I feel like students saying "Thank you" when they hand in their exam is the same as Wesley saying "As you wish", except opposite message. The politeness is nevertheless appreciated. 😆

This is how to get started with #tidyplots 🚀 https://tidyplots.org/getstarted#tidyplots #rstats #dataviz #phd

Last week my Data Sci students were asking us profs to assign them places on the "looks like a cinnamon roll/can kill you" chart. This week, in an attempt to overturn her non-cinnamon-roll designation, a student baked us homemade cinnamon rolls. Bribe accepted. 🥰

Pretty dang rad way for us to kick off Spring Quarter!!! Thanks, @hadley.nz , for making the trek to SLO and giving a wonderful talk and thoughtful answers to our questions! 🥰 And thanks to the @calpolyslo.bsky.social Noyce School of Applied Computing for sponsoring this great event!

Hey #rstats fam, what non-evil hex sticker printer are we using these days? I've tried a few alternatives to "that other one" (🐴) in the past but haven't liked them because: - I want die cut, not sheets. - I want pointy hexagons not roundy ones.

Hitting that end-of-quarter point where I just wanna final_grades <- runif(n = 87, min = 70, max = 100)

It’s also #5 on PYPL: pypl.github.io/PYPL.html

Back in the top 10, baby! Eat your heart out, "#rstats is dying" thinkpieces. 😜 www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

I love all of this take. Also "frustration tolerance" is a wonderful turn of phrase, and it sounds less intimidating than the one we often use in Education, "productive struggle".

%notin% is coming to Base R! Heck to the yes. We are truly blessed on this day, thank you R Core. 🤩 #rstats

#quarto blog + RSS question: Is there a way to exclude a post from the automatic RSS feed? (Specifically, I want to occasionally put non-R content on my blog but I don't want it to spam to the people who follow for R only...) Gracias in advance hivemind! 🙏

Huge thanks to @posit.co and hosts @mchow.com and @wesmckinney.com for having me on The Test Set!!! posit.co/thetestset/e... My favorite part was learning that I've been pronouncing "pandas" correctly all along. I've never felt more vindicated. And y'all are wrong about candy corn. 😜

We gave our Data Science students a project to identify which photos were taken by me vs by my co-teacher, based on a provided training set. Instead of refining their model, they are reverse image searching to identify the locations, and matching this to what they know about our recent travels. 😆😆😆

HOW DID I MISS THIS???? This new #tidyverse package ate and left no crumbs: hadley.github.io/genzplyr/

the lesson of zohran mamdani walloping one of the most racist campaigns in modern us history on the largest turnout since 1969 is that democrats need to move to the right

Despite all the uncertainty right now in American Higher Ed, our department is hiring! jobs.calpoly.edu/en-us/job/55... Happy to answer any questions you have - it's a wonderful place to work. 🥰 (Note: this is a tenure-track TEACHING position, not a good fit for research-only goals.)

This is the single most overrated image on the internet. Pisses me off how every time I see it, it has thousands of Likes.

Another week, another magical #rstats gift from Emil. 🥰

One final heartwarming moment from #positconf2025: dropping my students off at Tidy Dev Day! 😍 Three talented #rstats programmers coming your way, #tidyverse! Now back to reality - thanks for another beautiful week of learnings and Rfriends. 🏴‍☠️💙

Best slide caption of the conference. @kjhealy.co is a font of sass ans I am HERE for it. 😅

"Sometimes the data doesn't follow the trend and you see a failure pattern. Of course, we mean a failure of the world. Our theory has not failed, because our theory includes the possibility of failure patterns." - @kjhealy.co at #positconf2025 😆😆😆

Could this {uv} solution recommended by @juliasilge.com be the answer to the personal hell that is "Import Error: no module named 'numpy'" ? #positconf2025

I feel seen listening to @grrrck.xyz talking about making his own Beamer theme in grad school. RIP Kelly's Personal Beamer theme (2015-2017), killed by discovering RMarkdown. 🪦

Shannon's slides are always so unbelievably clear and helpful!!! github.com/shannonpileg... I'm having "Ohhhhh that's what that means" moments every 10 seconds here. #positconf2025

"This talk is for potential {renv} users and frustrated {renv} users." - @pipinghotdata.com It me. I am all ears. 👂

We took the @rdatatable.bsky.social hex stickers to see their real-life mascots! If you're at #positconf2025, come by the #rdatatable Birds of a Feather at lunch today to chat about the future of the package and get some swag! 🦭💛🖤

I loved the "Hmmmmmm" in the crowd when @jcheng5.bsky.social showed this data quality problem uncovered by the #positron Databot tool. No human caught this during the Tidy Tuesday for the data. I've been skeptical of AI for data analysis, but this is an extremely compelling use case. 🫣

" @hadley.nz is made mostly of code and polite enthusiasm." = most accurate descriptor ever written by a language model. 😆 On the other hand, I'm not convinced @jcheng5.bsky.social truly has "teeth made of reactive inputs" ... 🦷 #positconf2025

The thing that struck me most is that even if you take away the code-writing necessity, knowing what to ask the bot for requires so much expertise. Steps like "These points are overplotted, can we fix that" or "Let's look at only the top 50 restaurants" are incredible non-obvious to beginners...

The always delightful @k-bott.bsky.social shares the educational principles of Posit Academy for teaching professionals in the wild: Practice that is: 💫 Repeated over time, 💕 relevant to their domain, 🪜 within their reach, and 👯‍♂️ conducted in a community. #positconf2025

"Some people love to code, others code to build what they love." - Alissa Dillman @ #positconf2025 Oof, that hits. I think I need to be reminded of this every year - for the people I'm teaching, the coding is a means not an end.

It's so hard to give a "teaching how to teach" talk in a way that includes concrete, actionable advice. @ryjohnson09.bsky.social just nailed it. (Pic taken from the floor, because here at #positconf2025 the education sections are popular! 🥳)

I got sucked into a great conversation and missed a talk I was excited for.... but luckily, @clauswilke.com puts all his work online in the most clean, organized, and helpful ways!!! 🥰 I've been using Claus's course sites as my templates for years, he is the best. 💙 clauswilke.com/PositConf2025/

Incredibly relatable slide from Kene David Nwosu at #positconf2025... (also, first time I've seen Hofstadter's law referenced by someone besides @stat110.bsky.social !)

Positron's forum is staffed by engineers. But listening to users 100% can backfire. Sampling bias to users who approach you is not representative of all users. Consider the source. #PositConf2025

"How many of you have opened RStudio, one of the most advanced data science IDEs ever created, to add two numbers?" - Jonathan McPherson at #positconf2025 😆🙋‍♀️

If anyone has figured out how to pause time for a week after the #positconf2025 Workshops, so I can build fun stuff, please let me know.

It begins.... 😆 #positconf2025

HEXAGONS.

tfw your Spanish father-in-law picks the perfect restaurant without realizing... (cc: @posit.co 😘)

If you want to enjoy my #useR2025 post-spamming of last week's #rstats stuff, but a bit more organized and consolidated, then boy do I have a blog post for you: kbodwin.github.io/paRticles/po...

Massive thanks to @kellybodwin.com for these amazing tidyverse gauges!

🌈 rainbowR meet-up: Wednesday August 27th, 4pm UTC 🌈 - connect with other LGBTQ+ people who code in #RStats 🏳️‍🌈 - ask questions about R 🙋 - tell us about an R package you like 📦 - show us something R-related you’ve been working on 💻 ➡️ Registration via rainbowr.org/meetups

The naming of clusters is a difficult matter, It isn’t just one of your holiday games; You may think at first I’m as mad as a hatter When I tell you, clusters must have CUTESY INFORMAL NAMES.

I had a great time presenting a #useR2025 workshop with @statsteph.bsky.social and Rebecca Powell on "Complex Survey Data Analysis"! If you'd like to check out the materials, we cover survey design, descriptive analysis, statistical testing, & more: tidy-survey-r.github.io/user-2025-su... #RStats

I am shooketh. This is a gamechanger. 🤩

Thanks so much to everyone who made #useR2025 another magical weekend of #rstats inspiration. 💙 I can't wait to try out all the new things and check out all the new corners of this rad community. Until next time, weiRdos! 🏴‍☠️

All three books I've co-authored are freely available online for non-commercial use: - #Bayesian Data Analysis, 3rd ed (aka BDA3) at stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/book/ - #Regression and Other Stories at avehtari.github.io/ROS-Examples/ - Active Statistics at avehtari.github.io/ActiveStatis...