Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp.... genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.

This is a really nice blog post about the value of open source in #DataViz 📊 "Trust matters in data visualization. People need to believe what they see. Open source makes that possible because you can look under the hood and see how things work." - couldn't agree more!

A little bit of #ggplot2 and #rayshader for the "dimensions" prompt on day 6 of the #30DayMapChallenge! 🌧️ #RStats #DataViz

🚀 New blog post: "Lua Best Practices for Quarto Extensions" Transform your working code into maintainable, robust extensions with proven patterns: - Modular architecture - Parameter scoping Level up your Quarto game! mickael.canouil.fr/posts/2025-1... #Quarto #QuartoPub #Lua #DataScience

“Know Your Audience: Communicating with Data Viz” We’ll explore how great data visualisation bridges the gap between analytics and impact, covering both the creativity and strategy of visual storytelling. 📅 Wed 12 Nov, 17:30 - 19:30 📍 Bayes Centre, Edinurgh + Online 🔗: https://ow.ly/qX1650XjC8B

For the "Earth" prompt on day 5 of the #30DayMapChallenge, I decided to compare different world map projections! 🗺️ #RStats #DataViz #ggplot2

I had a great time talking about the process of creating charts with ggplot2 at @rladiesrome.bsky.social tonight! 📊 Slides and code from the session can be found here: nrennie.rbind.io/talks/rladie... #RStats #DataViz #ggplot2 #RLadies

Death announced of Mary ‘May’ McGee who won historic Supreme Court contraception case

Oh, hey there, #rstats! Just a little heads up that we open the CFP for R!sk on Friday, Nov 7th. Please go take a look & pull your proposal together. We're excited about this. There's risk in everything & we want to share as broad a perspective as possible. rconsortium.github.io/Risk_website...

I had a great time talking about the process of creating charts with ggplot2 at @rladiesrome.bsky.social tonight! 📊 Slides and code from the session can be found here: nrennie.rbind.io/talks/rladie... #RStats #DataViz #ggplot2 #RLadies

Fantastic to see data from a @significancemag.bsky.social article being used for #TidyTuesday! Thanks @jenrichmondphd.bsky.social for curating this week's data 📊

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

A small but interesting dataset for #TidyTuesday this week! We're looking at differences in lead levels of water samples between two studies 🧪 📊 Barcode chart showing distribution of values ✍️ Extended subtitle giving context 🔢 Annotations highlighting removed values #RStats #ggplot2 #DataViz

Excited to be speaking at Manchester RUG next week! 💡 R for Play: When Data Meets Creativity I’ll share fun pet projects, from #TidyTuesday & Pride flags 🏳️‍🌈 to Shiny apps & R on my phone! Come see how R can be curious, joyful & creative. 🔗 bit.ly/47FunUr #RStats

For today's "My Data" prompt on day 4 of the #30DayMapChallenge, I decided to dig up some GPS data from my first marathon almost a decade ago (😱) (This year's #30DayMapChallenge is quickly becoming me just designing myself some new home decor) #RStats #ggplot2 #DataViz

I wrote a lil post on the amazing work that @ginareynolds.bsky.social does championing ggplot2 extension developers and teaching others to build their own! The post features the Scrollytelling Quarto extension and the group's cute #RStats hex 🐱: rworks.dev/posts/ggplot...

Thanks to @rinpharma.bsky.social for the invitation to host today's workshop about building #RStats packages 📦 Slides: nrennie.rbind.io/r-pharma-202...

Dataviz specialists @nrennie.bsky.social publishes her #RStats code for the #30DayMapChallenge on GitHub ❤️🎉🙏 (see the scripts folder) github.com/nrennie/30Da...

We're onto day 3 of the #30DayMapChallenge! It was tricky to choose colours for this one to make sure very small polygons were still visible! 🎨 #DataViz #RStats #ggplot2

If you take 30 draws from a Bernoulli distribution, e.g., to randomise people to one of two conditions, there’s a 1/536,870,912 chance that all 30 will be assigned to the same condition. Try seeds 236903047 and 627034302 with rbinom(30, 1, .5) in #RStats Read more: andifugard.info/totally-rand...

It's day 2 of the #30DayMapChallenge! 🗺️ A fairly minimalist map of street *lines* in Melbourne 🦘 #DataViz #RStats #ggplot2

It's day 1 of the #30DayMapChallenge! 🗺️ Since yesterday was also Halloween, I'm sticking with a spooky theme and looking at *points* where ghosts have been spotted in New York City 👻 Data via #TidyTuesday #DataViz #RStats #ggplot2

👏 "There are over four million kids in child poverty in the UK and there are four and a half million people who can't get a dentist appointment." "We spend 90% of the political capital and discourse and media focus discussing 37,000 people."

We are looking for bloggers for Voices of Academia for 2026. If you'd like to make a difference by sharing your mental ill-health experience whilst being in academia, please find out more and submit a pitch here: voicesofacademia.com/contact-2/

Data wrangling is undervalued, and the consequences can be huge. Rosemary Tate & Roger Halliday call for a culture shift in data science, including “data amnesty” & editorial reform. Read more on our Real World Data Science site: realworlddatascience.net/foundation-f... #DataQuality #RWDS

There's still time to sign up for Monday's workshop about building #RStats packages! 📦 🗓️ Monday 3 November ⏰ 15:00-17:00 GMT / 10:00-12:00 EST 📍 Online 💰 Free #RPharma @rinpharma.bsky.social

Question, if you were including something like this 👇in a report or paper, would you label it as e.g. "Table 1" or "Figure 1"? Or something else? (assuming whatever software you're using let's you pick either) #DataViz #RStats

Mark your calendars for an evening of #DataViz - whether you're Edinburgh based and attending in-person, or coming along online! 📊 🗓️ 12th November ⏰ 5.30 - 7.30pm 📍 Bayes Centre, Edinburgh + Online

I've written a short blog post introducing "The Art of Visualization with ggplot2"! This book is all about the end-to-end process of creating charts with #ggplot2 📊 including data wrangling, sketching, and styling your plots! nrennie.rbind.io/blog/art-of-... #RStats #DataViz #TidyTuesday

Needed to hide the bar on a #Shiny numeric slider. Shiny sliders are ion.rangeSlider under the hood, so you can target the bar directly with .irs-bar. github.com/The-Strategy... The more I play with Inspect Element, the more comfortable I get tweaking little things to improve #UIUX #RStats #CSS

📣 We're looking forward to next Monday when Workshops R/Pharma begins. So many spectacular opportunities to learn and stretch. Register here, its free 💌 : lnkd.in/ezYeGet9 Schedule here : 🗓️ ROW : lnkd.in/dTHbKUnk 🗓️ APAC : lnkd.in/dTHbKUnk 📓 Workshops are on Nov 3, 4, 7 🎙️Talks are on Nov 5, 6

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

Just launched Lazy Cats, a visual exploration of cat behaviour. Meet Lily + 27 other cats and find out what they do all day (spoiler: they mostly chill) 🐱🐾 Does your cat fit their profile? Very proud to share my first interactive #dataviz project built with Svelte + D3! 📊 lazy-cats.netlify.app

Looking for an overview of different #RStats packages for visualising spatial data? 📊 Here's a previous blog post of mine: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/r-packa... This blog post is almost three years old now, but all of the code still works! #DataViz #RSpatial #30DayMapChallenge

Because people think you're a bitch if you don't. See also: add emoticons, softening qualifiers, and any other happy-go-lucky, no-worries-if-not! flair.

New blog post: Claude as a dialectical engine? jonminton.github.io/jon-blog/pos... (Have LLMs now solved their sycophancy problem?)

Qualitative information design: don't underestimate how much you can design with only text! 1/8

Issue 19 of RDM Weekly is out! 🎃 - Handbook for Reproduction and Replication Studies @forrt.bsky.social - A Crowdsourced Effort to Develop a Lab Manual Template @improvingpsych.org - So, What’s the Deal with rlang, Anyway? @veerle.hypebright.nl and more! rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

Join one of our upcoming webinars to learn what’s involved in the consultation and why it’s important people take part eventbrite.co.uk/e/introducti... You can also email us at [email protected]

in my post-academic era i have become extremely scathing of the way academia considers papers to the primary outcome of intellectual work, and refuses to give credit to academics who write software or build other tooling. in industry we very rarely read your papers; but we always use your software

In @yougov.co.uk polling of the trans community, to the best of our knowledge the first of its kind ever conducted, an astonishing 84% said Britain is “fairly unsafe” or “very unsafe” for trans people. goodlaw.social/ncfw

#rstats & #dataviz people do you know any looooooong time series that you like? 👀 I‘m currently searching for datasets to submit to the #tidytuesday project.

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

Looking forward to speaking at this @statsyss.bsky.social and YASA event tomorrow! #DataViz @royalstatsoc.bsky.social

This week's #TidyTuesday is all about who has won or been shortlisted for a British literary prize 📖 I focused on the gender balance of authors awarded prizes for fiction 📊 The changing names of awards made the data wrangling a little bit more tricky! #RStats #ggplot2 #DataViz

This week's #TidyTuesday is all about who has won or been shortlisted for a British literary prize 📖 I focused on the gender balance of authors awarded prizes for fiction 📊 The changing names of awards made the data wrangling a little bit more tricky! #RStats #ggplot2 #DataViz

I only need *5* more dataset curations (and to review those 5 plus the open PR) to be done curating #TidyTuesday for 2025! I can definitely do at least one myself, so I just need 4 of you to curate a dataset! Check out github.com/rfordatascie... for #RStats instructions.

How about a Positron (or VS Code) snippet that picks a random number for your seed? Example snippet: gist.github.com/cwickham/820... Snippets: positron.posit.co/migrate-rstu...

I'll be running a free, online workshop at @rinpharma.bsky.social on Nov 3rd! If you've never built an #RStats package before, or if you want to learn some tips to make better packages, come along to build a package together! 📦 ⏰ 10am EST / 3pm GMT #RPharma

The making of this week's #TidyTuesday chart recorded with {camcorder} in #RStats 📹