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Isabella Velásquez
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💭 pipe dreams #RStats #Python 💜 @Posit.co (formerly RStudio) || ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ ||
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ivelasq3.bsky.social
R/Pharma workshop recordings are out! Delighted to share ✨Creating Polished, Branded Documents with Quarto✨:

🕸️ Workshop site: ivelasq-r-pharma-2025-branded-quarto.share.connect.posit.cloud
📹 YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVMg...
📄 All the things: ivelasq.rbind.io/talk/branded...

Enjoy 💙 #RStats
Creating Polished, Branded Documents with Quarto – %>% dreams
A hands-on workshop on creating polished websites, reports, presentations, and dashboards in Quarto, with consistent theming using brand.yml.
ivelasq.rbind.io
February 10, 2026 at 2:18 PM
ivelasq3.bsky.social
@chendaniely.bsky.social did an awesome job pulling & curating this dataset, hopefully you enjoy visualizing it!! ⛷️📊
jonthegeek.com Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 1d
@dslc.io welcomes you to week 6 of #TidyTuesday! We're exploring This week we're getting ready for the 2026 Winter Olympics!!

📁 https://tidytues.day/2026/2026-02-10
🗞️ https://www.olympics.com/en/milano-cortina-2026/schedule

#RStats #PyData #JuliaLang #DataViz #tidyverse #r4ds
Logo for the #TidyTuesday Project. The words TidyTuesday, A weekly data project from the Data Science Learning Community (dslc.io) overlaying a black paint splash. TidyTuesday is a weekly social data project. All are welcome to participate! Please remember to share the code used to generate your results! TidyTuesday is organized by the Data Science Learning Community. Join our Slack for free online help with R and other data-related topics, or to participate in a data-related book club! How to Participate Data is posted to social media every Monday morning. Follow the instructions in the new post for how to download the data. Explore the data, watching out for interesting relationships. We would like to emphasize that you should not draw conclusions about causation in the data. Create a visualization, a model, a shiny app, or some other piece of data-science-related output, using R or another programming language. Share your output and the code used to generate it on social media with the #TidyTuesday hashtag. A table of event counts by day. Each row is a sport, each column represents a date. The body of the table counts the number of events for each sport on a given day.
February 9, 2026 at 3:09 PM
ivelasq3.bsky.social
Two screens, one project. Ever wanted to see a GitHub collaboration workflow, LIVE, and (almost) entirely in Positron?

Join @libbyheeren.bsky.social and me at the Data Science Lab, where we show how to get started syncing, pulling, pushing, and reconciling with GitHub in Positron. pos.it/dslab
Libby & Isabella Live-Collab Tues, Feb 10 at 12 pm ET pos.it/dslab
February 9, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Reposted by Isabella Velásquez
mickael.canouil.fr
I just led a workshop on Quarto with @physaliacourses.bsky.social which I’ve now made public. I’m sharing the full source code to demonstrate advanced features: extensions, brand.yml styling across formats, and full CI/CD via GitHub Actions. github.com/mcanouil/mas...
#Quarto #Workshop #GitHub #CICD
GitHub - mcanouil/mastering-quarto-cli: [Workshop] Mastering Quarto CLI: From Authoring to Publishing
[Workshop] Mastering Quarto CLI: From Authoring to Publishing - mcanouil/mastering-quarto-cli
github.com
February 6, 2026 at 7:29 PM
ivelasq3.bsky.social
What an amazing line up 🤩 and I definitely recommend you never pass up a chance to do a quiz show with @libbyheeren.bsky.social!
rainbowr.org rainbowR @rainbowr.org · 8d
📣 registration for the rainbowR conference is now live 🎉

The conference is for anyone interested in R and/or analysing data to understand LGBTQ+ issues. The majority of speakers and workshop leaders are LGBTQ+, but you do not have to be LGBTQ+ to attend.

pretix.eu/rainbowr/con...

#RStats #LGBTQ
rainbowR Conference 2026
Feb. 25 – 26, 2026
pretix.eu
February 2, 2026 at 4:03 PM
ivelasq3.bsky.social
Join us on Tuesday at the Data Science Lab 🧪 We are joined by @sara-altman.bsky.social, who will show us how to explore and analyze data using AI assistants in #RStats or #Python!

Feb 3 @ 12 pm ET: pos.it/dslab
Analyzing Data with AI Assistants Join us with Sara Altman Tues, Feb 3 @ 12 pm ET pos.it/dslab
February 2, 2026 at 3:09 PM
ivelasq3.bsky.social
The webRios iOS app by @coatless.bsky.social is great for little #RStats experiments on my phone or tablet without having to boot my computer. Like testing little functions and syntax, or while reading up on Advanced R (1st and 2nd ed.) or any other R books!
coatless.bsky.social James Balamuta @coatless.bsky.social · 15d
webRios is live. #rstats on your iPhone and iPad.

I showed native R compilation on #iOS last week. Shipping it is another story (thanks, GPL). This version uses #webR 's #WebAssembly build instead. Different tradeoffs, but this one clears App Review.

apps.apple.com/us/app/webri...
Promotional image for webRios showing the app icon and an iPhone displaying the R console. The console shows example R commands with syntax highlighting: basic arithmetic (1 + 1), a print statement saying 'Hello from iOS!', a warning message in orange reading 'Uh-oh, I'm in the Apple-verse?', an error message in red with the HAL 9000 quote 'I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.', and a plot command.
January 31, 2026 at 10:34 PM
ivelasq3.bsky.social
Are there any Quarto extensions that you wish existed? @mickael.canouil.fr has compiled so many amazing ones to check out: m.canouil.dev/quarto-exten...

If the one you want isn't available yet, drop him a line below! 👇
January 29, 2026 at 2:40 PM
ivelasq3.bsky.social
Tomorrow at the Data Science Lab 🧪 we are hearing from the amazing @theotheredgar.bsky.social about the {mall} package:

Run Natural Language Processing against your #RStats tibbles or #Python Polars DataFrames for sentiment analysis, text summaries, and more!

Join us at 12 pm ET: pos.it/dslab
Large Language Models for Natural Language Processing in R or Python with the {mall} package Join us with Edgar Ruiz at the Data Science Lab Tuesday Jan 27 at 12pm ET pos.it/dslab
January 26, 2026 at 5:26 PM
ivelasq3.bsky.social
posit::conf(2026) call for talks is now open! If you're an #RStats or #Python user, have a great DS workflow to share, or have some lessons learned, we'd love to hear from you.

🔗 posit.co/blog/posit-c...
Posit::conf(2026) Call for Talks - Posit
posit::conf(2026) is coming September 14-16 to Houston, TX, and we're looking for talks!
posit.co
January 22, 2026 at 2:58 PM
ivelasq3.bsky.social
Tomorrow Night Bright (R Classic) has hit 1000+ downloads! We're so happy to bring the joy of this awesome #RStudio theme to #Positron & VS Code 🎉

🔗 open-vsx.org/extension/gv...

#RStats #Python
Text: Tomorrow Night Bright R Classic published by gvelasq MIT license, A Tomorrow Night Bright theme for Positron IDE and VS Code inspired by RStudio IDE, with 1K downloads
January 21, 2026 at 3:08 PM
Reposted by Isabella Velásquez
fgazzelloni.bsky.social
I’ve just published {typeR}, a small R package that lets you simulate live typing. It prints code
To install:
devtools::install_github("fgazzelloni/typeR")

If you teach or demo R, I’d love your feedback on how it works for you. #rstats #rpackages
January 20, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Reposted by Isabella Velásquez
emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social
it only took a year but I'm back with more information about my Positron setup!
This time I'm going over my Extensions and Settings

emilhvitfeldt.com/post/positro...
Positron: My Extensions and Settings
Positron is a new and existing IDE for data science. All my extensions and settings I use to improve my experience.
emilhvitfeldt.com
January 20, 2026 at 7:35 PM
ivelasq3.bsky.social
So excited to hear from @kylieainslie.bsky.social about Project Folder Structures in #RStats at the Data Science Lab, happening today at 12 pm ET!

Come join us if the situation below feels familiar to you... pos.it/dslab
Kylie looking at a familiar project structure with many folder with varying names and structure
January 20, 2026 at 3:35 PM
ivelasq3.bsky.social
2025 was a massive year for Posit & the open-source community! 💕

I’m happy to share the 2025 Year in Review. Highlights include Air for fast #RStats formatting, AI updates, Quarto, ggplot2, & Great Tables milestones, & $750k Open Source Pledge!

Read more: posit.co/blog/2025-po...
2025 Posit Open Source Year in Review - Posit
In 2025, Posit continued its commitment to championing open-source innovation and fostering meaningful community connection.
posit.co
January 20, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Reposted by Isabella Velásquez
libbyheeren.bsky.social
This is the most elite change in #Positron, it's so calming.

#rstats #python #databs
Side by side views of the Positron. The left side has the activity bar on the left in the default position. The right side has the activity bar in the top position. Screenshot of the Positron IDE showing that the Activity Bar moved from the default position on the left side to the top where it's much smaller. A right-click menu is open next to the “Explorer” label, with the option Activity Bar Position → Top selected. Annotations highlight where to right-click, next to the word Explorer, then choose Activity Bar Position, and then choose Top.
January 10, 2026 at 6:08 AM
ivelasq3.bsky.social
Is your data "upstream" made up of R scripts and tears? Same. 🙋‍♀️

Join @libbyheeren.bsky.social and me at the Data Science Lab in 30 mins! We’re diving into dbt from first principles with @mchow.com and @laurie-merrell.bsky.social.

See you there!

🔗 pos.it/dslab
Data Science Lab
pos.it
January 6, 2026 at 4:29 PM
ivelasq3.bsky.social
mutagen was started six (!!) years ago, and has taken a little while to get rolling. I admit I haven't contributed much beyond the hex 😅 we truly appreciate the highlight, @batoolmm.bsky.social, @mike-thomas.bsky.social, and @rpodcast.bsky.social!

Check it out here: github.com/gvelasq/muta...
mutagen logo of the health hazard warning sign on a cat
December 17, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Reposted by Isabella Velásquez
rstats.blaze.email
R Weekly 2025-W51 data visualisation, assess usage of your package, mutagen

https://rweekly.org/2025-W51.html

#rstats #datascience
R Weekly 2025-W51 data visualisation, assess usage of your package, mutagen
Summary: Explore data visualisation, package usage via mutagen, and R ecosystem updates including new packages and tutorials.
rweekly.org
December 16, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Reposted by Isabella Velásquez
stephenturner.us
mutagen: extensions to dplyr's mutate for variable generation. Use these functions inside mutate (first MUTAte, then GENerate) gvelasq.github.io/mutagen/ #Rstats
December 16, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Reposted by Isabella Velásquez
masalmon.eu
New Post on @ropensci.org: Better #RStats Code, Without Any Effort, Without Even AI

Edited by @etiennebacher.bsky.social & Steffi LaZerte

Read about:

✨ {lintr} for detecting lints
✨ Air for formatting code
✨ jarl for detecting+fixing lints
✨ {flir} for refactoring

ropensci.org/blog/2025/12...
Better Code, Without Any Effort, Without Even AI
Useful local, free, deterministic tools to improve your code
ropensci.org
December 15, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Reposted by Isabella Velásquez
weare.rladies.org
Today I'm talking about contributing to base R 💻

Are you curious about how to improve the language we love, at its core?

This is a thread for you!

#RStats
December 9, 2025 at 10:39 AM
ivelasq3.bsky.social
I got to hear a sneak peek of Stephanie’s keynote, and it was so good! Definitely recommend watching if you work on teams adopting or transitioning to #RStats.
yabellini.bsky.social Yani Bellini Saibene @yabellini.bsky.social · Dec 3
Today at @latinrconf.bsky.social #LatinR2025 Stephanie Zimmer shared how her team transformed to open-source first with #RStats as the main character!

You can follow the keynote at www.youtube.com/live/xbCT4v5...
Stephanie explaining the slide "Create a cohort of mentors" with the points: Staff with open-source experience, Mentors were not all advanced users, Mentors monitored an email, Slack channel and Yammer pages for questions, Mentors hosted office hours.
December 3, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Reposted by Isabella Velásquez
libbyheeren.bsky.social
Are you a data human who has always been a little intimidated by #AdventofCode? Come to the #DataScienceLab on Dec 2nd where
@emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social
will give us a super friendly hands-on intro. Very casual, lurk friendly. Register for the event series @ pos.it/dslab

#databs #rstats #pydata
Neon green text on black background that says "Advent of Code 2025 for data people"
December 1, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Reposted by Isabella Velásquez
stephenturner.us
All models are wrong; some are useful.

All LLM outputs are hallucinations. Some are useful.
August 29, 2025 at 10:11 PM