blog. If you missed part 1 we looked at the basics of how to construct an Observable app. In Part 2 we look at adding your own styles and at how to quickly deploy the app. #RStats #RProject #Shiny #Observable

Late as usual but now Langhorns are on Bluesky. #langhorns

Getting back on the #Rust train and how to use it in #RStats. Currently I am trying to understand how to work with non-vector inputs and returns. I wrote down some experiments in a blog post blog.schochastics.net/posts/2025-0...

Anyone got a good calendar? Pref an olde time microscopy, automata, or strange invented beasts vibe. Faunagraphic '24 was good, though

Your yearly reminder to checkout Langhorns "mission exotica"

Where have all the towels gone, long time passing...

#RStats DemoScene Update: Writing old skool demo effects and figuring out some of them worked is a whooooole heap of fun! :) The R version of Oxygene's STNICCC2000 demo (a 90secone pre-digested 3d anim) renders to an mp4 in 4 seconds using {nara} + […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Very nice #dataviz on the illusion of recycling ♻️

It's #FluorescenceFriday! Here goes one image showing pathological Tau🟢 spreading in the monkey hippocampus. Neurons in 🟢 are dying, and healthy neurons in 🟣. Pathology spreads in a prion-like manner in this novel monkey model of Alzheimer we developed. How do we know that?

If I were a pianist accompanying "the gold rush" in a 20s cinema, would there be - a score, - some themes to vamp around, - or would it be entirely play-what-you-want? #musicsky

Spent longer in the bath than on the run.... #unfitsky