It would be helpful if American schools taught kids that Hitler admired US racism and patterned many of his antisemitic laws on our anti-Black laws. Instead, we're teaching the Holocaust less altogether. Hitler also admired American antisemites like Henry Ford. Bigots attract each other. . . .

My election data-and-reporting retirement project turned out to be surprisingly intense -- and rewarding! I missed having a team like I did when I was working, but I definitely didn't miss the higher stress. My latest #NextChapter post: nextchapter.machlis.com/posts/2025-1... #Retirement

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This is a really impressive interactive network #dataviz of the Epstein documents #ddj ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Author @thatsjustlikeyouropinionman.com says in comments he plans to OSS the repo.

This 'workaround' is a best practice for AI in data science, and hardly new. Use the LLM for what it does best: Understand a natural language request, and then generate 'deterministic' computer code to return an answer. The problem is trying to use them for things they weren't designed for.

Want to easily use different LLMs for different tasks while solving a problem with #GenAI? The {mini007} #RStats 📦 by Dr. Mohamed El Fodil Ihaddaden is a CrewAI-like agent orchestration framework for R, built on top of ellmer. Just saw it at R+AI and looks very cool. github.com/feddelegrand...

pkgdown 2.2.0 now out — tidyverse.org/blog/2025/11.... Main feature is new build_llm_docs() which makes your websites easier to understand by LLMs. (Which you can easily turn off if desired) #rstats

You know what my $250 in free Claude Code on the Web credits is teaching me? git! Every time Claude Web does something, it's a new branch in a GitHub repo. And for security, it can't write changes to my main code. I've done more git branch pulls and merges the last 2 days than the prior 2 years 🤣

Interested in using your data skills for public service locally? My 5-minute #PositConf2025 lightning talk aims to give you some ideas for inspiration! Now on YouTube: youtu.be/fSAoCcZD--Y?...

Generative AI helped discover new magnetic compounds that may lower use of rare earth elements, University of New Hampshire researchers say. #GenAI also helped create a database of magnetic materials to aid in finding replacements. techxplore.com/news/2025-11...

It's pretty surprising Daboll lasted this long! #NYGiants #NFL

“The most valuable skill in the AI era isn't technical, it's creative direction: the ability to guide technology with imagination, taste, and intent.” - David Wadhwani, Adobe President of Digital Media, in The Rundown AI newsletter www.therundown.ai/p/... #GenAI

Today's mapgl tip for #30DayMapChallenge Day 8: Urban The default Mapbox Standard Style with `mapboxgl()` gets you 3D buildings - with rendered landmarks - out of the box. Using MapLibre? Try `maplibre(style = openfreemap_style("liberty"))` for 3D OSM buildings!

Turn off #PositronIDE completion suggestions by file type! In Settings (gear icon at bottom left), turn off the "Editor > Inline Suggest" and "Inlay Hints" settings. Search by lang like @lang:quarto, @lang:plaintext or @lang:markdown, then disable in the correct workspace.

Over the years I have read A LOT of damning stories about what Meta executives were saying internally about serious harms on their platforms (most of them written by Reuters’ @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social ). His new story is a blockbuster: www.reuters.com/investigatio... sherwood.news/tech/meta-pr...

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Don't know where to start with all these #PositConf2025 videos? There's a chatbot you can query to find sessions that might interest you. (Then search for those sessions in the YouTube playlist.) posit-ai-posit-conf-agenda-chat.share.connect.posit.cloud #RStats #Python #PositronIDE #QuartoPub

Talk by @andrew.heiss.phd and @gosterhout.bsky.social on "Election Night Results with R and Quarto" that inspired my #RStats code is now on YouTube! Well worth a watch if you're interested in posting ANY frequently updated data online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UClo... #QuartoPub #PositConf2025 #ddj

Videos from September's posit::conf data science conference are already live on YouTube! 🎉🎉🎉See the full playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... So many interesting talks you can now watch free, on topics like #RStats #Python #GenAI #LLMs @posit.co 's #PositronIDE #QuartoPub #PositConf2025

Kimi K2 did great on my little 'write R code for a bar chart with bars colored steel blue' test for both base R and ggplot2. But when I asked it to sort bars in descending order, it neglected to first load dplyr for `arrange()`. gpt-5, sonnet-4.5 & gemini 2.5 pro all got it 1st try. #RStats #GenAI

Thanks to a submission from @smachlis.bsky.social the “quarto-social-embeds“ #quarto extension now supports @bsky.app 🎉 Find it here: quarto-social-embeds.sellorm.com #rstats #pydata

My election night R code worked last night! 🎉! Inspired by @andrew.heiss.phd & @gosterhout.bsky.social 's #PositConf2025 talk re Idaho's website built with R, Quarto & the {targets} #RStats 📦 My results page: www.district2framingham.com/posts/2025-1... Their repo: github.com/andrewheiss/... 1/2

For all the focus on Jewish voters in the NYC mayor's race, white Jews voted for Mamdani at a higher rate than white Catholics, according to CNN exit polls (I don't know margin of error slicing this way): white Catholics 26%, white Jews 33%. White non-religious: 81%. www.cnn.com/election/202...

Why so much attention on New York City & its mayor? NYC has a GDP of $1.286 TRILLION, according to the NY Fed. Just the city, not the metro area . www.newyorkfed.org/m... That's larger than 23 of the 27 countries in the EU - only Germany, France, Italy, and Spain are higher.

Anthropic is offering $250 of free credits for its new Claude Code on the Web to anyone with an individual Pro ($20/mo) account. Credits only work until Nov. 18 and only on the Web and mobile, but you'll get them if you sign up for a new Pro account now. #GenAI support.claude.com/e...

Full schedule is live: R+AI 2025 · Nov 12–13 · online Sample session: “Tools for LLMs and Humans who use R” — Garrick Aden-Buie (Posit) How the {btw} package feeds computational context to LLMs for smoother R+AI workflows. Register! rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_webs... #rstats #AI @posit.co

Dataviz specialists @nrennie.bsky.social publishes her #RStats code for the #30DayMapChallenge on GitHub ❤️🎉🙏 (see the scripts folder) github.com/nrennie/30Da...

I've written a short blog post introducing "The Art of Visualization with ggplot2"! This book is all about the end-to-end process of creating charts with #ggplot2 📊 including data wrangling, sketching, and styling your plots! nrennie.rbind.io/blog/art-of-... #RStats #DataViz #TidyTuesday

Rachel Ruysch exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston is well worth a visit! There until December 7 (then heads to Munich). The Dutch artist (1664-1750) "was one of the most celebrated still-life painters of her time." Pics cannot do justice to her stunning paintings www.mfa.org/exhibition/r...

I've started my biggest work-adjacent hobby project yet 😀 nextchapter.machlis.com/posts/2025-1... #Retirement #NextChapter

This is an excellent resource if you want to start using LLMs in Python ⬇️⬇️⬇️ #GenAI #Python

Anyone who thinks #GenAI chatbots don't help with drudge work has never tried a prompt like this for adding links to #Rstats packages you want to credit in a blog post:

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I still believe that if I get a coding answer from chatbot, and then I ask it to explain it step by step, and work through that myself, I am learning something. If you use an assistant in your IDE to write the code for you and just glance at it, then no.

In 2 weeks: R + AI 2-day online conference sponsored by the @rconsortium.bsky.social . Tickets $25/$50/$70. Presentations include Keeping LLMs in Their Lane, Reviving Forgotten Code with LLMs, and Analyzing LM Evaluations Nov 12-13 rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_webs... #RStats #GenAI #LLMs

Devastating loss of a super talented colleague and amazing person. Lucas Mearian was generous, kind, caring, and a wonderful friend. www.computerworld.com/article/4079...

2023: 37% of senior US execs surveyed used AI “at least weekly.” 2025: That rises to 82%, with daily use at 46%. ⬇️⬇️⬇️ #GenAI

I'm an #RStats users, but I know some of the R 📦s I use have reticulate + Python under the hood. Thank you @python.org for standing up for everyone in your community. I've made a small donation, hopefully a lot of small $$ can help fund what's needed.

Fun fact: you can host PMTiles on GitHub pages, so if you are on Windows you can move the creation to a GH Actions runner. 👇🏻Toy #rstats code that scrapes @oceantracking.bsky.social receiver locations, converts them to PMTiles using sf/GDAL, and pops it up on GH Pages for use elsewhere.

GREAT read on how generative AI might affect our knowledge and skills once we start relying on it to perform intellectual work. There's historical context far beyond how calculators affect our ability to do math. By Kwame Anthony Appiah Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv... #GenAI

@kylewalker.bsky.social is doing such cool things with geospatial and R! A chance to hear him talk about #RSpatial , open software development, and #GenAI this Wednesday ⬇️⬇️⬇️ #RStats

2 reasons I'm happy I can run WSL Linux as a remote session in Positron on my Windows PC: * This {pmtiles} #RStats 📦 workflow @kylewalker.bsky.social suggests for mapping 655K+ Census blocks doesn't work in Windows (the creating tiles part) walker-data.com/posts/pmtile... 1/2

Do you use Linux on a PC via WSL? You can run Positron with WSL without a separate Positron Linux installation! The Open Remote - WSL for Positron extension lets you run the command positron . in a WSL project directory and the IDE opens with a remote connection to WSL. open-vsx.org/extension/kv...

When you're retired and no longer being reviewed and measured in the workplace, might you want to come up with a few goals of your own? #Retirement #NextChapter nextchapter.machlis.com/posts/2025-1...

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I typically use ellmer when coding with LLMs in R, but it's nice to see what else is out there. You can learn about the {axolotr} #RStats 📦 in this useR! talk. By Dr Matthew Hirschey, Duke Univ School of Medicine: Video: youtu.be/QY2fU1uEvNA?... 📦 website: github.com/heurekalabsc... #GenAI #user2025

The advantages of an AI-powered Web browser acting as an independent agent are 💯not worth the security risks to me.

Helpful guide from @emollick.bsky.social on using #GenAI for seeking information and for consumer-type chats (not coding advice, though) ⬇️⬇️⬇️

It turns out you need a place kicker to win in the #NFL. Seems obvious, but apparently not something Giants management worried about this week. #NYGiants #Giants #NYG

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