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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 8d
Happy 2026! 🎆

My resolution: put @dslc.io on a sustainable footing.

I’m launching a Patreon to cover costs (Zoom, hosting, etc). If you love #TidyTuesday, our Slack help, or our book clubs, please consider helping us keep the lights on!

patreon.com/DSLC

#RStats #DataBS
Data Science Learning Community | Patreon
Tools to learn data science, e.g. weekly TidyTues.day dataset
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This is cute but I don't know what data was used for the seasons for (dried) sesame seeds, wheat flour buns, cheese, or beef. Especially not if you're using a nice aged cheddar.
iamreddave.bsky.social The museum of unconditional surrender @iamreddave.bsky.social · 6d
Cheeseburgers are not natural.
My Graph is up on Reddit www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau...
January 13, 2026 at 3:08 PM
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noamross.net
🚀 We're pleased to open the call for Champions and Mentors for the rOpenSci Champions Program 2026-2027, a 12-month journey in open science, research software, and community building.

🌎 This year's cohort will be run in Spanish and focused on Latin America

More info at ropensci.org/blog/2026/01...
Open call for the rOpenSci Champions Program 2026!
You can now apply to participate in the 2026 Champions Program. We are looking for people to participate in mentoring roles and to become Champions.
ropensci.org
January 12, 2026 at 6:14 PM
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jrdnbradford.bsky.social
{gutenbergr} 📦 0.4.0 is out!

You can now cache your Project Gutenberg downloads locally (temporarily or across sessions). Use the new gutenberg_cache_* family of functions to list, update, or clear your cache.

#rstats #gutenbergr #projectgutenberg

cran.r-project.org/web/packages...
gutenbergr: Download and Process Public Domain Works from Project Gutenberg
Download and process public domain works in the Project Gutenberg collection &lt;<a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/" target="_top">https://www.gutenberg.org/</a>&gt;. Includes metadata for all Projec...
cran.r-project.org
January 12, 2026 at 2:31 PM
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@dslc.io welcomes you to week 2 of #TidyTuesday! We're exploring The Languages of Africa!

📂 https://tidytues.day/2026/2026-01-13
📰 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Africa

#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. Map showing the traditional language families represented in Africa. Language families are depicted in 14 colors. Afroasiatic languages dominate across the north, with a band of several families just south of that group. A large section of the continent is dominated by Bantu languages. Credit to Wikipedia. More details are available at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Africa#/media/File:Africa_ethnic_groups_1996.jpg
January 12, 2026 at 1:52 PM
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karaman.is
For this week's #TidyTuesday, I visualized James Bond's drinking habits across the 12 novels using a waffle chart, based on the 2013 study "Were James Bond's drinks shaken because of alcohol induced tremor?"

Code: github.com/gkaramanis/t...

#RStats #dataviz
Waffle chart showing James Bond's weekly alcohol consumption across 12 novels. Each gold square represents one unit of alcohol. The chart is faceted by book title and year of publication, with consumption rates ranging from 52.4 units per week (Goldfinger) to 132 units per week (You Only Live Twice). Numbers labelled on each facet show the weekly consumption total.
January 11, 2026 at 3:25 PM
jonthegeek.com
Did you find your own dataset for #TidyTuesday this week? Consider submitting it as a dataset for a future Tuesday! The {tidytuesdayR} 📦 has a family of functions to make it as straightforward as possible (in RStudio): dslc-io.github.io/tidytuesdayR...
#RStats #dataBS
Curating a Dataset
dslc-io.github.io
January 9, 2026 at 3:49 PM
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ahmetakkoc.bsky.social
🇬🇱 This #TidyTuesday I give you a map of the Greenlandic diaspora! Did you know that there are over 17k Greenlanders in Denmark?

Check out my source code to learn more!
github.com/madprogramer...

#dataviz #Greenland #danmark
There are 74563 Greenlanders around the world. 56542 in Greenland; 17079 in Denmark and 942 elsewhere. Scan QR code for source code.
January 8, 2026 at 8:57 PM
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This man should never eat another restaurant meal that does not contain the saliva (or, preferably, other bodily fluids) of at least two people. He should cry himself to sleep every night knowing that he is despised.
blackazizanansi.blacksky.app Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 5d
DHS agents are stomping on Renee Good's memorial.
January 8, 2026 at 10:20 PM
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edsbs.bsky.social
his name is Jonathan Ross and he shouldn't get a good night's sleep for the rest of his life www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...
Star Tribune identifies ICE agent who fatally shot woman in Minneapolis
Jonathan Ross was dragged in a separate incident last year by a fleeing driver, according to court records.
www.startribune.com
January 8, 2026 at 7:09 PM
jonthegeek.com
We're about to kick off a new @dslc.io book club to read @nrennie.bsky.social 's forthcoming book: "The Art of Visualization with #ggplot2: The #TidyTuesday Cookbook" (nrennie.rbind.io/art-of-viz/)! Head to DSLC.io and join our Slack to join the book club! #RStats #DataViz #DataVis
January 6, 2026 at 12:13 PM
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nrennie.bsky.social
It's the first Tuesday of 2026 which means it's time to kick-off another year of #TidyTuesday with "Bring Your Own Data" week! 📊

Here's 4 abstract timeline charts summarising my 2025 made with #ggplot2 (assembled with {patchwork})

#RStats #DataViz
4 timelines consiting of bars, dots on a line, line, and overlapping bars representing work, talks, GitHub commits, and books read.
January 6, 2026 at 11:36 AM
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jonathankitt.bsky.social
First #tidytuesday for 2026! Decided to re-create my #github contributions heatmap for 2025.
Code available here: github.com/KittJonathan...
#Rstats #datavis #code
January 6, 2026 at 9:28 AM
jonthegeek.com
Happy 2026! 🎆

My resolution: put @dslc.io on a sustainable footing.

I’m launching a Patreon to cover costs (Zoom, hosting, etc). If you love #TidyTuesday, our Slack help, or our book clubs, please consider helping us keep the lights on!

patreon.com/DSLC

#RStats #DataBS
Data Science Learning Community | Patreon
Tools to learn data science, e.g. weekly TidyTues.day dataset
patreon.com
January 5, 2026 at 2:29 PM
jonthegeek.com
It's week 1 of 2026, which means it's Bring Your Own Data Week!

Ideas:
⏪ A previous #TidyTuesday dataset (https://tidytues.day/2025)
🫵 Personal metadata (TV shows watched, music listened, #RStats written, etc)
❓ Whatever else you want to use!

#r4ds #tidyverse #DataViz
January 5, 2026 at 1:50 PM
jonthegeek.com
It's still possible to be the first subscriber! I suspect/hope that this distinction won't be available for long!
jonthegeek.com Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 12d
Happy 2026! 🎆

My resolution: put @dslc.io on a sustainable footing.

I’m soft-launching our Patreon to cover costs (Zoom, hosting, etc). If you love #TidyTuesday, our Slack help, or our book clubs, you can be an early supporter before the official launch Monday!

patreon.com/DSLC

#RStats #DataBS
Data Science Learning Community | Patreon
Tools to learn data science, e.g. weekly TidyTues.day dataset
patreon.com
January 2, 2026 at 12:57 AM
jonthegeek.com
Happy 2026! 🎆

My resolution: put @dslc.io on a sustainable footing.

I’m soft-launching our Patreon to cover costs (Zoom, hosting, etc). If you love #TidyTuesday, our Slack help, or our book clubs, you can be an early supporter before the official launch Monday!

patreon.com/DSLC

#RStats #DataBS
Data Science Learning Community | Patreon
Tools to learn data science, e.g. weekly TidyTues.day dataset
patreon.com
January 1, 2026 at 11:45 PM
Reposted by Jon Harmon (he/him/his)
mitsuoxv.bsky.social
My submission for #TidyTuesday, Week 52 on Christmas Novels. I explore term frequency changes from authors born before 1850 to those born after 1850.

Code: github.com/mitsuoxv/tid...
Arrow chart whose start point is authors born before 1850, and end point is those born after 1850; x-axis is term frequency per 1000 words, and y-axis is words whose tf changed by more than 1/1000.
December 30, 2025 at 1:48 AM
jonthegeek.com
There's a billboard just north of Temple, TX, that just says "god bless president Trump", without a url or "funded by" or anything, and I can't think of anything it's for other than straight up worship.
December 30, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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@dslc.io welcomes you to week 52 of #TidyTuesday! We're exploring Christmas Novels!

📂 https://tidytues.day/2025/2025-12-30
📰 https://github.com/ropensci/gutenbergr/issues/95

#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 color drawing of the Spirit of Christmas Present from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. A man in a green robe sits on top of a pile of varoius foods, and holds a torch above his head. Scrooge stands beside him, dwarfed by the spirt.
December 29, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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karaman.is
For last week's #TidyTuesday, I created a map of endangered languages around the world. Built entirely in R/ggplot2: transforming spatial coordinates, identifying hotspots and composing multiple charts!

Code: github.com/gkaramanis/t...

Inspiration: www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/co...

#RStats #dataviz
Map and bar chart showing the global distribution of 4 209 endangered languages. The world map displays threatened, shifting, moribund, and nearly extinct languages as colored points, with yellow areas highlighting regions of high language clustering. A notable concentration of approximately 700 endangered languages appears in Papua New Guinea and the Indonesian portion of New Guinea, shown in detail in an inset map (bottom right). The bar chart (bottom left) breaks down the 4 209 languages by endangerment status: 1 629 threatened, 1 835 shifting, 434 moribund, and 311 nearly extinct.
December 29, 2025 at 11:47 AM
jonthegeek.com
This has been bugging me because I can't imagine WANTING to pick a specialist, let alone being able to. Is this that weird thing rich people do where all their doctors are friends family, and neighbors?
mcuban.bsky.social Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 16d
The UK is very different from Medicare. In Medicare you can mostly go to a specialist of your choice. Not in the UK

This is how most UHC works. Will Americans be ok with this change to Medicare ?

Referrals for specialist care - NHS share.google/X84C9oCy1rE1...
December 29, 2025 at 1:28 AM
jonthegeek.com
If they don't need to prove things during immigration proceedings they can deport anybody, including US citizens. Why is this hard? Obviously you need court proceedings for any of these things. Obviously.
georgetakei.bsky.social George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 18d
My family and I, and the entire Japanese American community on the West Coast, were denied due process during our internment in WWII. It is a cherished, critical right for all people within the U.S.’s borders.
Screenshot of a tweet by Aaron Reichlin-Melnick criticizing a government official’s claim that due process should be ignored in immigration enforcement. The tweet argues that due process applies to everyone and is enshrined twice in the U.S. Constitution. Below it is a quoted tweet referencing a statement attributed to Stephen Miller about deportations, alongside a video still of a man speaking at a podium outdoors.
December 27, 2025 at 3:03 AM
jonthegeek.com
I haven't really written anything yet (I've mostly just been rearranging existing code)... But using C in #RStats is way easier than I expected it to be. There's a learning curve, but it feels like it's probably worth it. And rlang bundles up some of the baseline bits to make life easier.
December 22, 2025 at 11:58 PM
jonthegeek.com
Good job, fascists! I just watched approximately my 3rd ever 60 Minutes story!

We are the bad guys. It doesn't feel morally justifiable to pay taxes this year, knowing the evil that they fund. I don't know how to do anyything about all of this, but I'm trying harder now than I was 20 minutes ago.
December 22, 2025 at 11:24 PM
jonthegeek.com
@dslc.io welcomes you to week 51 of #TidyTuesday! We're exploring The Languages of the World!

📁 https://tidytues.day/2025/2025-12-23
🗞️ https://glottolog.org/

#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. Reproduction of the antique world map Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula, featuring allegorical scenes and mythological figures surrounding the continents.
December 22, 2025 at 1:52 PM