Being able to use a lookup table & just use "from" & "to" language like this is SUCH a wonderfully change for me when recoding values 🥹 #dplyr has always felt conversational to me, & now we can finally use it to say "recode this variable from this to that" without typing a long case_when #rstats

If you've been thinking about submitting a talk for posit::conf(2026), but you're a little nervous about the process, I have the ~15 min video for you! youtu.be/aKN8qlLjld4 @rachaeldempsey.bsky.social & I stayed late on the #DSHangout to answer some Qs, & two veteran conf-talkers shared their exp

Gonna need y'all to light ALL the candles for us as we live-collab in #GitHub 🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️ WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?! 😂 Come hang out! Whether you're there to learn something new re: #Positron, laugh @ our live demo failures, make data pals, or add your expertise, we'd love to see you #databs #rstats

Absolutely no one prepared me for how STINKIN CUTE a 3D printer is! She's like a little Wall-E & I LOVE HER 🤖 She poops! She brushes her little teef! (Ok, toof. One toof.)

What a day to choose to go to the grocery store 🥴 I had no idea it was the Super Bowl 😅😅😅 The shopping gone done, BUT AT WHAT COST

As an easily-overstimulated person, one of the biggest improvements to my everyday life, work life, and marriage has been: being a headphones-only household + noise cancelling earbuds 😌 Watching TV? Headphones. Listening to music? Podcast? Call? Headphones! My house is silent at all times 🍃#ADHData

Ok, getting pretty excited for this. Can't WAIT to show you how you can do (almost!) your entire GH collab workflow (issues, PRs, Reviews) directly in Positron. Isabella and I will collab in realtime and show you the whole process. We'll even show resolving merge conflicts if we have time! #rstats

Today is one of those days where I have stuff I need to do & it's stuff my ADHD brain can't latch onto, so I'm running through every tool in my toolbox to see how I can still make it happen. Love this for me, doing 10x the work for the same output. Hug an #ADHData person today, they're tired AF

Today on the #DSHangout, we got an anonymous Q about what being a working adult in '08-09 might have taught us about navigating today's gross job market. I thought it was a fantastic question to pose to the fellow olds in the #databs community here. My biggest lesson: ask for AND ACCEPT help.

📆 Tues on DS Lab, @ivelasq3.bsky.social & I are gonna be showing how to GitHub collab in #Positron! If you're coming from RStudio, Positron's set-up is gonna be pretty different in some amazingly great ways. If you're a GitHub-in-VSC pro, join & help us learn! pos.it/dslab #databs #rstats #python

I really dropped the ball on Admin Wednesday yesterday. Mostly because I spent part of it thinking it was Friday, which really sucked when I realized my mistake. Closing ~100 browser tabs on a Thursday just doesn't feel the same.

Anyone in #databs or #rstats land find themselves in need of an R+encryption solution like this? 🤔

Is anyone else consistently at least 24-48 hours behind on emails? Please don't email me something you need me to see ASAP 😅🫠

Love how I can always count on @zach-nabavian.bsky.social to have a Mario Kart analogy in a data community meet-up chat 😂 Today it was DRAGON BOATS! (You had to be there, but dragon boating featured heavily in today's #DSHangout haha) #databs

Secret club meets tmrw. Stay late after the Hangout. (Bring your Qs abt submitting talks for posit::conf(2026)! @rachaeldempsey.bsky.social and I will spill the beans. I mean, we'll help. Probably! Seriously, though, see you tomorrow 😂 conf talks can be transformative!! #databs #rstats #python

Is the difference between hitting cmd + to zoom in #Positron once and hitting it twice too big of a step? You can zoom in fractions! Try "window.zoomLevel": 1.7, for screen sharing on a hi res screen, with "editor.fontSize": 13 Or play around and see what works best for you! #rstats #databs #pydata

My tombstone is gonna say "She was a real handful" but I'm really thankful for all the people who love me just the way I am, even when I'm a chaos gremlin, a data weasel, a conversational steamroller, etc. #databs

Happy Groundhog Day! Fun fact: my husband grew up in the little IL town where the movie was (mostly) filmed. It was 1992. The snow was fake & filming went through the summer, so all those scenes where they're wearing jackets got hot 😂 He even got to be a skateboarding extra but his scene was cut!

Tomorrow's #DSLab is gonna be interesting because I've never used AI to help write analysis code, or do any analysis at all! Super curious what this will look like and excited for you to meet @sara-altman.bsky.social if you haven't yet! She's part of the AI team here at #Posit! #rstats #databs

Block those calendars, #rstats & #databs!! If you missed Data Science Trivia at Virtual Day last year, here's your second chance to get in on it 🥳 @damiepak.bsky.social and I will be leading a short trivia session (with prizes!) followed by a quick social where we can all make some friendsssss 🥰

I freaking love voice messages. If you're my friend and you're not a voice message person, I'm so sorry about all the friend podcasts I regularly send you 😂 When they get particularly long and rambly, I just end them with, "like and subscribe!" to cut the awkward tension of realizing I'm 5 mins in 😎

Dear #databs, #rstats, and #pydata: Jon and I aren't saying you should submit a hilarious #TidyTuesday dataset for @hadley.nz to analyze, but we're not NOT saying that 😌 Time is ticking

I'm excited to inform you: @hadley.nz to join the #DSLab Feb 17, live-coding a #TidyTuesday analysis. Snoop the tools he uses & ask Qs in the chat! 👀 I regret to inform you: I've challenged him to only speak in Gen-Z slang for the entire Lab & he's accepted 🙊 pos.it/dslab ⬅️👏🏻 #rstats #databs

Loving all the #TidyTuesday shares this week!! Just sad that all my corporate finance and corporate accounting classes didn't prepare me to easily understand the data 🤣

Made a quick video showing: - what the git integration in #Positron looks like - what running a Shiny app locally in Positron looks like - how easy it is to push an update to a live Shiny app hosted on Posit Connect Cloud (I'm just using the free version here!) #rstats #databs youtu.be/-HDW3eHPt5w

ADMIN DAY! Tabs = closed, software = updated, emails = being done, compliance training = barf! A day with no meetings is like the only way this happens. TAKE AN ADMIN DAY! Next, editing / publishing DS Hangout & DS Lab videos 🎥📹📽️ Love that all my "video" emoji options are old tech ❤️

If you stay to the end of this episode with the amazing @emilyriederer.bsky.social, you'll get to hear something really cooooool! Also, listen for this lesson: watch people code whenever you can ❤️ overcast.fm/+ABQHd_PtRq4

Thanks for letting me get back in teacher mode as I live-coded my way through the DS Lab today 🥰 It was sooo much fun & I just hope y'all had fun, too, & learned loads about both {ellmer} and {mall}! I freaking love this unscripted time to paircode with virtual #databs buds each week pos.it/dslab

Chaos code the random fun idea. We can get so caught up in reproducibility that we forget some code is art. Don't let anyone trick you into believing that your creations aren't worth anything unless they're productionizable. There's still joy in creating with abandon, in fever-dream-coding #databs

Emily is the GOAT!!

I'll be sharing R code and @theotheredgar.bsky.social will be sharing Python code, so come get a glimpse of both! (Finally found Edgar on bluesky 😂)

Tuesday (tomorrow) Jan 27th @ 12 PM ET, Edgar Ruiz will join us on the Data Science Lab where we will live code our way through a tour of the {mall} R package (which means we'll touch on {ellmer} too!). Register at pos.it/dslab Come see how {mall} works & hang out w/ pals! #databs #rstats #python

I'm getting a 3D printer 🏗️ Got any resources & advice? Except for which one to get because that bell has been rung 😂 In another life, I was a CAD drafter (site plans, redlines, assessment floor plans) - are those (rusty) skills gonna come in handy with 3D printing? Any #databs 3D printing folks? 🤔

It is such a human thing to ask, "is it just me?" 🤔 You're an n=1 experiment. You can wonder all day long if what you're experiencing is normal, average, expected (some of those things aren't helpful, but you get the idea), but the way to really find out is to talk to people. Even when it's scary ❤️

I don't miss childhood, mine was garbage, I just miss the ability to plug into a pixelated video game or book or craft project for 12 hours and not feeling the passage of time 😫

This is the stuff I wish I hope to see more of. In a sea of similar posts about #vibecoding, it's refreshing to read @sara-altman.bsky.social & @simonpcouch.com digging into the whethers /whys of AI's utility in data analysis. We need lighthouses in this #AI storm 🌊 #databs posit.co/blog/llm-plo...

#ADHData POV: I've worked too many hours already this week, but feel convinced I've done almost nothing 🙏🏻 Love this for me! Writing down what I've done helps, but that becomes impossible while living in reaction mode. Every slack DM includes a bevy of new tasks to drop the ball on. #databs

Me, just thinking about Jira 🔥

#databs nerds, gimme all your thoughts on why using the 10yr/2yr treasury spread inversion as a leading (as opposed to lagging, not "leading" as in "best") indicator of an impending recession is good/bad/unhelpful/fraught 🤔 📉 Just curious, hoping to chat with fellow nerds & learn

This is in 12 minutes!! Come see how to structure your R projects so that Future You doesn't hate Past You 😂 #rstats #databs Also, be nice to me, my eye is all messed up and I can't see well today 🙈 See you there!!

Trying to convince myself to throw away my paper notes from undergrad. The nostalgia is strong 🥹 I think and process in color 🌈🦄 #databs #rstats

DID YOU MISS the very first #DataScienceLab when @isabelizimm.bsky.social and @davisvaughan.bsky.social joined us to talk about some of our favorite #Positron settings? Some folks had asked so I wanted to share! It's up on YouTube here: youtu.be/QIYyeuZ_ISY #rstats #python #databs #pydata

My #AdminDayWednesday got overtaken by shenanigans, so I'm carving out THIRTY MINUTES of today to close all my open tabs. And you know what that means! IT'S TIME TO PLAY, HOW MANY TABS DOES LIBBY HAVE OPEN?! The answer is 89 browser tabs 🙈 Only 4 of them are Jira 😚 proud of me #databs #techdebt

I'm off homebrew completely. I don't know why, but it just created a layer between me & my installations that made everything harder. Maybe it's because I don't know what the heck I'm doing half the time, but I can't be the only one. Python installs are now uv, everything else is direct 😅 #databs

Did you know there's a {gt} book in the works?! Because there IS! #rstats #databs #gt

TOMORROW! (Tuesday) @andrew.heiss.phd is gonna be on the DS Lab showing us how he makes his life easier: #Positron extensions he loves, OS tools he uses, and #duckdb + Connections pane 👀 Bonus, we'll def share the "moving the activity bar" thing live, too 👏🏻 Register: pos.it/dslab #rstats #databs

We're like 10 respondents away from 200! It's the little data science survey that could! It will be open ONE more day (until Sunday Jan 11th). Built off questions submitted by y'all <3 Can't wait to share the results! Also just realized, wait, I SHOULD ALSO TAKE THE SURVEY! 😂 off to do that now!

For @hadley.nz, because, yes, the Accounts and Settings buttons totally do move when you do this! They go up to the top right of #Positron. See my original post below where I show how to right click next to the activity name you're in (like next to "Explorer") to change the Activity Bar Position

This is the most elite change in #Positron, it's so calming. #rstats #python #databs

In 1 hr! #DSHangout w/ head of people analytics @ GitLab 😍 come ask Qs & hang w/ data buds 12PM ET pos.it/dsh NEXT WEEK! @andrew.heiss.phd is on the DS Lab showing us how he makes his life easier: #Positron extensions he loves, OS tools he uses, the #duckdb + Connections pane 👀 pos.it/dslab #rstats