The president has covered the Oval Office in gold, is planning a massive military parade for his birthday, and is now accepting $400,000,000 luxury planes from foreign powers as personal presents.

What the fuck are we doing here?

Closeread Prize winners are here! 🏆

Want to create engaging, scroll-based stories with your data? See stunning scrollytelling examples made with Quarto: posit.co/blog/closere...

Learn more about Closeread and its power to create dynamic narratives. Congrats winners! #Quarto #RStats #Python

On the communication side of dataviz — what would you say, were the "hits" in the last few years? Pieces that went viral, found wide adoption, opened new audiences, were shared a lot.

See where $2.05B in NSF grant funding cuts hit hardest with an interactive dashboard showing impacts by state, institution & research area.

🌐 Dashboard: dashboard.thecoatlessprofessor.com/nsf-grant-cu...
💻 Code: github.com/coatless-das...

#highered #rstats #quarto

In the meantime, NHGIS (https://www.nhgis.org/) has much of the data you'll need, and will remain functional. NHGIS has the latest ACS data and Census data back to 1790 along with Census boundary files.

You can support NHGIS here: makingagift.umn.edu/...

Hacked together a prototype for scrollytelling-style story maps in #rstats and Shiny, using @mapbox.com or @maplibre.org via the {mapgl} package.

Is this something you'd use?

Let me know if so!

ANNOUNCE:
📊 I'm teaching my favorite course, _Psychology of Data Visualization_ again starting in Jan. Among other topics: #history of #dataviz, graph #perception, #rstats graphs, data journalism, ...
Course materials available at: friendly.github.io/6135/
I'll use the tag #psy6135 for posts

Join us for Appsilon's ShinyConf 2025!
Shiny is our favorite way for data scientists to build webapps from R or Python. And ShinyConf brings the Shiny Dev community together in one place to learn & share.

Learn more at register free at www.shinyconf.com

#rshiny #posit #pyshiny

Calling all data storytellers — the first #Closeread Prize is here!

posit.co/blog/closere...

Andrew and I have teamed up with the kind folks at @posit.co who have some amazing prizes on offer, whether you're using #rstats, #python, #julia or #ojs or no coding at all!

R in Production, r-in-production.org, is a new book that will help you put R into production, coupled with (in the near future) new tools to make the process less painful. I'm working on this with @thomasp85.com , @gaborcsardi.bsky.social, and @hfrick.bsky.social.

I created a Starter Pack for DuckDB:

go.bsky.app/J5FnG3n

Let me know if you want to be added as well!

cc @duckdb.org