Join us here in about 5 min to learn about #rstats functions! 🥳

I'm giving a talk next week about my favourite thing: functions! Come along!

What: Practical Functions - Practically Magic
When: 8th/9th October - www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f...
Where: Online, via Salt Lake City R User Group www.meetup.com/slc-rug/even...
How: @juliasilge.com

#rstats

Join the SLC RUG on Oct 7 (next Tuesday!) to hear from @njtierney.aus.social.ap.brid.gy about how to write good #rstats functions 💫

www.meetup.com/slc-rug/even...

A data scientist and product owner shares her take on why the new Positron IDE is a game-changer for her workflow.

Learn how Dr. Claire Welsh of The Strategy Unit uses Positron to streamline everything from project management to documentation.

Read her insights: posit.co/blog/positro...

AI has real risks & we should have smart & evolving policy to manage them. By focusing the public's mind on very low probability/"high" consequence extinction events from super-intelligent AI, it slides acceptable windows of what bad things humans can do with AI right now (eg discrimination/disinfo)

If you are an #rstats user in the greater SLC area, join us IN PERSON next Tues, Sept 30 for some networking and data science chat!

We are meeting at a place called Thieves Guild Cidery, which, yes, is a DnD-themed tavern. ⚔️🎲🐉

www.meetup.com/slc-rug/even...

"How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner" by Annie Mueller 😅 😂 😭

anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-...

📣We're hosting a rainbowR conference, to connect and promote LGBTQ+ people in the #RStats community and to showcase examples of working with LGBTQ+ data 🌈🎉 To help us plan, if you'd be interested in attending or speaking, please fill in this very short form (1-2 mins) docs.google.com/forms/d/1Tx0...

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes.
#romancelandia

H1B holders are net job creators. Ending the H1B visa will not result in more hiring of Americans or hiring overseas, it will simply destroy jobs and fewer people will be hired. It is racism shooting itself in the foot as usual.

You can check out the styling here (it's called "Elsie"):
github.com/juliasilge/g...

That is a GREAT way of putting it

Could this {uv} solution recommended by @juliasilge.com be the answer to the personal hell that is "Import Error: no module named 'numpy'" ?

#positconf2025

It was such a pleasure to speak today at #PositConf2025 about how BADLY 😱 it went when I tried to learn Python ~10 years ago, and how tooling in the ecosystem has changed (gotten better!) in the intervening decade.

You can check out my slides at:
juliasilge.github.io/get-unstuck-...

great news! you're not actually seeing karl rove, john yoo, and david frum criticize the administration's lawlessness more stridently than dem leadership. you, reader, were infected with rabies by a brown bat 36 hours ago and this is all just the virus working its way through your nervous system

It was such a pleasure to join PyCon Colombia this past summer, to speak about #Positron, how the work of data science is different, and the tension between exploratory work and reproducible practices. 💫

The recording of my talk is now available, if you'd like to check it out!
youtu.be/xiCa6OcXlSs

Whether it's John F. Kennedy saving thousands of children's lives by founding the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development or Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ending thousands of children's lives by limiting access to vaccines, both Kennedys impacted children's health.

RFK is the only person able to properly talk like that creepy text that y̵̲̹̲͌͜o̶̻͠ȗ̵͍̓ ̸̞̏ͅh̵̡̗͈̥̅a̷͇̍̊͝v̶̺͕̲͑̐ê̵̥̪ ̵̻̫̪̝̓̿ţ̵̂͋́̿ͅȯ̵͍͙̪ ̵̨̳̞̼͒g̴͚̰͆͝ǫ̴͖̫̼̇̇̆͠ ̶̡̡͓̩̾ẗ̸̛͉͌͝o̷̬̣̠̍̊̋ ̵̫̜̼̾̒͛a̸̤͒̿ͅ ̵̬̀̈́ẉ̸̦͙̀ḛ̵̲͇͓͗b̴̟̪͋̂ș̸͎̻͈͋̀i̴̛̟̞̽̀t̶̙̻̳͋ẹ̸̦̗̀͊͌ ̸̙̈́͠t̷̙̦͓̾ö̴̬̺́͒ ̶̨̰̜̋̽ṫ̵͚̝̖̎͜y̴̞̮͊̆p̴̖̫̚ě̸̢̻͍̈́ ̷̳̖͙̾̔͗ō̵̤̱ù̸̢̐͝t̴̰̻̦̎̃̅.̴̛̮͓̣̱̈́

I found this post by Claire Welsh super interesting, outlining how she uses #Positron as someone working in product! 🤩 My own data science skills have been helpful in making product decisions, and I always appreciate learning more about other people who do similar work.

posit.co/blog/positro...

A very nice document prepared by Friends of BLS with important information about the agency. A solid effort to prevent the spread of misinformation. Please share, especially with friends and colleagues who do not understand what’s happening.

www.friendsofbls.org/updates/2025...

OMG, someone else reported this too! We can't figure out how to make it happen:
github.com/posit-dev/po...

So stoked to share about the first release of the Posit AI Newsletter!

@sara-altman.bsky.social and I have been working on a pilot of this newsletter internally for a few months now—an opinionated and pragmatic snapshot of AI news released every two weeks.

First edition: posit.co/blog/2025-08...

More or less universally a country seeking to limit foreigners studying in that country is a sign of a society, culture, great power in severe decline.

Extra day of virtual fun added to posit::conf(2025)!

Join us on Sept 16 for a full day of virtual talks and activities. P.S. The conference Discord is now open to all. Come hang out!

🔗 Login for Discord instructions: pos.it/conf-event-portal
🔗 Learn about Virtual Day: posit.co/blog/posit-c...

Kilmar Abrego Garcia is the last one they come for before they come for you.