Come hang with me Nov 5th 12PM ET! We'll be chatting with Isabel Zimmerman & Davis Vaughan from Posit about our favorite #Positron settings. New to to the IDE? Come learn! If you're super familiar & have tricks of your own to show, come share! #databs #rstats #python events.zoom.us/ev/AnxRH-OLd...

there is NOTHING more satisfying than customizing your tools to make your work more joyful!!! sometimes that’s turning on format-on-save, sometimes that’s making your entire IDE pink 🌸 excited to see everyone’s setups and share my own!

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...

Announcing the Data Explorer “Convert to Code” Feature on Positron! With a single click, you can copy the R or Python code that reflects the filters and sorts you've set up in the Data Explorer UI. Transition quickly from visual exploration to scripting today! positron.posit.co/data-explore...

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

Announcing Plotnine 0.15.0: The Python package for Grammar of Graphics gets a massive upgrade! A new feature is Native Plot Composition: combine multiple independent plots into one figure, no more layout managers for multi-panel #Python graphs! Read the post: posit.co/blog/plotnin...

oooh new version of Positron just released and it has (1) github copilot chat and (2) automatic {dplyr} code generation based on filtering/sorting/etc that you do in the data viewer #rstats

I really really really liked The Oatmeal’s take on AI here theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

🐍 Python 3.14 is here! 🎉 ✨ Template strings (t-strings) for safer string interpolation 🚀 Free-threaded Python officially supported (bye GIL!) 🎨 Syntax highlighting in the REPL 📦 Zstandard compression in stdlib 🔍 Remote PDB debugging Full release notes: docs.python.org/3.14/whatsne...

Filling a big report immediately #rstats

"How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner" by Annie Mueller 😅 😂 😭 anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-...

As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read. They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.

Can't wait to see everyone at posit::conf(2025)!! Here's my annual "things to do" list for food, coffee, bakeries, and bars near conf! #positconf2025 #rstats docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Today, we’re announcing the preview release of ty, an extremely fast type checker and language server for Python, written in Rust. In early testing, it's 10x, 50x, even 100x faster than existing type checkers. (We've seen >600x speed-ups over Mypy in some real-world projects.)

Yesterday, @opensourcepledge.com was on Nasdaq Tower in Times Square. I got to be there for it! Thank you to Nasdaq and congratulations to all of the featured companies who #paythemaintainers! 👏 What a great way to keep celebrating #maintainermonth! 💃

My amazing independent study student wrote me a thank you card and drew this laptop with #rstats code on it 🥹

me, daily (ok i'll show myself out)

being a nerd and marrying a nerd means we have decided to compete for who can create a prettier wedding website 🌸 quarto will be powering my submission

Incoming PR for tidytuesday that brings #julialang to the party with TidyTuesday.jl! @frankiethull.bsky.social

Sick of being taken advantage of by OTHER PACKAGES?! Use python package {tariff} to show those packages WHO IS BOSS. Make Reinventing The Wheel Great Again! pypi.org/project/tari...

Since I’m starting a new thing I’m also looking at tech again. I really feel Python fares shockingly well for getting stuff done in 2025. Now that packaging is solved that is.

PEP 751 has been accepted! peps.python.org/pep-0751/ This means #Python now has a lock file standard that can act as an export target for tools that can create some sort of lock file. And for some tools the format can act as their primary lock file format as well instead of some proprietary format.

This video game lets you play as a Python core developer, but winning the game won't be easy. Learn more in my blog post. mariatta.ca/posts/core_d... #humor

We're delighted to announce Jonathan McPherson – software architect at Posit – as keynote speaker at posit::conf(2025)! If you're curious about how thoughtful design principles can improve the data science tools you use, you won't want to miss this! Join us Sep 16-18 in Atlanta. pos.it/conf

I’ve long used FiveThirtyEight’s interactive “Hack Your Way To Scientific Glory” to illustrate the idea of p-hacking when I teach statistics. But ABC/Disney killed the site earlier this month :( So I made my own with #rstats and Observable and #QuartoPub ! stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way/

As access to scientific communications remains crucial, I'm excited to share I've joined openRxiv as Interim Chief Operations Officer to help launch the organization. It's already been amazing working with @richardsever.bsky.social & John Inglis & team & I'm grateful to be part of this next phase. 💚

@simonpcouch.com is doing some really cool work with LLMs in R! He's created experimental packages like chores, ensure, and gander to help automate tasks like unit testing and roxygen tags. Check out his blog post to learn more: www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/01... #RStats #LLM

Closeread Prize winners are here! 🏆 Want to create engaging, scroll-based stories with your data? See stunning scrollytelling examples made with Quarto: posit.co/blog/closere... Learn more about Closeread and its power to create dynamic narratives. Congrats winners! #Quarto #RStats #Python

@lionelhenry.bsky.social and I are so excited to finally announce Air - an extremely fast R code formatter! 🎉 With Air, you'll never need to worry about styling your #rstats code ever again. All you need to do is save, and Air takes care of the rest. www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/02...

🚀 Curate for the 💜 @rladies.org @weare.rladies.org account on 🦋 Bluesky and connect with an incredible community of Data Scientists! 📆 check curation schedule ➡️ rladies.org/form/rocur-s... 🔗sign-up ➡️ rladies.org/form/rocur-s... nominate a curator ➡️ rladies.org/form/rocur-n... #rladies #rstats

Time is running out! Super Early Bird pricing for posit::conf(2025) ends Feb 28—don’t miss your chance to lock in the lowest rate! Join 1,500+ data pros in Atlanta, Sept 16-18 for hands-on workshops, inspiring talks, & an exclusive evening at the Georgia Aquarium 🐠✨ Secure your spot: pos.it/conf

I told you I was gonna put my money where my mouth was and make sure a python #tidytuesday happened, right?! Send this video to a python data friend who has never used the TidyTuesday repo before 👏🏻 let's make this happen 🗣️ Posit is on board and backing w/ #PositPythonChallenge!! youtu.be/ol2FrSL5gVU

uv is one year old today. Hard to believe its only been a year. The growth, adoption, and impact surpassed my wildest expectations. Happy birthday, uv! 🥳

The making of last week's #TidyTuesday visualisation, recorded using {camcorder} in #RStats 📹 There was something weird going on with the interaction between {ggtext}/{marquee} and {ggpattern} for displaying images, so the hardest part ended up being arranging them with {patchwork}

Do not mess with librarians. They let complete strangers borrow their books. For a living. Even the hardcovers. They are so much stronger than you know.

hi there friends 🌸 it’s @isabelizimm.bsky.social here hosting your weekly rocur!!! 👩🏻‍💻 im a software engineer @ @posit.co where i work on the #positronIDE 🌴 live in florida, usa 🐶 my dog, toast, knows ~35 tricks 🫶 if i was on a deserted island and could only bring 1 data science tool, it’d be #quarto

follow along with me this week!! i’ll have lots of #quartopub and #positronide content 🫶🌸

Woohoo! I celebrated this new feature by archiving 16 projects on PyPI 🥳 It's okay to lay down your past obligations. https://infosec.exchange/@yossarian/113917901187868601

Python 1.0.0, released 31 years ago today: groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.... --> Tired of decyphering the Perl code you wrote last week? --> Frustrated with Bourne shell syntax? --> Spent too much time staring at core dumps lately? Maybe you should try Python!

I was tagged the other day by someone kindly sharing my Python Rgonomics post and realized that my thesis of "tooling keeps improving" held up too well and some of the recos have changed Hence, here's the 2025 update: www.emilyriederer.com/post/py-rgo-... Now feat uv (vs pyenv, pdm) and Positron

🎉 We’re absolutely thrilled to announce that the #RLadies #RotatingCuration program is restarting Monday! 🔍 Learn more at: tinyurl.com/p9fvk7s2 🙋‍♀️ Want to become a curator? Sign up: tinyurl.com/44twdsbu 🌟 Know someone who’s a perfect fit? Nominate them: tinyurl.com/5yny5cae

📝 "Pyenv in RStudio" 👤 Isabel Zimmerman (@isabelizimm.bsky.social) 📖 Conquer Python env chaos! Use pyenv & RStudio; set RETICULATE_PYTHON. Success! 🔗 https://isabelizimm.me/posts/2022-09-19_pyenv-in-rstudio/ #pyladies#python#oldiebutgoodie#pyenv

We’re thrilled to offer Opportunity Scholarships for posit::conf(2025)! These aim to support folks typically underrepresented at similar confs. If you know anyone who'd be a good candidate – perhaps you! – apply by Feb 21: pos.it/opp-scholar-2025 #DataScience #positconf2025 #rstats #pydata

my goal this year is to learn to rebind books, and it seemed like a good day to start. i completed my first one! she’s not very good. i need thicker endpapers. i love her anyway. #booksky

a Cool Teen™️ said they liked my hair. going to be riding this high for days

To all the #pyladies and #rladies out there - if you have a blog or a YouTube channel and want to be added, feel free to reach out! Your content will then be featured by the @pyladies-bot.bsky.social or @rladies-bot.bsky.social 🙌

We're delighted to announce Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social – psychologist for software teams – will be a keynote speaker at posit::conf(2025)! Discover psychology tips for better dev teams and much more at conf. Register at pos.it/conf #PositConf2025 #DataScience #OpenSource #Python #RStats

It's impossible to overstate the difference a nice, small, reproducible example makes when you open an issue or a feature request. For me it is so often the difference between "💡I can fix that right now" and "🤔 I'll have to come back to that later".