Here's a new GAO report on the federal statistical system's need to modernize and adapt to a rapidly changing data landscape--based on a forum GAO held in 2024 with experts and stakeholders. #econsky www.gao.gov/products/gao...

Libby is actually casting for Real Housewives of #RStats. She is succeeding. Those comments!

I cried at "hoobastank"

Super excited to share what I've learned picking up Positron as a long-time RStudio user! 💙

#BLS has delayed the 2024 Consumer Expenditures Survey annual release. This is likely due to the severe understaffing in the agency. Staff losses and hiring freeze are taking their toll. www.bls.gov/cex/notices/... #econsky

Like this! sessioninfo::session_info() can now (or will after review) output to LaTeX #rstats github.com/r-lib/sessio...

The updated Publisher extension in #Positron now supports publishing to Posit Connect Cloud. I recently explored political violence in the U.S. using The Prosecution Project data. See it at jeremyallen-political-violence-in-the-united-states.share.connect.posit.cloud. Link to instructions below.

I'll be at the Package Manager booth all day Wednesday and Thursday if you want to chat about public sector data science, package management, whiskey, coffee, tea, photography, bags, audio, the philosophical differences between science and software dev, parenting teenagers, or copperhead snakes.

new data science job description

a danger noodle on our walk

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

True. And if you feel violence from the left is the only option to stop other violence, you must acknowledge that supposed righteous violence *will* entail more deaths on the left as you pursue that violence in the name of ending it. It just doesn't happen any other way. It always consumes more.

People keep telling me they can't afford to attend #PositConf2025 next week, so I need to make a public service announcement: attending virtually is very affordable (or free!) & is amazing! Get registered & hangout with me on the Discord server!! #databs #rstats #python

When my Posit career ends, I am aiming for Mac and Cheese tester.

If you've been using a 📌 emoji to bookmark posts, @rafael.my and @samuel.bsky.team cooked up a special tool you can use to migrate them to your Saved Posts. Try it here: pin2saved.vercel.app

The tough guy is the biggest baby.

It's Friday, let's open a can of worms! To what extent do principles of software development apply to #datascience? Not a novel question, but still a sincere (and intentionally broad) one. DS practice is so varied, and I'd like to collect perspectives on when DS work needs to consider the SDLC.

There's been a big push at Posit this summer to get high-quality OpenTelemetry support out to the #rstats community (a longstanding dream of mine). I think {mirai} is the first package release to showcase this work, and as per usual with @shikokuchuo.net, it was done in record time!

New DRP post is up. If you aren't familiar with the Federal Statistical System, we encourage you to learn more. And tell others. Be that data nerd in your family. www.datarescueproject.org/the-federal-...

User guide is now also up for Databot for use in Positron: positron.posit.co/databot.html

kids, listen up. 90% of adulting is looking for appropriately sized containers

Watching Don’t Look Up again today was more documentary than satire. Recommend.

I loved this documentary. Gives a good feel for the community not just the history. Highly recommend!

Excited to announce that our paper with @pingfanhu.bsky.social and Bogdan Bunea on our #rstats package {surveydown} is now published in @plosone.org The paper compares the benefits of using a code-based approach to survey design, leveraging #quarto and #shiny journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

I've been having fun developing a #Positron theme from scratch. I’ve never made a theme for any IDE, so I’m learning a lot. Poking your nose into every corner of a house reveals some things! Soon, I’ll write a blog post about the process and make the theme available. Stay tuned!

The end of an era. I have spent a lot of time in Claire's with our daughter. And these days we spend it in Sephora. www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organisations of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world in favour of one that more accurately displays Africa's size. www.reuters.com/world/africa...

god i want to reincarnate as a cat, every room i enter has a perfect little napping bed set up for me

Starbucks should compete with Buc-ee’s and open gas stations. There are so many times I need gas AND a java chip frappuccino

Trump's a contender for the No-deal Fleece Prize

trump tomorrow after returning from alaska: "who'd have thought diplomacy with putin would be so hard? no one could have predicted it. it couldn't have been known, really."

philosophy sidebar: prayer the original system prompt

sad face. #PalmerPenguins #RStats #SpellingBee

I went into a store dedicated to woodworking. It was incredible even though I don’t do woodworking.

A lovely tribute to pigeons. 🥰

Just praying and fasting? We know the holy trinity of hydrology is thoughts, prayers, and fasting.

It's not going to accept it, but in a good world, it would. #dplyr #RStats

Don't miss THE GOAT of burning laptops, #RStats, and all-round very special human being

New York Liberty are so good they only have to play the second half of each game

There are two ways to my heart. Good food. Pre-drilled pilot holes in anything I must assemble.

Curious new MAGA position: the libs were ok with child abuse, so we will be, too

So excited to invite y'all to another tidy dev day after posit::conf(2025)!

they say 80% of data science is data wrangling and 97% of work is 2FA

Adding on to another answer @davisvaughan.bsky.social pointed out a super cool Positron feature, Ctrl+Shift+Right (MacOS) to "expand" and Ctrl+Shift+Left to "shrink" the selection. Giving me vim motion vibes 😎 forum.posit.co/t/breakerofc... #Rstats

Chocolate hummus is the real deal

Sometimes #WNBA games slow to a crawl due to fouls and video reviews. I wish we could prevent more fouls and increase pace and scoring. An idea: 3 fouls = foul out, if 3 players foul out of a game, those 3 cannot play in the next game.

It's June, so it's baby deer season! Here is #fawn in the creek in my backyard. #photography

I'm just a man standing in front of today's Spelling Bee asking it to accept the word capacitive, and it won't

Check all your group chats for bombing plans

as the youth say, wait till the end