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🎨✨ colorblindr: Ensuring Accessible #DataViz ✨🎨 Want to make your figs more accessible? colorblindr by Claire D. McWhite & Claus O. Wilke lets you simulate colorblindness in production-ready figures. 🔗 Repo: buff.ly/2UTiByV 🎨 Simulator: buff.ly/4khr0IS More #Rstats resources, buff.ly/41cFyjY

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Just doing some iteration practice with the purrr package. Made in #ggplot2 with #rstats #rtistry #genartclub

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Episode 196 of R Weekly Highlights podcast is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/... 🤔 CRAN holding R back? (Ari Lamstein) 📓 Lit review with LLMs (Seascape Models) 💤 Introduction to laziness @maellesalmon.bsky.social @drmowinckels.io @frick.ws h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social 🙏 #RStats #DataScience

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Here are some cool animations I made a couple years ago for teaching DAG-based causal inference Confounding!

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Thrilled to announce my talk w/ @rladiesrome.bsky.social, Interactive R, Python, and Shiny in the Browser! Discover new ways to share #RStats, #Python, & #Shiny projects w/ #Quarto Live and Shinylive, no server required! Feb 21 @ 11 am CT Sign up here: www.meetup.com/rladies-rome...

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"We're also a stable democracy with high support of and trust in science"

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Time is running out! Super Early Bird pricing for posit::conf(2025) ends Feb 28—don’t miss your chance to lock in the lowest rate! Join 1,500+ data pros in Atlanta, Sept 16-18 for hands-on workshops, inspiring talks, & an exclusive evening at the Georgia Aquarium 🐠✨ Secure your spot: pos.it/conf

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🌈 rainbowR meet-up: Wednesday February 26th, 5pm UTC 🌈 - connect with other LGBTQ+ people who code in #RStats 🏳️‍🌈 - ask questions about R 🙋 - tell us about an R package you like 📦 - show us something R-related you’ve been working on 💻 ➡️ Registration via rainbowr.org/meetups

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i took a detour and wrote a little bit about using colors as predictors in Feature Engineering A-Z feaz-book.com/miscellaneou...

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Discover posit::conf as an Opportunity Scholar! The deadline to apply is this Friday, February 21st. The program includes travel funds, accommodations, and registration. We shared reflections from a few of last year's Scholars: posit.co/blog/discove... Apply today! #PositConf2025 #RStats #Python

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Just taking a moment to say how proud I am of my sister and the work that she's doing. 🧠 I'll be at the conference in spirit ❤️

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I'm finally returning to non-academic writing... with some decorated, academic-adjacent writing! jennifermosley.github.io/learnwithjen...

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After 2 long years, I finally wrote a new blog post about git stashes! I am CONSTANTLY switching between branches at work, so I learned more than I would have liked about stashes, but admittedly, I can't work without them now! 📖 Git Stash for Newbies on The Tidy Trekker:

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I'm really looking forward to running this "Git and GitHub for R Users" workshop for @r-ladies-stl.bsky.social! 📅 April 23rd 2025 ⏰ 11am CST / 5pm BST 📍 Online Register: www.meetup.com/rladies-st-l... #RStats #Git #GitHub #RLadies

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sharing some love today

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The merge conflicts I just had to resolve ya'll 😭

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New blog post! After archiving USAID data last week, I decided to play around with and recreate parts of the ForeignAssistance dot gov dashboard with #QuartoPub and #ObservableJS. I learned a ton about D3 projections and making pretty Javascript plots #dataskyence www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/02...

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Applications for posit::conf(2025) opportunity scholars are open until Feb. 21st! The scholarship provides financial support for those who are underrepresented in the #rstats community to attend the conf. We'd love to have you join us in Atlanta this fall—please do apply. posit.co/blog/apply-t...

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📝 "Dipping my toes in generative art, with my sister" 👤 Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel (@minecr.bsky.social) 📖 Generative art journey with my sister! R code & cool results. 🔗 http://www.citizen-statistician.org/2020/05/dipping-my-toes-in-generative-art-with-my-sister/ #rladies #rstats #oldiebutgoodie

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📦 {eyedropper} has a few new updates. It now has better... + pixel mapping + swatch layout + output options + colour picking with image pixelation + label controls 🔗 github.com/doehm/eyedro... 🧵 1/n #Rstats

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Bringing a new meaning to the definition of donut chart for last week's #TidyTuesday data on The Simpsons! 🍩 Is there a name for a waffle-donut hybrid? 🧇 Donut positions extracted using {waffle} 📊 Donut images plotted using {ggpattern} 📷 Facet images with {ggtext} #RStats #DataViz #ggplot2

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Folks in data rescue and archiving initiatives may find this #RStats package from @ropensci.org useful: `gitcellar` downloads and archives all repos, issues, and PRs from a GitHub organization in one shot: docs.ropensci.org/gitcellar/ #DataRescue @datarescue2025.bsky.social

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I can't comprehend how anyone in this country isn't enraged by everything that's happened (for decades) and continues to happen here. It's exhausting.

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🚀 Ready to Speak at Posit Conf 2025? Thinking about submitting a talk but feeling nervous about the video abstract? You’re not alone! We’ve gathered expert advice from past speakers to help you nail it with confidence. Check out our blog post for details! https://buff.ly/3EmtbKr #rstats #rladies

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UseR! 2025 Call for Proposals is now open! We invite R users and developers from around our region and the world to submit abstracts for useR! 2025. Deadline: Monday 3rd March 2025 useR! will be held from August 8th to 10th at Duke University in Durham, NC, USA. user2025.r-project.org/call #RStats

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A new version of {maptiles} has been released on CRAN. :rstats: 📦 You can now access the high-resolution (or retina) tiles distributed by some providers. {maptiles} is a package for downloading and composing raster tiles with R. https://github.com/riatelab/maptiles #GISChat #RStats #rspatial

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this week in #rstats 🔥 - brand.yml comes to R Shiny - a mobile app that runs R?! - all the latest 2025 conf news and deadlines - a new file change monitoring pkg - exploring the linkedin api with @drmowinckels.io this and more below 🎉 #news #programming #data www.linkedin.com/pulse/week-r...

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"5 tips for promoting your open source project" on the GitHub blog 📢 Don’t be shy about self-promotion 💡 Focus on the problem your project solves 🏷️ Document, document, document! 💬 Be responsive 🤝 Invest time in onboarding contributors github.blog/open-source/...

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i suppose i just have to resign myself to the fact that whenever i post one of these pieces someone will add me to a blocklist because vector fields are "AI" now 🙄 #rstats #rtistry #genart

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#rstats peeps. Did ya'll do #intro posts when ya'll migrated over here? Welp I'm here now! I still exist over on Mastodon and Linkedin, It's just hard to be active when you have a lovely (but feral) toddler to wrangle😅. Here's some #rtistry made with #ggplot2 and the code: tinyurl.com/58mva62u

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