Recent vibe coding win. Wanted to start tracking macros again but myfitnesspal app is clunky and expensive. Made my own app that takes a simple description + size, runs it thru Gemini to estimate macros, logs and displays them.

▶️ Videos from the rainbowR conference are now on YouTube 🎉 Catch-up with talks on wide-ranging subjects in R, Shiny, and working with LGBTQ+data, from our fabulous speakers (listed in next post) www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

I’m a Bayesian as a matter of convenience.

Excited for this one! Presenting tidymodels in R using marketing models and of course the Golden Girls. 👯‍♀️👯‍♀️🌈

Music that unsettles me and makes my mind churn but is also amazing: music.apple.com/us/album/cha...

The carryover impact and where marketing models start getting complicated. www.ryantimpe.com/posts/mmm_003/

MMM part 2 - selecting data (Gotta get the boring ones out of the way before I can do fun stuff) www.ryantimpe.com/posts/mmm_002/

Retiring from this game with this 15 second win. I solved today's Alphadots in 15 seconds and used 0 plots. Think you can do better? Play now at bloomberg.com/alphadots

New post! This year I’m going to post weekly to introduce & explore marketing models. www.ryantimpe.com/posts/mmm_001/ Will mostly use R but will also use these posts to “learn out loud” for python. And since I can’t take anything seriously, will be using my favorite 80s sitcom as the example.

Ok ok ok i‘m downloading positron

It was a busy fall for me! Gave a talk at #positconf2025 about all the fun and fails I’ve been having working more AI into my job. youtu.be/vJrIahZWCw4 Then joined the Posit DS hangout to talk about the conference, marketing data science, & silly side projects. posit.co/data-science...

Excited for this one!

One of my favorite conf talks of all time was Ryan Timpe's talk about learning R via hilarious side projects, so I'm pretty freaking pumped to say he's is gonna be the featured guest at the Data Science Hangout tomorrow 🤩 If you haven't seen that 2020 talk yet, here it is: youtu.be/oOG-aXP_ICI

Recording of my #positconf25 talk about learning from AI mishaps is online! (Took me a few days to muster the courage to watch 🤣) youtu.be/vJrIahZWCw4 Also I’m joining the Posit DS hangout tomorrow to chat about anything data science and silly side projects!

A very important Wikipedia article. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

Patiently waiting for 12:01 AM so I can build this bad boy.

Glow up! 2025 ⬅️ 2012

I can’t prove it but I feel like my iPhone is subtly increasing font size as I age.

Very excited for the first Ice Age meetup between Utah Mammoth and the Predators. 🏒🦣🐅

Hike with the pup and rocking the #positconf2025 merch

really thought the song Sweet Disposition was untouchable but have been listening to Giving Up Air by The Temper Trap for 25 hours music.apple.com/us/album/giv...

Sharing this talk by @ryantimpe.bsky.social as this week’s recommendation, a solid example of learning by drawing inspiration from what we love and making the process fun. :) #RStats 🔗: youtu.be/oOG-aXP_ICI?...

Speaking at the 1pm Facepalm-driven development session at #positconf2025 ! Hope to see you there!

I love writing first drafts because I get to word vomit chaotic thoughts all over the place and know it’s a problem for Future Ryan to clean up.

Getting ready for posit::conf and excited for my talk about finding the value in LLM fails. Last few times I brought limited edition hex stickers. Need some good ideas for a design this year.

Honestly my camera roll is adorable.

Some of our politicians have never played a game of Civilization and it shows.

Heading back to posit::conf this year to talk about succeeding when your AI coding assistants fail! LLMs are hot topic at posit this year and hoping to bring a new twist to this conversation.

It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—

Really not a fan of this minifigure trend to allow the skirted ones to sit. This implies minifigures have knees! They absolutely do not have knees.

My vacuum counts the particles it picks up and plots by size. Slightly skeptical of the unit precision of the 650m+ smallest ones tho… 🤔

Wonder how much money we spend and emissions we generate by saying “thank you” and being polite to our AI tools.

Got to Ante 15 in #balatro and now I have nothing left to achieve in 2025.

Coolest part of being a python 🐍 n00b is using pyspark and pandas interchangeably and having no clue what’s going on and no remorse.

Using AI to learn python on-the-job, and using AI to fix the bugs AI introduces, and using a different AI to fix those bugs and can’t help thinking that I should probably go back to the old way of coding.

Gotta get back to make more nerdy content now that social media can be wholesome again. Brickr and dinosaur content commencing soon.

Work trip to London and made a very important first stop.

My top 2 most-repeated phrases at work: “If you automate your data, the data scientist will have more time to do… data science” “Once again, have you considered a Bayesian approach?”

Late to do the AI game, but realized I now have access to infinite Golden Girls episodes: The Golden Girls join the LEGO Group data science team: “Sven, I’m fluent in Python!” only for Dorothy to mutter, “Blanche, the only snake you know is the one in your dating history.”

Life update: everything is the same I think. Still at the LEGO Group, still a nerd, still back flipping. Work is making me use python more, so that’s fun I guess.