looks interesting. Thanks for the tag!

A Unified Dashboard and Orchestrator for Quality Checks¶ Unit tests · Data validation · Linting · Spelling Run every quality check on your project using a single command: unit tests, data validation, linters, spell checkers. Scrutin watches for edits, figures out which checks are affected, and re-runs them in parallel. Drill into a failure to see the expected and actual values, as well as the relevant source code. Use quick keystrokes to fix linting and spelling issues, or to open files in your editor of choice.

🚨 #RStats and #PyData devs!

I'm looking for β testers for this thing I just built: A unified dashboard + orchestrator for code and data quality checks.

It has lots of neat features and I'm super eager for feedback and bug reports.

Check out the video demo:

vincentarelbundock.github.io/scrutin/

Aww, thanks for the plug!

STAT 447 (2026) Guest Lecture by Vincent Arel-Bundock YouTube video by Dirk Eddelbuettel

The great @eddelbuettel.com invited me to his STAT447 class at the University of Illinois.

If you'd like to hear me speak about the interpretation of statistical models in #RStats, using the {marginaleffects} 📦, check out the video!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3TX...

Thanks for sharing there remembrances. I find it interesting how we can be touched by little interactions like these in what seems like a purely technical context. It's lovely, even if the situation is sad.

oh, thanks a lot! I had missed that one.

April 2026 will bring a new #Ubuntu 26.04, a new #Rstats release 4.6.0 and a new #BioConductor 3.23. And ... as the "future is unevenly distributed" we already have #r2u running 26.04.

See 'zero to tidyverse': 10 sec, 107 files, 1 command.

#r2u. Fast. East. Reliable. Pick All Three.

This looks like a great resource!

🧵1/ Our first meta-science paper (with 350+ coauthors) is published today in Nature. It presents one of the largest-ever reproducibility projects in economics & political science.

Here’s what we found 👇

Don't know exactly what you're looking for, but try it and ping me if you think some feature is missing. Good luck!

ok, this is weird. But the article was great. Love the shout out to UdeM librarian :)

#rstats I'm glad to announce Jarl 0.5.0!

Jarl is a very fast R linter, written in Rust. This release brings many improvements and fixes.

See the blog post: www.etiennebacher.com/posts/2026-0...

And the full changelog: jarl.etiennebacher.com/changelog

🧵 to highlight some features below

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There's a second compilation step for PDF, but if you use Typst (,instead of LaTeX) it can be quite fast.

Ooh, very cool! I saw a repo but didn't realize it was coming so soon. Might not have sunk time into this had I known. Should have pinged you.. 😅

Yeah, Quarto is wonderful and an essential tool for me. My pain points were always speed, template engine, and bootstrap.

I'm excited for the big news!

lol. I think they're working on something much more ambitious for v2. If I ever release this project, it'll be much more limited in scope. That said, I think it might be neat. I'm excited!

It's a Rust-based "mini-quarto". Mostly compatible, with a few small, intentional departures. Quarto does a billion things, so this is not feature complete. But it already does ~everything I ever use the system for (and I'm a pretty heavy user).

TBC: very much an alpha/experimental thing.

benchmarks showing compilation of quarto documents at sub-millisecond speed

I've been working on something fun!

When you process #QuartoPub notebooks at sub-millisecond speed, you get *instant* previews as you type, and you can render massive websites in mere seconds. 🤯🚀

#Quarto #RStats

Statistical Rethinking 2026 is done: 20 new lectures emphasizing logical and critical statistical workflow, from basics of probability theory to causal inference to reliable computation to sensitivity. It's all free, made just for you. Lecture list and links: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

but there might no longer be space in the overhead.

sometimes i think about your "available on http request" Drake

"The book of y tho" by Judea Pearl

Impressive work

Maybe they're more visible so we think there are lots of them? Basically none of the colleagues I interact with on a daily basis fit the description. Almost everyone I encounter in academia is pretty nice. I might just be lucky 🤷

BTW, I enjoy your writing and laugh regularly.

I feel paranoid about these things, sometimes 😅

Does AI know you are you (via cookies, etc), and exclude you from the list because of that?

rdrobust 3.0.0 seems to have tidy() and glance() methods in the source package. Maybe they are not exported or not properly hooked to the `generics` package? In theory, that's all that should be necessary. I'd try using broom::tidy() on them to see if it works first.

Great editing, artwork, concept. Cheap price.

Cunningham was/is extremely visible on social media and elsewhere. Much, much, more than me. Also, his book covers a broader array of topics, appropriate for many courses in econ, where coursework is standardized. So it could be adopted by many profs for teaching as-is. His book is also fantastic.

Aw thanks, that's nice to hear!