Umair Durrani
@transport-talk.bsky.social
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Umair Durrani
Jenny Bryan
16 days ago
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 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥
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Umair Durrani
Manasseh
about 1 month ago
Italian industrial production for
#TidyTuesday
, week 18. At it again!, svgparser📦package turning ideas into life.
#Rstats
#Dataviz
#ggplot2
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Has anyone compared uvr, rv, and renv?
#RStats
about 1 month ago
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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
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ml_reading_plan
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1L4-IY7AGjUhJdmr-kwxCUjgECpmUFSamNaUPq1jBcwg/edit?usp=sharing
about 1 month ago
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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
about 1 month ago
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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
about 2 months ago
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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
about 2 months ago
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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
2 months ago
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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
6 months ago
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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
6 months ago
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Quarto fenced divs, custom layout, and SCSS can make pretty nice websites. Website:
quarto-bighead.netlify.app
Source:
github.com/durraniu/qua...
#RStats
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7 months ago
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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
7 months ago
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Thanks
@rconsortium.bsky.social
for organizing the R + AI conference. The slides for my talk are available here:
dru.quarto.pub/brandthis/#/...
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Brand Your Docs, Apps, and ggplots Using LLMs
https://dru.quarto.pub/brandthis/#/title-slide
7 months ago
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Can you believe this is made with {ambiorix} + tailwind?
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7 months ago
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Umair Durrani
R Consortium
7 months ago
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
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CTRL + / is so good for commenting in any language in positron! # R/Python // CSS/JS <!-- HTML -->
#RStats
7 months ago
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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
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7 months ago
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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
7 months ago
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{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
7 months ago
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TIL that brand.yml works for closeread outputs!
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7 months ago
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{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
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7 months ago
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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.
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Web APIs for useRs: Getting data from websites, databases, and LLMs - Umair Durrani
YouTube video by useR! Conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPMsrgx_cM4&t=3s
7 months ago
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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
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"How did you even think of that???" Techniques to code much faster - Russ Conte
YouTube video by useR! Conference
https://youtu.be/csGcnGJ2t0U?si=zcibFgZsy5UPE1sY
7 months ago
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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
add a skeleton here at some point
7 months ago
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Umair Durrani
R Consortium
7 months ago
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
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{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
8 months ago
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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...
8 months ago
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Does the `pip install <pkg>` command work on python REPL also or is it just the
#positron
console that supports it?
#python
8 months ago
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{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}.
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8 months ago
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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.
8 months ago
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There's also {raylibr} that enables you to make snake and DOOM games among others:
github.com/jeroenjansse...
#rstats
add a skeleton here at some point
8 months ago
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Learn ML with the scikit-learn MOOC:
inria.github.io/scikit-learn...
GitHub:
github.com/inria/scikit...
#python
bookmark from the old twitter
8 months ago
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{cpp4r} - Use C++ with R:
cpp4r.org/articles/02-...
#RStats
8 months ago
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{latex2exp} - Use LaTeX in plots:
github.com/stefano-mesc...
#RStats
8 months ago
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#RStats
community, what interesting projects are you working on that are not related to AI?
8 months ago
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{gtfs2emis} - Estimate public transport emissions from GTFS data:
ipeagit.github.io/gtfs2emis/
#RStats
bookmark from the old twitter
8 months ago
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{ggspell} - Spell check text and plots:
github.com/nicucalcea/g...
#RStats
8 months ago
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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
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8 months ago
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{storytelling} - Create fictional stories, illustrations, and narrations using AI models:
github.com/durraniu/sto...
#RStats
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8 months ago
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{equatiomatic} - Convert models to equations:
github.com/datalorax/eq...
#RStats
bookmark from the old twitter
8 months ago
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{gm} - Create music with R:
flujoo.github.io/gm/
#RStats
bookmark from old twitter
8 months ago
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{colorfindr} - Create color palettes from images in R:
github.com/zumbov2/colo...
#RStats
bookmark from the old Twitter. Courtesy
@annahenschel.bsky.social
8 months ago
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From my
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bookmarks: {flow} - Visualize functions and scripts as flow diagrams:
github.com/moodymudskip...
8 months ago
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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
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9 months ago
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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}.
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Welcome to rv
rv - A fast, declarative, R package manager
https://a2-ai.github.io/rv-docs/
9 months ago
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I'm collecting the links to
#positconf
talks here:
github.com/durraniu/pos...
Feel free to add to the list.
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https://github.com/durraniu/positconf25-links/blob/main/README.md
9 months ago
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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
9 months ago
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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
9 months ago
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reposted by
Umair Durrani
Georgios Karamanis
10 months ago
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
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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
10 months ago
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