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

I had to do a double take on this map. To really highlight “high” vs “low,” it’s clearer to use completely different colors instead of similar hues. The choice below reads like a sequential scale - light blue feels like a middle bin, not a low one. Color opinions aside, interesting info!

Opening LinkedIn to see a shiny red inbox notification …only to realize it’s another sponsored message Suckered. Every. Time.

Shana Tova 🤍

learning about different string matching methodologies today - Levenshtein, q-gram, cosine, Jaro... data people who wrangle text data for a living are truly the unsung heroes of our data community.

#Quarto meets #Shiny in Dirt Data Reports, a soil health report generator. @tanyashapiro.bsky.social and I built this app based on the {soils} R package to make automated soil health reporting more accessible for the researchers + practitioners who don’t want to code. #rstats #soilhealth

anyone have good news to share? or cute dog pics? i could use some ☀️

This is by far the most time saving thing I've built for myself. She has ChatGPT brains, Donna Paulsen's personality, and all the skills I need to get basic admin work done. Thank's Donna 🤍

Not a data post, but I’m still doing data things behind the scenes… regardless of my questionable fashion choices.

Battle of the Sexes Part 2? I'm here for it. Then again, my feed is all tennis content post-US-Open, so I've been "lured" here for it (thanks algo). Take him down Sabalenka 🎾 www.the-independent.com/sport/tennis...

Officially. Under. Contract. 😱

Putting an offer in on a house

JavaScript is the Miss Rhode Island of date handling.

TIL to always check your input types in R. NEVER ASSUME. Shiny dateInput() on back end is actually an input type text. So if you try to do fun JS things to look for an input date, you'll run yourself to death in circles. Don't be like me. Don't assume. Check your input types.

Ok, Osaka and Andre Swagassi won me over. I need a Labubu. That’s gotta be the secret sauce to her game. Phenomenal match tonight. 🎾

Mortgage loan shopping is so much fun when you’re self employed I can just hear underwriters throwing down all the red flags 🚩🚩🚩 DONT SUBPRIME ME BRO, WE GOOD *pleads with tax returns*

If you're in insurance/insurtech space and mastered the logic for out-of-sequence endorsements... Congratulations! You've beat the final boss of software development. You can literally do anything. IYKYK

you win some, you lost some dev + QA date with PowerAutomate. it's about as fun as it sounds.

Kristen: "So I don't follow TSwift or Kelce, and yet I get this on top of my feed..." *shows engagement announcement, swipes thru gallery* Me: "wait wait, hold" *swipes back to pic of the 💍* Me: "I wonder how they'll insure it for" Old habits die hard. You can take the girl out of insurance...

Speaking of cool #d3 datavis/interactives… "NJ Transit Is NYC’s Least Reliable Commuter Rail — By a Long Shot" www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

me battling version control problems this AM

trying to navigate Google's labyrinth of instructions - go to the cloud console, then go to the admin console (yes they're different), enable this, add these scopes, copy that, hop on one foot 3 times. THEN *maybe* your API will work.

Repressing the passive aggressive urge to misspell someone's name in an email reply after receiving an email: "Hi Tonya..." It is right there. In my email handle. "Tanya". We've known each other for a year. It's always been Tanya. It always will be Tanya.

The DVS Mentorship Program returns! Apply by September 7 for the next cohort. This program offers mentees early in their #dataviz career an opportunity to work with a mentor who has 5+ years of professional experience in the field. Apply here: www.datavisualizationsociety.org/mentorship

Am I taking things too far with Donna? Expanding my new virtual assistant's skillset to go beyond organizing my work day and manage my workout schedule. I need someone to hold me accountable!

House hunting with my girl, @kweest0n.bsky.social Listing agent: “and here’s the primary, with spacious His & Hers closets” Me: “or Hers & Hers closets 🌈👯‍♀️” Kristen: “we share clothes so it’s all one closet to me anyways” She’s not wrong…

"We worried so much about AGI taking over, we missed the part where we turned ourselves into bots. Predictable inputs, predictable outputs. The easiest targets to automate." writing.nikunjk.com/p/dont-get-o...

Troubles (R code) Disorder is sometimes necessary to open new paths forward #codeart #genartclub #genart

TFIF It’s been a long week friends. Go unplug and do something fun this weekend 🤍