Notebooks 2.0 is here! 📓🔮 Previewing today:
Notebook Kit, an open file format for notebooks with open-source tooling for generating static sites; and
Observable Desktop, a macOS desktop application for editing notebooks as local files, with a radical new approach to AI. observablehq.com/notebooks/2/

Happy first day of December! Hope you're skating through your R CMD checks 🤍❄️⛸️

also holidays

Grateful for all you #dataviz & #databs turkeys.

A quick bag of tortilla chips.

OR IS IT observable_insight_prep <- c("Allison", "Tanya")?

To celebrate this gem of a book by @statsteph.bsky.social, @ivelasq3.bsky.social and Rebecca Powell on complex survey data with #RStats and the #tidyverse, we are giving away one copy to a lucky winner. To enter, re-post this and follow me by Nov 24. Not affiliated with bsky.

I recently had the opportunity to interview Ben Welsh (Reuters news applications editor), during a very interesting time for data journalists. Check out the story below! 👇

Apricot mallow quick sketch

I'm a climate scientist living in Texas who served as a lead author on the National Climate Assessment under the previous Trump administration. I witnessed first-hand its chilling impact on access to data, funding & publication of research, implementation of solutions, and scientists themselves. 🧵

👻 Here's the ✨ new 2024 art, feat. community responses to the question "What's something in R that feels tempting, but is actually dangerous?" I couldn't fit them all, so I've added a blank version 👇🧵 so you can make your own (could be a fun class activity 😉) Happy Halloween, #rstats world! 🤡🎈

Little R horror monsters (2022). New R community inspired Halloween 2024 illustration coming up tomorrow 🎃🎈

The responses are so good, & I learned quite a few new things! Thanks everybody, keep 'em coming -- the thread feels like the start of a fun blog post. 👻🎀👾🎀👾👻 Here's one that wasn't specifically made for Halloween but feels like the right vibes, from early 2021.

If you're an #rstats user, one way to protect yourself from yourself is to do: usethis::git_vaccinate() which will setup or modify your user-level (aka global) gitignore file to handle the most obvious R-associated files that probably don't belong in git. usethis.r-lib.org/reference/gi...

I'm working on my 2024 Halloween R monsters illustration and #rstats folks, I need your help 👻🎃 What's something in data science, R, statistics, etc. that feels tempting but is very, very dangerous? In the meantime I'll be sharing some Halloween R art from previous years 🕷️🧟☠️ The first (2019?):

I absolutely loved working on this cover art w/ @statsteph.bsky.social, @ivelasq3.bsky.social, & Rebecca Powell! Fantasy maps + data? What a dream. Learn how to do tidy survey analysis in R 👇 🌟 Free online: tidy-survey-r.github.io/tidy-survey-... 📖 Preorder: www.routledge.com/Exploring-Co...

Here is my opinion on important #rstats accounts to follow. go.bsky.app/8pYGwbP It is very much a curated list by me, and reflects my own opinion. I will be adding to it as I discover more folks i think should be on the list.

Got a special delivery of bRew together stickers (and sweet moose card!) from Angie Reed. Finding this in the mail, + reconnecting w/ so many great #rstats folks, has me feeling very optimistic 💙 If we haven't met, I'm Allison 👋 I do data science and art: allisonhorst.com Let's bRew this thing!

I've learned a lot about data loaders (in R, Python, SQL, or whatever language you 💗) to generate static data snapshots at build time for faster page loads & more strongly opinionated data apps/reports/dashboards. I wrote about the "what" & "why" of it: observablehq.com/blog/data-lo...

I cannot believe how quickly one can build prototypes in Observable Framework

Proud to be part of this project with Voltron Data! They just released their Benchmarking Report comparing GPU vs CPU performance. Theseus = crazy fast 🤯 Interactive data vizzes in report to prove it. So hyped to show off Observable Plot tricks in this one 🙌📊 voltrondata.com/benchmarks/t...

Teaching intro data science or stats in environmental sciences / ecology this fall? The lterdatasampler package is now on CRAN, with curated real world datasets from the US Long Term Ecological Research program! Check it out: lter.github.io/lterdatasamp...

Awesome work by @allisonhorst.bsky.social #stats

New platform new profile pic, hi everybody!