ctrl-n.bsky.social
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But the fact that people are self taught, and the fact that learning to code is difficult, should be MORE reason to have a second person look things over. 3/end🧵
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Sometimes there's a generational gap: an advisor uses SAS or SPSS and their student uses R or Python. Understandable, and it lets them cross check results across software, but makes communication harder.
Other times a student is self-taught or doesn't have much help on their project. 2/🧵
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As a statistical consultant at a uni, I've seen everything ranging from readable code that does what the person intends, to unreadable code that may or may not drop observations or categories along the way.
My job is to help people wherever they're at, but often there's more than I can address 1/🧵
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The administration is proposing a new rule that threatens to undermine the integrity of the federal statistical agencies by opening them up to political control.
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Olric could enter the rock he entered in the winter animal contest!
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What a great resource! (adds to bookmarks)
Thanks for sharing 😊
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If it's for trig, the 'atan2()' function handles the asymptotes well.
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I can't speak for others, but I know that if I encounter a wall (or a tibble behavior I don't understand), I'll try
unclass()
as.data.frame()
df[a,b][[1]][just give me a number][[I'm not kidding]]
dplyr::pull() was a game changer.
In other words, I'm *already* used to brute forcing things.
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If you intend for the user to be able to manipulate the data directly, I think it would make sense to just do column checks on the data frame.
I know R does class inheritance, but giving them ease of access to base R and dplyr functions could be useful.
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We should chat! I'm on the job market and this sounds like a good fit.
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Thanks! This is a good article with useful (and concise!) info.
I appreciate the note at the end about API keys and using a more complex setup to verify information.
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Have you tried Shiny Assistant? It's written for shiny specifically, but does very well at general R and Quarto questions.
shiny.posit.co/blog/posts/s...
#rstats #shiny
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For general things, Claude.
For coding (in R/Quarto/Shiny), I love Shiny Assistant.
shiny.posit.co/blog/posts/s...
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This is the best example of one of these charts that I've seen.
(Now... Is it called a tree ring chart? A circular bar graph? IDK, but you did it well.)
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I learned Shiny recently and can confirm, the Shiny site was a GREAT place to start
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Very cool!
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Posting fed his need for attention but also trapped him in a loop that accelerated his derangement and exposed his ignorance and naivete. It's crazy to have a diagram of your descent into madness
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I'll never forget a homework assignment when I was first learning R.
I did what I thought was a normal column manipulation, and suddenly the new column in my data printed as `<tibble>, <tibble>, <tibble>, ...`
Not exactly a list, but man, did that nested tibble mess me up 😂
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To sum up: a chatbot can't save you from having to learn how to use the tool/software you're using. (End/🧵)
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If you don't, a chatbot can't save you.
I've seen people with terrible messes of ChatGPT-generated code that they don't understand and can't fix, that calls for variables they haven't defined, and when they ask ChattieG again, they just copy pasyt the new output below the old and keep going. (3/🧵)
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assignment, subsetting a data frame, testing for equality, and string data.
Ideally, you'd also know how to write a script that can be run from the beginning if your environment gets borked.
If you know those basics, you can ask a chatbot for help and understand its response. (2/🧵)
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So I don't teach classes, but I consult with ppl 1 on 1, and I find that people who understand the basics of the language do much better at troubleshooting.
For example, in R, if you have an issue with
`data_women <- data[, sex == 'F']`
then to debug, you need an understanding of (1/🧵)
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Makes sense, glad I didn't spend more time fiddling with it this morning!
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But how do we get it to print [0] by the first item of output instead of [1]?
I feel like redefining print.default() is part of the answer, but I haven't gotten anything workable yet
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😂 my bad, I meant "get to" the smaller problems as in, "encounter them repeatedly," not "fix them"
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At least they'll get to the smaller problems twice as fast!
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No reason you can't add physical bugs to a physical file 😊
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Sorry, I read PostScript by mistake and my spirit left my body. Lemme come back down now that I realize you're not talking about PDF internals
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Actually I'm grinning, because it shows the versatility of R's functional programming.
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"These rollbacks represent more than just corporate decisions; they reflect a deeper erosion of the moral and ethical commitments necessary to build a just society. As people of faith, we cannot be silent. We are called to resist systems that perpetuate exclusion and inequity."
Couldn't agree more.
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LibreOffice? Or is there another good one I should know about?