Yes!!! I’ve had a lot of good professional experiences but if I had to choose one best thing it would be the attitude of the R community that I was lucky enough to become a part of 20 years ago ❤️ The world will be a better place if we can spread this to other things!

Also, the idea of an “admin party” is really great.

Yes! One of the things I most appreciated about Roy Cooper when he was governor of NC is that I almost never had to think about him. He seemed focused on being competent at his job and steered us on a good path while being delightfully boring about it!!

There’s really an impressive amount in this particular newsletter

My attempts to grow even nominal amounts of vegetables have given me great respect for farmers. Some years one thing does great and the rest suffer some tragedy incompatible with production. Next year totally different 🤯 It’s more an exercise in cultivating humility than vegetables.

Looks similarly bad for Chapel Hill NC

Over the weekend, I showed Claude Code my data-oriented web app and asked how it would build the same thing from scratch. It decided to mock up the data even though the data files were there, because it couldn’t get around CORS (honestly something I didn’t know existed until recently).

What are the key characteristics to qualify as a real time database?

This thread is reassuring since I recently decided for our public data release to go with zipped csvs. I felt a little guilty for not using parquet but decided it could only be a barrier to some people (scientists) who wouldn’t know how to open it.

There are some marked state effects here. I’m curious why NC is so high even here in the central Piedmont region where we seem to be quite fortunate from a weather disaster standpoint. Maybe a state govt factor at play?

Whenever I see people doing complicated things in Excel I am both impressed and horrified.