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Saw a post from Andrej Karpathy about the value of "Cursor for slides". I asked Claude Code to read one of my blog posts (walker-data.com/posts/overtu...) and convert it into a Quarto slide deck. Three prompts later... it did pretty well! "Vibe-slide-decking", perhaps?

Positron now supports a chat panel with Claude and it's pretty neat

New CRAN package ragnar with initial version 0.1.0 #rstats https://cran.r-project.org/package=ragnar

CRAN updates: gtExtras #rstats

@dslc.io welcomes you to week 21 of #TidyTuesday! We're exploring Dungeons and Dragons Monsters (2024)! 📂 https://tidytues.day/2025/2025-05-27 🗞️ https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1949-you-can-now-publish-your-own-creations-using-the #RStats #PyData #JuliaLang #DataViz #tidyverse #r4ds

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It's #TidyTuesday y'all! Show us what you made on our Slack at https://dslc.io! #RStats #PyData #JuliaLang #RustLang #DataViz #DataScience #DataAnalytics #data #tidyverse #DataBS

Curator: @jenrichmondphd.bsky.social @dslc.io welcomes you to week 20 of #TidyTuesday! We're exploring Water Quality at Sydney Beaches! 📂 https://tidytues.day/2025/2025-05-20 #RStats #PyData #JuliaLang #DataViz #tidyverse #r4ds

Public service announcement: a few months ago, on the urging of folks on this site, I switched from using a Roku TV to an Apple TV. My god. It is night & day. Everything is SO much faster & easier. I should have done it years ago.

R and Python users can run RStudio, Jupyter, or VS Code inside Snowflake with the Posit Workbench Native App. It comes preloaded with tools like gander, chores, and ellmer, plus AI assistance via Snowflake Cortex. More about what’s new & what’s next with Snowflake → posit.co/blog/posit-w...

🚀 Big news! Positron is HERE – a new data science IDE and according to my recent tests it's pretty much good to go! Packed it with powerful features and limitless extensions. ➡️ Get started today: positron.posit.co/download.html #DataScience #rstats #python #IDE #Positron

🚀 RStudio fans: meet Positron Come learn Positron — the new IDE from @posit.co — at Cascadia R Conf! Hands-on, beginner-friendly, and packed with tips to level up your R workflow. Led by: Charlotte Wickham @cwick.co.nz cascadiarconf.com #RStats #Positron #CascadiaRConf #datasci

For #TidyTuesday this week, we're looking at data on terminations of NSF grants 📊 🎨 Using colour to highlight one category 📈 Transparency to highlight the important data ✍️ Annotations instead of a legend for transparency #RStats #ggplot2 #DataViz

Thanks @dslc.io for using #TidyTuesday to highlight the unprecedented and likely illegal termination of >1000 #NSF grants in April. The #rstats, #python, and #dataBS community can help us understand and visualize the story of what's happening.

So, I used this week's #TidyTuesday to force myself to do stuff. I installed ollama and tried out all the R packages I'd been wanting to explore, like ellmer, gander, and mall (which was by far my favorite!). 30 minute of coding isn't enough time! I might have to come back to work on this one.

It’s Tidy Tuesday yall! Never heard of it? #TidyTuesday is a weekly social data project organized by @dslc.io. It was founded in April 2018 by community member, Tom Mock @themockup.blog. Every Monday, a new dataset is posted to DSLC social media accounts for participants to explore and visualize.

'At current state-level vaccination rates, measles may become endemic again; the simulation model predicts measles may reestablish (>80% of simulations) with an estimated 851,300 cases over 25 years. Increasing vaccine coverage would prevent this' jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

True and real. See you there yall

heck yeah, my classes are doing #tidytuesday #rstats

inside you there are two corgis

Dance with Death, by Hieronymus Hess, 1841, 📸 via Vatican Media Pool

Latest {ragnar] #RStats 📦version now has a very useful viewer to browse and search the duckdb vector store! github.com/tidyverse/ra... I'm having fun with this #R RAG 📦! Thank you @t-kalinowski.bsky.social and @dfalbel.bsky.social (and @posit.co ) #GenAI

My #rstats friends - R-Ladies Canberra x Melbourne x Sydney are thrilled to bring you a #TidyTuesday event! 🎨📊 Come along, connect with the community + stretch your data muscles 😊 All coding experience levels are welcome! 📆: Tue May 6 ⏰: 1:00 PM AEST ℹ️: bit.ly/42rFX2D

Curator: @jonthegeek.com @dslc.io welcomes you to week 15 of #TidyTuesday! We're exploring Base R Penguins! 📂 https://tidytues.day/2025/2025-04-15 📰 https://zenodo.org/records/14902740 #RStats #PyData #JuliaLang #DataViz #tidyverse #r4ds

The slides for the talk I just delivered at #ShinyConf2025: shikokuchuo-shinyconf2025.share.connect.posit.cloud Scaling Shiny: Seamless and Effortless Distributed Computing with mirai We can't wait to see what you end up building with this! Do share your experiences at github.com/r-lib/mirai/...

The Developer Success Lab is looking for engineers who work in infrastructure for a research study investigating the working experience of SREs, platform engineers, DevOps engineers, and software developers who maintain or develop infrastructure. forms.gle/YJ1uSmSJHC6Y...

New version of R is out! Our Data Scientist, Russ Hyde, has put together a quick review of the key features and changes in R 4.5 — from new language features to graphics updates and more. 📝 Read the full blog post here: www.jumpingrivers.com/blog/whats-n... #rstats #Rprogramming #opensource

ShinyConf is here! Don't miss "Scaling Shiny: From Hobbyist Projects to Enterprise Deployments with Posit Connect" by Kelly O’Briant and @alex-chisholm.bsky.social, on how Posit Connect Cloud and Posit Connect support Shiny developers at every stage of deployment. Learn more here: www.shinyconf.com

It's #TidyTuesday y'all! Show us what you made on our Slack at https://dslc.io! #RStats #PyData #JuliaLang #RustLang #DataViz #DataScience #DataAnalytics #data #tidyverse #DataBS

@posit.co is working on “a complete rewrite of plumber. .. to take everything we’ve learned from plumber, shed the bad decision that you inevitably make over the course of development, and start from scratch.” They're looking for feedback during development: posit-dev.github.io/plumber2/ #RStats

For the last couple of months I've been working on something and I'm excited to finally share an early preview: Say hello to plumber2 🎉 plumber2 is a full rewrite of the plumber package for creating powerful webapis in #rstats. It takes everything we have learned from plumber and adds even more

Andrew Chen, co-founder of one of my favorite denim brands, 3sixteen, breaks down how the tariffs affect his company IG 3sixteen

hey hey my constant use of the palmerpenguins data is now relevant for my public policy classes

Well deserved, @camlivio.bsky.social ! Thank you for the highlight, @rpodcast.bsky.social and R Weekly! Check out "Text Summarization, Translation, and Classification using LLMs: mall does it all": posit.co/blog/mall-ai...

So, you're plotting in #Positron and your dark theme is being applied to your #python plots 😭 You try to change the background color of your actual plot and it doesn't work! Don't panic. You can change that default setting, and you can also use a button to change it in the plot pane! #databs

chef’s kiss

val kilmer’s turn in TOP SECRET is one of the single best comedy performances ever committed to film, both in terms of comic precision and mechanical virtuosity. just watch this whole clip in its entirety; it’s stunning

We are excited to share that bslib v0.9.0 is on CRAN, bringing brand.yml support to Shiny for R and R Markdown! This one file can apply consistent branding across your Shiny apps, Quarto projects, and now any #RStats project that uses bslib for theming. Learn more: shiny.posit.co/blog/posts/b...

PEP 751 has been accepted! peps.python.org/pep-0751/ This means #Python now has a lock file standard that can act as an export target for tools that can create some sort of lock file. And for some tools the format can act as their primary lock file format as well instead of some proprietary format.

@dslc.io welcomes you to week 13 of #TidyTuesday! We're exploring Pokemon! 📁 https://tidytues.day/2025/2025-04-01 📰 https://medium.com/@hanahshih46/pokemon-data-visualization-and-analysis-with-r-60970c8e37f4 #RStats #PyData #JuliaLang #DataViz #tidyverse #r4ds

Hadley Wickham on, "How can Posit Workbench or Connect help us integrate Python scripts and R models into a cohesive and efficient workflow?" posit.co/blog/hadley-... #pydata #datascience #rstats #python

Hey, who all is doing the #30DayChartChallenge this year?! 📣 Sound-off so I can follow you! #databs 📌 Pin this feed to follow along: bsky.app/profile/did:... I'm going to try to keep up using #TidyTuesday data and definitely challenging myself to do #PydyTuesday, so a mix of #python and #rstats 👏🏻

Curator: @GregoryVdvinne @dslc.io welcomes you to week 12 of #TidyTuesday! We're exploring Text Data From Amazon's Annual Reports! 📁 https://tidytues.day/2025/2025-03-25 📰 https://gregoryvdvinne.github.io/Text-Mining-Amazon-Budgets.html #RStats #PyData #JuliaLang #DataViz #tidyverse #r4ds

I've used TextExpander since 2008(!!) & adore it and use it for all sorts of little text replacement things, but it's gotten buggy/slow & costs $40/year I just found @espanso.bsky.social which is fast & open source & I've converted all my TE snippets to it—see them all at github.com/andrewheiss/...

I’ve long used FiveThirtyEight’s interactive “Hack Your Way To Scientific Glory” to illustrate the idea of p-hacking when I teach statistics. But ABC/Disney killed the site earlier this month :( So I made my own with #rstats and Observable and #QuartoPub ! stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way/

My first #tidytuesday #pydytuesday where I look at how different palmtree species are armoured. I challenged myself to work in plotnine and it's been a learning curve for sure! Code available here github.com/jtsuvile/tid...