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ggplot v4.0.0 is now out! 🎉 Join the release party on October 3rd with developer & maintainer @teunbrand.bsky.social and the ggplot2 extenders meetup to learn all about what's new and the change-making process! 📅 Friday, Oct 3rd 🕐 3pm Eastern 📋 Sign up: bit.ly/join-gg-extenders #RStats

I'm exited to announce a new resource about making slides with quarto and revealjs. This book is the combination of all the work I have done in this area, reordered and polished up There isn't a lot of new information yet, but this format allows me to add more easily slidecrafting-book.com #quarto

I had to do a double take on this map. To really highlight “high” vs “low,” it’s clearer to use completely different colors instead of similar hues. The choice below reads like a sequential scale - light blue feels like a middle bin, not a low one. Color opinions aside, interesting info!

Tell me something you do when you code that other people would tell you that you shouldn't do. Tell me the rules you break! I'll go first: I work in untitled files in the wrong project directories all the time. Like, all the time. Yes, I do tend to lose things 😂 #databs #rstats #python

📣We're hosting a rainbowR conference, to connect and promote LGBTQ+ people in the #RStats community and to showcase examples of working with LGBTQ+ data 🌈🎉 To help us plan, if you'd be interested in attending or speaking, please fill in this very short form (1-2 mins) docs.google.com/forms/d/1Tx0...

I love this idea so much as a fellow early bird. Staying out late feels so unnatural to me. And exhausting. Earlybirds Club is a dance party from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m., started by two friends. www.npr.org/2025/09/21/n...

Our next meetup will be Wednesday Oct 29th at 6pm CST! Efficient File Management in R with {fs} with @jadeynryan.bsky.social www.meetup.com/rladies-st-l...

Hooray! See y'all next year in my hometown! 🐎 #positconf #rstats #htx

For the open source devotees out there, I've integrated @OpenFreeMapOrg into the #rstats {mapgl} package. Do `maplibre(style = openfreemap_style("liberty"))` for an excellent street map with 3D buildings; "bright" & "positron" are also available. Map with no API keys required!

Now it's "shinyGovStyle - accessible government design in RShiny" by Cameron Race and Sarah Wong-Brown. #PositConf2025 #RStats #RShiny

Houston has a higher percentage of residents living in poverty among the largest cities in the United States, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau.

I hope no one is tired of seeing adorable #pawsitconf posts full of cute pets and punny talk titles, because @trevinflickinger.com helped his THREE dogs submit talks 😭 JUST LOOK AT THEM #rstats #python #databs #positconf2025

Oh, for sure. Even the LBJ's. Chestnut-winged Cinclodes, Spotted Sandpiper, Brown-backed Chat-Tyrant, Darwin's Ground Finch

One of the country's foremost food policy experts said Tuesday that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Make America Healthy Again report is "a report about intentions. It's not about actions."

Hello grant-writers! 👋 Join us 👯‍♀️ tomorrow, ✨Sept 10th at noon CDT✨ for a short workshop on using #rstats and #shiny to find trigger words in your federal grant applications. @rladies.org @rladies-bot.bsky.social 🥴 💜

Sometimes you just need to add a quick row of data to your data frame in #rstats. tibble::add_row() can help

UK government report based on internal civil service trial finds Copilot doesn’t increase productivity, and indeed makes Excel take longer and with more errors, and requires Powerpoint users to have ‘corrective action’ applied to their outputs. www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/m...

Happy to announce ✨quarto-revealjs-editable✨ This fully supersedes the imagemover extension, as I back then didn't realize the potential. You can now also move, resize, change font size and alignment for text in your slides github.com/EmilHvitfeld... #quarto #slidecrafting

sneak preview of the upcoming WIP issue‘s dataviz:

“Diversity of thought is, in many ways, harder to be comfortable with than demographic diversity,” Arthur C. Brooks writes. Corporate leaders should turn curiosity about others’ beliefs into a cultural norm. It’ll be great for their business too: https://theatln.tc/7IegYzMp

New #rstats github.com/e-kotov/grid... Creates GISCO/INSPIRE-compliant grids with IDs like ‘CRS3035RES1000mN3497000E4448000’ or ‘1kmN3497E4447’. The resulting grids are always aligned to rounded coordinates as per INSPIRE spec. No more downloading 1.5-2.6 GB files from Eurostat. #CRAN -ready..?

Research shows that criminalization and encampment clearing doesn’t solve #homelessness. In a new post, Urban #research experts highlight evidence-based solutions like #housing vouchers and supportive housing to address homelessness in DC and beyond.

What gif pops up when you type your name? 😂

A simple design framework that will massively improve your slides and your public speaking clauswilke.substack.com/p/slides-tha...

If you are excited about this, stay tuned! we have something in the works that I think is a little bit cooler

If politics corrupts economic data, it stops being useful. Businesses won’t trust it. Voters can’t hold leaders accountable. The value of data lies in the truths it reveals — lose that, and you lose everything.

OpenAI's newest gpt-oss-20b model lets your Mac run ChatGPT-style AI with no subscription, no internet, and no strings attached. Here's how to get started.

For more than a century, virtually every corporate-productivity fad has assumed “that employees can be managed as if they were machines,” Arthur C. Brooks writes. The real solution to happiness and productivity might just be to “treat people as people”:

Data come in many different formats and are used in many different ways, but in many cases, a checklist like this (along with good data documentation) can help you verify if a dataset is in a usable format for most general purposes. osf.io/t8upr

Grateful to have had the opportunity to contribute to another @nature.com article. This one, about spreadsheets. While there is often distrust surrounding them, they are still a ubiquitous tool that, if used properly and for the right reasons, can be effective. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Extreme weather in 2024 emphasized a strong need for recovery and resilience planning in US #communities. After Hurricanes Milton and Helene, Urban’s #climate experts delivered rapid insights to help inform efforts. Explore the #research in the 2024 Impact Report.

mapgl's new TurfJS integration brings interactive geospatial analytics to #rstats & Shiny. Shown here: Voronoi polygons that increment on user click - all in the browser, but written with R code! Blog posts are in the works; in the meantime check out the docs: walker-data.com/mapgl/articl...

Man, the package development experience on R is really top notch. Amazing, for something that is not a programming language according to many.

I regret to inform you that she has, yet again, written more words than are necessary on a topic you don't care about

Watch the seismic waves from the magnitude 8.8 earthquake off the coast of Russia sweep beneath seismic stations in North America. By the time the waves reached North America, they are far too small to be felt by people, but can still be detected by seismic instruments. 🧪

🦆 My new R package {avilistr} is live on CRAN! 🎉 The first unified global bird taxonomy (11,131 species) is now accessible to #rstats users. I built it this weekend after Cornell Lab's AviList release last week! 🪿 Blog: www.dalyanalytics.com/blog/avilist... 💻 GitHub: github.com/dalyanalytic...

🎉 Quarto R package v1.5.0 is here! New features to boost your workflow: - Pass R values to Quarto metadata - Markdown in HTML tables - Light & dark themes for plots/tables - Work with R scripts & automate CLI Read more: quarto.org/docs/blog/po... #RStats #Quarto #DataScience #OpenSource

NEW: Microsoft says it will no longer use China-based engineers to support the Pentagon. But ProPublica found that the tech giant has relied on its global workforce for years to support other federal clients, including the Justice Department. By @reneedudley.bsky.social

A cross-sector team in Pima County, AZ participated in Urban's Mobility Action Learning Network to address upward mobility challenges & progress toward long-term #policy goals in their #community. See how they did it & what lessons they learned in a report from Urban’s Upward Mobility Initiative.

HOT RAT SUMMER

Ross Ihaka, co-creator of #Rstats, reflects on growing up Maori 🌿 in rural New Zealand 🇳🇿 and how he discovered his passion for data youtu.be/LY3FOLZ_Zpk?...

*Learning visualization in Python as an R user* #ggplot

Want to learn more about DuckDB like I did? Check out this helpful one hour talk from posit::conf(2024). 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=GELh...

How do scientists monitor the populations of the threatened California red-legged frog? With careful listening and a little help from AI.

A powerful graph that shows the effectiveness of the HPV vaccine in preventing cancer and saving lives.

I had no idea how much cats like drama

Two redesigns of the cluttered bar chart on Europe’s largest urban areas 📊 Two reworked variants — same data, different goals: show the data vs. tell a story. Decluttering, refocusing, adding context, and using visual emphasis can turn a chart into insight. #dataviz #ggplot2 #rstats #tidyverse

The first commit for the #rstats {tigris} package was 10 (!) years ago, and the package is still going strong. tigris gets geographic data from the US Census Bureau into R for you -- often in a single line of code. As tigris turns 10, let's review what it can do: