Testing bluesky post from the {bskyr} package! Nothing to see here 😎

Millennial tombstone inscription: Unsubscribed.

Despite the 1990’s advertisement assuring me I would not do this; I did, indeed, download a car.

Possibly major update needed for your @bigbookofr , bookdown.org announced is going to stop

Hey #rstats folks, I've not seen any new open-source books being published in some time. Have I just missed them or are there very few?

I think part of LLM chatbots' appeal (especially in their native apps) is that you get information in a clean text format, with no other distractions

I had the chance to flex some old Excel skills and I must say I've still got it

Few things give me greater joy than when I can fix an appliance. Bonus points if it's quick and easy

Gorgeous!

Maybe I'm late to the party but I've realised that when people say AI now they mean any kind of tech

This is probably part of why everyone on bluesky is 38 years old: 38 year olds are basically the only people who consider it totally normal to flee a sinking ship and then just casually resume the conversation on the tropical island they end up on. They've outlived dozens of ships.

Holy moley today's featured Wikimedia Commons picture of the day (vertical panorama of the Milky Way) is breathtaking commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:03...

There's been some discussion about many analytics tools counting pageviews without actual visitors. This happens when Chromium-based browsers, WordPress, etc., pre-render a page (for quicker loading) before an actual click has occurred. The visitor may or may not click & visit the page, but...

🎉 Big news! After 5+ years of consulting work under the R for the Rest of Us name, I'm launching Clarity Data Studio. The name confusion was real – people thought we only did courses, not knowing about our consulting work building reports, websites, and more.

I've just discovered Good Old Games (GOG). My wishlist...

I've been thinking lately that Excel is actually way ahead of its time, even today 😅. It gets abused because it's actually way too powerful

the excel spreadsheet would almost certainly be legible to humans across the recorded history of the species, from a sumarian scribe to whatever techno organic collective that emerges as our evolutionary successor

Being in the job market is very scary, but I am not one to give up. I now work in the clean energy, sustainability, climate change and ESG space. You can find a list of services I offer here: shelkariuki.netlify.app/services/ #rstats #quarto #sustainability #esg #energy

My book R for the Rest of Us: A Statistics-Free Introduction is available as part of the Humble Bundle. Pay what you want, get some great books, and support the Electronic Frontier Foundation at the same time! www.humblebundle.com/books/coding...

We're looking for more curators for the second half of 2025! Want to share your voice or know someone who should? 📝 Sign up to curate: airtable.com/appjkZZgtF0i... 📖 Learn what curating involves: guide.rladies.org/rocur/guide/ 💌 Nominate someone you admire: airtable.com/appFIBzsk2Ax...

I'm late to the game but this robot vacuum/mop purchase is like introducing a dishwasher to home life

If there's one game I would LOVE to experience again for the first time, it's Hotline Miami

The Millennial Curse: My parents hogged the TV when I was a kid, and now my kids hog the TV from me

🚨 Cool book club alert 🚨 Join #rladies Rome organizer and @dslc.io mentor @fgazzelloni.bsky.social as she and other's read her new book, "Health Metrics and the Spread of Infectious Diseases". How often do you get to read a book alongside the author!? 🤯 #rstats

I'm happy to announce the addition of 15 books to @bigbookofr.com including 9 in Portuguese! #Rstats oscarbaruffa.com/bbof-20250518/

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Wow, this is an amazing collaboration #RStats!

Ever wondered why some charts are more effective and engaging than others? I’ll be going through all the theory, evidence and principles behind compelling data storytelling from this Wednesday. Free to watch for anyone who is interested: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-fundam...

Remember when trendy companies names all end in ".ly"

What ever happened to BEAM electronics? I would've thought it would be much bigger than 20 years ago. Mostly seems like very expensive kits now when the point was kind of to be cheap way to build cool little robots

✋ Show of hands, how many of you have heard of the Data Science Learning Community (@dslc.io) before? How about the R4DS Online Learning Community? I’m curious, when, where, and how folks learned about DSLC (nee R4DS). Share your DSLC story below!

Yesterday I launched my very first digital book. And, wow, your response has been incredible! I’m grateful for the overwhelming interest & all the positive feedback. Here’s a Payhip map showing our community stretching to nearly every corner of the globe. Thank you for making this journey special!

If you want to support local bookstores but also love audio books, @libro.fm is having a sale today 🥳 I picked up a few books on my to-read list like Piranesi, and The House in the Cerulean Sea for ~ $5 each 😱 📚 libro.fm

So many books to read, so little time.

I was 6 months into my first job when the credit crisis hit. Back then it was called "the credit crunch". Almost sounds appetising...

In putting together the new version of the Mapping with R course, I came across lots of great resources for learning to make maps in #rstats. Here are some of my top recommendations, all of which are available online for free.

DogMan is an great movie! It got many chuckles from me

The Minecraft movie was quite watchable, and even enjoyable with a kid getting excited at all the references

If you're looking to expand your #DataScience skills, the Big Book of #RStats (www.bigbookofr.com), #TidyTuesday (github.com/rfordatascie...), JHU's MOOCs (jhudatascience.org/courses.html), and the #OpenSource DS Masters (datasciencemasters.org) are outstanding free resources. #PyData #RLadies

HODL!! (my boring investments)

DSLC book clubs are fantastic and if you’ve ever wanted to get started with R while doing baseball analytics this is a perfect group to help with accountability! #rstats

⚠️WANTED⚠️ Dirty datasets that can be used in training courses! Have you got any great examples of datasets (preferably CC0 or CC-BY) that you think demonstrate some of the key issues with dirty data? I'm interested in teaching how to improve data collection, & about cleaning data once you have it. 📊

The single biggest downside of #RStats is the currency conversion but for those brave enough (or with access to someone else's money) to exploit it, arbitrage presents huge opportunities

Via mastodon.online/@nikitonsky/..., replace semantic versioning with pride versioning.

Hey #RStats peeps, 9 books have been added to the collection! oscarbaruffa.com/9-new-books-...

sharing some love today

Hello world! I'm the Big Book of R bot 🤖. Every few hours I post a random entry from my collection of over 400 open-sourced, free #RStats books.

Probably no-one except me uses my R tutorials in their teaching, but if you do, I'm re-writing them over the next 6-9 months. My goal is to streamline them based on 5 years of using them in class, but if you have (polite) requests/suggestsions let me have them. www.discovr.rocks/discovr/

Why does @weare.rladies.org have less than 1000 followers? We can do better than this #rstats folks. It is a terrific account to follow because every week not only we get to know a new member of the #RLadies community but we also get to read their R favorites, tips, and jokes.

I wanted one of these SO badly. And wow that title screen is bringing back ✨memories✨