{ggview} can print plots to Viewer (Rstudio or Positron) with true scaling. Adjust plot settings and see the final proportions immediately. Save the plot once 👌 e.g.: ggplot(...) + ggview::canvas(width = 220, height = 220*2/3, units = "mm", dpi = 300) per @nrennie.bsky.social #datavis #rstats

When I hear AI proponents say things like "I can't wait to put in one prompt and get a new season of my favorite show," I don't know how to begin explaining that can't happen with how these things work. It's like going into IKEA and said "I can't wait to get the wardrobe that takes me to Narnia."

using Linux opens you up to entirely new and esoteric ways of hating the computer. honestly hating the computer is in some ways a prerequisite to using Linux in any meaningful capacity in the first place

It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.

i stand by this statement every year

When you’re a kid you think the adults have it all figured out, then you get older and realize no one knows what the hell’s going on. It’s a real moment.

Some closing thoughts for my students this semester on LLMs and learning #rstats datavizf25.classes.andrewheiss.com/news/2025-12...

I'm R-Ladies RoCur this week - follow at @weare.rladies.org. I'll be posting about contributing to base R, the joy of R community, @rainbowr.org, Forwards, R packages (mine and my favourites), Research Software Engineering and whatever else I think of over the next few days!

We're looking for an Election Researcher to help prepare election materials & cover election results. You’ll help manage key databases, produce research materials, and dive into electoral research. This is a unique elections and data role at ABC News Full details: careers.abc.net.au/en/job/50515...

Kinda weird coincidence how our communications minister, her personal movements, and expenditure have been national headline fodder for 3 days running in the lead up to the U16 social media ban… A policy with bipartisan support. Almost like someone really wanted to make an example of her? 🤔

Over time my Rprofile has become this extremely cyberpunk combination of hacks that change how other people’s packages print info, and deeply situational but highly effective debugging tools. This is why you never nuke the .Rprofile with rm(ls = ls()). Very rude. #rstats

"Why don't kids go outside anymore?!" Kids outside:

If you missed my talk but still want some tips for writing good code for scientists, my slides are here: daxkellie.quarto.pub/a-guide-to-w... All the links and references are there too in case you want to see more! 😀🧪🌏 #ESA2025 #rstats #quartopub

ChatGPT’s signature writing style is everywhere now, and I hate it. It reminds me of when we tried mixing all the beverages at the soda fountain in middle school. We didn’t actually create the perfect drink, we just made a cloying monstrosity that lost everything good about its constituent parts.

Make a joke map. #fake #30DayMapChallenge #rstats

The recording of my #rstats posit::conf talk ✨ practical {renv}✨ is available! 🎉 I created this talk for frustrated {renv} users 🫠 and potential {renv} users🤩 youtu.be/l01u7Ue9pIQ?... Even if {renv} isn't on your radar, you may still find this talk interesting if you are curious about🤔...

(spending 9 billion dollars to make a robot say "i have always loved you") hard times create strong men

that people use AI technologies in their work and explain that it saves them precious time that they can devote to other more urgent tasks tells me less about the wondrousness of the technologies and more about the overextension and immiseration of workers.

You know it's gonna be interesting when it starts with, "Yes, I’m ready to touch the hot stove." 😂 I've seen folks missing the base R in the footnote 👀 What say you, #databs #rstats #pydata? /Aragorn voice/ Is there civilized discussion to be had? 🤔 blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/python-is-...

Sir we are purveyors of quality hand-coded software. Typed out in the traditional way by fingers on mechanical keys. Some backlit by LEDs. Look here, look at this code. It looks clean, just like shoddy AI work, but let me draw your attention to this unexpected line break here…

Going out on a limb here but the most exquisitely designed deeply domain specific functions in the #rstats #tidyverse are probably the tidyr::separate_ family. separate_wider_regex() is my main. The patterns arg! Beautiful. The debug mode! So sympathetic to the user’s whole process.

George I need you to do to these companies what you could never do to your books and finish them.

One of the greatest things about my job is the things talked about vs not. A whole floor of nerds. Talked about: R, stats, fantasy leagues, coffee, cycling, running, hiking, urbanism, bargains, the competitive puzzling scene, video games. Things not talked about: Python, ever.

Current demographic trends have long-term implications for care and dependency. Intergenerational inequality is not just an economic issue, but it is also social and democratic issues. #auspol #economy

Had cause to share this classic software design talk yesterday: youtu.be/SxdOUGdseq4?... And wow. What a time of optimism that was compared to now. The false promise of AI doing it all has probably set the field back a decade at least.

There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles. Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8

Tried to sneak a photo of a cute doggo and accidentally had long exposure on and I believe I have created man’s greatest expression of art

Coming across this sitting at kid 1’s piano lesson we got to by cargo bike. 😊🚲💪 www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I tried using AI to help me "speed up" my writing process. I hated every second of it. (I know, "duh") I dislike reading AI slop, so I don't use AI to write stuff that isn't code. But, while I love writing, I am not fast at it, & I let ✨capitalism✨ convince me that I should maybe SPEED UP. 🧵 1/n

Hey #rstats friends! 👋 Only one week to go until my "Introduction to R Packages" tutorial at #WOMBAT2025! This is a gentle introduction to making R packages, going from initial code to `devtools::check()` Still plenty of spots available :) Sign up at: wombat2025.numbat.space

The thing is, I feel it’s the {breakerofchains} crowd who are most likely hunt me down if I ever retired the repo.

In my experience, courage is usually the product of love and/or solidarity. When we are deeply invested in each other, we are more likely to take risks that we wouldn't take out of mere principle, or for the sake of people we feel disconnected from. Our alienation mass produces cowardice.

Great video by @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social featuring Brisbane's low cycling mode share. Fun fact: in 2006 Brisbane aimed to more than double cycling from 2% to 5% by 2026. In 2016 when they reviewed the plan, mode share was...still 2%. What did they do in the 2016-2036 plan? youtu.be/_DQonhJLKTc?...

Tax breaks for huge, American-style utes cost the Australian government $250 million in 2023. But it gets worse. Emissions from passenger cars have fallen since 2005, but that drop was wiped out by the increased use of big utes. #auspol

i need politicians to be as mad at housing prices as they are about cracker barrel's new logo

new #rstats art series posted

The next big AI story is going to be that the cost of inference has indeed gone up, that costs are a problem, that, in fact, costs are not magically going to go down, and there are going to be people who pretended they always thought this. I have been watching :)

Team Golden or Soda Pop? Golden here.

#rstats Seen over at Mastodon: the `terminalgraphics` 📦 let's you render R plots _directly_ in a terminal window (e.g., R process launched from the command line, neovim or emacs). codeberg.org/djvanderlaan... Get it: `remotes::install_git(url = "https://codeberg.org/djvanderlaan/terminalgraphics")`

We don’t have a productivity problem… we have a lack of productive industries problem. Moving up from 105th in the world will take time. But we have a history of talking about growth and doing no growing. its time to act. Mining examples productivity for other sectors. ...

In the last 48 hours an 84 year old woman with a wheelie walker, and a dad walking with his 4yo son riding his balance bike have been hit and killed by 4WD utes in Brisbane. These vehicles are deadly and we need to address it. 7news.com.au/news/man-and...

A humble suggestion for VSCode / Positron #rstats peeps Try ctrl clicking on stuff etc.

This is a fascinating documentary of a Brisbane community fighting back against urban freeway expansion in the 1970s. So many of the arguments on both sides are almost identical to today. @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social @nerd4cities.bsky.social might enjoy it. vimeo.com/21222102?fl=...

Which is why literate programming lives in the fairly narrow goldilocks zone of “documents about code”. Works great for text books about code, homework assignments etc. In real life nobody wants to read your novel about your code when they could read… your code.

OK I have finished part 1 (less technical) of an epic #rstats and #demography blog post on men doing domestic work and its relationship to total fertility rate at the country level. Ultimately there is none, once you control for GDP per capita and inequality. freerangestats.info/blog/2025/08...

I wrote a thing about substituting LLMs for survey respondents notstatschat.rbind.io/2025/08/15/i...

It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own.