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Dad. PhD Comp Pol @CEU alumnus. Im Garten.
#rstats
https://werk.statt.codes/
pinned post!
Happy to release the initial version of ParlAT, an
#rstats
package wrapping the API of the Austrian Parliament
@parlament.gv.at
. If you are a researcher, student, journalist, simply someone interested in the AT Parliament, ParlAT hopefully comes as a helpful tool.
werkstattcodes.github.io/ParlAT/
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Szabolcs Panyi
7 days ago
🇭🇺🎶 For the first time in Hungarian history, 'The forest is green / Pădure vergyé', the Hungarian Roma community's anthem — which gained that status after a 1993 civil rights protest — was played in parliament, at Prime Minister Péter Magyar's suggestion. Many MPs were in tears, and so was I.
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Juraj Medzihorsky
12 days ago
“1940: The Invention of Western and Eastern Europe”, one is tempted to quip tongue in cheek.
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Juraj Medzihorsky
about 1 month ago
Fidesz-KDNP is on track to ~28% of the seats with ~30% of the electorate. That's a larger electorate share than in 2014. Then, they got 67% of the seats with 28% of the electorate. Thanks to lower turnout and their electoral engineering. Now that very engineering has hit them hard. “Loop closed.”
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Owen Winter
about 1 month ago
trying to do a NYT-style swing map but the swings are too mad
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Daniel Kovarek
about 1 month ago
single-member district results rn at
#HungarianElections
–– landslide for
#TISZA
,
#Fidesz
is washed away. Also a personal 1st: voted for someone who actually won the first time in my life
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Daniel Hegedus
about 1 month ago
🇭🇺🇭🇺🇭🇺🇭🇺🇭🇺🎉 THREAD 1/2 At 45% of the votes counted, the official projection of the National Election Office gives Tisza Party 135 seats in Parliament—a clear constitutional supermajority. THIS IS A LANDSLIDE! This is a democratic revolution against a corrupt and authoritarian regime.
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Juraj Medzihorsky
about 1 month ago
Hungary's population pyramids on four elections years: 1990 - the 1st free and fair 2010 - Fidesz's return to power 2022 - the previous 2026 - today's Per the UN WPP '24 estimates. NB not all adult inhabitants can vote, and some Hungarian citizen live abroad and are thus not in the pyramids.
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Szabolcs Panyi
about 1 month ago
💥Orbán’s intelligence agencies have been secretly using Webloc — a mass surveillance tool that tracks hundreds of millions of people via smartphone advertising data — making Hungary the first confirmed EU country to deploy it, in likely violation of GDPR.
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Orbán’s Spying Kit Revealed: Israeli Surveillance Tool Combined with Hungarian Technology - VSquare.org
Intelligence agencies of Viktor Orbán's government have been secretly using Webloc — a mass surveillance tool that tracks hundreds of millions of people via smartphone advertising data — making Hungary the first confirmed EU country to deploy it, in likely violation of GDPR. Moreover, our investigation confirms the existence of "homegrown" OSINT and spyware tools.
https://vsquare.org/orban-spying-toolkit-cobwebs-webloc-hungary-spyware-citizen-lab/
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CEU Democracy Institute
about 1 month ago
✍️ “The vote on April 12 is Hungary’s best chance in 16 years to choose democracy over autocracy. It may not come again,” our researchers Balint Magyar and Balint Madlovics write in their op-ed in
@foreignaffairs.com
. 🇭🇺🗳️ Read it now: 👉
cutt.ly/etFh64Cc
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Andrew Heiss
about 2 months ago
this is good stuff
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James Balamuta
2 months ago
This IS the droid you're looking for. webRoid v1.0.0: R on Android. Console, editor, plots, packages, 9 themes. No server required. Tested extensively on emulators. Your actual device? The Force is strong, but no promises.
play.google.com/store/apps/d...
#rstats
#webR
#Android
#WebAssembly
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Hajmo ljudi!
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2 months ago
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The R Foundation
2 months ago
Opening for a tenure track position in statistical computing:
wirtschaftsuniversitaet-wien-portal.rexx-systems.com/Assistant-Pr...
As dept chair, R Core member Kurt Hornik invites applications from people who could make substantial contributions to
#RStats
, including base R. Deadline Mar 18!
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Job opportunity Assistant Professor, tenure track, qualification agreement at Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien Jobportal
others in Wien
https://wirtschaftsuniversitaet-wien-portal.rexx-systems.com/Assistant-Professor-tenure-track-qualification-agreement-eng-j2682.html
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Anne Applebaum
3 months ago
Here's the documentary that 1.1 million Hungarians have watched over the past week, documenting the damage that Viktor Orban's regime has done to health, education and public transportation in Hungary with English subtitles:
youtu.be/9NQEcLIiOpM?...
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A CSAPDA (THE TRAP) - Az Orbán-korszak elvesztett lehetőségeinek története
YouTube video by Direkt36
https://youtu.be/9NQEcLIiOpM?si=Y4UYtnnj6ICBUVtn
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Kevin Patrick O'Brien
3 months ago
UseR! 2026 – Warsaw 🇵🇱✨ CFP is now open! Submit abstracts for talks, lightning talks, posters, tutorials, and panels. 🗓 Deadline: Sun 8 Mar 2026 📅 Conference: 7–9 July 🎓 Tutorial Day: 6 July 🔗
user2026.r-project.org/call/
#rstats
#warsaw
#datascience
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Happy to release the initial version of ParlAT, an
#rstats
package wrapping the API of the Austrian Parliament
@parlament.gv.at
. If you are a researcher, student, journalist, simply someone interested in the AT Parliament, ParlAT hopefully comes as a helpful tool.
werkstattcodes.github.io/ParlAT/
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Toby Nangle
3 months ago
Where do parents find the time to parent? Less sleep, work and screens. Amazing chart feat. in
@alphaville.ft.com
Further Reading.
homeeconomics.substack.com/p/where-do-p...
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Next release of
#rstats
package usethis will include an (experimental) function to setup projects using Claude code: use_claude_code. Interesting to see how ai tools will form part/play together with the tidyverse & co.
usethis.r-lib.org/dev/referenc...
3 months ago
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daviss
4 months ago
Now: Bruce Springsteen sings “Streets of Minneapolis” in Minneapolis
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Daniel Ziblatt
4 months ago
open.substack.com/pub/ziblatt4...
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Knowing too much to see fascism ?
By Daniel Ziblatt
https://open.substack.com/pub/ziblatt447433/p/knowing-too-much-to-see-fascism?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=7c82m
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Just read these 2 blog posts on AI and software development & data science. Both resonated with me quite strongly. Many thanks to the authors. "My First Look at Claude Code" by
@stephenturner.us
blog.stephenturner.us/p/claude-cod...
The post is on much more than
#Claude
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#rstats
4 months ago
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Garrick Aden-Buie
5 months ago
Happy holidays! 🎄 I snuck in a {btw} release just before CRAN went on vacation for the year. {btw} is an
#RStats
package full of tools for LLMs, including a new tool for running R code. Here's a quick demo using `btw_app()` to create a quick festive ggplot2 from holiday movie titles. Cheers! 🧑🎄
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Spencer Ackerman
5 months ago
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
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Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
https://www.forever-wars.com/torture-techniques-from-cia-black-sites-were-used-at-alligator-alcatraz/
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#positron
release, new shortcut.
#rstats
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5 months ago
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ᴅʀ. ᴍᴏᴡɪɴᴄᴋᴇʟ'ꜱ
6 months ago
🎄 ANNOUNCEMENT: R Package Development Advent Calendar 2025! 🎄 Starting December 1st, I'm launching a 25-day journey through modern R package development. here's why you should follow along 🧵
#rstats
#RPackageAdvent2025
#OpenSource
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can
#google
pls ask gemini to finally introduce the ability into
#googletasks
to 1) easily share tasks with other g users; 2) archive todo lists, and 3) provide a view which shows all tasks across lists. thank you.
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James Balamuta
6 months ago
{ripper} dissects your
#Quarto
documents, extracting code blocks by language and leaving executable scripts behind. Supports
#rstats
,
#python
,
#julia
, and 13 other victims. For those who never stopped celebrating Halloween. 📚
quarto.thecoatlessprofessor.com/ripper/
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Posit
6 months ago
Introducing bluffbench, a new tool to evaluate how well LLMs actually see data plots. When we trick LLMs with secret
#RStats
transformations, they can miss the visual contradiction. bluffbench helps us measure this "blind spot" in AI coding agents. Learn more:
posit.co/blog/introdu...
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When plotting, LLMs see what they expect to see - Posit
Data science agents need to accurately read plots even when the content contradicts their expectations. Our testing shows today's LLMs still struggle here.
https://posit.co/blog/introducing-bluffbench/
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#rstats
user: I am trying to get
#Gemini
CLI running R scripts, but fail "due to issues with how the command line (powershell) parses and passes the R code to Rscript.exe". Instead G creates a separate file which is then triggered. This is quite different to Claude Code. Am i missing sth?
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Posit
6 months ago
Have some free time this weekend? How about 2,500 hours? The recordings from posit::conf(2025) are now online! Learn about the innovations and insights from conf. We celebrated
#RStats
and
#Python
, with a focus on next-gen tools &
#AI
integration. See the info here:
posit.co/blog/talks-a...
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Talk recordings and workshop materials from posit::conf(2025) - Posit
2500+ hours of posit::conf content just landed on YouTube.
https://posit.co/blog/talks-and-workshops-from-posit-conf-2025/
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Hadley Wickham
6 months ago
pkgdown 2.2.0 now out —
tidyverse.org/blog/2025/11...
. Main feature is new build_llm_docs() which makes your websites easier to understand by LLMs. (Which you can easily turn off if desired)
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The latest version of pkgdown automatically builds markdown files that make it easy for LLMs to use your website.
https://tidyverse.org/blog/2025/11/pkgdown-2-2-0/
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Xavier Marquez
7 months ago
New version (0.6.0) of my
#rstats
package {democracyData}
xmarquez.github.io/democracyData/
with
@freedomhouse.bsky.social
data to 2024, as well as several other sources, plus minor improvements all around
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Access and Manipulate Most Available Democracy Datasets
Archives a large number of democracy datasets, many of historical interest. It also provides a number of functions to download these datasets (where available) and determine membership of a country in...
https://xmarquez.github.io/democracyData/
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Carlos Scheidegger
7 months ago
Quarto friends! I need your help: We are implementing a new QMD parser in Quarto. It will be super nice. But it's a big change, and we want to minimize the impact. 1. Can you share a link to your Quarto project at
github.com/quarto-dev/q...
2. repost this and let your Quarto friends know too?
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Epic: are we production yet · Issue #63 · quarto-dev/quarto-markdown
We need to check against many large sites to get a good sense for the impact of this new syntax in practice. autogenerated qmd quartodoc-generated sites (tbd meet with @machow) sites quarto.org Shi...
https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-markdown/issues/63
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Kevin Patrick O'Brien
7 months ago
📅 Save the Dates: UseR! 2026 The international
#Rstats
community will gather in Warsaw, Poland 🇵🇱 from 6–9 July 2026 for the next edition of UseR!, the premier conference for users and developers of the R programming language. Website:
user2026.r-project.org/index2.html
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Cas Mudde
7 months ago
Anton Pelinka was Austria's most prominent political scientist, who was also one of my inspirations, combining insightful research with important public outreach. I met him a few times and was always humbled by his kind support. He gave this interview less than 3 months ago. R.I.P. Anton! 💔
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Politikwissenschafter Anton Pelinka: "Im 'Club 2' konnte man frei ausreden"
Der bekannte österreichische Politikwissenschafter Anton Pelinka zieht im Gespräch mit seinem ehemaligen Moderatorenkollegen Peter Huemer politisch Bilanz
https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000278951/politikwissenschafter-anton-pelinka-im-club-2-konnte-man-frei-ausreden
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Andrew Heiss
8 months ago
look what you made me do (#rstats code here
gist.github.com/andrewheiss/...
)
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Thomas Lin Pedersen
8 months ago
I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major
#ggplot2
release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts
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A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.
https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09/ggplot2-4-0-0/
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Sharon Machlis
8 months ago
Learn how to ask natural-language questions of your text data with
#RStats
and support Ukraine! “RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) in R with ragnar“ is tomorrow, Sept. 11, 12-2 pm ET for a 20 euro donation. Can't attend live? Register for recording & materials.
sites.google.com/view/dariia-...
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Dariia Mykhailyshyna - Workshops for Ukraine
Feedback on the past workshops (if you want to learn how to make wordclouds, check out Text Data Analysis workshop below)
https://sites.google.com/view/dariia-mykhailyshyna/main/r-workshops-for-ukraine
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Dariia Mykhailyshyna
8 months ago
Just 3 days left until this workshop, don't miss your chance to register! Details:
bit.ly/3wBeY4S
Please share!
#AcademicSky
#EconSky
#RStats
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Henrik Bengtsson
9 months ago
Help needed 🙏 If you're a HPC
#RStats
user on SGE/Slurm/Torque/PBS/LSF/OpenLava, could you pls try {future.batchtools} devel version per
future.batchtools.futureverse.org/index.html#p...
? library(future.batchtools) plan(batchtools_slurm) f <- future(
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#parallel
#hpc
#future
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A Future API for Parallel and Distributed Processing using batchtools
Implementation of the Future API <doi:10.32614/RJ-2021-048> on top of the batchtools package. This allows you to process futures, as defined by the future package, in parallel out of the box, not only...
https://future.batchtools.futureverse.org/
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Daniel Ziblatt
9 months ago
Vicente Valentim, Elias Dinas, & I came together to do this paper because we have all long shared an intution: mainstream center-right rhetoric shapes democratic norms. The hard part? Showing it empirically. We make some headway in this new paper. Grateful to
@bjpols.bsky.social
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dear
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users debugging in
#vscode
- how to get the data viewer opened inside an editor tab (and not outside of vs code in a "raw" window). the workaround describe e.g. here does not with me... many thanks!
yohann-data.fr/posts/debugv...
@yosky.bsky.social
(thx for the great blog post)
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The recipe to debug your R code in VSCode – Yohann’s blog
https://yohann-data.fr/posts/debugvscode/#:~:text=On%20my%20VSCode%20(I%E2%80%99m%20working%20on%20Windows%2011)%2C%20data.frames%20and%20plots%20were%20not%20opened%20by%20default%20in%20my%20current%20VSCode%20window.%20I%20had%20to%20edit%20the%20RProfile%20file%20to%20add%20the%20following%3A
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Hadley Wickham
10 months ago
🐘 ellmer 🐘 makes it easy and fun to use LLMs from
#rstats
, and 0.3.0 is out now. Read about the new streamlined chat() function, improvements to tool specifications, and more at
www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/07...
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ellmer 0.3.0
The newest version of ellmer introduces a simpler `chat()` interface that can works with any provider, a bunch of improvements to tool calling, and a handful of smaller quality of life improvements.
https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/07/ellmer-0-3-0/
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hello excel dark mode, very happy to finally see you!
10 months ago
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Henry Mance
11 months ago
Astonishing story. Huge questions over the company culture that allowed this.
www.ft.com/content/c0e6...
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John Coene
11 months ago
You can now use @type and @mcp in your
#rstats
package documentation to generate an MCP from your functions on devtools::document().
github.com/devOpifex/mcpr
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GitHub - devOpifex/mcpr: Model Context Protocol server and client for R
Model Context Protocol server and client for R. Contribute to devOpifex/mcpr development by creating an account on GitHub.
https://github.com/devOpifex/mcpr
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Egor Kotov 🌐🏃♂️🚊🚋🚙
11 months ago
📝🗃️ 𝗿𝗱𝗼𝗰𝗱𝘂𝗺𝗽: Dump ‘R’ Package Source, Documentation, and Vignettes into One File for use in LLMs
#rstats
#LLM
is on CRAN
www.ekotov.pro/rdocdump/
Make sure your request to LLM for writing R code is using the latest package documentation and that LLM understands even the internal package logic.
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rdocdump: Dump R Package Documentation and Vignettes into One File
Dump R Package Documentation and Vignettes into One File
https://www.ekotov.pro/rdocdump/
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