Emily Riederer
@emilyriederer.bsky.social
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Here for data, data science, analytics engineering, rstats, books
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emilyriederer.bsky.social
Please tell us this is a blog or book outline 👀
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noamross.net
I have the privilege of working with fed agency folks. They've been jerked around, forced to move, had offices taken, lost resources, put on leave, fired, re-hired, *shot at*, and now furloughed. Still they return each day to help make America a bit more informed, healthier, and safer.
emilyriederer.bsky.social
Tomorrow I have to take 25 blurbs of text, copy paste them one by one into a UI, get an ID and link, and then go paste those into some docs

I’m reminded how much more I value of a good REST API or RPA/headless browser (Playwright!) over AI for the kind of work I want to delegate to a robot
emilyriederer.bsky.social
Thank you!! Cannot wait to read and try 👀 Slides is the last place I always find myself reaching back to WYSIWYG. This may help me finally make the move
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jay.bsky.team
1. Bluesky doesn’t downrank links
2. You can choose your own algorithm from among thousands
3. The whole app is open source

This keeps it a free and open platform by design, leading to better click-throughs and traffic to your site.

We 💙 the open web.
emilyriederer.bsky.social
Really insightful post from Julie Tibshirani (spotted in LinkedIn, can't find on Bsky) reflecting on #rstats 's unique governance structure and what can be learned for other languages

jtibs.substack.com/p/if-all-the...
If all the world were a monorepo
The R ecosystem and the case for extreme empathy in software maintenance
jtibs.substack.com
emilyriederer.bsky.social
No kidding! And yet it sometimes feels like a no win between things that are too flimsy or too rigid. Like, I want super robust tools without limiting the creativity that comes from flexibility ⚖️
emilyriederer.bsky.social
It’s almost like the meme of “random effects implies the existence of fixed effects” except true — like fixed effects is almost hard to explain because they are normal-ish and it only makes sense to give a name to them if you’ve already talked about random effects?
emilyriederer.bsky.social
Very fair. Hoarding with chipmunk like intensity tho. Or maybe our winter hasn’t come yet? No joke, in the waining days of Twitter I sometimes would scroll my bookmarks instead of the feed
emilyriederer.bsky.social
Thrilled to once again be able to bookmark posts I will never once revisit like a chipmunk hoarding nuts before winter 🐿️

The really killer feature that the former place never had would be to search or organize your bookmarks 🙏🏻
bsky.app
Bluesky @bsky.app · Sep 8
v1.108 is rolling out today 🚚

Now live, at long last: Bookmarks, aka Saved Posts. For all those posts you'll definitely plan to come back to!

Update the app and give it a try. The button is right down there 👇
emilyriederer.bsky.social
This is fantastic!!

Are there any limitations of the Shiny app framework (eg golem, flex dashboard, etc) so long as webR has the packages?

Not too familiar with Electron, but in theory could this also allow pkging w a duckdb db or something for persistent state?
emilyriederer.bsky.social
That’s brilliant with WASM! When that first came out I was hoping you could just “ship” apps in a zip folder, but found you still need to launch via CLI for browser security. This is a great middle ground
emilyriederer.bsky.social
So thrilled you're working on this!! A few years back I tested a number of abandoned projects in the vein. Would be an incredible feature for distribution!
emilyriederer.bsky.social
I think data eng practices actually give a slightly better model -- specifically, I like pulling on the thread of @dagster.io 's software-defined assets philosophy to focus more on what you are trying to produce vs the process

dagster.io/blog/softwar...

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What Are Software-Defined Assets?
Software-defined assets (SDAs) shift pipeline thinking from steps to outcomes, letting teams manage assets with clarity, observability, and context.
dagster.io
emilyriederer.bsky.social
A few big diffs IMHO:

- Fundamentally interactive/HITL. Automate too rigidly and you get generic AutoML vs best fit-for-use solution
- More focused on generating artifacts (datasets, model objects, etc.) than functionality
- Work less "chunkable" w/ implications for project planning

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emilyriederer.bsky.social
Definitely worth thinking a lot about where the abstraction holds and where it breaks! I've both extremes

I think there are table-stakes code hygiene that 100% apply (modularity, DRY, version control, docs, style guides, etc.)

But some big differences too

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gergely.pragmaticengineer.com
Amusing how 99% of people using LLMs forget how these things work:

They are advanced probability machines. They generate the next most likely token (word) based in the input and their training.

Under the hood, it’s a giant matrix multiplication that has eerily good output.
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pydata.bsky.social
Tonight’s the night: PyData Seattle’s CFP & Labor Day Flash Sale will CLOSE tonight at midnight! 😱

This is your final chance to share your technical talks with our technical people, and even get 25% off your ticket! Don’t let this opportunity slip by, GO GO GO! pydata.org/seattle2025
emilyriederer.bsky.social
Python documentary is a fantastic long weekend watch! Love the balance in the story between the tech and community 🍿
python.org
Tomorrow at 5pm UTC Python: The Documentary produced by @cultrepo.bsky.social premieres on YouTube! 🎬🐍

From a side project in Amsterdam to a language shaping the world— discover the story of #Python. Featuring Guido van Rossum & many more!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfH4...
Python: The Documentary | An origin story
This is the story of the world's most beloved programming language: Python. What began as a side project in Amsterdam during the 1990s became the software powering artificial intelligence, data science and some of the world’s biggest companies. But Python's future wasn't certain; at one point it almost disappeared. This 90-minute documentary features Guido van Rossum, Travis Oliphant, Barry Warsaw, and many more, and they tell the story of Python’s rise, its community-driven evolution, the conflicts that almost tore it apart, and the language’s impact on... well… everything. Thanks to our sponsors for making this documentary possible: Anaconda: https://www.anaconda.com/ @AnacondaInc. Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/ @Dropbox Meta: https://opensource.fb.com/ @FacebookOpenSource OpenTeams: https://openteams.com/ @openteams PyCharm: https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/ @PyCharmIDE Quansight: https://quansight.com/ @quansight And to all the amazing people who are featured: Armin Ronacher, Barry Warsaw, Benjamin Peterson, Brett Cannon, Drew Houston, Guido van Rossum, Jessica McKellar, Ken Manheimer, Lambert Meertens, Lisa Guo, Lisa Roach, Mariatta Wijaya, Paul...
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p-hunermund.com
➡️ Deadline approaching—only one month left to send in your papers and presentation proposals for #CDSM2025!

🚨 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀: 𝗖𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 🚨
📅 𝗡𝗼𝘃 𝟭𝟮–𝟭𝟯, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 (𝗩𝗶𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹)
📥 Submission Deadline: 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁 𝟯𝟬, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱
emilyriederer.bsky.social
@libbyheeren.bsky.social — a particularly relevant cross over: bsky.app/profile/amst...
amstatnews.bsky.social
Broadway musicals meet data analysis in this month's issue of "Significance" magazine. Read about this and other topics of interest, such as the place of public input in technical statistical methodology research and gunshot detection systems: magazine.amstat.org/...
The cover of the July 2025 issue of Significance magazine, featuring the cover story, "Gambling on Broadway: Measuring the Profitability of Musicals"
emilyriederer.bsky.social
I feel like there’s a Producers joke here but I’ve never seen it
emilyriederer.bsky.social
Ok but like where do we donate!