@lpachter.bsky.social your thoughts?

David Lynch (RIP) meme variation where in a conversation with fellow filmmaker Jason Barlow, David Lynch said, "Python feels like soldering; R feels like painting." When Barlow asks him to "Elaborate on that," Lynch smiles and says, "No."

Possibly weirded out my long-suffering colleagues with this idiosyncratic observation last week, and feel like it belongs in a meme.

#RStats #Python #RIPDavidLynch

Add Hindi translations by jayhesselberth · Pull Request #2931 · r-lib/pkgdown After potools::po_create("hi") Prompt: You are an experienced translator. Create new a new translation for Hindi in po/R-hi.po. These are GNU gettext translations for pkgdown, a tool used...

Are there any Hindi speakers who could help proofread some LLM-generated translations for pkgdown? github.com/r-lib/pkgdow...

FC: Diagnose, prevent, treat, and cure disease. It is a noble calling. It is your calling. #ASHG25

I read and write, I explore and I question, I design and script and analyse, I interpret and communicate. I do this to train my mind in the hopes of one day generating new knowledge. New knowledge that might even be useful, and that no algorithm can yet be trained on.

Anything specific?

I have turned 25....what advice would you give it to me.

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

Published: the paper 'On the uses and abuses of Regression Models: a Call for Reform of Statistical Practice and Teaching' by John Carlin and Margarita Moreno-Betancur in the latest issue of Statistics in Medicine onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... (1/8)

Working with colours in R | Nicola Rennie Whether you're building data visualisations or generative art, at some point you will likely need to consider which colours to use in R. This blog post describes different ways to define colours, how ...

🚨 New blog post! 🚨

If you want to learn about:

🎨 How to define colours in R
📊 Choosing palettes for plots
🛠️ Generating your own colours

Read this ➡️ nrennie.rbind.io/blog/colours...

#DataViz #RStats #ggplot2 #RLadies

I got my job because of it....thanks @hadley.nz

Happy birthday Rob

He was just part of my life, time to let him go… goodbye iceman.

The truth is that the scientific process is horribly inefficient and wasteful. But the solution is NOT cutting funds and it’s NOT top down guidance of what should be studied. Instead, we should revolutionize how we publish and improve peer review.

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.

18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.

We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org

Just checked out your preprint yesterday and you followed me here...what a small world we are living in.

Here are some cool animations I made a couple years ago for teaching DAG-based causal inference

Confounding!

Some musing this grey Saturday morning on one of my evergreen topics - the progress in rare disease diagnosis and treatments. TL;DR the world keeps making steady progress in diagnosing and then improving - sometimes to the point of a cure - rare disease. The rate of both will only increase.

Wonderful article about choose colors for plotting, with attention to color blindness. #RStats #StatsSky

Hell yeah!!!

go.bsky.app/B5YYBfq here it is.