7 years ago, I gave my first talk at an R stats conference. At the reception, a man asked me, "Do you use R?" 🙄 My mentor, Dr. Kelly Bodwin, helped me shake off my subsequent feeling that I didn't belong and encouraged my love of statistics. Effective mentorship matters: ojs.elte.hu/cejntrep/art...

Once upon a time I just admired nudis and sea slugs. But it was not enough. Now apparently I'm creating an R package to celebrate their colour palettes? 😅 First up, my Sydney fave, Hypselodoris bennetti. #rstats #nudibranch #dataviz 🦑🐙🧪 #marinelife #invertebrates

What a riot - DS Lab with @libbyheeren.bsky.social , @ivelasq3.bsky.social , @markjrieke.bsky.social , and Sam Parm! So much cool thing happenings in #rstats community. singing, bayesian stats, Pokemon balls, and Rita ora! Also I want to say I tried to dress up Lou Bega

Issue 39 of #rdmweekly is out! 📬 It includes: ➡️ Working Smarter with {dplyr} 1.2.0 @ivelasq3.bsky.social ➡️ Computational Reproducibility: A Primer from @ukrepro.bsky.social ➡️ SCORE: Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence @cos.io and more! rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

Practicing my #Python with plotnine for the #30DayChartChallenge: Day 6: Reporters Without Borders World Press Freedom Rankings for G20 Countries

It's gonna be a fun Data Science Lab tomorrow! @damiepak.bsky.social, @markjrieke.bsky.social , and Sam Parmar are going to walk through some fun data science projects that they have worked on. (Can you guess what they are about below?!) Join the party: pos.it/dslab

For #30DayChartChallenge Day 3: Mosaic, I used Posit AI in RStudio to update an #RStats plot that I created back in 2018. It's been a while, so it was very helpful to have something to work with and help troubleshoot. I recorded the session if you want to see how it went! youtu.be/pD0JU2hu5bI

@damiepak.bsky.social @markjrieke.bsky.social and Sam Parmar (Sam, are you on Bluesky?!?) are gonna join us on the #DSLab next week to do a project show and tell! April 7! I can neither confirm nor deny that Damie may show up in costume. @ivelasq3.bsky.social and I will *probably* not be in costume

I had a great time talking about dplyr 1.2.0 with @rladiesrome.bsky.social! Thank you for having me 🧡 ✏️ Slides: ivelasq-dplyr-1-2-0.share.connect.posit.cloud#/title-slide 📹 Recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCbF... 🕸️ Materials: ivelasq.rbind.io/talk/dplyr-1... Enjoy the new #RStats release 🧑‍🔧

By now it is obvious that AI has completely solved statistics and machine learning. So as the next step in the tidymodels journey we are moving into game development! Introducing our first game! emilhvitfeldt.github.io/tidymodels-d...

I wrote a post on Claude Skills for #RStats users, and I got asked if they work with Posit Assistant for RStudio. Absolutely! You can also add custom Skills by putting them in your skills directory, or asking the Assistant to create one. I wrote a bit about it here: rworks.dev/posts/skills...

Did you know you (yes, YOU!) can contribute to base R? Base R is the foundation of everything #RStats. If you’ve ever found a bug or thought of an improvement, you can help shape the language. Join @ellakaye.co.uk on the Posit Data Science Lab tomorrow to learn how to get started! pos.it/dslab

We're starting a series of short event roundups for @posit.co! Currently focusing on open CFPs, but I’ll shift to live announcements as the season picks up. Question for the #RStats & #Python community: What would make these more useful for you? Welcome any feedback 🙏

Thank you so much for the highlight, @jonathankitt.bsky.social and R-Weekly team!! Feeling the #RStats love 💜 I had a blast discussing the amazing new functions in dplyr 1.2.0. Thanks to @rladiesrome.bsky.social for the opportunity! Please check out the recording here!: youtu.be/xCbFl_Ez6VM?...

Beyond honored to be amongst this illustrious group of R-Ladies!! 💜

Today is the last day to apply for an Opportunity Scholarship for posit::conf(2026)! Our Opportunity Scholarship provides travel, lodging, & registration to attend posit::conf for underrepresented groups in data science. Learn more & apply by midnight tonight: posit.co/blog/apply-t...

Have you ever seen anybody have so much fun using Git? 😄 On the Data Science Lab, @libbyheeren.bsky.social & I collaborated using Git & GitHub in Positron. It has great features for branches, PRs, & best of all: fixing merge conflicts 😰 Check the episode out (hehe): www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTv4...

A few weeks ago, @ivelasq3.bsky.social & I hosted a #DSLab where we walked through using GitHub's integrations & extensions in #Positron - it's up on YT now! #rstats Starting a project, protecting main, issues, branches, stashing/popping changes, resolving merge conflicts, PRs youtu.be/JTv4IbFzI7M

There's a new version of dplyr out, and I'm thrilled to chat about it with @rladiesrome.bsky.social tomorrow! Let's learn the new #RStats functions that help you grip your data better (hehe). 3/18 at 12pm CT. Sign up here! www.meetup.com/rladies-rome...

Our understanding of AI tools like Claude Code is usually limited to our own perspective. My mind was blown way when I saw how Joey Marshall employs LLM tools 🤯 We think you will be inspired, too 🤗 Join us tomorrow at the Data Science Lab to watch a Live Claude Code Workflow: pos.it/dslab

Many thanks to @colinfay.bsky.social and the R Weekly crew for highlighting the Claude Skills roundup post this week! It means a lot, I absolutely ♥️ R Weekly and think it's so helpful to #RStats folks. Check it and the other highlights out here: rweekly.org

I had (kinda jokingly?) wondered if there was a Skill that helps write Skills... and there is! From the Anthropic Skills marketplace: github.com/anthropics/s...

📢 Exciting News for R-Ladies Rome! Join us for a session with Isabella Velásquez from Posit PBC: "What’s New in {dplyr} 1.2.0." Discover updates like when_any(), when_all(), and more, with practical examples. 🗓️ March 18, 2026, 6pm CET 🔗 Register: www.meetup.com/rladies-rome... #DataScience 🚀

This is my first time editing the glimpse newsletter, I'd love to hear what you think 💙

It means so much to be featured in @dataelixir.com! Thank you for the highlight, I hope folks enjoy the Skills in the list 🥰 Data Elixir is a really great data science newsletter, you can check it out here: dataelixir.com

Who needs PowerPoint when you have Quarto and @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social's extensions?! I wanted to make an image-heavy presentation. Usually, I'd reach for Keynote. But Emil shared quarto-revealjs-editable, which let me stay in Quarto land 🥰 Thanks, Emil! Find it here: github.com/EmilHvitfeld...

We all love the stunning visualizations from the #TidyTuesday project, and behind every great viz is a great dataset! Tomorrow at 12pm ET, @jonthegeek.com pulls back the curtain on his data curation process that makes them possible 💙 Register here: pos.it/dslab

I feel like this is one for #databs and #rstats

Over the weekend, I started collecting/organizing a list of cool #rstats skills for LLMs at github.com/christopherk.... Please open an issue or PR in any awesome additions you see! Includes a section for helpful posts like @ivelasq3.bsky.social's⬇️

Happy birthday Chicago! "Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning."

I rounded up a few Claude Skills for #RStats users. Huge thanks to the creators who developed them. They share Skills for everything from tidyverse code to brand.yml files to learning while using AI. Hope the list is useful, and please let me know what I missed! 🧡 rworks.dev/posts/claude...

Kyle Blake Hopkins (@hopsk on GitHub) ported our Positron Tomorrow Night Bright theme into Neovim! 🤩 github.com/hopsk/tomorr... I might be biased, but I think it looks pretty slick 😉

CascadiaR is an amazing conference full of great people and presentations (and always has top notch food). The PNW in the summer is divine… please consider submitting a talk! 💙💚

The kuzco package from @frankiethull.bsky.social made the January 2026 Top 40 CRAN #RStats packages by @revojoe.bsky.social! Congratulations, Frank, on such a great package ❤️🦙 rworks.dev/posts/januar...

#rainbowR conf is todayyyyy! And tomorrow. If you're registered, join @damiepak.bsky.social and I for a short trivia game in about an hour-ish! And then, a quick social 🥳 #rstats #rainbowrconf

I'm beyond excited for tomorrow's Data Science Lab with @davisvaughan.bsky.social! dplyr 1.2.0 is now out. There are many new functions in this release, and you will see them in action, live. You won't want to `filter_out()` this info 😉 Join us, we can't `replace_*` you 🧡 pos.it/dslab

Join @chendaniely.bsky.social & me to see how Posit tools build an organized MMM workflow! MMM "unbakes" a cake to identify the impact of each ingredient. BUT, it works better in a neat kitchen 😀 Register: posit.co/workflow-dem... & share if there's anything specific you want to know!

I went to UseR! for the first time last year, and it was such an incredible event. You could feel the #Rstats love vibrating out of everybody 💓 I wish I could make it to Warsaw! I hope you are able to!

Join us in a few hours to watch Hadley Wickham live code! Featuring data from the TidyTuesday project, the new Posit AI in RStudio, and lots of good times. #RStats Sign up here: pos.it/dslab

R/Pharma workshop recordings are out! Delighted to share ✨Creating Polished, Branded Documents with Quarto✨: 🕸️ Workshop site: ivelasq-r-pharma-2025-branded-quarto.share.connect.posit.cloud 📹 YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVMg... 📄 All the things: ivelasq.rbind.io/talk/branded... Enjoy 💙 #RStats

@chendaniely.bsky.social did an awesome job pulling & curating this dataset, hopefully you enjoy visualizing it!! ⛷️📊

Two screens, one project. Ever wanted to see a GitHub collaboration workflow, LIVE, and (almost) entirely in Positron? Join @libbyheeren.bsky.social and me at the Data Science Lab, where we show how to get started syncing, pulling, pushing, and reconciling with GitHub in Positron. pos.it/dslab

I just led a workshop on Quarto with @physaliacourses.bsky.social which I’ve now made public. I’m sharing the full source code to demonstrate advanced features: extensions, brand.yml styling across formats, and full CI/CD via GitHub Actions. github.com/mcanouil/mas... #Quarto #Workshop #GitHub #CICD

What an amazing line up 🤩 and I definitely recommend you never pass up a chance to do a quiz show with @libbyheeren.bsky.social!

Join us on Tuesday at the Data Science Lab 🧪 We are joined by @sara-altman.bsky.social, who will show us how to explore and analyze data using AI assistants in #RStats or #Python! Feb 3 @ 12 pm ET: pos.it/dslab

The webRios iOS app by @coatless.bsky.social is great for little #RStats experiments on my phone or tablet without having to boot my computer. Like testing little functions and syntax, or while reading up on Advanced R (1st and 2nd ed.) or any other R books!

Are there any Quarto extensions that you wish existed? @mickael.canouil.fr has compiled so many amazing ones to check out: m.canouil.dev/quarto-exten... If the one you want isn't available yet, drop him a line below! 👇

Tomorrow at the Data Science Lab 🧪 we are hearing from the amazing @theotheredgar.bsky.social about the {mall} package: Run Natural Language Processing against your #RStats tibbles or #Python Polars DataFrames for sentiment analysis, text summaries, and more! Join us at 12 pm ET: pos.it/dslab

posit::conf(2026) call for talks is now open! If you're an #RStats or #Python user, have a great DS workflow to share, or have some lessons learned, we'd love to hear from you. 🔗 posit.co/blog/posit-c...