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Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel @minecr.bsky.social · 2d

These companies must be using the same crazy survey provider. What is this?!

Survey with the question "How likely are you to recommend [solidcore] Durham to a friend or colleague?" Options 0-10 are arranged in a very bizarre order with 0 at the bottom 1-9 in three rows with numbers starting on the right on each row, and a much bigger 10 button on top.

Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel @minecr.bsky.social · 11d

Yeah I took a screenshot of the PDF to be able to upload it! It’s also impossible to get support from @githubeducation.bsky.social.

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Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel @minecr.bsky.social · 11d

What is it @github.com @githubeducation.bsky.social? Am I faculty or am I not faculty? Why do you keep asking me the same question, after saying you won't ask for 2 years, and then not believing my answer?

GitHub educator benefit application -- Apprived on May 25 and August 28 for 2 years, then asked to reverify on Sep 11 and denied, approved again September 27 and then denied three times again on the same day.

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We Are R-Ladies @weare.rladies.org · 18d

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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Posit @posit.co · Aug 26

Do you like cleaning data? According to @rdpeng.org, it was a big part of a data scientist's job 10 years ago, and he misses it!

On the latest Test Set, Roger discusses changes in the field and what to focus on now that AI is taking over rote tasks.

Listen: thetestset.co, Spotify, Apple Podcasts

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Yani Bellini Saibene @yabellini.bsky.social · Aug 24

Tidying and sorting pictures, I've found this one: The Latinx at #useR2025

Yani, Andrea, Rocio, Luis, and Claudia were smiling and seated around a table under the shade of trees after useR2025 finished.

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Dr Di Cook @visnut.bsky.social · Aug 23

Love my useR! 2025 👩🏻‍💻Thanks to @jayanigamage.bsky.social #rstats #user2025

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Jonathan Kitt @jonathankitt.bsky.social · Aug 22

Great video by @minecr.bsky.social.
I finally gave Positron a try!
#RStats @posit.co #IDE #code
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndq2...

Exploratory Data Analysis with R in Positron

YouTube video by Posit PBC

www.youtube.com

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Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · Aug 20

We still have spots available for tidyverse dev day on Sept 19: www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/07.... Please come along to contribute to the tidyverse and have a bunch of fun along the way! It's open to all, but is most convenient if you're coming to posit::conf or live near Atlanta #rstats

Tidyverse developer day 2025

Join us in Atlanta for tidyverse developer day on September 19, 2025!

www.tidyverse.org

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RSS Teaching Statistics Section @rss-teach.bsky.social · Aug 19

ICOTS 12 (virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/e/icots12) have announced their keynote speakers: Prof Mine Çetinkaya–Rundel – Duke University
Prof Dianne Cooke – Monash University
Em Prof Sir Peter Donnelly – Genomics PLC, University of Oxford
Prof Rob Gould – UCLA
Dr Elena Proden – UNITAR

OA Virtual conferences

virtual.oxfordabstracts.com

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Posit @posit.co · Aug 19

Level up your data science skills this September at posit::conf(2025)! Learn to tell a better story with data in our "Data Talks" or "Mastering Data Visualization with ggplot2" workshops.

Join us! Register now: posit.co/conference/

📅 Sept 16–18 | Atlanta

#RStats #ggplot2 #PositConf2025 #DataViz

Data Talks: How to make your data science accessible. A conference poster for posit conf (2025) featuring speakers Acacia Duncan and Blythe Coons.

Mastering Data Visualization with ggplot2: Latest Techniques and Best Practices. A conference poster for posit conf (2025) featuring speakers Thomas Lin Pedersen and Teun Van den Broek.

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Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel @minecr.bsky.social · Aug 14

Someone needs to go through last few years’ social media posts and slack messages to find all the places you foreshadowed this!

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Harriet Mason @harriet-mason.bsky.social · Aug 10

Just finished at #useR2025 and had a great time! Especially because I had an opportunity to present ggdibbler.

The slides from my talk are available here: harriet-mason.github.io/talk_useR-20... (Although they are a bit confusing out of context)

Visualising Uncertainty with ggdibbler

harriet-mason.github.io

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Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel @minecr.bsky.social · Aug 11

Thank you! And thanks for your work on the program committee too. Those couple of brief but productive zoom sessions helped keep things moving along real nicely!

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · Aug 10

Huge 👏👏👏 to @calpolyslo.bsky.social WunderKind @visruth.com for his #useR2025 talk on {flourish}!

🌟{flourish} is a Quarto extension for adding highlighting to source code chunks - the successor to {flair} in Rmd.

🔗 V's slides: visruth.com/flourish-talk

🔗 Github: github.com/kbodwin/flourish

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Tyson Barrett @healthandstats.bsky.social · Aug 10

@rundel.bsky.social gave us insights into using both {parsermd} (well established, tested) and {markermd} (newer and used some vibe coding) that makes extracting info the actual documents of quarto/rmarkdown files *very easy* (extremely useful for teaching/grading/checking) 🤩 check it out! #useR2025

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Jayani Lakshika @jayanigamage.bsky.social · Aug 10

Wrapped up #useR2025 👩‍💻

Feeling inspired to explore Positro and dive into tools like Air, chores, hexsession, arrow, and sparsvctrs.

Also made a tile of my R package collection with hexsession 📦✨.

Thanks to everyone who made this event such a great learning experience 🙌

#rstats #RCommunity

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Yani Bellini Saibene @yabellini.bsky.social · Aug 10

Now Will Landau is presenting his Keynote at #useR2025 about targets and pipelines in #RStats  cc: @ropensci.org

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Emil Hvitfeldt @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · Aug 10

So happy to talk about our work on sparsity at #useR2025 today! Slides for anyone interested

emilhvitfeldt.com/talk/2025-08...

sparsity support in tidymodels, faster and less memory hungry models

Showcasing better sparsity support in tidymodels

emilhvitfeldt.com

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Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel @minecr.bsky.social · Aug 10

Links for today's #useR2025 keynotes:

- Frauke's keynote - watch the recording at youtube.com/live/camPaY1...
- Will's keynote - watch it live at 3 pm ET at youtube.com/live/fgtIqJf...

#rstats

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Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel @minecr.bsky.social · Aug 10

Final day of #useR2025 started with an incredible keynote by Frauke Kreuter followed by a rich Q&A, more awesome talks before and after lunch, and we're soon going to be wrapping the whole thing up with what I'm sure will be yet another must-see keynote, by Will Landau.

#rstats

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Grant McDermott @gmcd.bsky.social · Aug 10

I had a blast at #useR2025.

Here are my slides on `tinyplot`. grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/vig...

(Rendering of the title slide is a bit off on mobile. I'll fix when when I get sec.)

tinyplot –

grantmcdermott.com

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Davis Vaughan @davisvaughan.bsky.social · Aug 10

If you've been curious about Air and you're at #useR2025, come watch @lionelhenry.bsky.social and me talk all about it at 1pm in Penn 2!

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · Aug 10

Frauke Kreuter giving a deeply informed and rousing defense of the U.S. federal statistical agencies and community at #user2025, with a clear-eyed view of its challenges user2025.r-project.org/program/in-p...

Frauke Kreuter LMU Munich / University of Maryland – useR! 2025

Government statistics—and the data behind them—are the backbone of scientific research and evidence-based policymaking. Yet chronic under-funding, fragmented systems, and the spread of low-cost synthe...

user2025.r-project.org

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