Terry Christiani 👋
@terrychristiani.bsky.social
Content strategist and events management. Executive Director for the R Consortium #rstats. www.randomactsoftourism.com All posts are my own.
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Hey there! I am Terry. I am a nature lover, politics junkie, content strategist, events management expert, and #rstats fan. I am also a huge fan of sugar-free and grain-free cooking. So, hopefully, we can connect and have fun. Cheers! 🥂
THIS! SO VERY MUCH THIS!
There are two types of people in the world. People who obsessively wash their hands after touching meat before touching anything else—
and people’s whose house I won’t eat at.
and people’s whose house I won’t eat at.
November 26, 2025 at 5:43 AM
THIS! SO VERY MUCH THIS!
The sponsorship of R user groups around the world is core to the mission of the @rconsortium.bsky.social. It's a privilege to be able to share the efforts and stories in the #rstats community.
New R Consortium interview with Dr Paolo Bosetti on R-Trento (R-TUG): from the adas.utils package to an R community across academia, industry & public sector.
r-consortium.org/posts/from-t...
#rstats #RConsortium
r-consortium.org/posts/from-t...
#rstats #RConsortium
November 26, 2025 at 12:34 AM
The sponsorship of R user groups around the world is core to the mission of the @rconsortium.bsky.social. It's a privilege to be able to share the efforts and stories in the #rstats community.
Reposted by Terry Christiani 👋
R is thriving in Cleveland!
We spoke with Alec Wong from the Cleveland R Users Group about career planning, hiring in an AI world, and building bridges with local Python and open data communities.
Read more: r-consortium.org/posts/expand...
#rstats #opensource
We spoke with Alec Wong from the Cleveland R Users Group about career planning, hiring in an AI world, and building bridges with local Python and open data communities.
Read more: r-consortium.org/posts/expand...
#rstats #opensource
November 24, 2025 at 10:43 PM
R is thriving in Cleveland!
We spoke with Alec Wong from the Cleveland R Users Group about career planning, hiring in an AI world, and building bridges with local Python and open data communities.
Read more: r-consortium.org/posts/expand...
#rstats #opensource
We spoke with Alec Wong from the Cleveland R Users Group about career planning, hiring in an AI world, and building bridges with local Python and open data communities.
Read more: r-consortium.org/posts/expand...
#rstats #opensource
Reposted by Terry Christiani 👋
It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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November 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Hard agree. The Roberts court ushered in the end of democracy. Threw the doors wide open with Citizens United and never looked back.
SIGH
I personally date the fall of the post-Civil Rights constitutional order 2013 & Shelby County v Holder. When a reactionary SCOTUS could knock out the keystone of equal voting rights, & everyone agreed that was valid, it was an epochal change. It meant democracy was itself now a partisan issue.
I personally date the fall of the post-Civil Rights constitutional order 2013 & Shelby County v Holder. When a reactionary SCOTUS could knock out the keystone of equal voting rights, & everyone agreed that was valid, it was an epochal change. It meant democracy was itself now a partisan issue.
As we all wait for Callais to come down, our piece showing that Shelby County increased the racial turnout gap in most of the covered parts of the country has cleared the replication check and is incoming at JOP.
Gutting the VRA was bad, actually.
Gutting the VRA was bad, actually.
November 24, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Hard agree. The Roberts court ushered in the end of democracy. Threw the doors wide open with Citizens United and never looked back.
November 24, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Reposted by Terry Christiani 👋
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
-FDR, 1937
-FDR, 1937
November 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
-FDR, 1937
-FDR, 1937
Help us kick off a whole new event! Get your proposals in, #Rstats! This one is going to be fun 😀
R!sk 2026 is coming. Online event from R Consortium, Feb 18–19, 2026, for anyone using #rstats to model and manage risk.
CFP open now: talks, lightning talks, panels, tutorials due Dec 7, 2025.
Details + submission: rconsortium.github.io/Risk_website...
#risk #datascience
CFP open now: talks, lightning talks, panels, tutorials due Dec 7, 2025.
Details + submission: rconsortium.github.io/Risk_website...
#risk #datascience
November 20, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Help us kick off a whole new event! Get your proposals in, #Rstats! This one is going to be fun 😀
Just another example of the work our members support. #Rstats, whether your company is a member or not, you can get involved with working groups and committees. Of course, you can also submit a proposal to build something cool for the community. #ISCGrants
Jarl is an R Consortium–funded project: a blazing-fast linter for R
Built on {lintr} and the Air formatter (Rust), Jarl ships as a single binary—perfect for CI, pre-commit hooks, and editor integration (VS Code, Positron, Zed).
r-consortium.org/posts/jarl-j...
#rstats #RConsortium #opensource
Built on {lintr} and the Air formatter (Rust), Jarl ships as a single binary—perfect for CI, pre-commit hooks, and editor integration (VS Code, Positron, Zed).
r-consortium.org/posts/jarl-j...
#rstats #RConsortium #opensource
Jarl: just another R linter – R Consortium
Remove bad patterns in your R code in the blink of an eye.
r-consortium.org
November 20, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Just another example of the work our members support. #Rstats, whether your company is a member or not, you can get involved with working groups and committees. Of course, you can also submit a proposal to build something cool for the community. #ISCGrants
Reposted by Terry Christiani 👋
Introducing bluffbench, a new tool to evaluate how well LLMs actually see data plots.
When we trick LLMs with secret #RStats transformations, they can miss the visual contradiction.
bluffbench helps us measure this "blind spot" in AI coding agents. Learn more: posit.co/blog/introdu...
When we trick LLMs with secret #RStats transformations, they can miss the visual contradiction.
bluffbench helps us measure this "blind spot" in AI coding agents. Learn more: posit.co/blog/introdu...
When plotting, LLMs see what they expect to see - Posit
Data science agents need to accurately read plots even when the content contradicts their expectations. Our testing shows today's LLMs still struggle here.
posit.co
November 19, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Introducing bluffbench, a new tool to evaluate how well LLMs actually see data plots.
When we trick LLMs with secret #RStats transformations, they can miss the visual contradiction.
bluffbench helps us measure this "blind spot" in AI coding agents. Learn more: posit.co/blog/introdu...
When we trick LLMs with secret #RStats transformations, they can miss the visual contradiction.
bluffbench helps us measure this "blind spot" in AI coding agents. Learn more: posit.co/blog/introdu...
So, #rstats, do you work on ways to analyze or measure risk? There are so many different types of risk and if you are out there working with it - please consider giving us a proposal for our conference in February of 2026. CFP is open now. rconsortium.github.io/Risk_website...
Call for Proposals – R!sk 2026
rconsortium.github.io
November 18, 2025 at 9:03 PM
So, #rstats, do you work on ways to analyze or measure risk? There are so many different types of risk and if you are out there working with it - please consider giving us a proposal for our conference in February of 2026. CFP is open now. rconsortium.github.io/Risk_website...
Reposted by Terry Christiani 👋
This coming week! From the R Consortium HTA WG: “Making Health Economic Models Shiny” – moving models from Excel to R & Shiny with Dr Robert Smith & Dr Wael Mohammed (Dark Peak Analytics). Details: r-consortium.org/webinars/mak...
#rstats #shiny
#rstats #shiny
November 16, 2025 at 5:51 PM
This coming week! From the R Consortium HTA WG: “Making Health Economic Models Shiny” – moving models from Excel to R & Shiny with Dr Robert Smith & Dr Wael Mohammed (Dark Peak Analytics). Details: r-consortium.org/webinars/mak...
#rstats #shiny
#rstats #shiny
I'm so excited for tomorrow, #rstats, the first day of our first R+AI conference. Joe Cheng keynote and a day full of talks. What an amazing effort by the community to pull together and talk about the disruption and opportunity that LLMs have presented the market and language. 😁
November 12, 2025 at 4:34 AM
I'm so excited for tomorrow, #rstats, the first day of our first R+AI conference. Joe Cheng keynote and a day full of talks. What an amazing effort by the community to pull together and talk about the disruption and opportunity that LLMs have presented the market and language. 😁
Reposted by Terry Christiani 👋
TOMORROW! R+AI 2025 goes live!
Highlights:
• Joe Cheng (Posit): Keeping LLMs in Their Lane
• Oracle ML: RAG from your DB (Hornick & LaMonica)
• Troy Hernandez: Stable Diffusion in R
• Many, many more!
Nov 12–13. See the full program and register: rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_webs...
#rstats #AI
Highlights:
• Joe Cheng (Posit): Keeping LLMs in Their Lane
• Oracle ML: RAG from your DB (Hornick & LaMonica)
• Troy Hernandez: Stable Diffusion in R
• Many, many more!
Nov 12–13. See the full program and register: rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_webs...
#rstats #AI
November 11, 2025 at 6:43 PM
TOMORROW! R+AI 2025 goes live!
Highlights:
• Joe Cheng (Posit): Keeping LLMs in Their Lane
• Oracle ML: RAG from your DB (Hornick & LaMonica)
• Troy Hernandez: Stable Diffusion in R
• Many, many more!
Nov 12–13. See the full program and register: rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_webs...
#rstats #AI
Highlights:
• Joe Cheng (Posit): Keeping LLMs in Their Lane
• Oracle ML: RAG from your DB (Hornick & LaMonica)
• Troy Hernandez: Stable Diffusion in R
• Many, many more!
Nov 12–13. See the full program and register: rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_webs...
#rstats #AI
Reposted by Terry Christiani 👋
Webinar: Making Health Economic Models Shiny — Excel → R & Shiny
Tue Nov 18 · 8am PT / 11am ET / 4pm GMT
Practical migration tips for HTA teams
Speakers: Dr Robert Smith, Dr Wael Mohammed (Dark Peak Analytics)
Register: r-consortium.org/webinars/mak...
#rstats #Shiny #HTA #healthcare
Tue Nov 18 · 8am PT / 11am ET / 4pm GMT
Practical migration tips for HTA teams
Speakers: Dr Robert Smith, Dr Wael Mohammed (Dark Peak Analytics)
Register: r-consortium.org/webinars/mak...
#rstats #Shiny #HTA #healthcare
November 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Webinar: Making Health Economic Models Shiny — Excel → R & Shiny
Tue Nov 18 · 8am PT / 11am ET / 4pm GMT
Practical migration tips for HTA teams
Speakers: Dr Robert Smith, Dr Wael Mohammed (Dark Peak Analytics)
Register: r-consortium.org/webinars/mak...
#rstats #Shiny #HTA #healthcare
Tue Nov 18 · 8am PT / 11am ET / 4pm GMT
Practical migration tips for HTA teams
Speakers: Dr Robert Smith, Dr Wael Mohammed (Dark Peak Analytics)
Register: r-consortium.org/webinars/mak...
#rstats #Shiny #HTA #healthcare
Reposted by Terry Christiani 👋
We’re at ISPOR Europe 2025, and you can find us at stand 1115.
If you’re around, come say hi. We’re chatting about R, Python, Posit, and how teams build analysis platforms.
Esther and Colin are here all through the event.
We’ve got resources, hex stickers, and goodies!
#ISPOREurope #RStats
If you’re around, come say hi. We’re chatting about R, Python, Posit, and how teams build analysis platforms.
Esther and Colin are here all through the event.
We’ve got resources, hex stickers, and goodies!
#ISPOREurope #RStats
November 10, 2025 at 12:26 PM
We’re at ISPOR Europe 2025, and you can find us at stand 1115.
If you’re around, come say hi. We’re chatting about R, Python, Posit, and how teams build analysis platforms.
Esther and Colin are here all through the event.
We’ve got resources, hex stickers, and goodies!
#ISPOREurope #RStats
If you’re around, come say hi. We’re chatting about R, Python, Posit, and how teams build analysis platforms.
Esther and Colin are here all through the event.
We’ve got resources, hex stickers, and goodies!
#ISPOREurope #RStats
R!sk Call for Proposals is live. February 18-19, 2026 - 100% digital delivery. We'll be announcing our keynote soon. So excited to bring y'all together for this one, #rstats.
rconsortium.github.io/Risk_website...
rconsortium.github.io/Risk_website...
Call for Proposals – R!sk 2026
rconsortium.github.io
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
R!sk Call for Proposals is live. February 18-19, 2026 - 100% digital delivery. We'll be announcing our keynote soon. So excited to bring y'all together for this one, #rstats.
rconsortium.github.io/Risk_website...
rconsortium.github.io/Risk_website...
Reposted by Terry Christiani 👋
At R+AI next week: RAG on your database → query R Consortium blogs. Sherry LaMonica & Mark Hornick (Oracle ML) demo an R workflow in RStudio with Oracle Autonomous Database, vector index + LLM switching.
Details + register: rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_webs...
#rstats #RAG #AI #opensource #Oracle
Details + register: rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_webs...
#rstats #RAG #AI #opensource #Oracle
November 7, 2025 at 10:03 PM
At R+AI next week: RAG on your database → query R Consortium blogs. Sherry LaMonica & Mark Hornick (Oracle ML) demo an R workflow in RStudio with Oracle Autonomous Database, vector index + LLM switching.
Details + register: rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_webs...
#rstats #RAG #AI #opensource #Oracle
Details + register: rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_webs...
#rstats #RAG #AI #opensource #Oracle
Ready to dive in and get some practical experience, #rstats? Workshop is included in the ticket for R+AI.
Next week at R+AI 2025: a 2-hour hands-on workshop for R users new to genAI.
Learn prompting patterns, context, tool calls, agentic flows, tokens/context, safety, and lightweight testing/QC. Leave with runnable R scripts.
Details: rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_webs...
#rstats #AI
Learn prompting patterns, context, tool calls, agentic flows, tokens/context, safety, and lightweight testing/QC. Leave with runnable R scripts.
Details: rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_webs...
#rstats #AI
November 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Ready to dive in and get some practical experience, #rstats? Workshop is included in the ticket for R+AI.
Oh, hey there, #rstats!
Just a little heads up that we open the CFP for R!sk on Friday, Nov 7th. Please go take a look & pull your proposal together. We're excited about this. There's risk in everything & we want to share as broad a perspective as possible. rconsortium.github.io/Risk_website...
Just a little heads up that we open the CFP for R!sk on Friday, Nov 7th. Please go take a look & pull your proposal together. We're excited about this. There's risk in everything & we want to share as broad a perspective as possible. rconsortium.github.io/Risk_website...
Call for Proposals – R!sk 2026
rconsortium.github.io
November 4, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Oh, hey there, #rstats!
Just a little heads up that we open the CFP for R!sk on Friday, Nov 7th. Please go take a look & pull your proposal together. We're excited about this. There's risk in everything & we want to share as broad a perspective as possible. rconsortium.github.io/Risk_website...
Just a little heads up that we open the CFP for R!sk on Friday, Nov 7th. Please go take a look & pull your proposal together. We're excited about this. There's risk in everything & we want to share as broad a perspective as possible. rconsortium.github.io/Risk_website...
Woot! 🎉
Hey #rstats! Check it out and register for the first R+AI conference.
Hey #rstats! Check it out and register for the first R+AI conference.
Full schedule is live: R+AI 2025 · Nov 12–13 · online
Sample session:
“Tools for LLMs and Humans who use R” — Garrick Aden-Buie (Posit)
How the {btw} package feeds computational context to LLMs for smoother R+AI workflows.
Register! rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_webs...
#rstats #AI @posit.co
Sample session:
“Tools for LLMs and Humans who use R” — Garrick Aden-Buie (Posit)
How the {btw} package feeds computational context to LLMs for smoother R+AI workflows.
Register! rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_webs...
#rstats #AI @posit.co
November 4, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Woot! 🎉
Hey #rstats! Check it out and register for the first R+AI conference.
Hey #rstats! Check it out and register for the first R+AI conference.
One of the things about programs like SNAP that most people don't understand but some oligarchs really hate is that they redistribute wealth and stimulate economic activity that benefits small, local economies.
publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/what-is...
publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/what-is...
What Is SNAP? And Why Does It Matter? | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as food stamps, is the United States’ largest anti-hunger program and helps an average of 41.7 million Americans per month.
publichealth.jhu.edu
November 3, 2025 at 5:04 AM
One of the things about programs like SNAP that most people don't understand but some oligarchs really hate is that they redistribute wealth and stimulate economic activity that benefits small, local economies.
publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/what-is...
publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/what-is...
I donated both to Feeding America and my local food bank today. If you can, I hope you will do the same.
Feeding America is truly a good organization who does good things.
I opened the `Friends of Alf` team for anyone who wants to go hector *their* mutuals to chip in. Open invite--go raise some money, have some fun with it
Gonna commandeer the podcast recording tonight to talk about it, maybe dust off the Stupid Stream Kit this week and make some of you come hang out
Gonna commandeer the podcast recording tonight to talk about it, maybe dust off the Stupid Stream Kit this week and make some of you come hang out
November 3, 2025 at 4:16 AM
I donated both to Feeding America and my local food bank today. If you can, I hope you will do the same.
Reposted by Terry Christiani 👋
Skip the hype. Deep dive on R + AI 🧠
R+AI 2025 · Nov 12–13 · online · low cost 💻
Keynote: Joe Cheng (CTO, Posit) — “Keeping LLMs in Their Lane” 🎯
Register: rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_webs...
#rstats #AI #LLMs #Quarto #RConsortium
R+AI 2025 · Nov 12–13 · online · low cost 💻
Keynote: Joe Cheng (CTO, Posit) — “Keeping LLMs in Their Lane” 🎯
Register: rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_webs...
#rstats #AI #LLMs #Quarto #RConsortium
October 22, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Skip the hype. Deep dive on R + AI 🧠
R+AI 2025 · Nov 12–13 · online · low cost 💻
Keynote: Joe Cheng (CTO, Posit) — “Keeping LLMs in Their Lane” 🎯
Register: rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_webs...
#rstats #AI #LLMs #Quarto #RConsortium
R+AI 2025 · Nov 12–13 · online · low cost 💻
Keynote: Joe Cheng (CTO, Posit) — “Keeping LLMs in Their Lane” 🎯
Register: rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_webs...
#rstats #AI #LLMs #Quarto #RConsortium