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Building data science tools
@posit.co
,
#rstats
, parenthood ✨📊✨
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Simon P. Couch
10 days ago
In this edition of the
@posit.co
AI Newsletter, some 🎄Year In Review🎄, notes on GPT 5.2, and an experimental AI product for RStudio users.
posit.co/blog/2025-12...
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2025-12-19 AI Newsletter - Posit
In this edition of the Posit AI Newsletter, we dive into the most important AI news and research from the past two weeks. Curated for the data science community, we cover everything from model updates...
https://posit.co/blog/2025-12-19-ai-newsletter/
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Simon Willison
11 days ago
I see a lot of complaints about untested AI slop in pull requests. Submitting those is a dereliction of duty as a software engineer: Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work
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Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work
In all of the debates about the value of AI-assistance in software development there’s one depressing anecdote that I keep on seeing: the junior engineer, empowered by some class of …
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/18/code-proven-to-work/
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Posit
12 days ago
Thinking about running local models with coding agents like Positron Assistant? 💻 A new evaluation by
@simonpcouch.com
and
@sara-altman.bsky.social
suggests we aren't there yet. Between hardware hurdles and performance gaps, hosted models are still the best bet for now.
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Local models are not there (yet) - Posit
LLMs that can run on your laptop are not yet capable enough to drive coding agents.
https://posit.co/blog/local-models-are-not-there-yet/
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Kelly Bodwin
23 days ago
Huge thanks to
@posit.co
and hosts
@mchow.com
and
@wesmckinney.com
for having me on The Test Set!!!
posit.co/thetestset/e...
My favorite part was learning that I've been pronouncing "pandas" correctly all along. I've never felt more vindicated. And y'all are wrong about candy corn. 😜
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Episode 11 : Kelly Bodwin — Quarto hacks, AI in the classroom, and why R should stay weird - Posit
https://posit.co/thetestset/episode/kelly-bodwin-quarto-hacks-ai-in-the-classroom-and-why-r-should-stay-weird/
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Simon P. Couch
25 days ago
I get the appeal of local LLMs—free, private, no big tech. That said, they're not yet ready to power coding agents like Positron Assistant or Databot.
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Libby Heeren
about 1 month ago
The LLM privacy question comes up (rightly so) on every data community call I'm on. I've had sooo many questions myself.
#databs
#rstats
#pydata
Good resource:
posit.co/blog/trust-l...
Also, have you seen side::kick in RStudio?
simonpcouch.github.io/side/
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Privacy and AI Assistants - Posit
Many of our LLM tools can execute code and access your files. What does this mean for privacy?
https://posit.co/blog/trust-llm-tools/
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Simon P. Couch
about 1 month ago
The newest edition of the
@posit.co
AI Newsletter is out! Some notes on TOON, several open source updates, and a callout to two recent blog posts from
@sara-altman.bsky.social
and I.
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2025-11-21 AI Newsletter - Posit
Several notable model releases from OpenAI, Gemini, and Moonshot, a new release of ellmer, and an LLM benchmark on plot interpretation.
https://posit.co/blog/2025-11-21-ai-newsletter/
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Join us now to learn something about snow and statistics!
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If you are a local SLC data person, join me and other folks this Saturday, Nov 15, at Big Mountain Data & Dev, a free, one-day conference with a broad scope! 🏔️ I'm looking forward both to speaking myself and to learning about the wide variety of topics:
www.utahgeekevents.com/events/big-m...
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Big Mountain Data & Dev 2025 | Utah Geek Events
https://www.utahgeekevents.com/events/big-mountain-data-dev-2025/
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Shannon Pileggi
about 2 months ago
The recording of my
#rstats
posit::conf talk ✨ practical {renv}✨ is available! 🎉 I created this talk for frustrated {renv} users 🫠 and potential {renv} users🤩
youtu.be/l01u7Ue9pIQ?...
Even if {renv} isn't on your radar, you may still find this talk interesting if you are curious about🤔...
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Practical {renv} (Shannon Pileggi, The PCCTC) | posit::conf(2025)
YouTube video by Posit PBC
https://youtu.be/l01u7Ue9pIQ?si=oNtInQRfWbb-PAqO
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Join the SLC RUG next Wed, Nov 19 to hear from Brennan Bean about using
#rstats
to study snow loads! ❄️
www.meetup.com/slc-rug/even...
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Understanding the evolving threat of snow loads with R as the great orchestrator, Wed, Nov 19, 2025, 12:00 PM | Meetup
Our November Meetup will be a remote gathering; the Zoom link will be posted the week before the event. From our speaker: "At the 2025 useR! conference, Simon Urbanek (Pre
https://www.meetup.com/slc-rug/events/311023005/
about 2 months ago
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My talk from posit::conf earlier this fall on getting unstuck with
#Python
is now available to watch! - Ten years ago, I attempted to learn Python and it went EXTRMELY badly 😩 - I am really happy that so much tooling in this area has improved SO much since then 😌
youtu.be/pMVYl9fx1EE
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How I got unstuck with Python (Julia Silge, Posit) | posit::conf(2025)
YouTube video by Posit PBC
https://youtu.be/pMVYl9fx1EE?si=LS-2CzRFg4WsfZel
about 2 months ago
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Jonathan
about 2 months ago
My keynote about data science tools at posit::conf is now online! I originally meant it to be a talk about Positron, but as I was writing it, it took a left turn through the history of RStudio and into the philosophy of tool design & how to build stuff for people.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGre...
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10 Years of Data Science Tools...and What Happens Next (Jonathan McPherson) | posit::conf(2025)
YouTube video by Posit PBC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGrePGYj7Uw
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Python Software Foundation
2 months ago
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share.
pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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The official home of the Python Programming Language
https://www.python.org/sponsors/application/
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It was such a pleasure to join
@hadley.nz
,
@wesmckinney.com
, and
@mchow.com
on THE TEST SET! You can check out the two parts of our conversation here: 🍕
posit.co/thetestset/e...
🤖
posit.co/thetestset/e...
2 months ago
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Libby Heeren
2 months ago
@juliasilge.com
on a podcast is a must-listen ❤️❤️❤️
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I was so pleased to join the
@atds.space
podcast to talk about my own career journey, how astronomy prepared me for working in data science, plus what I'm working on now! 💫
youtu.be/qXoxWt7YGmE
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YouTube video by Astronomers Turned Data Scientists
https://youtu.be/qXoxWt7YGmE?si=B44uunNzWWF1GLK5
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Lionel Henry
2 months ago
I'm excited to share a new version of the Air formatter for
#rstats
, with support for tabular formatting! Super useful with `tibble::tribble()` calls or `data.table::fcase()`. It's currently experimental as we're looking to get feedback on the feature, so please let us know what you think.
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Anil Dash
2 months ago
A number of people have told me this piece has been useful for them, maybe it will be for you, too — a simple description of the consensus view on AI amongst actual tech practitioners, presented as a tool for those who need to push back on the distorted narratives that tycoons are feeding media.
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There is a new monthly release of
#Positron
available, and it delivers fresh new features for the Data Explorer! In this screencast, I walk through how to interactively explore a recent
#TidyTuesday
dataset on literary prizes 📚📖🏆 using some of the Data Explorer newness.
youtu.be/KOgQuWF0US4
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Explore literary prizes with Positron’s Data Explorer
YouTube video by Julia Silge
https://youtu.be/KOgQuWF0US4
3 months ago
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Andrew Heiss
3 months ago
oooh new version of Positron just released and it has (1) github copilot chat and (2) automatic {dplyr} code generation based on filtering/sorting/etc that you do in the data viewer
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Join us here in about 5 min to learn about
#rstats
functions! 🥳
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3 months ago
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Nick Tierney
3 months ago
I'm giving a talk next week about my favourite thing: functions! Come along! What: Practical Functions - Practically Magic When: 8th/9th October -
www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f...
Where: Online, via Salt Lake City R User Group
www.meetup.com/slc-rug/even...
How:
@juliasilge.com
#rstats
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Event Time Announcer - Salt Lake City talk: Practical Functions, Practically Magic
Event Time Announcer shows time for Salt Lake City talk: Practical Functions, Practically Magic in locations all over the world. In Salt Lake City it happens on Tuesday, October 7, 2025 at 4:00:00 pm.
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Salt+Lake+City+talk%3A+Practical+Functions%2C+Practically+Magic&iso=20251007T16&p1=220&ah=1
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Join the SLC RUG on Oct 7 (next Tuesday!) to hear from
@njtierney.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
about how to write good
#rstats
functions 💫
www.meetup.com/slc-rug/even...
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Practical Functions, Practically Magic, Tue, Oct 7, 2025, 4:00 PM | Meetup
Our October Meetup will be a remote gathering; the Zoom link will be posted the week before the event. From our speaker: "I think the highest value skillset in statistical
https://www.meetup.com/slc-rug/events/308142245/
3 months ago
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Posit
3 months ago
A data scientist and product owner shares her take on why the new Positron IDE is a game-changer for her workflow. Learn how Dr. Claire Welsh of The Strategy Unit uses Positron to streamline everything from project management to documentation. Read her insights:
posit.co/blog/positro...
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Costa Samaras
3 months ago
AI has real risks & we should have smart & evolving policy to manage them. By focusing the public's mind on very low probability/"high" consequence extinction events from super-intelligent AI, it slides acceptable windows of what bad things humans can do with AI right now (eg discrimination/disinfo)
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If you are an
#rstats
user in the greater SLC area, join us IN PERSON next Tues, Sept 30 for some networking and data science chat! We are meeting at a place called Thieves Guild Cidery, which, yes, is a DnD-themed tavern. ⚔️🎲🐉
www.meetup.com/slc-rug/even...
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Networking and social gathering, Tue, Sep 30, 2025, 4:00 PM | Meetup
Our September meetup will be an in-person gathering for local SLC area folks! We will meet at Thieves Guild Cidery near downtown to spend time networking, having some DnD-t
https://www.meetup.com/slc-rug/events/310591422/
3 months ago
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Maëlle Salmon
3 months ago
"How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner" by Annie Mueller 😅 😂 😭
anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-...
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How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner - annie's blog
“Hello! I am a developer. Here is my relevant experience: I code in Hoobijag and sometimes jabbernocks and of course ABCDE++++ (but never ABCDE+/^+ are you kidding? ha!) and I like working with ...
https://anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-a-non-developer-read-the-tutorial-you-a-developer-wrote-for-me-a-beginner
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rainbowR
3 months ago
📣We're hosting a rainbowR conference, to connect and promote LGBTQ+ people in the
#RStats
community and to showcase examples of working with LGBTQ+ data 🌈🎉 To help us plan, if you'd be interested in attending or speaking, please fill in this very short form (1-2 mins)
docs.google.com/forms/d/1Tx0...
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Interested in a rainbowR Conference?
rainbowR (https://rainbowr.org) is hosting a virtual conference (tentative date: February 26, 2026). The aim of the conference is to connect and promote LGBTQ+ people in the R community, and to showca...
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Tx0-AvwetHVqnOLWN6v-KIqPfvSFtBtXqnUejyniP7o/edit
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Briar in Blue
3 months ago
You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes.
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Laurie Voss
3 months ago
H1B holders are net job creators. Ending the H1B visa will not result in more hiring of Americans or hiring overseas, it will simply destroy jobs and fewer people will be hired. It is racism shooting itself in the foot as usual.
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Kelly Bodwin
3 months ago
Could this {uv} solution recommended by
@juliasilge.com
be the answer to the personal hell that is "Import Error: no module named 'numpy'" ?
#positconf2025
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It was such a pleasure to speak today at
#PositConf2025
about how BADLY 😱 it went when I tried to learn Python ~10 years ago, and how tooling in the ecosystem has changed (gotten better!) in the intervening decade. You can check out my slides at:
juliasilge.github.io/get-unstuck-...
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How I got unstuck with Python
https://juliasilge.github.io/get-unstuck-with-python/#/title-slide
3 months ago
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lauren
3 months ago
great news! you're not actually seeing karl rove, john yoo, and david frum criticize the administration's lawlessness more stridently than dem leadership. you, reader, were infected with rabies by a brown bat 36 hours ago and this is all just the virus working its way through your nervous system
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It was such a pleasure to join PyCon Colombia this past summer, to speak about
#Positron
, how the work of data science is different, and the tension between exploratory work and reproducible practices. 💫 The recording of my talk is now available, if you'd like to check it out!
youtu.be/xiCa6OcXlSs
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Julia Silge - Keynote PyCon Colombia 2025
YouTube video by PyCon Colombia
https://youtu.be/xiCa6OcXlSs
3 months ago
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NY Times Pitchbot
4 months ago
Whether it's John F. Kennedy saving thousands of children's lives by founding the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development or Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ending thousands of children's lives by limiting access to vaccines, both Kennedys impacted children's health.
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Chris Person
4 months ago
RFK is the only person able to properly talk like that creepy text that y̵̲̹̲͌͜o̶̻͠ȗ̵͍̓ ̸̞̏ͅh̵̡̗͈̥̅a̷͇̍̊͝v̶̺͕̲͑̐ê̵̥̪ ̵̻̫̪̝̓̿ţ̵̂͋́̿ͅȯ̵͍͙̪ ̵̨̳̞̼͒g̴͚̰͆͝ǫ̴͖̫̼̇̇̆͠ ̶̡̡͓̩̾ẗ̸̛͉͌͝o̷̬̣̠̍̊̋ ̵̫̜̼̾̒͛a̸̤͒̿ͅ ̵̬̀̈́ẉ̸̦͙̀ḛ̵̲͇͓͗b̴̟̪͋̂ș̸͎̻͈͋̀i̴̛̟̞̽̀t̶̙̻̳͋ẹ̸̦̗̀͊͌ ̸̙̈́͠t̷̙̦͓̾ö̴̬̺́͒ ̶̨̰̜̋̽ṫ̵͚̝̖̎͜y̴̞̮͊̆p̴̖̫̚ě̸̢̻͍̈́ ̷̳̖͙̾̔͗ō̵̤̱ù̸̢̐͝t̴̰̻̦̎̃̅.̴̛̮͓̣̱̈́
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I found this post by Claire Welsh super interesting, outlining how she uses
#Positron
as someone working in product! 🤩 My own data science skills have been helpful in making product decisions, and I always appreciate learning more about other people who do similar work.
posit.co/blog/positro...
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Dr. Claire Welsh discusses how Positron, Posit's new IDE, can assist product owners in tasks ranging from managing a product backlog to testing new features.
https://posit.co/blog/positron-for-product-owners/
4 months ago
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Brady West
4 months ago
A very nice document prepared by Friends of BLS with important information about the agency. A solid effort to prevent the spread of misinformation. Please share, especially with friends and colleagues who do not understand what’s happening.
www.friendsofbls.org/updates/2025...
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Background Information for Jobs Day – Sept 5 — The Friends of the Bureau of Labor Statistics
Click Background Information for Jobs Day – Sept 5 to read the entire PDF document.
https://www.friendsofbls.org/updates/2025/9/4/background-information-for-jobs-day-sept-5
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Simon P. Couch
4 months ago
So stoked to share about the first release of the Posit AI Newsletter!
@sara-altman.bsky.social
and I have been working on a pilot of this newsletter internally for a few months now—an opinionated and pragmatic snapshot of AI news released every two weeks. First edition:
posit.co/blog/2025-08...
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Josh Marshall
4 months ago
More or less universally a country seeking to limit foreigners studying in that country is a sign of a society, culture, great power in severe decline.
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Posit
4 months ago
Extra day of virtual fun added to posit::conf(2025)! Join us on Sept 16 for a full day of virtual talks and activities. P.S. The conference Discord is now open to all. Come hang out! 🔗 Login for Discord instructions:
pos.it/conf-event-portal
🔗 Learn about Virtual Day:
posit.co/blog/posit-c...
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Laurie Voss
4 months ago
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is the last one they come for before they come for you.
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Tom Mock
5 months ago
Really, really excited to get to the next stage with Positron, including upcoming general availability of Positron in Posit Workbench!
posit.co/blog/positro...
#RStats
#PyData
#dataBS
#datascience
#positron
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Positron is a new, free IDE from Posit PBC, built for data scientists working with both Python and R, and designed to streamline the entire workflow from exploration to production.
https://posit.co/blog/positron-product-announcement-aug-2025/
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Gosh, as someone who grew up homeschooled, evangelical, etc in TX in the 90s, I would have been VERY HAPPY to never hear the name "Doug Wilson" again.
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Tiffany Timbers
5 months ago
Super excited to be teaching at posit::conf again this year! Interested in learning about how to do machine learning with Python and scikit-learn? Register for our workshop!
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I just saw that my Fosstodon account has been bridged to here by… someone? Not sure 🤔 I do tend to manually cross post, customized for each platform, so I wonder if I can get that bridge removed?
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I'm excited to speak this afternoon at
#useR2025
on outgrowing your laptop with
#Positron
for
#rstats
users! You can check out my slides at
juliasilge.github.io/useR-2025/
5 months ago
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Mitchell O'Hara-Wild
5 months ago
My day 1
#useR2025
highlight was the Positron class, I’m officially a convert now. 🤓 Why? 🐇 Positron is fast! ⌨️ RStudio keybindings 🎨 Command palette (Ctrl+Shift+P) to find any IDE feature 🏡 Remote-SSH runs code on my home server, anywhere! 🤖 The Positron Assistant integration is seamless
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Yani Bellini Saibene
5 months ago
Still smiling after my keynote abt Community at
#useR2025
💜 Huge thanks to the organizing team for the invite, and to everyone who joined, asked questions, and shared their thoughts — you made it truly special! Slides
docs.google.com/presentation...
Video:
www.youtube.com/live/CTTvTQ-...
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WeRTogether-useR!2025Keynote
We R Together Yanina Bellini Saibene useR! 2025 Duke University How to learn, use and improve a programming language as a community
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1aqpMXNklUoj4DY_43tfFVe6sf2Q-OvFRK66w24eTM6c/
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