📊 Five #ggplot2 functions I wish I'd known about earlier 📊 I've written a short blog (with examples) of some of the lesser-known {ggplot2} functions and arguments that make it easier to create better charts! Link: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/five-gg... #RStats #DataViz

i had the best time making these silly little pelicans this weekend 🤩 i present: ✨The Pelifont✨

Open your heart to joy and to the Ottawa Senators

FTN is partnering with the Carnegie Mellon Sports Analytics Center to provide advanced charted data to students to help prepare them for a career in sports data and analysis. Special thanks to @stat-ron.bsky.social for being a leader in this partnership.

Me: @niccrane.bsky.social how do I get a dput of an arrow schema pls halp Nic: try schema$code() R6 method? Me: uh what where I’ve never seen that _works exactly as expected_ Me: how tf, that wasn’t in the docs?! _consults google_ wtf, google returns to v12.0 as the first result (not v23) #rstats

I would have preferred to have the "draw the rest of the owl" meme on the cover, but this will do. Seems like it is on schedule, and we'll leave some typos so you know we didn't write it with AI.

wow when they said python was the second best language at everything they weren’t kidding eh?

wow when they said python was the second best language at everything they weren’t kidding eh?

So, I need you to watch Oakland Roots goalkeeper Raphael Spiegel (blue) here. He's up for a late free kick, but when it goes awry he heads behind the goal and get a second ball to punt onto the field. Eventually, after Tommy McCabe's goal line clearance, he gets sent off. #USL-C

we're now live with the first public iteration! usls-modeling.ryanscharf.com

three stupid ways I convince myself to do basic adulting: 1. Shove something to cook in the oven for ~30 minutes as a timed challenge 2. Call someone (my sister or mom usually help) and do stuff while catching up 3. procrastinating something daunting all three: I’ve been on a bender this morning 😅

#rstats I'm glad to announce Jarl 0.5.0! Jarl is a very fast R linter, written in Rust. This release brings many improvements and fixes. See the blog post: www.etiennebacher.com/posts/2026-0... And the full changelog: jarl.etiennebacher.com/changelog 🧵 to highlight some features below (1/4)

Join us for “Working Smarter in R” 💜 📅 Apr 22 ⏰ 6–7 BST / 11–12 PDT A global panel sharing tips on workflows, data cleaning, debugging & more in R. Featuring: @nrennie.bsky.social, Pao C., @meghansharris.bsky.social, Soraya C., @ivelasq3.bsky.social & @cghlewis.bsky.social #RStats #RLadies

Annual DynastyProcess meetup!

Our list of 2026 #rstats and #python summer internships has been posted. We can't wait to work with you and make great things! tidyverse.org/blog/2026/03...

One of my goals this year was to go to more away games during spring training. Usually I would stay at the reds complex and watch the minor league games on our back fields. This year I did get out more and also ate at a bunch of cool restaurants. So this is my complex + restaurant pairing thread.

The Glebe BIA had a report done about the area. We think this image perfectly encapsulates the reason for hesitancy by the business owners to get rid of parking. While 86% of the respondents who come to shop said they get there by means other than driving, 94% of the owners said they drove.

I'm over the moon excited to the release of 0.5.0 of orbital 🛰️ This release adds full support for boosted tree, faster creation of orbital objects, optimization of execution! We can finally reliably predict with a xgboost model from a database! tidyverse.org/blog/2026/03... #rstats #tidymodels

Recorded presentations from the 2026 ASI Summit are now live on YouTube. To see all of the incredible talks from this year's Summit, visit the link below: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

We are covering 40 people's travel, lodging, and registration for posit::conf() this fall! If you are from a group that is underrepresented in data science or open source, please consider applying for the Opportunity Scholarship—we'd love to have you join. posit.co/blog/apply-t...

tibbles good. glimpse() is a better print than the default tbl print though.

all projects gotta get contributors like @mrcaseb.com, he's been a whirlwind of nflverse maintenance and upgrades in the last month. thanks, seb!

~~ nflverse data update ~~ 2025 participation data is now live thanks to @ftnfantasy.com and @realfrankbrank.bsky.social. Access with nflreadr nflreadr.nflverse.com/reference/lo... or with nflreadpy nflreadpy.nflverse.com/api/load_fun...

Congratulations @discord.com; you have convinced *all* of my friend groups to start looking for alternatives to your service because of your shitty ID requirement rollout. Well, nothing lasts forever. 🙃

food nerds in my skeeting circles: anyone do dry aging at home? am contemplating building a diy minifridge setup with a raspberry pi humidity/fan/temp controller

There's a new tool from @ussoccer.com and @akeaswaran.me is here to tell you about it. Introducing Glass Onion, an Identifier Synchronization Tool www.americansocceranalysis.com/home/2026/1/...

Wandering out into -24C with my @rfortherestofus.com hat, thanks @dgkeyes.com!

Life's been extremely difficult lately, especially when your progress and efforts... feels under constant assessment. I made this to let myself code with no pressure. I'm calling it 'release.' A reminder that even in the darkest phases, there's light on the horizon. Messy Code: tinyurl.com/dy7zc2mz

In the wake of FBref's defacto death, I saw a lot of posts suggesting alternate data sources. Unfortunately, many of them focus exclusively on men's soccer. To measure what options remain for woso, I conducted a survey of the most popular FBref alternatives. What I found is disappointing: 🧵

this fucking sucks

Let’s go!!! 🚀 🏒 Teamworks has acquired Sportlogiq, the global leader in AI-powered hockey analytics. teamworks.com/blog/teamwor...

tired: LLMs wired: robot vacuums. just got my first one and holy crap it is so cool

Happy 2026! 🎆 My resolution: put @dslc.io on a sustainable footing. I’m soft-launching our Patreon to cover costs (Zoom, hosting, etc). If you love #TidyTuesday, our Slack help, or our book clubs, you can be an early supporter before the official launch Monday! patreon.com/DSLC #RStats #DataBS

@libbyheeren.bsky.social is always telling us to work out loud so I'm going to spin up a thread about the soccer analysis work I've been poking around at. I'm a big supporter of the USL Super League / Gainbridge Super League and have been messing around with modeling playoff probabilities.

I calculated a soccer-specific chess rating for 4,400 online games between ~100 players' accounts Top 10: 1. Marten de Roon 2. Yussuf Poulsen 3. Antonee Robinson 4. Stefan de Vrij 5. Borna Sosa 6. Christian Pulisic 7. Michael Olise 8. Kevin Prince Boateng 9. N'Golo Kante 10. Josip Stanisic

if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄

test_that("Are you ready?", {  expect_match(YOU, "watch out")  expect_no_match(YOU, c("pout", "cry"))  expect_no_error(telling_you_why())  expect_no_warning("Santa Claus" |> coming_to_town()) })

I just need 1 more dataset for #TidyTuesday 2025! Thank you so much to those of you who have submitted datasets! The submissions have allowed me to make progress on a long-planned huge maintainability and usability improvement for TT, coming in 2026!

I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...

anyone else panicking over xgboost releasing a cran update last week that broke their legacy saved models? just lost like eight hours of my life strugglebussing a fix, it was awful, the code I used to fix it was awful, and i hate everything. might write about it later as therapy/closure #rstats

Data science folks: Can you recommend any textbooks/classes/resources that you really enjoyed, or that you felt made a particular difference in upscaling your skills? Asking for a friend who has some use-it-or-lose-it professional-development funds to spend before the end of the year.

Fifteen Years xkcd.com/3172/

Randomly decided that it's time for Tantastic Food Takes - here's a thread of the top things I ate in London on my recent trip (featuring Donia, Gymkhana, Dishoom, Quality Chop House, Regency Cafe, and Singburi)

-- WEEK 13 #NFL 🏈 Playoff Leverage -- Here you can see 1.) how the playoff probability of each team changes depending on whether they win or lose the next game, and 2.) the combined playoff leverage of the teams involved in each game, sorted by kickoff time.

including a few days of travel recovery time into PTO planning is superb stuff - slept for 12+ hours when I got home from London and now casually unpacking and doing laundry and getting ready for the week is 10/10. alas, if only liverpool were not shit right now that would be excellent

I'm honoured and delighted to be delivering the keynote for Japan.R 2025 in Tokyo on Dec 6. New ideas on creativity and community in open source software. Live demonstrations of ggbot2, OpenTelemetry and mirai (Posit ecosystem-wide initiatives). #Rstats #Tidyverse japanr.connpass.com/event/374714/

Good morning, it is 9am here in London. I am confident that the woman who wrote fifty shades of grey was inspired by the London skyline. However, I am happily on my way to pickup volleyball by tube so I have zero complaints.