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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 2d

@dslc.io welcomes you to week 40 of #TidyTuesday! We're exploring EuroLeague Basketball!

📁 https://tidytues.day/2025/2025-10-07
🗞️ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EuroLeague

#RStats #PyData #JuliaLang #DataViz #tidyverse #r4ds

TidyTuesday is a weekly social data project. All are welcome to participate! Please remember to share the code used to generate your results!
TidyTuesday is organized by the Data Science Learning Community. Join our Slack for free online help with R and other data-related topics, or to participate in a data-related book club!

How to Participate
Data is posted to social media every Monday morning. Follow the instructions in the new post for how to download the data.
Explore the data, watching out for interesting relationships. We would like to emphasize that you should not draw conclusions about causation in the data.
Create a visualization, a model, a shiny app, or some other piece of data-science-related output, using R or another programming language.
Share your output and the code used to generate it on social media with the #TidyTuesday hashtag.

Lollipop chart showing the seating capacities of EuroLeague arenas by team.

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R-Podcast (Eric) @rpodcast.bsky.social · 7d

Episode 212 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

🦆 Jumping in Ducklakes @novica.bsky.social
🎨 Slidecrafting book! @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social
🤖 Shiny side of LLMs @veerle.hypebright.nl

And a favorite segment returns 😅

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social 🙏

#RStats #databs

novica.bsky.social

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 7d

As of yesterday, what I think of as my "Bonsai Tomatoes" have been growing in my Aerogarden for a full year. They still produce tomatoes (I just harvested, so you can't see any red in the photo), but, more importantly, they still produce a ton of leaves, which I can trim to enter a meditative state.

Tomato plants growing in an aerogarden hydroponic garden. A pair of gardening scissors are poking in from the side, ready to prune leaves.

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 9d

@dslc.io welcomes you to week 39 of #TidyTuesday! We're exploring Crane Observations at Lake Hornborgasjön, Sweden (1994–2024)!

📁 https://tidytues.day/2025/2025-09-30

#RStats #PyData #JuliaLang #DataViz #tidyverse #r4ds

Large flock of cranes gathered in a grassy field during golden hour, with some birds in flight overhead and autumn-colored vegetation in the background.

Line chart showing the number of cranes per day at Lake Hornborga in Sweden during March and April from 2014-2021. Multiple gray lines represent different years, with the 2018 and 2021 seasons highlighted in blue. The chart shows crane migration patterns starting near zero in early March, building to peak numbers of 15,000-27,000 birds between March 30 and April 8 (highlighted in beige), then declining through late April. The highest recorded count was 27,300 cranes on April 3rd, 2019. Dashed lines indicate days when weather conditions made accurate counting difficult. A note explains that 2018 had unusually cold February temperatures causing later arrival. The chart is credited to Anna Thieme from Länsstyrelsen VG at https://transtat.lansstyrelsen.se/

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 9d

At the time it felt like something was being set up but then I forgot about it. I'm curious if @scalzi.com also expected it to come back around sooner...

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 9d

Ohhhhh! I'm reading The Shattering Peace by @scalzi.com , and got to the Big Sci-fi Idea, and just remembered thinking that something like this story would have to happen eventually when the Old Men discussed the underlying tech ~20 yrs ago! I'd completely forgotten that's how they worked! ☺️

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lls-d.bsky.social @lls-d.bsky.social · 15d

Had some fun with today's #TidyTuesday dataset! Here is an annotated streamgraph displaying chess players' age versus title.

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 13d

Ctrl-shift-f10 (to restart R) before you run if you want an empty environment. That actually gets everything. rm(list = ls()) misses things that start with .

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 14d

tidytues.day is our easier-to-remember #TidyTuesday url 😊

TidyTuesday Data

tidytues.day

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R-Podcast (Eric) @rpodcast.bsky.social · 14d

Episode 211 of R-Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

🏗️ Parse & edit #markdown documents @ropensci.org
🤖 Vibe-coding a package @jonocarroll.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
🏫 R-Exams quality control @zeileis.org

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & Jon Carroll 🙏

#RStats #DataScience

Issue 2025-W39 Highlights

Fresh off an amazing experience at posit::conf(2025), the R Weekly Highlights podcast is back with episode 211! Eric and Mike share their experiences at…

serve.podhome.fm

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 15d

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site

As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

www.miamiherald.com

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 16d

@dslc.io welcomes you to week 38 of #TidyTuesday! We're exploring FIDE Chess Player Ratings!

📁 https://tidytues.day/2025/2025-09-23
📰 https://www.fide.com/fide-september-2025-rating-list-vincent-keymer-debuts-in-top-10-open/

#RStats #PyData #JuliaLang #DataViz #tidyverse #r4ds

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We Are R-Ladies @weare.rladies.org · 17d

This week’s #RLadies curator is @ivelasq3.bsky.social!

Alt text: Curator Isabella Velásquez, Sr. Product Marketing Manager at Posit. Recently gave a workshop on survey analysis at the useR conference; is updating a book called Data Science in Education Using R.

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 18d

This just got a like 2 years later, so, if you're reading this, it's @dslc.io now!

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 19d

I thought maybe I was using a too-expensive model, but nope, I was using the tied-for-cheapest that's available in Positron Assistant.

I was just kinda shocked. I was expecting such a short session to be closer to $0, so the month would come out closer to $25 than to $100.

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 19d

I played around with Positron Assistant a bit this morning. Do y'all spend a LOT of money on these things? I spent $0.70 In 20 minutes debugging an issue the way I would in a $20/month chat on non-API Gemini. I could easily burn through my monthly spend today. Is avoiding copy/paste worth that much?

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Big Book of R @bigbookofr.com · 19d

Shiny App-Packages by Martin Frigaard
#RStats
https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/shiny.html#shiny-app-packages

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 19d

Houston is probably giving lots of incentives and guarantees to counteract the harm being done by the state. I'm sure Austin is doing the same right now. Still wouldn't recommend. 😕

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 19d

Got my glass of🍷and walked into the community mixer... And got ~claustrophobic. That room is waaaaaay too small for this group. I'm curious if anybody has a CO2 meter and can see how bad it is. Think I'll head elsewhere in any case, unfortunately! See some of you tomorrow at dev day! #PositConf2025

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 19d

2026 will be cheap for me (drive not fly), but I still would have preferred we all go to a different state 🙃

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 19d

Looks like I'll see y'all in Houston next year for #PositConf2026! Note: much like Austin, Houston isn't IN Texas so much as (almost) SURROUNDED BY Texas. I can understand if certain insane and evil policies of our government keep people away, though! #PositConf2025

Posit conf 2026 will be in Houston and virtual Sept 14-16, plus a European version TBD

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 19d

My guess is Detroit for #PositConf2026. #PositConf2025

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Libby Heeren @libbyheeren.bsky.social · 20d

Want to have a built-in circle of data buddies at the next conference you attend?! Go to community events online!! @jonthegeek.com & I were talking about how our circles online, like the DSLC book clubs & the DS Hangout, let us get to know lots of folks online before seeing them in person <3 #databs

Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 20d

A side benefit of DSLC.club book clubs is you get to know a handful of data nerds pretty well and have your group at conferences 😁

Book Clubs – dslc.io

DSLC.club

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 20d

bsky.app/profile/jont...
"Making the most of artificial and human intelligence for data science" by @hadley.nz and @jcheng5.bsky.social

Balance between hype and skepticism. I need to play with the Posit tools and see what I think. Their assistants are Anthropic-only right now, but that's prob ok.

Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 20d

After a bit of a break, I'm back for "Making the most of artificial and human intelligence for data science" by @hadley.nz and @jcheng5.bsky.social. I know one little piece of this one, but I'm interested to hear what they have to say!

#PositConf2025 #RStats

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 20d

bsky.app/profile/jont...
"shinystate: Launching collaboration and session management to new heights in Shiny applications" by @rpodcast.bsky.social

Slides: rpodcast.github.io/shinystate-p...

rpodcast.github.io/shinystate/ on its way to CRAN. Definitely another one I *might* have uses for!

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