This is pretty up there as one of the coolest things I've ever seen

it's Alex Rubenstein Time www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0BX...

We're hiring a Data Scientist at @arsenalfc.bsky.social to push the state-of-the-art in applied women's football research! careers.arsenal.com/jobs/6550595... Feel free to reach out with any questions 🙂

A month or two ago someone posted a link to their really amazing set of LLM system instructions for writing #rstats code with good tidy/NSE patterns. (They were also good for humans!) Does anyone recall who or where that was?

There’s a billboard in Nairobi advertising a luxury development with the tagline “luxury is waking up to lush green views”. And it really it goes to the heart of how neoliberal approaches to development screw over poor countries. They really are paving paradise to put up a parking lot.

Look, I just want all of the #rstats peeps out there to know - this is why the @rconsortium.bsky.social exists. We direct money to projects that directly support the R language and community. Apply and engage with others who are just as enthusiastic and committed to this language as you are.

I know a guy

oh hi! I know what you're thinking, insurance sounds super boring. trust me it's not, and we have the panelists to prove it! ⤵️

Hello #rstats hivemind, Does anyone know of any good reading material for arrays in R? Particularly multi-dimensional arrays?

Looking for a product scientist to join us on the teamworks soccer group (my team)! Happy to answer any questions 😁 ats.rippling.com/en-CA/teamwo...

{tinytable} is a dead simple, ultra-flexible, and dependency-free #Rstats 📦 to turn data frames into beautiful tables: html, word, pdf, latex, typst, markdown, etc. v0.10.0 has cool new features and important bug fixes. Check out the detailed tutorials at: vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/

Best table making in #rstats. Hands down. Cannot recommend it enough

The final tally of yesterday’s protests in #Kenya. Nine killed, 400 injured and 61 arrests. All killed by the police because the president will not listen to the young people who put him in power.

Hey #rsats hivemind, does anyone have a custom function to format negative numbers/percentages to have brackets instead of negative signs for a table generated by {tinytable}?

This is fun! A merge of my 2 interests: #Rstats and #gamedev🤌 On top of that it is a source of inspiration for learning the new #S7 classes. I am really thinking about making making turn-based RPG in R using procedural generation, but incorporating #LLM never came to mi mind! Really cool!🙌 #OOP

Hi #rstats friends! I'm starting consulting! I've had a great journey in academia working with brilliant people, and while it's bittersweet (and a bit scary!), I'm excited for this next step. I'll still be maintaining {greta} and am hoping to be even more involved with the R community. 1/n

Julia has joined Python and R as a native kernel in Google Colab for a complete JuPyteR experience! Now you can use Julia with a free T4 GPU and leverage packages like Reactant without complex setup. Details: github.com/googlecolab/... #JuliaLang #Colab #DataScience

It's the lack of any arrow between 9 and 17 for me Clive

The 2nd wave of uv is here — developers of other systems building on top of uv to make new and effortless workflows that use Python virtual environments behind the scenes 🤩

So maybe more on pak/rig integration

Use Nix, and all your worries will be forgotten: docs.ropensci.org/rix/

What I’ve found over time is: what is practical, is not necessarily what is desirable by the various stakeholders commanding “authority” over Africa’s digital development landscape, writ large. The technological is political…

On the urgent need to seriously start working on ending aid dependency: www.africanistperspective.com/p/african-co...

How could pak be more like uv?

What advice do folks have for organising projects that will be deployed to production? How do you organise your directories? What do you do if you're deploying multiple "things" (e.g. an app and an api) from the same project?

We need to talk about the Galana Kulalu project in Kenya, the UAE and the civil war in Sudan. nation.africa/kenya/news/h...

Newsletter: There is no AI Revolution. Consumer adoption of generative AI outside of ChatGPT is barely 100 million people, every single company in generative AI is deeply unprofitable, Microsoft is pulling capex, and OpenAI spent $9bn in 2024 to lose $5bn. www.wheresyoured.at/wheres-the-m...

Parallelization just landed in the dev version of purrr: purrr.tidyverse.org/dev/referenc... Really pleased that the mirai framework makes this possible. Huge credit to the tidyverse maintainers @hadley.nz @lionelhenry.bsky.social and @davisvaughan.bsky.social ! #rstats #tidyverse

anyone who likes my stuff should check out hydn. the production and writing in this one are so fun youtu.be/ZByUhrkn9uk?...

I just need to figure out how to get a critical mass of Kenyans here then I’m out. Hakuna mtu anaweza nichekesha Kama mkenya.

WIRED is tracking numerous reports of Musk-related shenanigans across the federal govt. We're looking for fed employees open to discussing the activity they're seeing or to help confirm other reports. Anonymity offered. Please use @signal.org (contact dell.3030). Do not use work networks/devices.

Getting back on the #Rust train and how to use it in #RStats. Currently I am trying to understand how to work with non-vector inputs and returns. I wrote down some experiments in a blog post blog.schochastics.net/posts/2025-0...

It worked. #rstats

🙏🏿 🇰🇪

We’re thrilled to offer Opportunity Scholarships for posit::conf(2025)! These aim to support folks typically underrepresented at similar confs. If you know anyone who'd be a good candidate – perhaps you! – apply by Feb 21: pos.it/opp-scholar-2025 #DataScience #positconf2025 #rstats #pydata

new week, new packages and tools in the LLM + #rstats space {gander} joins the family and has a very cool logo luisdva.github.io/rstats/LLMsR/

Valuation is a “political technology.” Neither a private affair nor an objective lens, it is a tool that produces inequalities of wealth, shapes how property is owned, and determines where investments are made www.bostonreview.net/articles/the... ht @nanjira.bsky.social

@typst.app We just wanted to say thanks for such a stellar and flexible markup language! Our team has been adopting Typst in our reporting framework to automate our reports and client documentation and just... -Chef's kiss- wow

Feeling very satisfied to have completed my {targets}-powered R pipeline for efficient report generation (with a little help from A.I. 😜)! Effortless automation, faster results, and peace of mind! 🎉 #rstats #automation #reportgeneration Here's how it works:

I'm just saying this is syntatically correct #rstats code

#rstats and #QuartoPub PSA: @vincentab.bsky.social's {tinytable} is the absolute best table making package out there for LaTeX output (it natively supports tabularray!), and it's phenomenal for HTML. It has fully replaced {gt} and {kableExtra} for me vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/

reaching out to the #rstats / #databs hivemind --- I'm looking for a maintainer! nplyr is a small R package I shipped to CRAN a few years ago that allows users to perform dplyr-like operations on nested data frames. If you'd like to take over, please follow up here: github.com/markjrieke/n...

One of the activists who went missing in November, Ibrahim Mwiti, has been found dead at the Thika Level 5 mortuary. #254Sky

I did NOT see this coming. Well, ok, maybe a little. Or a lot.

Peter Muteti, a young man in Nairobi, posted an AI generated image of current President William Ruto in a casket. Last night witnesses confirm that the police abducted him from his home and he remains missing although the police are claiming they have no knowledge of his whereabouts.

i think we'll drop another episode of pretty good on youtube tomorrow. why not

youtu.be/rnFQd-8ULgM?... How to ignore trolls should be part of basic education now.