I created awesome-blogdown.com 9 years ago, not long after {blogdown} was announced. It seemed like a fun way to help promote the project and its users. People have largely moved on to other tools and the list is stale though, so the website will be gone soon. It was fun while it lasted #rstats

Is it time to use your data skills for something great? We’re looking for an Analytics Engineer to come and join our small but mighty team of experts at Data Orchard CIC. Apply by 7 July:

Episode 2 of Apple TV’s “The Studio” is one of the most incredible pieces of TV I’ve seen. Equal parts hilarious and stressful. Genuinely amazing stuff. #TheStudio #AppleTV

@tayusmusic.bsky.social, where do you guys get your CDs made? Symbiotic was a really nice quality physical release and I have a friend who’s thinking about doing something similar.

Let's go! Premiering now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqtr...

Abstract submission for the Shiny in Production Conference is now open! We’re looking for insightful case studies from diverse industries and applications. If you've used Shiny to solve real-world challenges, we’d like to hear your story! 📅 Submission Deadline: March 20th #Shiny #RStats

Marshmallows are for team players.

Heads up Expanse fans! #TheExpanse www.polygon.com/tv/516278/ex...

I do love #TraitorsUK. It’s like clutching-at-straws, the game show.

Donald Trump. An Apology. The new Private Eye is out now

Another day, another threat from unaccountable billionaires… www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/musk-an...

He didn't start Facebook to give people a voice. He started Facebook to perv on the girls at his college.

Question for writers of Han/Kanji/Hangul or other script systems based on fixed-width logographs: Usually the layout is naturally a grid due to the full-width nature of the glyphs. But if an alternative script (e.g. Latin) is inserted the grid is disrupted. (1/2)

I've turned my intro to R workshop into a free open-access book: The R Workshop 🌟 Perfect for R beginners, with more chapters coming soon! Check it out: www.r-workshop.org Prefer live instruction? Join my 2-day virtual workshop Jan 15-16 via Instats. Details: instats.org/seminar/intr... #rstats

Enquiries progressing nicely. #Cluedo

£1.20 for ebook www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc... of More’s Utopia with 4 critical essays by Ursula Le Guin and foreword by China Mieville (sale ends 1/1/25)

hey #rstats people: my package of choice for sea surface temperature data is rerddap (and I use the OISST dataset, usually) how do you generally access land surface temperature data, and which dataset do you use? (I need a few decades at least, ideally 70s/80s to near-present day)

#rstats Conway's Game of Life running glitch free at a rock solid 30fps. Using {insitu} for by-reference matrix ops, and {governor} for controlling framerate. https://github.com/coolbutuseless/insitu

Just over 6 hours of logging. microcontroller --> Google Sheet --> #Rstats It will be interesting to see what happens when my favorite person waters the plant, but that will probably be a while, because it was watered just before I started logging.

V good by @hetanshah.bsky.social on AI and public services, esp the idea the bar should be set extremely high for good quality evidence on costs & benefits. AI products are often rolled out in private sector without this, with the consequences you might expect www.newstatesman.com/comment/2024...

I was worried we were going to be the only people in this 40th anniversary showing of Gremlins! #Gremlins

I gave a talk last year on getting started with APIs for data scientists. For some reason, I've only just got round to posting it on my blog. blog.sellorm.com/2024/12/16/a... #RStats #dataBS #PyData

Pepper says “Hi”.

😭 Nooo! You have to track sample probabilities and use multiple importance sampling to balance BRDFs, lights, and environment maps for unbiased convergence, or your rendering will be biased AND noisy! 🤪 haha denoising makes renderer go brrr #RStats #rayrender

Folks doing #adventofcode in #rstats, what's been your MVP function this year? For me it's which(arr.ind = TRUE).

WIP #RStats package to go with my favorite Markdown nitpick/advice: start a new line after each sentence! ✂️ Please try out {aeolus} on Markdown documents and report any bug. 🙂 github.com/ropenscilabs...

Day 10! Data engineers + Pydantic classes = goodness. youtu.be/f_XfLTlHS-s

Ever wanted to create a 3D model for printing with #rstats? Of course you have! Read about my experiments here: blog.sellorm.com/2024/12/06/d...

Just realized the bluesky may not be aware that you can access dad jokes (via the icanhazdadjoke API) directly in #rstats with the {dadjokeapi} 📦!

My #SpotifyWrapped was incredibly boring, but it did remind me to recommend the band “Tarantula AD” to anyone who’s a fan of cinematic soundscapes.

"Prompt injection and supply chain vulnerabilities remain the main LLM vulnerabilities but as the technology evolves new risks come to light including system prompt leakage and misinformation." www.csoonline.com/article/5754... #Security #LLMs #GenAI

My team is hiring!! Are you a Geospatial nerd? Interested in 🧮 Algorithms ⚡️ C++ 🏹 ML + AI 🎲 Statistics? @ me if you have questions :) #gischat #rstats #cpp #python #databs www.esri.com/careers/4536...

I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you want to look at all columns of a tibble (which has the somewhat annoying habit of only showing you as many columns as you have space for), just pipe it into print(width = Inf): df |> print(width = Inf) #rstats

Agricultural Shows and Village Fetes * Dog Shows * Tug of Wars * Colouring Competitions * Best Dressed Competitions * Brass Bands * Animals in Funny Costumes * Ice Cream Vans * Magic Shows for the kids * Sheep Shearing Competitions Tech Confs need to buck up their game!! #pydata #rstats #julialang

You know when you move into a new house and you have to sweep away the dead spiders, deal with the leaky tap, work out what that weird damp smell is? That's what we need to do here. Curate your space. Block liberally. We can make this space pleasant and respectful.

Episode 187 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/... 📱 Native Mobile Apps with R(!) @colinfay.bsky.social 📣 Expanding Bluesky network @stephenturner.us 📦 S7 & Options @josiahparry.com h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social @tonyelhabr.bsky.social 🙏 #RStats #DataScience #V4V

#30DayMapChallenge Day 27: Micromapping Flying over "Terreiro do Paço" in Lisbon, 🇵🇹Portugal. Buildings dataset from #overturemaps Most buildings do not have heights available, since Overture Maps is still a very new project. Credits: @kylewalker.bsky.social #Rstats #dataViz #gis #lisbon #rspatial

#30DayMapChallenge · Day 27 · Micromapping. Almost there...this is Lombard Street, San Francisco. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

I'm trying to work out how drunk this sounds. it's AT LEAST two bottles.

“Any pleasure I may take in the distinction of the honour of [being a Royal Society fellow] is diminished by the fact it is shared with someone who appears to be modelling himself on a Bond villain"

Our Shiny in Production Conference will take place on 8-9th October 2025! 🎉 Super Early bird tickets are now available—don’t miss your chance to secure your spot. Visit the website to learn more about the timeline and explore the schedule. #rstats #DataScience #ShinyinProduction

We are thrilled to share all talks from the 2024 R/Pharma conference are available now! 📽️ Over 60 presentations ⭐ Keynotes on emerging use of AI by @jcheng5.bsky.social, Tala Fakhouri, and Christina Fillmore 🌏 First-ever APAC track! Visit www.youtube.com/c/RinPharma today! #RStats #rinpharma

This is Pepper and she absolutely will not rest until the dishwasher door is closed once more.

Want to dip your toe into #programming? This free 6 hour intro to #Rstats online curriculum is a great entry point and we get good feedback when teaching it to researchers. Don't worry about the 'for ecologists' bit, that's just the flavour of dataset. #academicsky #research #science

⚠️ The #DataBill will unleash AI ⚠️ Being stripped back is the right to human review over automated decisions – even if they have life-changing impacts. Life mustn’t be haunted by the ghost in the machine. Sign and share our petition to keep human review! ✍️ ⬇️ you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ai...

What R packages from CRAN should we add to our repo full of sweet, sweet pre-built packages next? #rstats #RaspberryPi #R4Pi

The approach to Strasbourg cathedral last week as the Xmas decorations were going up.

This hit my weak point for massive damage

Ahhh, time, every data person's best friend! My condolences! Made me remember this list, which never fails to make me weep😉! gist.github.com/timvisee/fcd...

Using {S7} for options objects in #rstats Forgot to link last time…. josiahparry.com/posts/2024-1...