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James Goldie @jamesgoldie.dev · 2d

These are also common in meteorology — they’re called wind roses! www.bom.gov.au/climate/aver...

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Rami Krispin @ramikrispin.bsky.social · 3d

My weekly newsletter is out!

This week’s agenda:
🔹 Open Source of the Week - The quarto-svelte project
🔹 New learning resources -
🔹 Book of the week - R for Economic Research (second edition) by J. Renato Leripio

ramikrispin.substack.com/p/issue-56-r...

#rstats #ai #machinelearning #quartopub

Issue 56: R for Economic Research, the Quarto-Svelte Project, Stanford Transformer Playlist

A weekly curated update on data science and engineering topics and resources.

ramikrispin.substack.com

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Ilja @fubits.dev · 3d

Totally forgot that @jamesgoldie.dev is working on integrating Svelte and Quarto / R! github.com/jimjam-slam/...

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James Goldie @jamesgoldie.dev · 4d

There’s a special place in hell for Matter appliance manufacturers who put the pairing code in the box and not on the device itself (or, better yet, both)

James Goldie @jamesgoldie.dev · 8d

There’s so much packed into plumber2, it looks rad as hell. Serving parameterised Quarto reports off an API endpoint with a single tag… so cool!

Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 14d

I am super hyped to finally share the first release of plumber2 with all of you. This has been the center of my attention for a big part of 2025 and I hope you'll find it a worthy update to the venerable plumber package.

The blog post will tell you more

#rstats

plumber2 0.1.0

plumber2, a complete rewrite of plumber, has landed on CRAN, providing a modern, future proof solution for creating web servers in R. Read all about the new features here.

www.tidyverse.org

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James Goldie @jamesgoldie.dev · 13d

I’m out here poisoning the LLM well with public right assignments 😎

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James Goldie @jamesgoldie.dev · 13d

a man in a helmet with the words " this is the way " above him

Alt: Mandalorian: “this is the way”

media.tenor.com

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James Goldie @jamesgoldie.dev · 13d

I don’t think I’ve managed to convert anyone to right assignment in #rstats, but I’ll harp on about it until I die 😆

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James Goldie @jamesgoldie.dev · 18d

Would love to see a blog post or package emerge from this!

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Jo Wood @jwolondon.bsky.social · 21d

🚨#datavis Job alert 🚨

Fancy working with us in London as a researcher using @observablehq.com Plot for accessible #datavis?

To support people with language disability in the use of data visualization for everyday decision making.

www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/jobs/a...

Details | City St George's, University of London

Details of job vacancy at City St George's,, University of London

www.citystgeorges.ac.uk

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James Goldie @jamesgoldie.dev · 24d

I would avoid this! MIT doesn’t have any carve-out for commercial use, and it’s irrevocable, so once you put it out there there’s nothing to compel companies to go with your other option. If you want a permissive option for non-commercial use, look at something like CC BY-NC

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James Goldie @jamesgoldie.dev · Aug 25

Most likely!

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Nick Tierney @njtierney.bsky.social · Aug 25

Day 2 of WOMBAT is ✨ single stream talks ✨, you'll be hearing from speakers like: @nrennie.bsky.social, @jamesgoldie.dev, @jenrichmondphd.bsky.social, @cynthiahqy.bsky.social and @harriet-mason.bsky.social and more!

See all speakers: wombat2025.numbat.space/program/work...

Hope to see you there!

WOMBAT 2025

The Annual Workshop Organised by the Monash Business Analytics Team will be held on the 29th and 30th September 2025 at Monash University (downtown), Melbourne, Australia.

wombat2025.numbat.space

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Nick Tierney @njtierney.bsky.social · Aug 25

Come along to OceaniaR in Canberra! Why? Because we'll talk about fun things you can do with #rstats all day, and work on fun projects. It's an inclusive space, with a great mix of those newer to R, as well as experienced users, too!

Some examples from last year:

Dean Marchiori @deanmarchiori.bsky.social · Aug 12

Register today for your spot in the 2025 OceaniaR Hackathon in Canberra

This event is a great opportunity to learn and participate in a range of projects around data analysis, statistics, data science and R programming.

Register here: statsocaus.github.io/oceaniar-hac...

#rstats #datascience

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James Goldie @jamesgoldie.dev · Aug 22

Congrats Ben, absolutely deserved! 👏🏻

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Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com · Aug 21

I'm happy to report the most important transition works perfectly simple-vt-demos.jakearchibald.com/batman-trans...

Demo

simple-vt-demos.jakearchibald.com

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Nick Tierney @njtierney.bsky.social · Aug 18

Make errors more accessible and better with #rstats package {more} by @milesmcbain.bsky.social - inspired by rustc's detailed error explanations! This idea feels so good.

github.com/milesmcbain/...

GitHub - MilesMcBain/more: Serve up more when things go bad

Serve up more when things go bad. Contribute to MilesMcBain/more development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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We Are R-Ladies @weare.rladies.org · Aug 16

THANK you so much for all your likes and shares this week. It has been super fun!

I would love to connect with people who doing cool things in data, PLEASE follow me at @jenrichmondphd.bsky.social

Check out my website jenrichmond.github.io and Linkedin www.linkedin.com/in/jenrichmo...

Welcome! – Jen Richmond

I am glad you are here

jenrichmond.github.io

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We Are R-Ladies @weare.rladies.org · Aug 16

Signing off by saying that I am looking for a NEW job!!

📊 I get genuinely excited about data and creating #rstats visualizations that tell stories
🤯 I'm really good at taking complex technical stuff and making it click for people
💪 I love spotting gaps and creating things to fill them

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James Goldie @jamesgoldie.dev · Aug 15

I have a bunch on GitHub from when I worked as a data journalist at 360info — I’ll send them through!

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James Goldie @jamesgoldie.dev · Aug 13

Registration for @wombat.numbat.space is open — come along and let’s talk about scrollytelling and telling stories with data!

WOMBAT 2025 @wombat.numbat.space · Aug 13

Making effective scrollytelling visualisations is hard, but @jamesgoldie.dev 's Closeread makes it so much easier. Come learn about Closeread's design decisions and what's coming next for this great tool.

wombat2025.numbat.space/program/work...

#RStats #Python #BusinessAnalytics #DataViz

WOMBAT 2025 - Invited talk

James Goldie - Closing the scrollytelling gap with Closeread

29-30 September 2025, Naarm/Melbourne
womabt2025.numbat.space

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James Goldie @jamesgoldie.dev · Aug 13

Okay that’s pretty freakin’ rad Emil

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We Are R-Ladies @weare.rladies.org · Aug 13

OK @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social you are a day ahead of yourself.

Things that make #rstats feel magic is my rocur theme for TOMORROW.

But this is definitely magic: drag and drop to move and resize images in revealjs slides- you are a wizard!!

Emil Hvitfeldt @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · Aug 12

some light teasing for an upcoming quarto revealjs plugin I have been working on

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James Goldie @jamesgoldie.dev · Aug 12

The Quarto team usually bump dependencies on each minor release, so hopefully this will be available when 1.8 is locked!

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Dean Marchiori @deanmarchiori.bsky.social · Aug 12

Register today for your spot in the 2025 OceaniaR Hackathon in Canberra

This event is a great opportunity to learn and participate in a range of projects around data analysis, statistics, data science and R programming.

Register here: statsocaus.github.io/oceaniar-hac...

#rstats #datascience

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