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We make free, open-source software for data scientists like the RStudio IDE.

We're formerly known as RStudio. You can always download our open-source IDE here. https://posit.co/download/rstudio-desktop/
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libbyheeren.bsky.social
In 1 hr! #DSHangout w/ head of people analytics @ GitLab 😍 come ask Qs & hang w/ data buds 12PM ET pos.it/dsh

NEXT WEEK! @andrew.heiss.phd is on the DS Lab showing us how he makes his life easier: #Positron extensions he loves, OS tools he uses, the #duckdb + Connections pane 👀 pos.it/dslab #rstats
Data Science Lab
pos.it
January 8, 2026 at 3:58 PM
posit.co
How do you use AI assistants in data science without compromising sensitive data?

As tools like Positron Assistant and Databot gain the ability to execute code and access files, this question becomes more urgent.

@simonpcouch.com and @sara-altman.bsky.social break it down: posit.co/blog/trust-l...
Privacy and AI Assistants - Posit
Many of our LLM tools can execute code and access your files. What does this mean for privacy?
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January 8, 2026 at 3:10 PM
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t-kalinowski.bsky.social
Announcing two new packages: `yaml12` for R and `py-yaml12` for Python.
Fast, correct, and safe YAML 1.2 parsing and emitting, built in Rust.

R: posit-dev.github.io/r-yaml12/
Python: posit-dev.github.io/py-yaml12/

#yaml #rstats #python
Fast YAML 1.2 Parser and Formatter
A fast, correct, safe, and ergonomic YAML 1.2 parser and generator written in Rust. Convert between YAML and simple R objects with full support for multi-document streams, tags, anchors, and aliases. ...
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January 7, 2026 at 7:54 PM
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Strong analytics teams depend on work that’s easy to share, reproduce, and trust.

KS&R standardized on Posit to improve collaboration, consistency, and confidence across their analytics workflows.

Read the full story 👇
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Square social graphic featuring a testimonial from KS&R Vice President Ben Cortese about improving survey reporting efficiency. The quote highlights achieving 50% efficiency gains and generating 100 reports in just 5–7 minutes using Posit and Quarto. KS&R and Posit branding appear on the image.
January 7, 2026 at 8:28 PM
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libbyheeren.bsky.social
The very first DS Lab ep on fun #Positron settings is on YouTube! Come 🤣 at how I can't figure out "rainbow parens" are "bracket pair colorization" in VSC, despite @rorylawless.com pinging me with the answer in the chat 😂 OH AND SO MANY RESOURCE LINKS!

#rstats #databs #python

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Exploring Positron settings | Isabel Zimmerman & Davis Vaughan | Data Science Lab
YouTube video by Posit PBC
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January 7, 2026 at 2:51 AM
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📢 Announcing gt v1.2.0, created with GSK to improve #RStats table reporting in pharma!

🔹 Hierarchical row labels for complex data.
🔹 New horizontal summary tools for totals and averages.
🔹 Simplified scientific notation
🔹 Better rendering for Word, LaTeX, and RTF

Details: posit.co/blog/gt-1-2-0/
What's New in gt 1.2.0: Better Tables Through Collaboration - Posit
The gt v1.2.0 release introduces hierarchical multi-column stubs, row-wise aggregation, and SI prefix formatting, as well as improved support for LaTeX, Word, and RTF outputs.
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January 6, 2026 at 3:47 PM
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laurie-merrell.bsky.social
Excited to be talking about dbt with @mchow.com at @posit.co's Data Science Lab tomorrow (1/6) at noon Eastern!

If you're a data scientist or analyst curious about dbt/analytics engineering, this will be an accessible introduction

Register:
pos.it/dslab
Data Science Lab
pos.it
January 5, 2026 at 4:41 PM
posit.co
Have you tried the research preview of Databot, an AI assistant for Exploratory Data Analysis? 🤖
Databot is built for #Python & #RStats data scientists using Positron. It writes & executes code on the fly, keeping the process code-forward & transparent.
Learn more: positron.posit.co/databot.html
December 30, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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jrwinget.bsky.social
Happy Friday! I'm a bit late, but better than never 😅

My #PositConf2025 talk, 𝘌𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘳 𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘚𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘺 𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘉𝘦𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦, is live on Posit’s YouTube channel. This one was especially fun to put together!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvMn...

#CognitiveEngineering #rstats #shiny
Engineer Insightful Shiny Apps with Behavioral Science (Jeremy Winget, CrossStack) | posit::conf
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December 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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simonpcouch.com
In this edition of the @posit.co AI Newsletter, some 🎄Year In Review🎄, notes on GPT 5.2, and an experimental AI product for RStudio users.

posit.co/blog/2025-12...
2025-12-19 AI Newsletter - Posit
In this edition of the Posit AI Newsletter, we dive into the most important AI news and research from the past two weeks. Curated for the data science community, we cover everything from model updates...
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December 19, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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libbyheeren.bsky.social
Planning a friendly intro to dbt for the 1st DS Lab of the year w/ Michael Chow, & the question came up of who the episode will be for. It'll rock for anyone curious about #dbt & data eng, obvs, but if you're a dbt pro, it will be a chance to come help others learn!! #databs #rstats #duckdb #pydata
December 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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simonpcouch.com
infer 1.1.0, a package implementing an expressive grammar for statistical inference, is on CRAN! In a change originally motivated by @allendowney.bsky.social's posit::conf(2024) keynote, the package now supports arbitrary test statistics.

Read more: github.com/tidymodels/i...
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December 18, 2025 at 2:27 PM
posit.co
Thinking about running local models with coding agents like Positron Assistant? 💻

A new evaluation by @simonpcouch.com and @sara-altman.bsky.social suggests we aren't there yet. Between hardware hurdles and performance gaps, hosted models are still the best bet for now.

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Local models are not there (yet) - Posit
LLMs that can run on your laptop are not yet capable enough to drive coding agents.
posit.co
December 17, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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simonpcouch.com
While coding agents like Positron Assistant and side::kick() are technically compatible with LLMs small enough to run on your laptop, the results leave much to be desired.

New on the @posit.co blog from @sara-altman.bsky.social and I: posit.co/blog/local-m...
Local models are not there (yet) - Posit
LLMs that can run on your laptop are not yet capable enough to drive coding agents.
posit.co
December 16, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Posit Workbench, part of the Posit Team platform, provides significant value to financial service organizations by delivering a centralized, auditable, and flexible development environment.

Read the blog: posit.co/blog/posit-w...
December 16, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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In this episode of the Test Set podcast, @marcogorelli.bsky.social joins Michael and Wes to unpack the Narwhals origin story, plus trust in open source, and finding leverage in boring problems.

Listen on Spotify, or Apple Podcasts. Watch on YouTube or at thetestset.co.

#thetestset #rstats #python
December 16, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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libbyheeren.bsky.social
Tomorrow's DS Lab will be great for those curious abt
- digging thru the backend of websites to see API calls
- using Postman
- alternatives to web scraping

@marcoshuerta.com is gonna show us how he does this stuff! Come join us!! pos.it/dslab <- registers for the series

#databs #python #rstats
Data Science Lab
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December 15, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social
We are excited to see that xgboost recently had a big CRAN release! We have worked hard on the tidymodels team to make sure you all have a smooth transition.

Please yet us know if you are experiencing any issues with the releases

tidyverse.org/blog/2025/12...
#rstats #tidymodels
tidymodels & xgboost
The tidymodels ecosystem is prepared for big xgboost CRAN release.
tidyverse.org
December 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
posit.co
Join Wes McKinney (@wesmckinney.com) and the Pixeltable @pixeltable.net team, Marcel Kornacker and Alison Hill (@apreshill.com), for a fireside chat hosted by Hugo Bowne-Anderson on Dec 16!

They will discuss data processing and #AI workflows for multimodal data 📊

Register: luma.com/2y04b6nf
Building Multimodal AI Workflows with Pixeltable · Luma
The challenge with multimodal AI isn't calling models. It's everything else. Videos need to become frames. Audio needs transcription. Embeddings need to stay…
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December 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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New data from @sara-altman.bsky.social & @simonpcouch.com, using the vitals and ellmer packages, looks at LLM performance metrics for #RStats.

👀 Sneak peek: Claude Opus 4.5, Claude Sonnet 4.5, & OpenAI GPT-5 lead in generating correct R code.

Read the full breakdown: posit.co/blog/r-llm-e...
Which LLM writes the best R code? - Posit
The vitals package delivers a dedicated framework for measuring how well Large Language Models perform with code.
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December 11, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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libbyheeren.bsky.social
How lucky am I that these 2 agreed to join me not just at DS Lab to share #Positron settings, but now TODAY @ the Hangout to share about their dev jobs!

Let's be real, we're all Brandon Sanderson #Cosmere nerds, too, that's gonna come up 😂

Join us @ 12PM ET! pos.it/dsh

#databs #rstats #python
Promotional image for the Data Science Hangout. Two headshots are at the top: Isabel on the left is a smiling white woman with short brown hair and a black top, Davis on the right is a smiling white man with short brown hair and a blue shirt. Under the photos there is text that reads: 11 December 2025 at 12PM ET Isabel Zimmerman and David Vaughan, Software Engineers at Posit. Join us with Isabel and Davis from Posit to chat about building R and Python packages, working on the tooling that powers Positron, and Air, the powerful R formatter.
December 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social
I'm excited to announce the newest release of {tidypredict}!
This release brings for standardization to outputs, faster trees for parsing and prediction, and glmnet support

tidyverse.org/blog/2025/12...
#rstats #tidymodels
tidypredict 1.0.0
tidypredict 1.0.0 brings faster computations for tree-based models, more efficient tree representations, glmnet model support, and a change in how random forests are handled.
tidyverse.org
December 10, 2025 at 11:03 PM
posit.co
Curious what’s free in Positron vs. what comes with Positron Pro?
Nick Rohrbaugh shows exactly how Positron stays a full-featured free IDE — and how Pro adds SSO, managed credentials, scalable compute, auditing, and more.
Clip below.
Full demo → posit.co/resources/vi...
December 10, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Shiny for R v1.12 is here with built-in OpenTelemetry support! 🎉

Trace sessions and reactive calculations in production with zero code changes. Just install {otel}/{otelsdk} and set your env vars.

Learn more: shiny.posit.co/blog/posts/s...

#RStats #RShiny #OpenTelemetry
December 10, 2025 at 9:08 PM
posit.co
Woohoo, we have two R Weekly highlights this week! 💙 Thanks for sharing them, R Weekly team & @rpodcast.bsky.social!

Check out the blog posts here:

📻 The Test Set on YT: posit.co/blog/the-tes...
🤖 AI Newsletter: posit.co/blog/2025-12...
December 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM