More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

@dslc.io welcomes you to week 38 of #TidyTuesday! We're exploring FIDE Chess Player Ratings! 📁 https://tidytues.day/2025/2025-09-23 📰 https://www.fide.com/fide-september-2025-rating-list-vincent-keymer-debuts-in-top-10-open/#TidyTuesday #RStats #PyData #JuliaLang #DataViz #tidyverse #r4ds

This week’s #RLadies curator is @ivelasq3.bsky.social!

I played around with Positron Assistant a bit this morning. Do y'all spend a LOT of money on these things? I spent $0.70 In 20 minutes debugging an issue the way I would in a $20/month chat on non-API Gemini. I could easily burn through my monthly spend today. Is avoiding copy/paste worth that much?

Shiny App-Packages by Martin Frigaard #RStats https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/shiny.html#shiny-app-packages

Got my glass of🍷and walked into the community mixer... And got ~claustrophobic. That room is waaaaaay too small for this group. I'm curious if anybody has a CO2 meter and can see how bad it is. Think I'll head elsewhere in any case, unfortunately! See some of you tomorrow at dev day! #PositConf2025

Looks like I'll see y'all in Houston next year for #PositConf2026! Note: much like Austin, Houston isn't IN Texas so much as (almost) SURROUNDED BY Texas. I can understand if certain insane and evil policies of our government keep people away, though! #PositConf2025

My guess is Detroit for #PositConf2026. #PositConf2025

Want to have a built-in circle of data buddies at the next conference you attend?! Go to community events online!! @jonthegeek.com & I were talking about how our circles online, like the DSLC book clubs & the DS Hangout, let us get to know lots of folks online before seeing them in person <3 #databs

🧵 #PositConf2025 Day 1 Summary I use these social media posts as notes for myself to try to make sure I actually remember the things I saw/heard, and going back to summarize them helps that process. It also serves as a TL;DR, so win-win! I saw 8 talks yesterday. Let's see what I saw!

🧵1/2 maps.app.goo.gl/6YqqHS3raeCx... This statue in Seguin, TX, used to be listed as the "Oldest Largest Pecan Statue". That might seem to break the rule...

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Next up: "Disposable Shiny Apps" by @jameshwade.bsky.social #PositConf2025 #RStats #dataBS

Uninstalling the android photos app brings back the "base" os version, which has the perspective crop! Yay! Go away ai nonsense, give me the useful tools!

Day 2's morning keynote: "The Psychology of Technologists" by @grimalkina.bsky.social #PositConf2025 #RStats #dataBS

This week #TidyTuesday exploring a curated collection of recipes collected from Allrecipes website. I created donut chart subplots to look like plates and added a fork and knife image to each. #pydytuesday #dataviz

I normally only see these ternary plots used to show UK election results, but decided to see if I could make them work for this week's #TidyTuesday data from Allrecipes 📊 A little bit tricky to add annotations to but overall, I quite like the result! #RStats #ggplot2 #DataViz

The 🍗 or the 🍳? #TidyTuesday Looking at the ingredients of over 2000 recipes online, where are different cuisines found on the chicken vs. egg (x-axis) and butter vs. oil (y-axis) scales? As a Scandinavian, I guess I'm part of the egg+butter outlier! Code: github.com/borstell/tid... #R4DS

Got into #TidyTuesday after picking up R this year. Just submitted my first dataset to the challenge—and turned it into my first R package: {tastyR}! 🍽️ Super excited to see what the #rstats community cooks up with the data this week! 😀👀 Glad to have made y'all's Tuesday a lil...tastyR. 🏃🏿‍♂️

The thing with designating a group that doesn't actually exist as a terrorist organization is that they can then say anyone they want is a part of that group.

Kimmel isn't being censored for comments about Charlie Kirk. He's being censored for comments about Trump. Trump didn't give his fellow rapist a lewd drawing of a woman. It was clearly a lewd drawing of a *girl*. Words matter. Stop conceding the point in headlines.

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk

Join us Thursday to learn how to text using our own BYOP texting platform and help us register more Democrats and reach out to register Dems in California about Voting Yes on Proposition 50!

@FieldTeam6.org is launching the biggest in-person voter drive campaign since Civil Rights! Wanna help? Host a voter drive! We'll train you & you'll leave the call fired up, knowing everything you need to lead your own voter drive! #Voterizer #GreatRegistrationRace social.fieldteam6.org/s/0D1zB2Is

Thank you, Umair! We have an "unofficial" repo for materials here. Mind if I port these over? github.com/rstudio/rstu...

David Frum on Jimmy Kimmel: "This is not cancel culture because it's not culture. It's state repression. It's an order from the government. Here is the script, you must read, if you do not read it, you will be taken off the air."

Not a big fan of Jimmy Kimmel, but if you think his show should be canceled for this, you’re a hack and a total fraud who should never pretend to care about free speech

RTing myself to make sure we're keeping our 👀 open. What @jcheng5.bsky.social found via databot was cool but a) *Joe* (not databot) found it by noticing that the bot mentioned a weird thing, and b) we don't know how many people found it and didn't point it out to me. #PositConf2025 #RStats #dataBS

We are point where … Karl Rove and … John “Torture Memo” Yoo feel compelled to loudly and publicly denounce MAGA overreach (louder, honestly, than many Dem leaders). I don’t know what it means: things are abt to get really bad? Or proof of fatal overreach? But either way, it’s just wild.

And.... I can't people anymore! At least not in that context. Might try hotel bar if it's calm-ish, but I'm not 100% sure it exists.

Just so I'm clear: TV host says we should kill every homeless person? No big deal TV host says the right must "go to war" with the left? Pfft. TV host says the government is cracking down on critics? Well, the government cracks down on him for the criticism. Free speech, everyone.

I've been trying this out recently and it works great! simplifies the JavaScript <-> R communication a lot. I've updated my Shiny+React example app to use this, as another example: github.com/glin/shiny-r... #rstats

I'm collecting the links to #positconf talks here: github.com/durraniu/pos... Feel free to add to the list. #rstats

Me: I should take some time before the outing to see if I can teach {chores} to extract a dataset from a Wikipedia article! Also me: I can FEEL the new information from today pressing against my skull. I think I'm gonna do pretty much nothing til aquarium time 🤯 #PositConf2025 #RStats #dataBS

If anybody is curious, the James Beard dataset issue was a BIT more complicated than 2 csvs that didn't stitch together cleanly. Check out the cleaning script here: github.com/rfordatascie... The site had a bunch of inconsistencies and I missed that one 😭 #PositConf2025 #RStats

After a bit of a break, I'm back for "Making the most of artificial and human intelligence for data science" by @hadley.nz and @jcheng5.bsky.social. I know one little piece of this one, but I'm interested to hear what they have to say! #PositConf2025 #RStats

I absolutely *love* that @simonpcouch.com mentioned using Google Sheets to easily supply input(s) and target(s) for evaluating #LLM quality {vitals} 🧸 Sometimes selecting right-sized solutions means deviating the "serious" data science techniques to get things done, creatively! #positconf25

Wellllll crap. I realized I could de-people for a bit and watch these sessions online.. But the video player isn't working 😭 #PositConf2025 #RStats

Thank you for attending the #PositConf2025 Shiny session and all of your great questions! I'm excited to see the @opentelemetry.io integrations improve over time 🎉 🗣️: Observability at scale: Monitoring Shiny Applications with OpenTelemetry 🐙: github.com/schloerke/pr... #RStats #RShiny

Finally for this block: "shinystate: Launching collaboration and session management to new heights in Shiny applications" by @rpodcast.bsky.social #PositConf2025 #RStats #RShiny

"Observability at scale: Monitoring Shiny Applications with OpenTelemetry" by @schloerke.com. Slides: github.com/schloerke/pr... #PositConf2025 #RStats #RShiny

The first #RShiny (and also #PyShiny) talk of the afternoon is "Web applications with Shiny and React (and AI)" by @winstonchang.bsky.social. Er, and also #JavaScript. I'm very interested in this one! #PositConf2025 #RStats

Thankfully it looks like talks 2-4 are either #RShiny focused or bilingual. Wish it had been clearer that this first one was a #PyShiny tool. I could have taken my time getting down here 🙃

I'm running late for the Shiny New Tricks sessions, so no live skeeting for a bit probably!

Yay it's time for "Design of Everyday Shiny Apps" from my @atorusresearch.com colleagues Casey Aguilar-Gervase and Maya Gans!

Next: "Death by Dropdown? Engineer Insightful Shiny Apps with Behavioral Science" Jeremy Winget, PhD CrossStack Society #PositConf2025 #RStats

Now it's "shinyGovStyle - accessible government design in RShiny" by Cameron Race and Sarah Wong-Brown. #PositConf2025 #RStats #RShiny

I'm in the "Shiny for Humans" session. First up: "Modular, layout-as-code approach for customizable Shiny dashboards" by Kim Schouten from NZa (Dutch Healthcare Authority) #PositConf2025 #RStats #RShiny

Grumble. Android photo editor took away the really easy to use "unskew by dragging to corners during crop" thing, which I like to use to get rid of distortions in slide photos. Grrr.

First up: "10 Years of Data Science Tools... and What Happens Next" (and the general conference welcome). It's listed as @jmcphers.bsky.social, but we'll see if @hadley.nz does an intro (and then some) before him. #PositConf2025 #RStats