It's been an amazing experience to work on the new Open Source website. The team does such incredible work, and it's so impressive to see it all in a single place. (And as someone always aggregating updates, I'm particularly excited to consolidate all my bookmarks into a single link 😂)

Looking to connect with Posit folks on Bluesky? 🌐 We've updated our Posit Starter Pack! If you haven't looked at it lately (or are seeing it for the first time), discover and add some incredible data scientists, developers, and team members to your feed. bsky.app/starter-pack...

Are you at #PyConUS? So is Posit! Find us at our unmissable sign!!

New R-Ladies+ Remote recordings are out 🎥 1️⃣ A gRadual Intro to Shiny with Ted Laderas youtu.be/gMbTPSBdhAI?... 2️⃣ Working Smarter in R: Tips, Tricks & Real-World Lessons youtu.be/Q2kOlrvSqwQ?... Thanks to all who joined live. #RStats #RLadies #Shiny #DataScience #OpenSource

❓Do you use git worktrees? ❓How would you describe worktrees to a newbie? ❓Do you use extensions in your IDE of choice to use them more easily? ❓Do you perhaps using a worktree-first workflow with something like Conductor or Superset? 🙏🏻 Tell me all your worktree things! #databs #rstats #pydata

Do you ever see a stunning data visualization and wonder, how did they DO that?! @nrennie.bsky.social will join the DS Lab tomorrow to talk about the "data visualisation specialist approach" to go from raw dataset to idea to viz to iteration to final product! 💜📊 Watch the magic live: pos.it/dslab

I'm very excited to give my first ever PyLadies talk with PyLadies Monterrey on "Connecting #Python with LLMs"! We'll be exploring chatlas as a lightweight way of working with AI 🐍 📆 Sat, May 9 | 12:30pm CT Hope to see you there! Registration link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Tomorrow's DS Lab is going to be truly ✨magical✨ as we are joined by @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social, who will be showing the Quarto extensions that he's been building to make your slides more engaging, beautiful, and effective! 📆 Tomorrow, May 5 at 12pm ET Register here! pos.it/dslab

Disclaimer: this is my first #quarto extension, I don't know what I'm doing That said, for who knows what reason I've always wanted a RevealJS feature where you can summon Wayne Knight to deliver his iconic "ah ah ah" line from Jurassic Park You're welcome (sound on) github.com/benharrap/ah...

Any day talking about Quarto is a good day, and it was so lovely to join @odhombrebueno.bsky.social and the RNVSU crew for a workshop introducing this great tool for #RStats! If you'd like to check out the materials, please find them here: 📝 ivelasq.rbind.io/talk/intro-t... Happy Quarto-ing 🖤

I'm so excited to attend my first-ever #Python conference, PyCon US! Don't let the photo fool you, I (probably) won't be at the beach but rather at the Posit booth, ready to chat about tools, data, and workflows. 📅 May 13 - May 19, 2026 📍 Long Beach, California See you there!

I'm beyond excited to present Getting Started with Quarto: A Hands-On Workshop with R User Group RNVSU! 📆 Apr 29 8:30pm CT/Apr 30 9:30am PHT If you want to try your hand at this awesome tool for #RStats, come join us. Register here: www.meetup.com/r-nvsu/event...

Love the description this month 😂

Tomorrow, @grrrck.xyz is joining us to show how to build agent skills from scratch! 🤖 He’ll be walking through how to create the instructions and scripts that give agents specialized knowledge, including how to get the LLM to write the skills for you 👀 Register here: pos.it/dslab

This week’s #RLadies curator is @dferraro.bsky.social.

Belated happy `%notin%` day to all who celebrate. #rstats #databs

Please enjoy some of my finest work. In collaboration with my sister, Teesa D’Agositno, we bring you “I’m Just a Slope” a tribute to our love of statistics & The Lonely Island youtu.be/9EwUl6gyVGQ?...

R version 4.6.0 "Because it was There" (source version) has been released. It should be on CRAN by now. #rstats The choice of codename is in remembrance of R Core member Tomàš Kalibera (1978-2026). Among many other things, he was a keen mountain climber.

Last week, I had the great honor to present at the Northern Illinois University College of Business on "The Invisible Work of Data Science Projects." I am so appreciative to Dr. Biagio Palese for the opportunity. If you'd like to check out the materials: ivelasq.rbind.io/talk/invisib...

💜 Thanks to everyone who joined "Working Smarter in R"! Great discussion on workflows, data & debugging ✨ Thanks to our panellists: @nrennie.bsky.social, Pao C., @meghansharris.bsky.social, Soraya C., @ivelasq3.bsky.social & @cghlewis.bsky.social 🙌 #RStats #RLadies

Super excited for this #RStats panel tomorrow! Hope you're able to join us 💜

This list is absolutely brilliant, especially as you are writing your technical slides for upcoming talks and workshops!

This week on What's New in R: ✅ Walkthrough of @andrew.heiss.phd’s Positron workflow ✅ Blog post by @ivelasq3.bsky.social sharing collection of Claude skills for R users ✅ @stephenturner.us’s demo of a Claude Skill for automatically generating _brand.yml files Read more: buff.ly/iTfyA48 #rstats

Interested in data cleaning, data dictionaries, Parquet files, Claude, or ALL OF THE ABOVE? Join the Data Science Lab tomorrow at 12 pm ET with @hadley.nz to learn how these form a ✨match made in heaven✨ Register here: pos.it/dslab

"What’s New in {dplyr} 1.2.0: A Tour" with Isabella Velásquez presented to R-Ladies Rome (rladiesrome.bsky.social) in March 2026 www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCbF... #rstats

New blog post about R4.6 #rstats www.jumpingrivers.com/blog/whats-n...

The latest Glimpse newsletter is packed with open source #RStats and #Python updates from Posit! Quarto 1.9, introducing Great Docs, orbital 0.5.0, devtools uses pak, and more. Read it here: posit.co/blog/glimpse...

RIP Tomáš Kalibera. #rstats lost a huge contributor today. Condolences to his young family. stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-...

We're thrilled to be joined by @shikokuchuo.net tomorrow on the DS Lab to learn about asynchronous programming (and parallel programming, which it turns out is different!). Charlie is the author of mirai, which enables them in #RStats tools like Shiny and purrr ✨ See you there! pos.it/dslab

Inspired by @jennajordan.me, I added an "Upcoming" section to my Talks & Workshops page. Thank you for the inspiration, Jenna! Check it out here: ivelasq.rbind.io/talk I hope to see you here, there, anywhere 🥰

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...