This piece about the value of friction is worth a read phirephoenix.com/blog/2025-10...

🎄 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

Yes, ChatGPT can help you write #rstats code, but so can this old Wiki I created with example code used for common data wrangling needs. Who knows, you might find some gems in there.🤷‍♀️ github.com/Cghlewis/dat...

Day 4: my data #30DayMapChallenge Today I learned that #rstats 📦 `tidygeocoder` is super useful for pulling lat/long coordinates and that plotting a world map that centres the pacific is quite annoying. Shout out to @freerangestats.info for useful blog posts. jenrichmond.github.io/maps/2025-11...

Day 3 #30DayMapChallenge polygons Today I wanted to work out how to plot regional population on a map of NZ. Turns out the `spData` package has nz data (and other interesting spatial data that might be useful to beginner map makers). #rstats jenrichmond.github.io/maps/2025-11...

TOMORROW, I'm hosting what I'm calling Data Science Lab. This debut session will be our fave Positron settings for #rstats & #python 😍 I called it DS Lounge at first, but that doesn't feel right. You'll see "Lounge" when you register at pos.it/dslab, but future sessions will be "Lab" 🧪😎 #databs

Day 2: Lines #30DayMapChallenge Sticking with walks of NZ, this time plotting the Te Araroa Trail, a 3000km hike that goes from the top of the North Island to the bottom of the South Island. #rstats jenrichmond.github.io/maps/2025-11...

I am supposed to be walking the Routeburn Track next week (if the snow melts and the Harris Saddle opens) so today's map is about NZ Great Walks. #30DayMapChallenge #rstats Code available here jenrichmond.github.io/maps/2025-11...

i know I'm not alone in buying new notebooks/planners when I recommit to getting my life together but am i the only one who decides whatever perfectly good, mostly empty notebook I had before when my life was NOT together is forever tainted

Woot, just submitted another dataset to #TidyTuesday and now there are 5 PRs waiting for Jon to review. I screenrecorded the process, so if you want to see how EASY it is to contribute a dataset to this AMAZING #rstats community, check out this video. youtu.be/Kp7pyYwLcwc

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

Messy folders haunting your R projects? 👻 This Wednesday Oct 29 at 4:00 PM PDT, I'll lead a workshop on Efficient File Management in R with {fs} hosted by @r-ladies-stl.bsky.social. Let's clean and organize a spooky messy folder together! Register at www.meetup.com/rladies-st-l... #RStats #DataBS

How great is the #rstats community? Lots of good suggestions if you like @econmaett.github.io have decided that it is now time to learn git/github.

Ooooo this data is likely interesting to #rstats peeps, but I wonder how complete it is. Canceled orders in June-July are huge, but why are the orders received so low (and flat) in the first part of the year? Did the FOIA request only ask about canceled orders @kevinuhrm.bsky.social‬ ?

I've updated my document that tackles four of the common arguments used to encourage teachers to use AI. I hope this will be helpful to those educators wanting to push back on AI mania.

I am open to the idea that there are people who don't have and don't want to gain the skills to engage directly with their data but every single day that I do I learn the answer to a question you'd never even think to ask unless you were personally staring into the abyss of an uncleaned dataset.

⬇️ truth!! workshop materials and blog posts really just make googling faster for future me

A lot of people with these qualities left academia because you didn't reward us or understand when we were blocked by others but y'all aren't ready to have that conversation I guess

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

The curse of knowledge is a real thing and this post is hilarious.

Students use #ChatGPT to do their homework, so how can teachers design effective courses so they actually learn anything at all? Register before August 31st to get early bird tickets! wombat2025.numbat.space/program/work... #RStats #AI #LLM #DataScience

Super excited to head to Melbourne next week for WOMBAT. Two days of data science tutorials and talks and new #rstats data friends! Join us!! It’s not too late to register!!

This week’s #RLadies curator is @ivelasq3.bsky.social!

The Pac-Man Rule should be adopted at all conferences and meetups - it's so much more welcoming! Also an excellent use of a pie chart! 📊

RTing myself to make sure we're keeping our 👀 open. What @jcheng5.bsky.social found via databot was cool but a) *Joe* (not databot) found it by noticing that the bot mentioned a weird thing, and b) we don't know how many people found it and didn't point it out to me. #PositConf2025 #RStats #dataBS

This is fun!

The Henley Passport Index data is interesting. I was curious about the relative rankings of the United States and Singapore and found that you get a bit of a different story if you plot ranking vs. visa free countries. #TidyTuesday #rstats code available here: jenrichmond.github.io/tidytuesday/...

Big thanks to @beesm.bsky.social for helping me curate the #TidyTuesday data this week. If you have an idea for a dataset but lack the skills to get it, just ask for #rstats help! Brenden showed me how to use `httr` to access data via an API and how to wrangle JSON data and it was SUPER fun!

Are you an RStudio user thinking about trying Positron? We put together some resources to help with the transition. Learn how to import your keybindings and handle projects while gaining a more flexible environment for both #RStats and Python. Check out the guide: positron.posit.co/migrate-rstu...

People keep telling me they can't afford to attend #PositConf2025 next week, so I need to make a public service announcement: attending virtually is very affordable (or free!) & is amazing! Get registered & hangout with me on the Discord server!! #databs #rstats #python

"Hostility, exclusion and academic bullying should be formally recognised as research integrity issues because they directly impact who gets to succeed and whose voices are silenced." By @maddipow.bsky.social

everything is terrible but at least the #rstats community is still one of the best

My Etsy shop's now open for my 5 sets of greetings cards:spring,summer,autumn,nature/botanical collections & tiny posies.I post to the US now too I create each of my photos using recent neuroscientific research-looking at them shifts your brain away from fight or flight: www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...

Do not make your PhD your identity. Yes, you pursue your studies because of your passion. But give yourself the freedom of objectivity and have a backup plan so that you can walk away confidently if it comes to that. It's a big world out there, and there are so many ways you fit into it.

A shout out for @nrennie.bsky.social fab book on data viz! nrennie.rbind.io/art-of-viz/

How do you procrastinate? #rstats #rladies

New web app to make apaquarto documents (APA style via Quarto) wjschne.github.io/posts/2025-0... Direct link: wjschne.github.io/apa7maker/ #quarto #QuartoPub #rstats

I’ve done this for 2 weeks now and it *absolutely rules*. Best class discussions I’ve ever had. Best engagement with readings. They write in this worksheet for 15 minutes, then talk about their responses in groups of 3-4, then groups share with the whole class, and *then* we talk about the readings

A new semester has started! And if you are kicking off a new research project and wondering, what are some things you can do to set your project up for success and ensure you collect more usable data that won't give you headaches down the road, here are some thoughts! cghlewis.com/blog/project...

*Finally* listened to this episode on that MIT preprint thing about LLMs melting people’s brains and it’s *so good*

Shiny app to search and filter posit::conf(2025) Bluesky posts with the #positconf2025 #positconf25 or #positconf hashtags. App: apps.machlis.com/shiny/positc... GitHub repo: github.com/smach/bluesk... #RStats #RShiny

I am excited to speak about ✨practical {renv}✨ at posit::conf! Please say hi if you are there! 🤗 #rstats #rladies

when you learned Git for the first time, what resources did you use? Did you like them? Mostly looking for answers from folks who learned Git in the last 5 years or so. Looking for resources to potentially add to the Git website

I have finally gotten round to writing my AI Use Statement for a grad. course I'm teaching in Gen AI... I would be grateful of your thoughts!

🧵 Skytorial 1 – Introduction to @github.com for Researchers 1/ 🚀 What is GitHub and why should you care about it as a researcher? 👉 It is a platform for organizing projects, saving versions of your work, and collaborating with others. You don't need to know how to code to take advantage of it.

Cowbell is out of fashion #TidyTuesday jenrichmond.github.io/tidytuesday/...

📊 #TidyTuesday – 2025 W34 | Billboard Hot 100 Number Ones . 🔗: stevenponce.netlify.app/data_visuali... . #rstats | #r4ds | #dataviz | #ggplot2

Are there more baby names #rstats data packages than the ones I know about? - US `babynames` by @hadley.nz hadley.github.io/babynames/ - `ozbabynames` by @robjhyndman.com pkg.robjhyndman.com/ozbabynames - `nzbabynames` by @emilyandthelime.bsky.social ekothe.github.io/nzbabynames/

@robjhyndman.com worked on the {ozbabynames} pkg: github.com/robjhyndman/... @fontikar.bsky.social worked on a case study of unpaid labour in Australia: open-data-for-us.github.io/aus-unpaid-l... @jamesgoldie.dev worked on an R wrapper of Mozilla's readability: github.com/jimjam-slam/... #rstats

This week’s #RLadies curator is @morgana-kinlan.bsky.social 🎉