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The community effort to make the penguins data accessible to all R users took almost exactly 2 years to date!! Our first email exchange was February 19, 2023. Thank you to our international forces of nature that made this happen! @ellakaye.co.uk @HeathrTurnr.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy 🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

@lionelhenry.bsky.social and I are so excited to finally announce Air - an extremely fast R code formatter! 🎉 With Air, you'll never need to worry about styling your #rstats code ever again. All you need to do is save, and Air takes care of the rest. www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/02...

submitted 15 days ago • 21 comments

Diversity is our greatest asset, even if the government disagrees… They not like us! POC in STEM are here to stay. They tried to rig the game but you can’t fake influence! Mustard on the [Be][At] bro. Happy Black History Month!

submitted 16 days ago • 42 comments

this haptic display absolutely rocks. basketball is for everyone.

submitted 30 days ago • 256 comments

We're excited to announce Catherine Nelson as keynote speaker at posit::conf(2025)! Author of "Software Engineering for Data Scientists," she'll share how data scientists can benefit from software engineering best practices! Sept 16-18 in Atlanta. pos.it/conf #PositConf2025 #Python #rstats #pydata

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

We're jazzed to announce that Kieran Healy (@kjhealy.co) as a keynote speaker at posit::conf(2025)! Tools for science are better than ever, but it's also easier to make stuff up. If Honest Data Visualization interests you, join us! Sept 16-18, Atlanta. pos.it/conf #PositConf2025 #Python #RStats

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

📝 "Where does the U.S. Government Keep its Data?" 👤 Sam Tyner-Monroe 📖 US Govt data sources: R packages & agency APIs for economic, justice, labor, & more! Unlock data insights. 🔗 https://sctyner.me/post/2018-11-16-us-govt-data/ #rladies #rstats #oldiebutgoodie

submitted 42 days ago • 2 comments

We're delighted to announce Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social – psychologist for software teams – will be a keynote speaker at posit::conf(2025)! Discover psychology tips for better dev teams and much more at conf. Register at pos.it/conf #PositConf2025 #DataScience #OpenSource #Python #RStats

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Interested in upping your ggplot2 game? Check out a blog post on Dr. Heike Hofmann's talk "Extensions to ggplot2 are easy – right?" neb-rug.github.io/posts/ggplot... This was the inaugural talk for the new Nebraska R User Group. Register for future talks at www.meetup.com/neb-rug/ #RStats #DataViz

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

This is a wonderful article, which reminds me that I need to find some time to get back into maintaining {boxr}, including a PR from @thomas-sandmann.genomic.social.ap.brid.gy!

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

I don't think anyone else created a starter pack for Iowa reporters, so here goes. Let me know who's missing! New people are signing up here every day. go.bsky.app/96bgC3

submitted 100 days ago • 9 comments

Just spent a couple of hours at The Map House nerding over their current tube map exhibition, which has some fantastic rare Beck sketches, and proofs and drafts annotated by the man himself.

submitted 101 days ago • 7 comments

For those going home to visit family this weekend: • Samsung calls it Auto Motion Plus • LG calls it TruMotion • Sony calls it Motionflow • Roku calls it Action Smoothing • Google TV calls it Motion Enhancement • Vizio calls it Smooth Motion Effect.

submitted 103 days ago • 438 comments

@josiahparry.com's blog post on argument-validation is one of my favorite bits of R-related writing from the past few years. @3mmarand.bsky.social and I taught a workshop at last year's posit::conf(); we riffed off of Joisah's work for a self-paced module: posit-conf-2024.github.io/programming-...

submitted 102 days ago • 1 comment

📦 usethis 3.1.0 📦 is released. `use_vignette()` and `use_article()` can now help you initiate a Quarto (.qmd) vignette or article. #rstats usethis.r-lib.org/news/index.h...

submitted 102 days ago • 3 comments

Our research lab is now here on Bluesky! 📊📈

submitted 103 days ago • 2 comments

I have been working from a hypothesis that so far seems to be correct but I’d love to get some constructive input especially from #duckdb folks Hypothesis: Using JavaScript and DuckDB-wasm allows for the public deployment of data apps with minimal server costs and ongoing maintenance. Caveats in 🧵

submitted 107 days ago • 12 comments

testing, testing

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

A while ago I got interested in computing on color, to help design sets of color palettes that account for both light and dark mode, and color-vision deficiency. I wrote a collection of fun @observablehq.com notebooks - this seems a good excuse to discuss them observablehq.com/@ijlyttle/co...

submitted 109 days ago • 2 comments

I'm very happy to be helping @huizezhangsherry.bsky.social and @visnut.bsky.social on the CRAN Task View for Dynamic Visualizations and Interactive Graphics: cran.r-project.org/web/views/Dy... If you have any ideas you'd like to contribute, please let us know! #rstats

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

i think i have been added to one of these starter packs (thanks!) so i guess i gotta up my posting game…

submitted 109 days ago • 2 comments

Starter packs are a great way to find people. But I followed a few tech/AI starter packs, and now have a sizeable gender skew in who I'm following. To counteract, I started collecting this list. Who else should I be following & add? 👇 go.bsky.app/LaGDpqg

submitted 121 days ago • 38 comments

i too am nauseously optimistic about tuesday but this iowa poll will help me sleep a bit better tonight

submitted 126 days ago • 0 comments

i have gotten out of the habit of posting - hoping i can help myself reconnect with you all by taking first steps here

submitted 139 days ago • 1 comment