Travis Hinkelman

Apply to be an Opportunity Scholar at posit::conf(2025) - Posit We are excited to announce Posit will provide 40 Opportunity Scholarships so they can attend posit::conf(2025) in Atlanta, Georgia.

We’re thrilled to offer Opportunity Scholarships for posit::conf(2025)!

These aim to support folks typically underrepresented at similar confs.

If you know anyone who'd be a good candidate – perhaps you! – apply by Feb 21: pos.it/opp-scholar-2025

#DataScience #positconf2025 #rstats #pydata

Calling all Shiny devs 📣

I'm thrilled to be a part of the ShinyConf Programme Committee. We are on the lookout for interesting talks & workshops to feature in this year's lineup.

If you have a cool idea, I encourage you to submit a talk! Deadline is Feb 2nd.

More info:
www.shinyconf.com

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Base R plotting question: what's the equivalent to of ggplot(df, aes(x, y, group = g)) + geom_line()? (Assuming that the ys are irregular). Can you do it without an explicit loop? #rstats

Let’s talk about Direct File.

It’s a free, easy way for people to file their taxes directly online with IRS.

You keep your tax refund — rather than paying $150 to a sleazy tax prep company.

It’s more efficient!

But these Republicans want you to keep wasting money on TurboTax.

Call for Help: As AE for JSS, I am looking for reviewers for a neat paper (and #Rstats package) with low/mid/high precision float support, something of interest for (very) large models and machine learning. If you,dear reader, could review this please get in touch via email. Thanks in advance.

YouTube video by Developer Voices Elm & The Future of Open Source (with Evan Czaplicki)

What’s happening with Elm-lang? That had to be the first question I asked #Elm's creator, Evan Czaplicki, and you can't answer without asking, what’s happening with Open Source funding? Can OSS successfully exist when companies want everything they can get for free, forever? 😰

youtu.be/0SUM4869ODc

I'm writing up a brief history of the tidyverse? What do you want to know about it? #rstats

I would love love love to connect to more Research Software Engineers!

This is quite #rstats heavy currently, but is open to all of any level!

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I've begun a statistical graphics starter pack at go.bsky.app/EMb8xWf . Please help me find more people or feeds to add to this pack. #rstats #visualisation #statistics 📈

wait why does the dept of government efficiency have two co-chairs

Discovering structured procrastination got me through grad school and helps me thrive in a startup env where there’s always five top priority things you could be working on. But sometimes procrastination catches me out, like finishing this analyst brief on the airplane.

Pre-Scheme has such ambitions prescheme.org

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Screenshot of my results from US News Best Country quiz.

Amidst the alienation of this week, I felt a small sense of relief that the United States didn't show up on this list.

Would We Be Better Off If Trump Had Won in 2020? A thought experiment: Would the country be better off if Donald Trump had won a second term as President in 2020?  Don’t wince; I haven’t gone over to the dark side. But the idea has nag…

Dwelling on this idea right now...

Screenshot of the CRAN Task View "DynamicVisualizations" at https://CRAN.R-project.org/view=DynamicVisualizations

New CRAN Task View: Dynamic Visualizations and Interactive Graphics
#rstats #dataviz

By Sherry Zhang, Dianne Cook @visnut.bsky.social

URL: cran.r-project.org/view=Dynamic...

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