Here’s a graph from the Economist showing GDP data from official government sources versus private estimates. Free countries, like the US, don’t manipulate econ data. Less free countries do. Trump is seeking to break that for short-term PR. (Yes I know GDP is BEA and not BLS.)

Consider the possibility that work life balance is not just a preferred lifestyle but necessary to allow people to raise the next generation of the human race. The alternative is a dropping birth rate and/or a stay at home parent in every household. stocks.apple.com/AKQokfrDGRO2...

At this moment two weeks ago, I was picking my son up from a great week of sleepaway camp in the mountains. The situation for parents of the missing campers in Texas is just unspeakably heartbreaking.

I subscribed to @theatlantic.com in the last year, and it has been an unsuspected joy. What a wonderful publication. Not just news and politics, but all manner of things like this article. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

dplyr.tidyverse.org, tidyr.tidyverse.org, and ggplot2.tidyverse.org now have an experimental "ask AI" button powered by kapa.ai. It uses the contents of all 3 sites to (hopefully!) better answer your tidyverse questions. This is very much an experiment so please let me know what you think! #rstats

I wouldn't snooze on this opportunity #databs

Does anyone have examples of collaborating with non-coders (scientists in my case) on #Quarto documents? Tips to share? I can imagine the visual editor working well for them, it’s the Github part that seems like a big ask.

I’m hiring for a Senior Data Scientist / Data Developer role at EvE Bio, a non-profit! It requires substantial #rstats experience, including #Shiny. It’s a hybrid role located in Durham, NC. If you are interested and qualified, please apply or reach out to me w Qs. jobs.lever.co/convergentre...

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of Bind Research, the UK’s first not-for-profit Focused Research Organisation, with long-term support from the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology’s Research Ventures Catalyst Programme, industry, and charities.

We just published a deep look into E11 Bio, the research nonprofit creating tools to build a 3D map of every neuron and synapse in a brain. Jump in to learn how their technology could map an entire mouse brain in 5 years for $100 million—a 100x improvement over existing methods.

If only Observable plot had a functional facet_wrap equivalent 😞

Phenomenal article by Lina Khan reminding us why breaking up monopolies isn’t about fairness, it’s about competitiveness! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/o...

Keeping and maintaining code and pipelines that provide open datasets for free, is not free. Excited to see initiatives like this gaining support of their communities!

I am very excited to try this out. More assistance writing tests is one of things I’d most like AI to provide!

First experience with #Shiny assistant today was good! A scientist I work with who also has some R skills got a basic app working, then Shiny assistant did the tricky part of making it possible for the user to advance through a series of plots, something I would have struggled to figure out myself.

This is a very exciting concept. I use the command line intermittently so I’m always in beginner mode. Now if we can have the same type of helper for CSS…

So, #DuckDB works with the #rstats #tidyverse via duckplyr. #DuckDB also works with #dbt. I’m daring to hope that somehow this means I could use dbt but write my models with duckplyr instead of SQL directly. 🤞🏻🤞🏻

A case where 3D data visualization is actually effective!

Ah, "How to name files", a topic that is near and dear to my 💜 My most recent (and semi-polished) iteration on this stuff was a 5-minute lightning talk for NormConf 2022. Here's the video & the slides: youtu.be/ES1LTlnpLMk?... speakerdeck.com/jennybc/how-...

This is big: in collaboration with E11 Bio and @andrewcpayne.bsky.social, we are announcing today a new way to map brain circuits at scale. With improvements in AI and microscopy I think whole brain mouse and maybe human brain mapping will be feasible in ~5-10 years. 1/

Here’s my plan: I have a handful of simple #Shiny apps for data collection. I’m going to use #DuckDB with GCS hosted files as the backend. 95% appending. Largest table will get to 10M+ rows but most are much much smaller. ~10 users. The goal is easy setup and maintenance. What pitfalls am I missing?

In a world of Slack and other tools that reduce communication friction so much that little thought is required, we do less of even the most basic writing to express our ideas in business contexts. I really think it’s hurt the quality of decision making.

Here’s a little script I made which I use to get a server up and running automatically (after you answering a few questions, including “what’s your name”) in just a few minutes. You can even fully automate it with a few environment variables. github.com/AnswerDotAI/...

I have been working from a hypothesis that so far seems to be correct but I’d love to get some constructive input especially from #duckdb folks Hypothesis: Using JavaScript and DuckDB-wasm allows for the public deployment of data apps with minimal server costs and ongoing maintenance. Caveats in 🧵

I work at a non-profit where our “product” is a high quality dataset, and we’ve just done our first data release - and many more to come. Data folks, note that the data browser is built with Quarto + ObservableJS + DuckDB. Blog post on that is in the works! data.evebio.org

Daily posts here with text that include #rstats, from Aug 1 thru yesterday. Excludes the CRAN package update bot. Data pulled with the {bskyr} #rstats 📦 christophertkenny.com/bskyr/ Data wrangled with dplyr & purrr, visualized with ggplot2

I have really missed Twitter, where for years my feed was full of awesome R and data posts from smart, funny, and generous people. Cautiously optimistic that Bluesky is reaching critical mass and will fill this gap!

Huge and helpful list of starter packs.