This is a good post! I keep using 1234 or 12345, but only for visualization stuff like jittering. For real stuff, I go to random dot org (based on atmospheric noise) and create a random 8+ digit integer, generally one for each brms model I run in a project

A little bit of self-promotion, I @ivelasq3.bsky.social will be giving a talk on Positron for RStudio Users! Hoping to share some perspectives, extensions, and other tips in case you're interested in exploring Positron. Sign up here: www.meetup.com/rladies-gabo...

topic modeling & the quest for the right K 🦄:

She's here and ready for your eyes! repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150... The whole volume, Text and Data Mining Literacy for Librarians, eds. Whitney Kramer, Evan Muzzel and Iliana Burgos, is headed to the printers and will be linked when its out. But for now enjoy this ACRL-approved preview

Ever wonder how an actuary becomes a data science educator? 🤔 Tune into the latest episode of The Test Set with @minecr.bsky.social. We discuss everything from her #RStats journey to her use of LLMs to give students feedback on their code. Listen: thetestset.co, on Spotify, or Apple Podcasts

Some of the @ropensci.org ‘s people at #useR2025 #RStats 😄📦

We're going to need journalists to stop talking about synthetic text extruding machines as if they have *thoughts* or *stances* that they are *trying* to *communicate*. ChatGPT can't *admit* anything, nor *self-report*. Gah. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chat...

Just came across Antonio Vazquez Brust's book -- what a fantastic title!

🔹 Tip R: “Ciencia de Datos para Gente Sociable” Libro gratuito en español para quienes se inician en análisis de datos. Ideal para Ciencias Sociales y educación. bitsandbricks.github.io/ciencia_de_d... ¿Lo leíste ya? 📘 #rstats #DataScience #RecursosR

🎉 Big news! After 5+ years of consulting work under the R for the Rest of Us name, I'm launching Clarity Data Studio. The name confusion was real – people thought we only did courses, not knowing about our consulting work building reports, websites, and more.

We are hiring postdocs in Computational Social Science 📍SweCSS, Norrköping, Sweden ⏰Deadline June 3 🔗https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/26854 Please apply // help us spread the word

it's 8:30 a.m., and I've already spoken Spanish, English, and Portuguese on my way to campus. bom dia!

Episode 202 of the R Weekly Highlights Podcast is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/... 🚀 R 4.5.0 highlights @russhyde.bsky.social @jumpingrivers.com 🚰 plumber2 @thomasp85.com 🗒 Introducing chores @simonpcouch.com @posit.co h/t @mike-thomas 🙏 #RStats #DataScience

My work on AI-powered text mining for the study of the energy transition was featured on the R Weekly podcast (!!!) Major thanks to @ivelasq3.bsky.social, @posit.co, and Edgar Ruiz

dataviz is my passion

Shoutout to @ivelasq3.bsky.social and @posit.co for the opportunity to write a blog post about how I'm using `library(mall)` and integrating large language models into our energy security research! #textdata #LLM #energy #energysecurity #socialscience #datascience #NLProc

I wrote a quick tutorial for a student on how to use to R to get Whisper to automatically transcribe your audio. I figured others might find it useful too. #linguistics joeystanley.com/blog/whisper/

Just learned that my 9-yo has been clicking no on all GDPR cookie banners because she thought it was some aggressive baker advertising everywhere, and “while cookies do enhance experiences, that seems like a lot of dessert and mom probably doesn’t want to buy them and we can just make them at home”

Many events led me to become a sociolinguist, with Labov's work — like for every linguist I know — being an immeasurable influence. He worked as an industrial chemist before becoming a linguist, reminding me always to keep learning, many and different things. RIP, William Labov.