CDCPLACES 1.2.0 is live on CRAN 🥳 I wrote about some of the updates here: brendenmsmith.com/posts/cdcpla... I think the coolest new feature is the github action I was able to add that checks for changes in the API URLs provided by socrata. Way more reliable! #rstats #publichealth #episky

With the most robust rail network in the American Midwest, Chicago has the 2nd largest number of car-free households of any metro area (behind only NYC) Most of those households live around the L, especially the Red Line and western parts of the Blue & Green Lines

Any #rstats folks interested in testing out a package for SQL linting in R workflows? I made a package that wraps SQLFluff into R with reticulate. I've tried it on a few machines I own but would appreciate some experimentation before I try to send it to CRAN. github.com/brendensm/sq...

First #TidyTuesday using python 🐍 🫣

Roundabouts across the world for #TidyTuesday, Week 50. #rstats #dataviz #ggplot2

This one looks so fun omg

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There are a number of issues with this analysis but I found one that I haven't seen anyone else mention: Kaufmann estimates gender ID from the FIRE data without using the survey weights When the weights are used as designed, the evidence for his core claim disappears

I program in Squirrel, i.e. a mixture of SQL and R while leaving many small files littered around my drive #Rstats

Bayesianism is ZuTara while Frequentism is KatAang.

🚀 I made a tracker that shows when the Census Bureau adds or removes datasets from their APIs. Dashboard at www.hrecht.com/census-api-d... and follow @censusapitracker.bsky.social for major updates. I've been wanting to build this for years but now seemed an especially important time to keep track.

One day when I’m grown up I want to understand targeted learning.

Quick look at the most common adjectives used among the top identified colors in the xkcd color survey. #TidyTuesday #rstats

#TidyTuesday week 26 - It ain't much but it's honest work. I chose to look at the average differences in prices between conventional and reformulated gasoline -- which honestly I have not ever thought much about! Interesting to see such differences increase over the years. #rstats #dataviz

Any #rstats folks have resource recommendations for dipping your toes into javascript?

Keen to start up and running with #TidyTuesday this week? Try this command line method to create a #rstats script template. Or if you want a quarto template, try my version... github.com/jenrichmond/...

Put together this (probably overkill) #TidyTuesday CLI tool to browse data sets and create template scripts. Maybe this will motivate me to participate more 😅 You can check it out here: github.com/brendensm/tt

We're looking at Pokemon data for #TidyTuesday this week! 📊 Stream plot showing speed and colour using {ggstream} 📷 Image added with {ggimage} 🎉 Aiming for a minimalist, fun, and arty chart Code: github.com/nrennie/tidy... #RStats #DataViz #ggplot2

Image of me reading the documentation for pivot_wider() then attempting to use it 2 seconds later. #rstats

Does anybody in the #rstats world have advice on using a custom docx template with Quarto? I’m looking to be able to customize the header of the docx from the qmd too.

hereR 📦 v1.1.0 is now on CRAN! 🚀 - Add speed limit configuration for isolines & routes ⏱️ - Expand isoline transport modes: bicycle, bus & more 🚴 - Migrate deprecated mocking functions and fix test coverage ⚙️ Details: cran.r-project.org/package=hereR #rstats #rspatial #routing #datascience

I'm really looking forward to running this "Git and GitHub for R Users" workshop for @r-ladies-stl.bsky.social! 📅 April 23rd 2025 ⏰ 11am CST / 5pm BST 📍 Online Register: www.meetup.com/rladies-st-l... #RStats #Git #GitHub #RLadies

New: If enhanced federal payments for the ACA Medicaid expansion are eliminated, states have two choices: 1. Make up for the cut, at a cost of $626 billion over a decade. 2. Rollback the expansion, leading to 20 million people losing Medicaid. www.kff.org/medicaid/iss...

Yaay we are staying on CRAN

Absolutely the wrong move in the midst of a pandemic and an emerging pan-zoonotic, and and and...

Update (3pm ET on February 5th): the Census FTP site, including the ACS flat files and TIGER/Line shapefiles, is back up! This means that your #rstats / #Python Census geodata packages are now working as normal. Get your data now!

We have dplyr at home… #rstats

Some friends noticed that they can’t download U.S. Census TIGER/Line spatial files this morning. Hopefully this is just a temporary issue. In the meantime, I suggest using the IPUMS National Historic GIS database. They have both the census data and the spatial files you would probably need.

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looks like it’s really down now

When you can only win with disinformation, data become a threat.

I'm keeping a running list of disappearing federal data in the 🧵 below. If there are others I missed let me know. crampell[at]washpost[dot]com or Signal username crampell.13

It appears that the Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) page has been removed from the CDC website. The SVI is an important database that measures and quantifies the potential negative effects of disasters of human health at the county level. www.atsdr.cdc.gov/place-health...

#TidyTuesday week 4 ✅ This week’s data is from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. I took a look at how the data on lack of indoor plumbing among U.S Counties compares to other census provided geographies, specifically American Indian/Alaska Native/Native Hawaiian Areas. #rstats

Join @statsteph.bsky.social, RJP, & me on Feb 25 11am CT for a session on Analyzing Complex Survey Data in #RStats! Learn how to use srvyr and tidyverse for weighted survey analysis. Thanks to @rladiesamsterdam.bsky.social & R-Ladies RTP for hosting! ⚖️ Sign up here: www.meetup.com/rladies-amst...

Next month, I'm partnering with @UMich and @UMSSDAN to give three FREE webinars on working with US Census data in #rstats! I'll cover the new 2023 ACS data; decennial Census data; and mapping with some brand-new interactive tools. Learn more & register: ssdan.net/events/the...

TIL about zsh-autosuggestions, a super awesome add-in to zsh 👇🏼 github.com/zsh-users/zs... #cli #zsh

The more I learn about docker the more my mind is blown

Very nice #dataviz on the illusion of recycling ♻️

#TidyTuesday Week 3: The History of Himalayan Mountaineering Expeditions ✅ Had some fun with `geom_polygon` and `geom_text`. Also used a beautiful palette from {NatParksPalettes}. #rstats #dataviz #ggplot2

Week 2 of #TidyTuesday looks at posit::conf data for 2023 and 2024. I examined the most common words in talk titles between the two years and plotted the relative change. Looks like there was a big shift towards AI, learning, art, and reproducibility in 2024. #rstats #dataviz #ggplot2

Messing around with shinylive. For real, how are people not freaking out?!! Zero hosting costs, no online requirements, no installation required, nothing not a damn thing. #rstats #databs

Self hosting a shiny server on my homelab is so cool and surprisingly easy with docker compose. Shout out to the folks at rocker!! #rstats #shiny rocker-project.org

Quick #TidyTuesday for the new year looking at the CDCPLACES package downloads over last year! Shout out to cranlogs for the data! #rstats #ggplot2 Code: tinyurl.com/yufuz9rz CDCPLACES package: tinyurl.com/46z6tfaa

For the first #TidyTuesday of 2025 (bring your own data!), I'm taking a look at the talks and workshops I delivered in 2024. Lot's of #RStats and #DataViz sessions in there! 📊 Timeline scatter plot with #ggplot2 ✍️ Annotations with {cowplot} ➡️ Arrows with {grid} Code: https://buff.ly/42jHQjN

I'm setting up freshrss on my home server. What are some must-have #rstats blogs and feeds I should include?

All my homies hate elfster. Do it yourself