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Isaac Baumann
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📈 and 🐈 | Econ PhD student at UIC

Formerly: data stuff at UW-Madison, the mouse house, and CNN; SDSU and Mizzou alum
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Just wanted to say this is a fantastic linter and thanks a lot for making this. It’s been in my daily workflow for a while now.
February 13, 2026 at 11:05 PM
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Lookup tables!
If you squint, the mapping should look roughly like a lookup table between the numeric value and the Likert encoding. One of the novel features of recode_values() is that it has an alternate interface that allows you to make this lookup table more explicit. Using a tribble(), we can extract out the lookup table into its own standalone data frame. lookup <- tribble( ~from , ~to , 1 , "Strongly disagree" , 2 , "Disagree" , 3 , "Neutral" , 4 , "Agree" , 5 , "Strongly agree" , ) We can then utilize the alternative from and to arguments of recode_values() rather than supplying formulas to specify how the values should be recoded: likert |> mutate(category = recode_values(score, from = lookup$from, to = lookup$to)) #> # A tibble: 9 × 2 #> score category #> <dbl> <chr> #> 1 1 Strongly disagree #> 2 2 Disagree #> 3 3 Neutral #> 4 4 Agree #> 5 5 Strongly agree #> 6 2 Disagree #> 7 3 Neutral #> 8 1 Strongly disagree #> 9 4 Agree
February 4, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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If you’ve ever spent any time in rural Missouri chances are you’ve seen an OATS (Older Adults Transportation Service) bus. They’re pretty important for elderly mobility in a lot of communities.
But since the statewide cuts this fiscal year, public transit agencies, especially rural ones, have felt the impact. OATS Transit, a rural transportation agency that serves 87 counties in Missouri, lost $900,000 in state funding in 2025. Since agencies use state transportation funding to match federal funding, that translates to a total loss of $1.8 million.
January 3, 2026 at 4:52 PM
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Apparently this is the USS Aries, one of a small handful of hydrofoils the US Navy sailed. I hope it’s being restored for the one naval objective Missouri should have completed a long time ago: invading Arkansas.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Ari...
USS Aries (PHM-5) - Wikipedia
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December 31, 2025 at 5:18 AM