Stop being a lame-o and replace dplyr with the more slappin genzplyr.

Stop being a lame-o and replace dplyr with the more slappin genzplyr.

Many research teams still collect paper forms and when it comes to entering data from those forms, there are a series of decisions to be made (and documented) to ensure that data is entered accurately and in a secure and standardized way. More information: datamgmtinedresearch.com/capture#capt...

It's that time again. "We noticed your personal access token (classic) "August 2025" with gist, repo, user, and workflow scopes will expire in 6 days."

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About 100 new subscribers per month. For some that might not seem like much, but for this little free passion-project newsletter of mine, I think that's pretty awesome. 🌟 rdmweekly.substack.com

TOMORROW, I'm hosting what I'm calling Data Science Lab. This debut session will be our fave Positron settings for #rstats & #python 😍 I called it DS Lounge at first, but that doesn't feel right. You'll see "Lounge" when you register at pos.it/dslab, but future sessions will be "Lab" 🧪😎 #databs

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has generously awarded us funding to secure our own storage. This critical processing space will be instrumental in ensuring that large datasets can be temporarily stored, curated, and described. Thank you, MacArthur Foundation, for your support!

@sortee.bsky.social’s code club has made it onto RDM weekly :D Excellent article by: @cecibaldoni.bsky.social @disnatalie.bsky.social @cdegroot.bsky.social @saoirsekelleher.eco

Issue 20 of RDM Weekly is out! 📬 - Automate File Management in R With the {fs} Package @jadeynryan.bsky.social - How to Start Your Own Code Club @sortee.bsky.social - Guide to Social Science Data Preparation and Archiving @icpsr.bsky.social and more! rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

PSA to just FINISH writing the damn things before tech infrastructure and corporate landscape changes on you*. * this is about more than one project, unfortunately.

Now I'm also looking for a research software engineer to implement a pile of research results to R packages loo, posterior, bayesplot, projpred, priorsense, brms or/and Python packages ArviZ, Bambi and Kulprit. Apply by email with no specific deadline (see contact info at users.aalto.fi/~ave/)

The useR! 2025 conference virtual talks are available on YouTube 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... #rstats

Issue 19 of RDM Weekly is out! 🎃 - Handbook for Reproduction and Replication Studies @forrt.bsky.social - A Crowdsourced Effort to Develop a Lab Manual Template @improvingpsych.org - So, What’s the Deal with rlang, Anyway? @veerle.hypebright.nl and more! rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

Best day of the year: getting author copies of my new book, “The Data Management Workbook.” It comes out on December 2 from @pelagic.bsky.social and is already available for pre-order.

I remembered seeing this and it came in so clutch cleaning up data that had a number of different data versions in it #rstats

I'm deeply grateful that @lyndamk.bsky.social wrote a lovely blurb for my book, "The Data Management Workbook," which comes out in just over a month. I really admire Lynda's work, her books, and her recent efforts with the @datarescueproject.org.

The recording is up if you weren't able to catch this session live and want a walk-through of how to use {fs} to clean up your messy folders! Thanks again @rladies-bot.bsky.social for the invitation to get back into the #RStats community after my maternity hiatus! 💜

I'm super excited to give a workshop during next week's R/Pharma conference! Join me if you'd like to discuss the ✨beautiful✨ outputs you can create with #Quarto and #RStats. 📅 Tuesday, November 4 at 9 am CT 🔗 Free to register, too! events.zoom.us/ev/Ai-geyS63...

{fs} is one of those extremely dope R packages that I always forget about. the OS specific file path management functions are 👌

Thank you so much to @jadeynryan.bsky.social for the fantastic workshop last night. The recording for Efficient File Management in R with {fs} is now available! youtu.be/X4i-yOBtn1s

Right now! @jadeynryan.bsky.social is doing such an awesome job walking us through using the {fs} package to work with files, with bonus Halloween content! @r-ladies-stl.bsky.social

When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same. Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Any tips for getting Quarto to save the PDF output in a subfolder when using a script to generate multiple reports from Positron?

I can't wait for the future when I will need to rebrand my offering as "artisanal" data management services, where I review your data and documentation, I listen to what you tell me about the nuances of the data, and then make human informed decisions about how that data should be curated.

If one more dude (and it’s always a dude) tells me that I can solve all the complex issues of normalizing datasets from a couple thousand different organizations, none of which use the same coding and most of which change their own approaches over time, with a goddamned LLM, my head will explode

If you're looking for examples of how to organize a data sharing repository, what documentation to include, how to name files, or how to organize data files, the FIDO (fictitious intervention for demonstration only) project on OSF provides some examples. osf.io/59gte/overview

#rstats & #dataviz people do you know any looooooong time series that you like? 👀 I‘m currently searching for datasets to submit to the #tidytuesday project.

Issue 19 of RDM Weekly is out! 🎃 - Handbook for Reproduction and Replication Studies @forrt.bsky.social - A Crowdsourced Effort to Develop a Lab Manual Template @improvingpsych.org - So, What’s the Deal with rlang, Anyway? @veerle.hypebright.nl and more! rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

The University of Kentucky Libraries has shared my research life cycle diagram and all of my planning checklists in their resources. 🥲🧡 libguides.uky.edu/research_dat...

Hope to see you this Wednesday! 🌟

Prepping for an NIH grant? Join ICPSR’s virtual workshop to master the NIH Data Management & Sharing (DMS) Policy! Learn to draft a DMS Plan, de-identify data, and tap into ICPSR support for your research. #NIH #datasharing #research

Open-access publication alert!! This is a special one; it represents two years of work with an amazing team of researchers, teachers, educational stakeholders, and technology experts to identify infrastructure that would advance equity in STEM education: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I only need *5* more dataset curations (and to review those 5 plus the open PR) to be done curating #TidyTuesday for 2025! I can definitely do at least one myself, so I just need 4 of you to curate a dataset! Check out github.com/rfordatascie... for #RStats instructions.

I had breakfast with former coworkers and we all discussed work for an hour. The things we are frustrated with and spend time discussing are 90% organizational and human issues. Not technical tooling. All conferences are the inverse. I wish there was a tech conf focused less on tooling.

Someone isn't messing around with this pumpkin contest 😍

I'll be running a free, online workshop at @rinpharma.bsky.social on Nov 3rd! If you've never built an #RStats package before, or if you want to learn some tips to make better packages, come along to build a package together! 📦 ⏰ 10am EST / 3pm GMT #RPharma

If you are considering dealing with data management at the end of your project, just remember this is what might be waiting for you. 😬

Important work from @mhagenauer.bsky.social et al. "When goodbye comes too soon: How to wrap up science projects quickly" doi.org/10.1371/jour...

When the reviewer suggests adding a flowchart

We need to have a conversation about random seeds. Don't use 42. blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/if-your-ra...

The steps necessary for cleaning data (from human subjects in particular) are going to vary depending on what is happening in your specific dataset. However, there are several common data cleaning steps to consider in every cleaning process. This (now old) blog post series reviews those steps. 👇

This week’s #RLadies curator is @cwick.co.nz!

Call me a luddite if you like - but I don't want a bed that stops working when Amazon Web Services goes down. www.dexerto.com/entertainmen...

Are you hearing about differential privacy again in the news? This new explainer from LCCHR helps sort things out: “Differential Privacy” in the U.S. Census: Protecting Individual Data Confidentiality; Preserving Accuracy civilrights.org/wp-content/u...

All we hear about now is LLMs and AI but the most frequently clicked links in the RDM Weekly newsletter are about basic data management (naming files, documentation, organizing code, etc.). So if you feel behind by what you see posted, please don't. These foundational skills still matter.

Happy logical Halloween

Register for Don't Use This Code's free Open Science Skills virtual training! Learn to: - Use tools like GitHub, Python & Zenodo - Make research accessible, transparent & reproducible - Understand concepts like FAIR & CARE - Draft Open Science & Data Management plans 🔗: www.opensciencetraining.org

Issue 18 of RDM Weekly is out! 📬 - Data Skills for Reproducible Research from psyTeachR - A Tribal Data Repository to Advance Indigenous Health and Sovereignty @nature.com - Community Research Data Toolkit @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social and more! rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

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.