isabel z

isabel z

@isabelizimm.bsky.social

she/her. data, dogs, doodles (and books, but that doesn’t match the alliteration) 👾🌈🐶 software engineer @ posit

2,488 Followers 167 Following 34 Posts Joined Oct 2023
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📣 NEW! I’ve just released the BIGGEST and perhaps most creative project I’ve ever worked on!

“Searching for Birds” searchingforbirds.visualcinnamon.com 🐤

A project, an article, an exploration that dives into the data that connects humans with birds, by looking at how we search for birds.

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2 months ago

thank you so much for joining!! 👾

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3 months ago

Today’s xkcd made me cry.

In a good way.

xkcd.com/3172/

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3 months ago
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Privacy and AI Assistants - Posit Many of our LLM tools can execute code and access your files. What does this mean for privacy?

The LLM privacy question comes up (rightly so) on every data community call I'm on. I've had sooo many questions myself. #databs #rstats #pydata
Good resource:
posit.co/blog/trust-l...

Also, have you seen side::kick in RStudio? simonpcouch.github.io/side/

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4 months ago
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Python Open-Source Developer Posit is hiring a Python open-source developer to create more data analysis tools.

We're hiring an open-source #python developer focused on modeling APIs!

tidyverse.org/blog/2025/11...

#numpy #scipy #scikitlearn

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4 months ago
HTTP response: net::ERR_BLOCKED_BY_ORB "Pondering my orb" meme:

huh

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4 months ago

Come hang with me Nov 5th 12PM ET! We'll be chatting with Isabel Zimmerman & Davis Vaughan from Posit about our favorite #Positron settings. New to to the IDE? Come learn! If you're super familiar & have tricks of your own to show, come share! #databs #rstats #python

events.zoom.us/ev/AnxRH-OLd...

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4 months ago

there is NOTHING more satisfying than customizing your tools to make your work more joyful!!! sometimes that’s turning on format-on-save, sometimes that’s making your entire IDE pink 🌸 excited to see everyone’s setups and share my own!

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4 months ago

I only need *5* more dataset curations (and to review those 5 plus the open PR) to be done curating #TidyTuesday for 2025! I can definitely do at least one myself, so I just need 4 of you to curate a dataset! Check out github.com/rfordatascie... for #RStats instructions.

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4 months ago

How about a Positron (or VS Code) snippet that picks a random number for your seed?
Example snippet: gist.github.com/cwickham/820...
Snippets: positron.posit.co/migrate-rstu...

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4 months ago
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Announcing the Data Explorer “Convert to Code” Feature on Positron!

With a single click, you can copy the R or Python code that reflects the filters and sorts you've set up in the Data Explorer UI.

Transition quickly from visual exploration to scripting today! positron.posit.co/data-explore...

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7 months ago

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

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4 months ago
Four-panel chart grid: a) scatter plot of mpg vs. wt; b) box plot of mpg vs. cyl; c) line plot of mpg vs. disp; and d) bar chart of carb count.

Announcing Plotnine 0.15.0: The Python package for Grammar of Graphics gets a massive upgrade!

A new feature is Native Plot Composition: combine multiple independent plots into one figure, no more layout managers for multi-panel #Python graphs!

Read the post: posit.co/blog/plotnin...

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5 months ago
Me saying "hey it's github copilot chat in my positron" Automatically generated dplyr code that matches the filtering and arranging that I did by clicking on columns in the data viewer

oooh new version of Positron just released and it has (1) github copilot chat and (2) automatic {dplyr} code generation based on filtering/sorting/etc that you do in the data viewer #rstats

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5 months ago
A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal This is a comic about AI art.

I really really really liked The Oatmeal’s take on AI here theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

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5 months ago
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🐍 Python 3.14 is here! 🎉

✨ Template strings (t-strings) for safer string interpolation
🚀 Free-threaded Python officially supported (bye GIL!)
🎨 Syntax highlighting in the REPL
📦 Zstandard compression in stdlib
🔍 Remote PDB debugging

Full release notes: docs.python.org/3.14/whatsne...

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5 months ago
An image from NYT Game's Spelling Bee, erroneously claiming that "tibble" is not a word.

Filling a big report immediately #rstats

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5 months ago
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How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner - annie's blog “Hello! I am a developer. Here is my relevant experience: I code in Hoobijag and sometimes jabbernocks and of course ABCDE++++ (but never ABCDE+/^+ are you kidding? ha!)  and I like working with ...

"How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner" by Annie Mueller 😅 😂 😭

anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-...

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5 months ago

As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read.

They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.

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6 months ago
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atlanta-posit-conf-2025 posit::conf 2025 Hotel Coffee ⭐ I think this looks the most promising, there are other locations that look decent even if this one seems new and has few reviews and is inside another building 7 minu...

Can't wait to see everyone at posit::conf(2025)!!

Here's my annual "things to do" list for food, coffee, bakeries, and bars near conf!

#positconf2025 #rstats

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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10 months ago
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Today, we’re announcing the preview release of ty, an extremely fast type checker and language server for Python, written in Rust.

In early testing, it's 10x, 50x, even 100x faster than existing type checkers. (We've seen >600x speed-ups over Mypy in some real-world projects.)

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10 months ago
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Yesterday, @opensourcepledge.com was on Nasdaq Tower in Times Square. I got to be there for it! Thank you to Nasdaq and congratulations to all of the featured companies who #paythemaintainers! 👏 What a great way to keep celebrating #maintainermonth! 💃

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10 months ago
A hand drawn laptop with R studio open o the screen

My amazing independent study student wrote me a thank you card and drew this laptop with #rstats code on it 🥹

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10 months ago

thank you!!! ✨🥂

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10 months ago

SADLY she uses angular in her day job, so it will not be a quarto vs. quarto competition. but i did convince her to make a quarto personal site 😈

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10 months ago
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why stop at a template? just have a whole quarto rebrand

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10 months ago
The same meme, but it's Quarto poking me with a stick to fix bugs

me, daily (ok i'll show myself out)

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10 months ago

no rest for you! only more bugs!!! 🐛 🐜🦟🪲🐜🐞🪲🐛

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10 months ago
stick figure-esque character poking the Quarto hex sticker with a stick. above are the words “Cmon, fix my life”

me, daily

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10 months ago

being a nerd and marrying a nerd means we have decided to compete for who can create a prettier wedding website 🌸 quarto will be powering my submission

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