This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

Working Smarter in R: Tips, Tricks & Real-World Lessons, Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 11:00 AM | Meetup Join us at R-Ladies Remote for an engaging panel discussion on how to *work smarter in R*. Whether you're an early-career user or an experienced practitioner, this session

Join R-Ladies Remote for "Working Smarter in R" on April 22! 💜

A global panel featuring R-Ladies from around the world shares insights on workflows, data viz, and debugging.

📅 22 April
🕒 17:00 UTC
🔗 RSVP: www.meetup.com/rladies-remo...

#RStats #DataScience #RLadies

Rare sighting of a column chart taking a dip at Hove Beach.

#dataviz

Oh nothing. Just hanging out with my books.

Screenshot of mobile bsky not loading

Screenshot of Lord of the Rings. The main character says "All right, then. Keep your secrets."

Image of Alan Moore with long hair and a bushy beard. With the words "Write/Wizard/Mall Santa/Rasputin Impersonator"

Data Manager

Seeker of Truth/Organizer of Chaos/Finder of Errors/Occasional Hair-Puller/Frequent Screen-Curser/Resolver of Data Disasters/Destroyer of "Data Final_Final For Real.csv" Naming Conventions

I've recently made some changes to the gallery of all my data visualisations 📊

Most examples now have links to the underlying source code! If you see something you like, you can see how it was made 🤩

#DataViz #RStats

Need a little whimsy in your quarto slides?
Presenting quarto-revealjs-transitions with 100+ new slide transitions

github.com/EmilHvitfeld...
#quarto

This looks great! Would love to play around with it 🤗

Announcing quarto-timeline quarto-timeline is a new Quarto extension that helps you make timeline visualizations.

I'm back with another quarto extension, now presenting quarto-timelines!

Customizable timelines in html and revealjs slides, different layout and fragment support included

emilhvitfeldt.com/post/quarto-...
#quarto

[me]: AI will never take over my job!

*AI produces terrible, nonsense code with no documentation

[me]: Oh no...

Koen Van den Eeckhout addresses an audience at a small conference. He stands in front of a large screen displaying various data visualizations — including charts, maps, and a network diagram — holding a microphone and gesturing with one hand. Several attendees are visible from behind in the foreground, seated and facing the presenter. A laptop and podium are visible to his left. Overlaid on the right side of the image are four key lessons in rounded dashed boxes, with blue headings: Data visualization is a business — Someone needs to pay you. Why will they do that? What's the value for them? Build MVPs, not personal projects — Personal projects take time, MVPs bring immediate value. Data visualization combines perspectives — Analytical skills + Communication skills + Design skills. Data visualization works best under constraints — The real world gives you the most interesting challenges to solve.

After 12 years of building a career in #dataviz and #informationdesign, here are the 4 key lessons I learned - and I can't stop preaching about them:

1/6

📸 Photo credits: Nora Dekoning

Move slow and fix things

Sorry I'm late. There was an online form and I had to scroll to my birth year.

A caucasian human hand with only its index finger extended

Submitting a pull request

For people in #academia -- What's the oldest email in your inbox that you still plan to respond to at some indeterminate timepoint in your life? (in other words: Please make me feel better about my inbox of shame)

Introducing ggauto: automating better charts – Nicola Rennie The ggauto package is an opinionated ggplot2 extension package that aims to help people make better charts by default. This blog post explains why it exists and how it works.

🎉 ggauto is now on CRAN 🎉

An #RStats package that selects better chart types, and provides more accessible styling for #ggplot2 plots 📊

Blog post explaining why I made it and how it works: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/introdu...

#DataViz

Poster for an R-Ladies Remote panel event titled “Working Smarter in R: Tips, Tricks & Real-World Lessons.” The event takes place on April 22, 2026, at 6:00 PM UTC. It features a panel discussion with Meghan Harris, Nicola Rennie, Soraya Campbell, Isabella Velásquez, Crystal Lewis, and Pao Corrales. The session will cover practical tips for working in R, including workflows, data cleaning, data visualisation, debugging, and advanced programming practices. The poster has a purple R-Ladies themed design and includes a QR code for registration.

Join us for “Working Smarter in R” 💜
📅 Apr 22
⏰ 6–7 BST / 11–12 PDT

A global panel sharing tips on workflows, data cleaning, debugging & more in R.

Featuring: @nrennie.bsky.social, Pao C., @meghansharris.bsky.social, Soraya C., @ivelasq3.bsky.social & @cghlewis.bsky.social

#RStats #RLadies

You’re telling me a cat displayed the contents of this file to console??? 🐱

Level Up Your Data Visualizations with ggplot2, Wed, Mar 25, 2026, 5:00 PM | Meetup Join us for a practical, beginner-friendly meetup on **“Level Up Your Data Visualizations with ggplot2”** where we’ll explore how to create clear, compelling, and professio

I’m giving a talk at R-Ladies Abuja next week 💜 💙

We’ll dive into #ggplot2 tricks from our "ggplot2 uncharted" class — focusing on both #dataviz best practices and advanced #coding 💪

Sign up for the free session here: www.meetup.com/rladies-abuj...

A heatmap showing average ratings for the first 27 seasons of the Simpsons with several call-outs and annotations.

A scatter plot using the mpg data that features an R logo in the title and a colorful icon in the subtitle and as point indicators for the top 25% values in a scatter plot.

A linechart of Orange tree grwoth with titles styled as textboxes and a call-out box inside the panel. Direct labels next to the line replace a legend and make the chart easier to read.

The announcement flyer for our MeetUp event.

Sneak peek at my talk for #RLadies Abuja! 💜 💙

In the first section, I’ll use examples from our "#ggplot2 uncharted" course to showcase some tricks to enrich your charts with meaningful titles, annotations, and call-outs 📣

Sign up here: www.meetup.com/rladies-abuj...

#rstats #dataviz #tidyverse

What’s New in {dplyr} 1.2.0: A Tour with Isabella Velásquez – R-Ladies Rome In this session, Isabella Velásquez guided participants through the newest features in dplyr 1.2.0, focusing on when to use the new tools and how they improve real-world data workflows.

🎥 New recording available!

What’s new in {dplyr} 1.2.0?
In this R-Ladies Rome session, Isabella Velásquez shows when to use the new features and how they improve real data workflows.

Watch the talk 👇
rladiesrome.org/talks/2026/m...

#RLadiesRome #rstats #DataScience #Tidyverse #WomenInTech

If my cat had a Wikipedia page

I made a tiny tool for quickly sharing small datasets (< ~1000 rows) without uploading any data to a server.

🔗 ziptbl.com

It compresses the data into the link itself, so there’s no account, hosting, or storage layer involved.

Here's Florence Nightingale's famous 📊 data:
ziptbl.com#d=eNpdlE-LGz...

how do you do fellow humans

"Its about the journey, not the destination" I whisper to myself on the brink of madness in R #rstats

Finally got my first bite!

Sung to the tune of "Golden" I suppose.

Working Smarter with {dplyr} 1.2.0 – A Practical Session, Wed, Mar 18, 2026, 6:00 PM | Meetup **{dplyr} 1.2.0 is out, and wow, is it a delight!** **Join us for a tour** of the new tools in {dplyr} 1.2.0 and when you should use them. We will walk through **WHEN** y

📢 Exciting News for R-Ladies Rome!

Join us for a session with Isabella Velásquez from Posit PBC: "What’s New in {dplyr} 1.2.0." Discover updates like when_any(), when_all(), and more, with practical examples.

🗓️ March 18, 2026, 6pm CET
🔗 Register: www.meetup.com/rladies-rome...

#DataScience 🚀

GitHub - EllaKaye/localtime: Quarto shortcode to display times in the reader's local timezone Quarto shortcode to display times in the reader's local timezone - EllaKaye/localtime

Announcing localtime, a #QuartoPub extension for displaying times in the reader's local timezone e.g.

{{< localtime 2026-03-09 20:30 UTC >}} will render as 2026-03-09 21:30 for someone in CET.

Has nice formatting options, and automatically accounts for daylight saving.

github.com/EllaKaye/loc...

A digital CAPTCHA verification window titled "Select all squares with PIPES" against a plain white background. The window contains a 3×3 grid of numbered squares, mixing literal hardware, smoking pipes, and programming syntax.

These captchas just keep getting harder #rstats