your entities and entity relationships should be the north star of app development, not an afterthought. no one wants product feature soup.

Is this the year we submit our first ever posit conf talk submission? I thinkest yes. Any tips from past speakers appreciated😊

Building tools for myself 👷‍♀️ I project manage across tools - GitHub, Asana, SharePoint Lists, etc. Which makes it hard to quantify work and time block across clients. Working on a "hub" to bring it all together and make life easier 😊

2016. I used to be cool.

I'm insufferable, but in a fun way. Funsufferable.

i'm too lazy to update a powerpoint every month. so i guess we're gonna learn how to work with xml in R so we can automate this sucker. what lazy task is motivating you to learn new things today?

And despite it all, this is Tehran 🇮🇷

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Late to the party (as usual) but Claude Code is pretty mind blowing. Of course - back of my mind I'm also thinking of this scene from Silicon Valley.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0b_...

Restoring my well of inspiration 📚📈

love when an enterprise saas company makes changes to their APIs without giving a girl a heads up. guess we're in reactive plumbing mode today 👩‍🔧

I offered her an end-of-year promotion and she said yes! Could not think of a better way to start of this new year. Love you KK 😘 @kweest0n.bsky.social

As a new homeowner, I feel myself entering my professional designer era 💅 It is a very expensive era…

Power lines of Italy. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

A perk of being self-employed: no cringe corporate holiday parties.

Moving into new home this weekend. I have the opportunity to redecorate my office. If I can make it happen, it would be really cool to put together an art wall with some pieces from #rstats artists. Not all have online shops. TBD on logistics 🤔

If you’re a homeowner, what are some things you wish you’d known early on? #askingforafriend

I ignored the strip.clip argument in #ggplot2 for way too long 😲 Combined with a small negative margin tweak, you can place facet labels inside each panel. A tiny trick that makes small multiples feel so much cleaner. 🔵 no manual coordinates 🔵 inherits theme styling 🔵 scales nicely when resizing

For the data folk out there doing all the thankless work that keep companies afloat: - cleaning dirty data - maintaining leaky pipes - building out dashboards so ppl can export to Excel - explaining why reports don't match, etc etc I see you. I appreciate you. You are better than any AI tool.

Just for fun, I built some interactive visuals to follow the Warner Brothers bidding war drama. Tracks stock prices over the last 30 days for Warner Brothers, Netflix, and Paramount alongside a timeline of key events.

Pros and cons to every career decision. But seeing all these return-to-office mandates only validates my decision to go independent. The best perk - I can work where and when I want. #beyourownboss

Like a fine wine, baby. Me & Miss Peaches spent a lot of time together. Etta has a way of recentering my soul.

T-19 days until closing 🏡 The first time homeowner jitters are kicking in. I am equal parts stressed and excited.

I aspire to be as badass as Karen Wheeler. #strangerthings

What. A. Turkey. The fact that we’ve politicized science is beyond me. The fact that this guy, an ACTUAL physician, was the deciding vote for RFK… shameful. So much for that Hippocratic Oath. The dude you appointed is doing irreparable harm. www.cnn.com/2025/11/23/p...

told myself i'd never get in too deep with insurance work again. but after seeing way too many agency mngmt/policy admin systems with lackluster UI/UX, i could be persuaded to get back in the game. just waiting on @kweest0n.bsky.social to say yes to launching an insurtech startup w me... #saywhen

Reminder to get your flu and COVID shots before holiday travel. Don’t be like me and wait until you catch it this season. On day 5 of recovery. This is rough. 😷

My LinkedIn feed is now filled with JSON vs TOON content for LLMs. A girl likes one post, and the algo gets wayyy too eager.

Such. A fun. Panel. If you missed it and want to listen in, the recording is live! Thank you Observable team for hosting 😊 www.youtube.com/live/ciV3q3w...

Happening tomorrow!

Pretty amazing initiative by Instacart 👏 They've made it easy to connect you to local food banks. Build a cart of most needed items and get it delivered directly to a food bank near you. Donating made easy 👇 www.instacart.com/store/hub/co...

This shutdown is starting to have major consequences. But we can still play our part to help those in need. If you have the means, you can help by donating to orgs like Feeding America or your local food banks. www.feedingamerica.org

The next experiment: making this Shiny doc gen app work with an LLM. First time playing around with the R openai package. Safe to say, I'm blown away 🤯

I really enjoy tool building. A use case that comes up a lot in my world is dynamic doc gen. Sharing an example of how you can leverage the powers of Shiny + R markdown to create something bespoke to your needs. Use case below to generate contract docs ✨

New Data Viz Event 🚨 Let's be real. This is just an excuse for me to geek out about my favorite topic with my data viz sheroes. Catch me, @allisonhorst.bsky.social, Kelsey Nanan + @shirleywu.studio on Tuesday Nov 11th @ 1pm ET. Registration link below 😊 streamyard.com/watch/dHiSp8...

Our next meetup will be Wednesday Oct 29th at 6pm CST! Efficient File Management in R with {fs} with @jadeynryan.bsky.social www.meetup.com/rladies-st-l...

My journey so far as a solopreneur: Year 1 - no $ yet, relationship building phase, focus on creating an online presence Year 2 - finally landing clients! learning & revising product offering Year 3 - consistently busy, automating admin work to maximize client hours

🌏 A compact snapshot on where people live around the globe (2023 data) — over 60% of #humans live in #Asia! I originally created a more basic version for our new #ggplot2 [un]charted lesson on 🎨 "Color Choice" to discuss color accessibility: 👉 www.ggplot2-uncharted.com/module2/colo...

Making time to do a fun “how to” data viz exercise this week. If you’re new and want to learn, what would you want to see? Example with Observable Plot (js) or ggplot2 (R)?

We are living in the "everyone has an AI hammer, therefore everything is a nail" era of problem solving. And it is extremely pervasive in tech & data circles.

rifling through my old workshop materials to remember how i did that cool thing in R with tables. oh, you thought my workshops were for you? friends, make no mistake - i am the primary beneficiary of my own teaching content. if you happened to learn something too, that's just a bonus.

Listening to my dad on a work call today: "The API is the API" And me thinking "API? What is he talking about? This is the guy who doesn't even know how to flip the FaceTime camera around." Then realizing, duh, acronyms stand for many things. In his world, API = Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient 👨‍🔬

This workshop is tomorrow, don't miss your chance to register! Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine! Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S Please share! #AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats

What’s your data passion project these days? I’ve gotten into gamer stats territory in my free time and it brings me so much joy 👾

Oh my god it’s only Monday

making a bunch of dev changes at once thinking i can successfully test, check it off, and call it a slam dunk every. edit. needs. testing. #babydevsteps

It’s been a week. Happy Friday friends.

Have I mentioned how much I love APIs? I had to clean up 500 dupe CRM records. Alas, there was no bulk merge feature in the UI. It would take hours to clean up 😱 And since laziness is my greatest coding motivator, I started to dig thru dev docs… low & behold, they had an API! THANK YOU DATA MAGIC

Me, the system admin, cleaning up data after users who are on a mission to fill the CRM with dirty, filthy, data. This reminds me of a talk by renown behavioral economist, Dan Ariely about work/motivation using legos...sigh. #iamsisyphus