Just remembering the falsely delicious undergrad feeling of analyzing data curated specifically to demonstrate a certain relationship or outcome, followed by the sinking, squelchy feeling of uncertainty when collecting real data on my own that turned out to contain nothing but noise #databs #rstats

I need a snack. I have 8 minutes before my next call. SNACK TIME! I go to the kitchen and grab some cheese. Mmmmm, cheeeeese 🧀 I get back to my desk with the cheese. Success! One minute until my call! Where are my headphones? MY HEADPHONES ARE IN THE CHEESE DRAWER. I am 1 minute late to my call 🙃

The data community is really a mutual admiration society ❤️ and I like it that way. Today on the Hangout, Martin Frigaard recommended @cghlewis.bsky.social's newsletter! I subscribe, and I think you should, too!! It's called RDM Weekly: rdmweekly.substack.com

Today on the #DSHangout, I think we came to the conclusion that the lil potato in the {chores} hex is the cutest thing ever. @simonpcouch.com I know it's not "pal" anymore, but we're all calling him Pal! :D #rstats #databs

I'm sitting here editing and publishing another #DSLab with Hadley (the one about data dictionaries and parquet!) and I'm reviewing the transcript for rogue hobbits this time 🙈 I promise! #rstats

My main debugging duck is a VERY cute yellow gentleman named Rocket, but on my 40th birthday, I won this little lady in a claw machine, and I've been calling her Madame Razz ✨ (Where are my She-Ra-loving 80s babies at?!) #rstats #databs #pydata

Gah, the RELIEF I feel after cutting my nails when they've gotten too long to type quickly is unreal. I need to feel my fingertips, UNIMPEDED, on the keeeeeys Is unimpeded a word?

Ben is out here doing important #rstats work. This is EVERYTHING 😂

This was so much funnn!!! My favorite part of learning Nicola's process was her inclination to solve a problem once & use the solution going forward each time. DRY principle, yes, but it's more than just in her code, it's in her organization & way of thinking, too. Thank you, Nicola!! #TidyTuesday

We had a robot vacuum years ago, but they were not as advanced back then & it was pretty lousy. We're getting a new one this week, curious to see how far they've come! Doing cat rescue, we vacuum and mop A LOT. Definitely getting one without a camera on it, though 😅 LIDAR only 👀 Do you have one?

I've been watching Nicola Rennie make cool TidyTuesday contributions for YEARS. It's gonna be such a privilege to get a peek inside her workflow (+ her tools & templates!) tomorrow at the DS Lab 🥹❤️ May 12 12PM ET To hang out, chat w/ data pals, & see Nicola's brain work, register here: pos.it/dslab

❓Do you use git worktrees? ❓How would you describe worktrees to a newbie? ❓Do you use extensions in your IDE of choice to use them more easily? ❓Do you perhaps using a worktree-first workflow with something like Conductor or Superset? 🙏🏻 Tell me all your worktree things! #databs #rstats #pydata

Just had the most random flashback to when I was a bank teller. Most banks I worked for used green screens, no GUIs, and we'd often check our bank accounts at our terminals since we worked there. One day before lunch I checked my acct & saw a $36k deposit had just dropped onto it 😂

We rescue cats. We've spent 20 years prioritizing the happiness & safety of our feline friends, & we are, consequently, a small-Christmas-tree family. But we LOVE Christmas trees. So, we keep ours up year-round 🎄😌 Why not? It's small, up on a shelf, makes us happy. There are no rules. Be happy!

We went to a Best Buy today. Hadn't been in one in a long time. What. What happened? It's like an electronics store at the airport and a discount appliance store had a baby. RIP Best Buy, I guess 😅 unless it's just mine that's like this now?

I have this #Positron shirt, and it's so comfy, but I think I wanna dye it. Would that be blasphemous?! haha #rstats

Hey #edusky / #datasky: I'm hiring! If you're a data person who cares about education equity, social equality, and working toward a less divided America, check it out! newamerica.applytojob.com/apply/LVDvuZ... #datajobs #edjobs #edpolicy

Last month, my friend Joey, a VP of Data Sci & all-around cool human, joined us on the #DSLab. He demonstrated the cool tools he uses, including how he basically doesn't type anything to #ClaudeCode anymore 🤷🏻‍♂️ which blew my mind. Between cmux, the 1Password cli, wisprflow.. I'm 🤯 youtu.be/t146uZt-dP4

When #Camtasia is exporting an hour-long video & you don't dare touch ANYTHING on your laptop lest it have a fit of some kind, so you Bluesky from your phone instead, but then you realize how lazy you are about typing & bravely Bluesky from your laptop after all. Video editing is breaking me, y'all

Have you ever given a talk that didn't allow for live coding, but you REALLY WANTED to live code? What was the talk about? #databs #rstats #python

Hey, #databs, it's Admin Day Eve for me (Tuesday): are you planning to take an admin day this week? Close those tabs! Clean off that desk! Note: I've avoided admin day for two weeks now, and it's DIRE over here, so I'm getting started a little early.

AHEM. Wanna influence what dataset we use live at the #DSLab with @nrennie.bsky.social on May 12?! Time to submit your curated dataset NOW!! Nicola is #TidyTuesday royalty, & she'll be joining us to share her data viz process from concept to execution, including the tools she's created over time!

Do you use agent skills? I don't, but I sure would like to know how to create, find, and use them 👀 so it's a good thing Garrick will be hanging out with us and showing us the ropes! Side note: Isabella makes all these cute little DS Lab cover images and I just love them! ❤️ the lil "grad" Claude 🥹

I sighed heavily so many times while reading this. The 5 core beliefs resonate a lot. I dream of a different world a lot lately, and it mostly looks like the (post-apocalyptic?) peace of the Monk and Robot books by Becky Chambers. #rstats #databs

I love all the different flavors of data people 🥰🥰🥰 There are too many varied and beautiful variations and combinations to name, but I'm so glad to be a part of this diverse group of talented, intelligent, generous, curious, and kind human beings #databs #rstats #pydata

Aaaahahahahahaa 😂 Copy #stats joy #rstats

So, I'm not sure how it happened, but my "Following" feed is just chock full of #Chicago 😂 My husband is from the NW burbs and we've been trying to move up there for years (but the market has us trapped). It's been so nice to see so much Chicago love in my morning scroll.

My birthday is tomorrow! Growing up in San Antonio, it was so magical always having the Friday near/on my b-day off school. It's Fiesta, and the city shuts down. No school, libraries close, it's like a snow day in April (if we had snow, we don't). Just cascarones, pan dulce, music, fairs, & parades!

This is fantastic for simulation work! I used to jump through hoops to try to manage memory use when building pricing models because each thread required so much ram. Niche need, but valuable.

Ooo, I DO love both of those things! Also a fan of cool stairs.

#ADHData - trouble starting a task: Tool 1: For me, action begets action. If struggling to start a task (common for me), pretty much any body/brain momentum I can build helps me start, even if unrelated to my target task. Procrastivity? Yes. 🧵 1/n - shared in the spirit of #ExperienceNotAdvice

So much career advice boils down to "be more neurotypical," which isn't great advice unless you happen to be neurotypical. If you've been "unable to follow advice" for years, & all you've felt is shame at not hacking it, I invite you to ponder whether the advice is just not right for you. #ADHData

So how do we stay grounded in the face of this overwhelming message that AI is the only way forward? For starters, we can remember that work is not just output. It's about thinking and understanding and building collaborative relationships.

See you in less than an hour with Isabella and Hadley to learn about how data dictionaries, Claude, and parquet fit together into one magical workflow. And maybe Hadley will talk a little about the new ggsql, too?! #rstats #databs

This week on What's New in R: ✅ Walkthrough of @andrew.heiss.phd’s Positron workflow ✅ Blog post by @ivelasq3.bsky.social sharing collection of Claude skills for R users ✅ @stephenturner.us’s demo of a Claude Skill for automatically generating _brand.yml files Read more: buff.ly/iTfyA48 #rstats

Just in case you needed some Fili in your life today. Deep breaths. Gaze at the perfect little domino beans. Marvel at his perfectly smudged nose. Imagine his soft purrs next to you. Breathe.

The most interesting thing about sharing my views online is the wildly wrong assumptions I get to watch folks make about me, what I do, and how I do it 😂 It's also been interesting to observe that people in dev roles seem to assume everyone else is a dev, but people of all walks use agentic AI tools

My biggest gripe with agentic work is that I've become a reviewer. Know what work task I like least? The task I find most boring? It's reading & reviewing. And now that's the whole game. That's left me bored & disinterested, & maybe even ready to move on from some areas in general. #rstats #databs

Ok, update, I now better understand async vs parallel processing, why they're useful, and I can only sit here and feel mad that I didn't know how to use them in undergrad and grad school when I was setting alarms to check my laptop every few hours overnight 🫠 My other cores were just SITTING THERE??

You ever just type the most tragic stuff into google & let it figure it out? Poor google. Good news, though, if your nails are too long & you're too tired to type, google will still get you to the #DSHangout! 😂 Join us on Thurs w/ Leslie Emery, a Sr Principal Data Scientist at BMS 😍 #rstats #databs

Don't let anyone trick you into thinking that you're a quitter if you try the Level 1 version of 17 different sports, handcrafts, musical instruments, etc. Let them double and triple down in one area. That's amazing for them! Live your best life, rolling around in the variety you choose to love!

Help, I have 49 tabs open in both my browser and my brain 🫠

I've spent years dodging the concept of asynchronous programming. It felt too big. I'm super excited to have Charlie with us at the #DSLab to help us understand it on a basic level!

Things are moving so fast that I feel like I'm being torn apart trying to keep up. That means I have to pick/choose what to keep up on vs what not to, & it's tough. I'm too tired to understand it all or do it all. I'd rather invest in people than in my own grasp of new tech. #databs #rstats #python

Just thinking about how my baby brother used to say "marsha-pillows" instead of marshmallows, and how he's now 33.

If I wasn't so tired, I'd find that Madeline Kahn gif of her singing "I'm Tired" from Blazing Saddles. Just imagine I did that. I'm. So. Tired.

Hey #rstats world. Before I write something, is there anything out there to discover database table relationships from a large body of production sql (1000+ queries)? I have a largeish undocumented data warehouse (700 tables, 28k cols).

"I can't use Quarto because my coworkers don't code and they need to edit docume-" 👀 ✋🏼🔜 quarto.org/docs/blog/po... #rstats #quarto #databs

Omg LOOOOOK #rstats

What does Baja Blast taste like? 🤔 I've never tasted Baja Blast, I don't frequent Taco Bell, and I can't do more than a sip or two of soda for blood sugar reasons, so help me out. I've never even been in the same room as a Baja Blast to ask for a sip 😂 BLAST ME