I have to update one of the most inflammatory things I said back on the bird site, but for the LLM era: 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 If your agent prefaces every tool call with `cd /the/current/workspace &&`, I will come set your data center on fire 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥

Italian industrial production for #TidyTuesday, week 18. At it again!, svgparser📦package turning ideas into life. #Rstats #Dataviz #ggplot2

Has anyone compared uvr, rv, and renv? #RStats

Anyone interested in reading these books in a combined book club: 1. Mathematics for Machine Learning 2. ML with PyTorch & Scikit-Learn Here's a rough reading plan: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #rstats #python

Book club Traffic Flow Dynamics had our first meeting today. Thanks to everyone who attended. Want to join the book club at Transportation Science Learning Community? Join the Pumble workspace: invite.pumble.com/2bn1y5k3vdvi... #transportation

Are you a proponent of cities investing in the infrastructure for self-driving cars? Or would you propose public transit investments instead? TSLC is planning to host a discussion panel around the questions above and more. Let me know if you'd like to participate. #transportation #transit

TSLC is an online platform for anyone working/studying in any aspect of transportation. Inspired by DSLC, TSLC will host book clubs, help channels, presentations, and projects. Traffic Flow Dynamics is our first book club. Register here: forms.gle/MpURLJVbxRQ6... #transportation

Gearing up for the Traffic Flow Dynamics book club with a work-in-progress carfollowing Python package and reproducing figures from the book. Interested in participating in the book club? Register here: forms.gle/g3ZmqLH4sgZq... #transportation #positron #python

Would you be interested in completing courses/books in the upcoming #transportation science learning community (TSLC) in 2026? Proposed book clubs: 1. Transport Data Science 2. Road Safety Research 3. Traffic Flow Dynamics 4. Intro. to Urban Accessibility 5. Traffic Simulation with SUMO #RStats

Hey folks who work/study in any field of transportation, would you be interested in an online community that hosts book clubs, help channels, contests, etc.? What would you like to see in it? #RStats #transportation

Quarto fenced divs, custom layout, and SCSS can make pretty nice websites. Website: quarto-bighead.netlify.app Source: github.com/durraniu/qua... #RStats #Quarto

My R+AI Conf talk is now available on YouTube: youtu.be/828KuEORQdg?... I talked about my R package {brandthis} that helps you getting started with theming your quarto outputs and shiny apps by quickly generating brand.yml files and color palettes for R and Python plots #RStats

Thanks @rconsortium.bsky.social for organizing the R + AI conference. The slides for my talk are available here: dru.quarto.pub/brandthis/#/... #RStats

Can you believe this is made with {ambiorix} + tailwind? #RStats

TOMORROW! R+AI 2025 goes live! Highlights: • Joe Cheng (Posit): Keeping LLMs in Their Lane • Oracle ML: RAG from your DB (Hornick & LaMonica) • Troy Hernandez: Stable Diffusion in R • Many, many more! Nov 12–13. See the full program and register: rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_webs... #rstats #AI

CTRL + / is so good for commenting in any language in positron! # R/Python // CSS/JS <!-- HTML --> #RStats

createBranding app is now available with the {brandthis} R package: github.com/durraniu/bra... Use LLM to generate brand.yml -> Review and iterate on results -> Create color palettes for plots Credit goes to the brand.yml app in {bslib}. Thanks @grrrck.xyz #RStats

Did the chat interface use to be pipeable in {ellmer}? I saw this in a talk on the @landeranalytics.com channel: youtu.be/OLXp7I7xmtU?... But could not find the functions add_model, add_params, etc. in {ellmer} docs. #RStats @hadley.nz

{brandthis} is ready to install. Try it and let me know if anything breaks: github.com/durraniu/bra... Here's an example site that uses the generated _brand.yml and color palettes: dru.quarto.pub/brandthis-de... #RStats

TIL that brand.yml works for closeread outputs! #RStats

{brandthis} R package is almost ready with functions for: * Generating _brand.yml * Color scale suggestions from {ggsci} and {paletteer} * Generating discrete, sequential, and diverging color palettes from the _brand.yml color palette #RStats

My useR! 2025 talk on Web APIs with R is now available on youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPMs... I showed the basic workflow of {httr2} and how to create fictional stories by calling LLM provider APIs. #RStats

Interesting useR! 2025 talk about ensemble modeling packages that do **everything** for you: youtu.be/csGcnGJ2t0U?... Nice example of AutoML. Curious to know what you think #RStats

Experimented with creating art pieces with {artpack} using {axolotr} agents (autoeda example as a starting point). You either get beautiful results or the agents fail miserably. #RStats

Skip the hype. Deep dive on R + AI 🧠 R+AI 2025 · Nov 12–13 · online · low cost 💻 Keynote: Joe Cheng (CTO, Posit) — “Keeping LLMs in Their Lane” 🎯 Register: rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_webs... #rstats #AI #LLMs #Quarto #RConsortium

{ragnar} creates a store using duckdb. Where would you store this db (size > 5 MB) if you want your package to use it to retrieve relevant chunks? Put it on S3? #RStats

I am giving 2 talks abt making your data analysis outputs into polished products with the power of #RStats and #Python pkgs + my pkg {brandthis}. Talk 1: DevFest 2025. Register here: wedevfest.com Talk 2: R+AI 2025 organized by R Consortium. Register here: rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_webs...

Does the `pip install <pkg>` command work on python REPL also or is it just the #positron console that supports it? #python

{brandthis} progress: Generate _brand.yml and see the results in the live app. Still work-in-progress. Building on the brand.yml app from {bslib}. #rstats

Work-in-progress #RStats package {brandthis} that enables you to efficiently create themes and color scales from personal/company branding. Uses {ragnar}, {ellmer}, {ggsci} and other R packages.

There's also {raylibr} that enables you to make snake and DOOM games among others: github.com/jeroenjansse... #rstats

Learn ML with the scikit-learn MOOC: inria.github.io/scikit-learn... GitHub: github.com/inria/scikit... #python bookmark from the old twitter

{cpp4r} - Use C++ with R: cpp4r.org/articles/02-... #RStats

{latex2exp} - Use LaTeX in plots: github.com/stefano-mesc... #RStats

#RStats community, what interesting projects are you working on that are not related to AI?

{gtfs2emis} - Estimate public transport emissions from GTFS data: ipeagit.github.io/gtfs2emis/ #RStats bookmark from the old twitter

{ggspell} - Spell check text and plots: github.com/nicucalcea/g... #RStats

Inspired by the posit virtual day talk by @mwavu.com and @john-coene.com, trying my hands at ambiorix to create a multi-page app. Pardon the ugly colors but this is working great. #RStats

{storytelling} - Create fictional stories, illustrations, and narrations using AI models: github.com/durraniu/sto... #RStats Quarto output:

{equatiomatic} - Convert models to equations: github.com/datalorax/eq... #RStats bookmark from the old twitter

{gm} - Create music with R: flujoo.github.io/gm/ #RStats bookmark from old twitter

{colorfindr} - Create color palettes from images in R: github.com/zumbov2/colo... #RStats bookmark from the old Twitter. Courtesy @annahenschel.bsky.social

From my #rstats bookmarks: {flow} - Visualize functions and scripts as flow diagrams: github.com/moodymudskip...

Working on some games to explain the usage of Drift Diffusion Model (DDM) in stroop and braking tasks. This is for a work-in-progress website. Using JS and shiny. #RStats

Great talk about {renv} by @pipinghotdata.com at #positconf. Very practical strategies for restoring and updating project state. Has anyone also used rv (a2-ai.github.io/rv-docs/)? In my little experience, it is very much like uv for python and looks more helpful than {renv}. #rstats

I'm collecting the links to #positconf talks here: github.com/durraniu/pos... Feel free to add to the list. #rstats

Having a lot of fun with analyzing NIMBY (Not In My Backyard) comments from a reddit thread. httr2 for getting data and ellmer's parallel_chat_structured were used to classify the comments #RStats

What do you think of creating and maintaining a data portfolio/personal website? Was it useful in securing your first data job? Has it been rewarding in any other way in your career? #rstats #dataBS #python #julia

Explore extreme weather attribution studies with a Shiny app for this week's #TidyTuesday App: karamanis.shinyapps.io/ExtremeWeath... Code: github.com/gkaramanis/t... #RStats #dataviz

Introduced my nephew and niece to python in our first online session and positron made the setup so easy! Ctrl/Cmd + Enter from RStudio is the biggest strength of Positron for the python world in my opinion. #positron #python