Posts by Mara Averick
The strange dissonance of loathing something in its present form and missing it for, if not what it necessarily *was*, then what it could've been…
💔 So bummed to be missing this in person, but I know you'll be phenomenal!
Wait, WAT?! This just blew up my fond childhood memory! 🤯
Map of the US showing our path across 17 states through 13 days of traveling
A timeline showing when we left, stopped, and drove on each day of our trip
A plot showing elevation changes throughout the road trip
A plot showing elevation changes throughout the road trip
New blog post! Learn how to use #rstats to load & clean & play with all the location history data Google keeps about you and look at neat plots and tables about our 5,000-mile summer road trip along the way www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2023/07/03/using-go...
Alright, I'll bite: here's a feed that will collect all rstats posts on bluesky in one convenient spot:
bsky.app/profile/did:plc:nnvf4hwr...
No promises about longevity, uptime, reliability, etc!
bsky.app/profile/apreshill.com/po...
Oooh good to know! I've seen and doubted, I like super spicy.
Letter that looks kind of like a post card and reads: Dear Data, As you grow and explore new areas, I know you will keep changing the world. Signed Little Miss Data
🥰 Let LittleMissData give you some data❣️ feels…
💌 “My Love Letter to Data” https://www.littlemissdata.com/blog/data-love-letter
Screenshot of open browser window with fedifinder: New: Your contacts on Bluesky @luca.run (luca) @aliafonzy.bsky.social (Aliafonzy43) @staging.bsky.app (Aliafonzy43) @jay@bsky.app (arcalinea) @amir.blue (ashevat) @sjjphd.bsky.social (sjjphd) @ericajoy.astrel.la (EricaJoy) @pennyred.bsky.social (PennyRed) @helmi.bsky.social (helmi)
https://fedifinder.glitch.me/ now finds your Twitter contacts on Bluesky as well.
Currently quite basic by checking for bsky.app or bsky.social links. I started with DNS TXT lookups, which worked great until I tested it with thousands of accounts which triggered the DDoS protection.
Honestly, my misreadings are just always more interesting. Like, last week 🍎 news headline was something like: “Inside Pentagon's years long UFO studies"…which I read as "Inside Patagonia's years long UFO studies".
💭 Great outdoor gear AND extraterrestrial studies?! Way to go, Patagonia!
ChatGPT Prompt Guide (for R users). The mistake I was making was not being specific enough in directing chatgpt what R code I want it to write for me. If you look at what I’m doing now… Image shows example ChatGPT prompt: "Using the osmdata R library, write R code to find the locations of all pharmacies in Pittsburgh. Then use mapview to visualize the pharmacies on a map." Arrows point to osmdata and mapview with the annotation "Which R libraries?". Arrows point to the word pharmacies with the annotation "What business Type". Arrows point to the word Pittsburgh with the annotation "Which location?".
I haven't used ChatGPT to code much…BUT this 5-min video w/ Matt Dancho is a nice lil' case study/crash course:
🦾 “How to R code faster with ChatGPT”
www.business-science.io/code-tools/2023/04/30/ch...
I swear this isn't a @tanyashapiro.bsky.social stan account, but if you like dataviz, R, Drag Race…cool things, this convo about her adventures w/ Observable is a great read:
Data consultant from the R world uses JavaScript to “bring viz to life”
https://observablehq.com/blog/r-to-javascript-shapiro
I know hashtags aren't a thing here (I think), but putting out the #rstats signal just in case so you don't miss this opportunity to learn from one of my faves 👇
Why am I reading this in the voice of "Hey, how y'all doing?" 😂
(Also, lmk if you figure out how we send invite codes now that we're in!!)