If any #rstats educators want 10 years of NC election data that I cleaned up from NCSBE for class examples / projects, please email me ([email protected]). I've got a draft blog post about the pipeline and things it illustrates well, but fall is coming faster than I'm writing

There is now a setting that automatically includes your data as training data for Twitter’s Grok. You can change it but only on the web, not mobile app. The link is below. It’s under Settings > Privacy and Safety > Grok. Check other “Data Sharing” options, too.

"A Short Summary of the Last Decades of Data Management" - my keynote at GOTO Amsterdam is now available: youtube.com/watch?v=-wCzn9…

Amazing presentations by Susan Athey and guido imbens Designing Complex Experiments youtube.com/watch?v=I6GyDW…

In honor of the Olympics, I present Simone Biles as identification strategies: A 🧵

We are working on a small series about adapting loss functions for better applications. New episode comes out tomorrow, but here is the introduction from last week. Loss functions, it turns out, matter a bunch! eu1.hubs.ly/H0by0S70

⏰Counting the days for #positconf (Posit PBC ) next week where I'll be talking about some of my favorite python pkgs and workflows for #rstats natives (👀ing at you polars data The {gt}/great_tables Packages Quarto) 🙋‍♀️Who else will be there? Looking for early AM time change friends

I’ve reached the “I can totally cover this many slides if I just talk a lot faster” stage of conference prep 🤦🏻‍♀️

it's so over / we're so back - cloud computing edition

Are you writing a book in #statistics, #datascience or #Econometrics either with R Markdown or by other means? If so, I would be interested in chatting with you about publishing with CRC. You can leave your online book up for free. #rstats #econtwitter CRC Press Data Science, Stats, and Math Books

nobody will remember: - your salary - how “busy you were” - how many hours you worked People will remember: - uv run - uv lock - uv sync

The data has already been collected

#rstats friends - can Quarto dashboards use Shinylive or not? A note in the docs suggests 'yes but not documented', but the linked example repo seems to show a traditional non-WASM app

TIL that Posit PBC and Hugging Face partnered over a year ago on making HF another great option for deploying python/#rstats Shiny apps Another super friendly git-based deployment option with rich free tier for those tinkering shiny.posit.co/blog/posts/shi…

Desperately jealous of this conf. Shameless plug: you know where would be a great place to talk about super pragmatic, under-hyped data tools? A super pragmatic, under-hyped conf city like Chicago!

Our data team operates with a few technical operational principles, one being "Everything as code". We try to minimize use of no-code tools unless absolutely necessary. Ingest pipelines, ETL jobs, reporting, and connectors. Why? ✅ Documentation is hard to maintain and can

Render Altair charts with polars data natively in marimo Pass Polars dataframes, interactively select data on charts, and receive filtered Polars dataframes as the output. Powerful data visualization and manipulation in one workflow 🦾