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JD Long @jdlong.cerebralmastication.com · 18d

New code review response just dropped:

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We Are R-Ladies @weare.rladies.org · 12d

ggplot v4.0.0 is now out! 🎉

Join the release party on October 3rd with developer & maintainer @teunbrand.bsky.social and the ggplot2 extenders meetup to learn all about what's new and the change-making process!

📅 Friday, Oct 3rd
🕐 3pm Eastern
📋 Sign up: bit.ly/join-gg-extenders

#RStats

Release party for ggplot2 v4.0.0
Friday October 3rd, 3pm Eastern
Taylor Swift holding up an album

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Emil Hvitfeldt @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · 14d

I'm exited to announce a new resource about making slides with quarto and revealjs. This book is the combination of all the work I have done in this area, reordered and polished up

There isn't a lot of new information yet, but this format allows me to add more easily

slidecrafting-book.com
#quarto

Screenshot of first page of slidecrafting-book.com website

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Tanya Shapiro @tanyashapiro.bsky.social · 14d

I had to do a double take on this map.

To really highlight “high” vs “low,” it’s clearer to use completely different colors instead of similar hues. The choice below reads like a sequential scale - light blue feels like a middle bin, not a low one.

Color opinions aside, interesting info!

Choropleth map of the United States depicting States with the highest and lowest proportion of same sex couples per 1,000 households. The legend shows dark blue box to represent “Highest proportion of same sex couples” while a light blue box represents “Lowest proportion of same sex couples.” Other states are muted with a grey blue tone and have values that are somewhere between the high and low bins. Graphic by UCLA School of Law Williams Institute.

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Libby Heeren @libbyheeren.bsky.social · 15d

Tell me something you do when you code that other people would tell you that you shouldn't do.

Tell me the rules you break!

I'll go first: I work in untitled files in the wrong project directories all the time. Like, all the time. Yes, I do tend to lose things 😂 #databs #rstats #python

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rainbowR @rainbowr.org · 16d

📣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...

Interested in a rainbowR Conference?

rainbowR (https://rainbowr.org) is hosting a virtual conference (tentative date: February 26, 2026). The aim of the conference is to connect and promote LGBTQ+ people in the R community, and to showca...

docs.google.com

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Jorge 🐀 @jxmartinez.bsky.social · 16d

I love this idea so much as a fellow early bird. Staying out late feels so unnatural to me. And exhausting.

Earlybirds Club is a dance party from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m., started by two friends.

www.npr.org/2025/09/21/n...

Earlybirds Club: for ladies who want to get down and also get to bed on time

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe heads to the club — the Earlybirds Club — and dances until the break of 8 p.m.

www.npr.org

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R Ladies St. Louis @r-ladies-stl.bsky.social · 17d

Our next meetup will be Wednesday Oct 29th at 6pm CST!

Efficient File Management in R with {fs} with @jadeynryan.bsky.social

www.meetup.com/rladies-st-l...

Efficient File Management in R with {fs}, Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup

Join us for a hands-on workshop using the **{fs}** package to easily bring order to messy file systems. Through practical examples, you’ll learn to automate common tasks li

www.meetup.com

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Jorge 🐀 @jxmartinez.bsky.social · 20d

Yesssss! 🙌🏽 Riding around htown in my slab! Jk my car has regular wheels. 🙃

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Jorge 🐀 @jxmartinez.bsky.social · 20d

Hooray! See y'all next year in my hometown! 🐎 #positconf #rstats #htx

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Kyle Walker @kylewalker.bsky.social · 21d

For the open source devotees out there, I've integrated @OpenFreeMapOrg into the #rstats {mapgl} package.

Do `maplibre(style = openfreemap_style("liberty"))` for an excellent street map with 3D buildings; "bright" & "positron" are also available.

Map with no API keys required!

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Jorge 🐀 @jxmartinez.bsky.social · 21d

This talk was so good! Looking forward to implement these ideas in our community of practice.

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 21d

Now it's "shinyGovStyle - accessible government design in RShiny" by Cameron Race and Sarah Wong-Brown.

#PositConf2025 #RStats #RShiny

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Houston Public Media @houstonpublicmedia.bsky.social · 26d

Houston has a higher percentage of residents living in poverty among the largest cities in the United States, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Houston has the highest poverty rate among the biggest U.S cities, new Census data finds

One out of five Houstonians is living at or below the poverty line, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The city's rapid growth could be a factor, according to experts.

www.houstonpublicmedia.org

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Libby Heeren @libbyheeren.bsky.social · 27d

I hope no one is tired of seeing adorable #pawsitconf posts full of cute pets and punny talk titles, because @trevinflickinger.com helped his THREE dogs submit talks 😭 JUST LOOK AT THEM

#rstats #python #databs #positconf2025

A promotional image for a fake data science conference run by pets. The left half of the square image is blue and says Data Science in your Golden Years: How to stay involved after retirement, pawsit conf 2025. On the right side is a photo of a greying golden retriever dog up to his chest in a river or pond. At the bottom right is the dog's name, George, and company - Retired. This is all a bit of fun produced by the folks at #Posit, Libby Heeren and Rachael Dempsey, for the #rstats #python and #databs communities

A promotional image for a fake data science conference run by pets. The left half of the square image is blue and says Introducing houndR: a tool for uncovering hidden gems, pawsit conf 2025. On the right side is a photo of a black and white herding dog lounging on a grey sofa with a light pink blanket draped over it. At the bottom right is the dog's name, Clyde, and company - Emerald Analytics. This is all a bit of fun produced by the folks at #Posit, Libby Heeren and Rachael Dempsey, for the #rstats #python and #databs communities

A promotional image for a fake data science conference run by pets. The left half of the square image is blue and says My Data Journey: overcoming hurdles and keeping my eye on the ball, pawsit conf 2025. On the right side is a photo of a black dog with her tongue hanging out, sitting on a fabric-covered table next to a sign that we can only see the edge of. At the bottom right is the dog's name, Kiley, and company - Shenanigans Fly Ball Team. This is all a bit of fun produced by the folks at #Posit, Libby Heeren and Rachael Dempsey, for the #rstats #python and #databs communities

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Jen Cross @jencross.bsky.social · 28d

Oh, for sure. Even the LBJ's.
Chestnut-winged Cinclodes, Spotted Sandpiper, Brown-backed Chat-Tyrant, Darwin's Ground Finch

A small potato shaped brown bird with a white collar, white brow stripe, and tan belly. It is standing on muddy ground amid low vegetation.

A brown bird with an orange bill and a spotted white breast. It is trotting down the snow-covered middle of a long dead log.

A warn brown bird with a gold brown stripe and dark brown tail. It is perched on a branch that is shedding bark with green vegetation to the right.

A brown bird with a brown streaks over white on the chest and a light orange bill. It is standing on mossy lava rocks.

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 28d

One of the country's foremost food policy experts said Tuesday that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Make America Healthy Again report is "a report about intentions. It's not about actions."

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Jenine Harris @jenineharris.bsky.social · 29d

Hello grant-writers! 👋 Join us 👯‍♀️ tomorrow, ✨Sept 10th at noon CDT✨ for a short workshop on using #rstats and #shiny to find trigger words in your federal grant applications. @rladies.org @rladies-bot.bsky.social 🥴 💜

R You Triggered? Using R to Find Words That Sink Grants, Wed, Sep 10, 2025, 12:00 PM | Meetup

Join R-Ladies St. Louis as we hear from Bobbi Carothers about her R script that can flag trigger words in grant applications. The script can be customized and is also avail

www.meetup.com

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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 29d

Sometimes you just need to add a quick row of data to your data frame in #rstats.

tibble::add_row() can help

library(tidyverse)

# Review the data

df

# A tibble: 3 x 3
ID School District
<dbl> <chr> <chr>
1 102 SchoolA District10
2 105 SchoolB District10
3 106 SchoolC District11

# Add one additional row

df |>
add_row(ID = 107, School = "SchoolD", District = "District12")

# A tibble: 4 x 3
ID School District
<dbl> <chr> <chr>
1 102 SchoolA District10
2 105 SchoolB District10
3 106 SchoolC District11
4 107 SchoolD District12

# Add one additional row with missing data

df |>
add_row(ID = 107, School = "SchoolD")

# A tibble: 4 x 3
ID School District
<dbl> <chr> <chr>
1 102 SchoolA District10
2 105 SchoolB District10
3 106 SchoolC District11
4 107 SchoolD NA

# Add two additional rows

df |>
add_row(ID = c(107, 108),
School = c("SchoolD", "SchoolE"),
District = "District12")

# A tibble: 5 x 3
ID School District
<dbl> <chr> <chr>
1 102 SchoolA District10
2 105 SchoolB District10
3 106 SchoolC District11
4 107 SchoolD District12
5 108 SchoolE District12

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michael veale @michae.lv · Sep 7

UK government report based on internal civil service trial finds Copilot doesn’t increase productivity, and indeed makes Excel take longer and with more errors, and requires Powerpoint users to have ‘corrective action’ applied to their outputs. www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/m...

M365 Copilot fails to up productivity in UK government trial

: AI tech shows promise writing emails or summarizing meetings. Don't bother with anything more complex

www.theregister.com

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Emil Hvitfeldt @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · Aug 20

Happy to announce ✨quarto-revealjs-editable✨

This fully supersedes the imagemover extension, as I back then didn't realize the potential. You can now also move, resize, change font size and alignment for text in your slides

github.com/EmilHvitfeld...
#quarto #slidecrafting

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Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · Sep 2

sneak preview of the upcoming WIP issue‘s dataviz:

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · Sep 1

“Diversity of thought is, in many ways, harder to be comfortable with than demographic diversity,” Arthur C. Brooks writes. Corporate leaders should turn curiosity about others’ beliefs into a cultural norm. It’ll be great for their business too: https://theatln.tc/7IegYzMp

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Egor Kotov 🌐🏃‍♂️🚊🚋🚙 @ekotov.pro · Aug 31

New #rstats github.com/e-kotov/grid... Creates GISCO/INSPIRE-compliant grids with IDs like ‘CRS3035RES1000mN3497000E4448000’ or ‘1kmN3497E4447’. The resulting grids are always aligned to rounded coordinates as per INSPIRE spec. No more downloading 1.5-2.6 GB files from Eurostat. #CRAN -ready..?

gridmaker: Create Standardized Spatial Grids
Transforming an sf object into a GISCO/INSPIRE-compliant grid
sf boundary object GISCO/INSPIRE standardized grid
or bounding box with IDs in form of CRS 3035 RES 1000m N3016000 E4032000

gridmaker
Create GISCO/INSPIRE-compliant grids with IDs
library(gridmaker)
create_grid(
grid_extent = bound_sf,
cellsize_m = 5000,
clip_to_input = TRUE
)
github.com/e-kotov/gridmaker

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Urban Institute @urbaninstitute.bsky.social · Aug 18

Research shows that criminalization and encampment clearing doesn’t solve #homelessness.

In a new post, Urban #research experts highlight evidence-based solutions like #housing vouchers and supportive housing to address homelessness in DC and beyond.

The National Guard Won’t End Homelessness. Housing Resources Can.

Despite a nationwide trend toward criminalizing people experiencing homelessness, decades of research show that housing resources and other supports remain the best solution to helping people exit hom...

urbn.is

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