Ryan Timpe

I’m a Bayesian as a matter of convenience.

Excited for this one! Presenting tidymodels in R using marketing models and of course the Golden Girls. 👯‍♀️👯‍♀️🌈

Chain Reaction by Diana Ross on Apple Music Song · 1985 · Duration 3:50

Music that unsettles me and makes my mind churn but is also amazing:
music.apple.com/us/album/cha...

Carryover impact & the marketing funnel Feature engineering for MMM with the carryover impact and an introduction to the marketing funnel.

The carryover impact and where marketing models start getting complicated. www.ryantimpe.com/posts/mmm_003/

climbing building exteriors and/or parachuting off them.

we should encourage humans to explore the vertical dimension more.

Data - Selecting the ingredients for an MMM How to choose input data for a marketing mix models and improving upon the previous MMM built.

MMM part 2 - selecting data

(Gotta get the boring ones out of the way before I can do fun stuff)

www.ryantimpe.com/posts/mmm_002/

21 today! But now they feel more like trivia than logic.

I’m sorry I didn’t know how to spell the word right away.

Alphadots: The Word Puzzle With a Plot Twist by Bloomberg One clue, one chart, one hidden phrase. Solve a new puzzle every day.

Retiring from this game with this 15 second win.

I solved today's Alphadots in 15 seconds and used 0 plots. Think you can do better? Play now at bloomberg.com/alphadots

Marketing Mix Modeling - an intro First in a series of mini posts about MMM. Here, I introduce the concept and value of marketing models before diving into more detail in upcoming weeks.

New post! This year I’m going to post weekly to introduce & explore marketing models.

www.ryantimpe.com/posts/mmm_001/

Will mostly use R but will also use these posts to “learn out loud” for python.

And since I can’t take anything seriously, will be using my favorite 80s sitcom as the example.

Ok ok ok i‘m downloading positron

YouTube video by Posit PBC AI missteps as stepping stones (Ryan Timpe, The LEGO Group) | posit::conf(2025)

It was a busy fall for me! Gave a talk at #positconf2025 about all the fun and fails I’ve been having working more AI into my job.

youtu.be/vJrIahZWCw4

Then joined the Posit DS hangout to talk about the conference, marketing data science, & silly side projects.

posit.co/data-science...

Gotta find my old tweet counting you “heck” usage.

Excited for this one!

YouTube video by Posit PBC Ryan Timpe | Learning R with humorous side projects | RStudio (2020)

One of my favorite conf talks of all time was Ryan Timpe's talk about learning R via hilarious side projects, so I'm pretty freaking pumped to say he's is gonna be the featured guest at the Data Science Hangout tomorrow 🤩 If you haven't seen that 2020 talk yet, here it is: youtu.be/oOG-aXP_ICI

YouTube video by Posit PBC AI missteps as stepping stones (Ryan Timpe, The LEGO Group) | posit::conf(2025)

Recording of my #positconf25 talk about learning from AI mishaps is online! (Took me a few days to muster the courage to watch 🤣)

youtu.be/vJrIahZWCw4

Also I’m joining the Posit DS hangout tomorrow to chat about anything data science and silly side projects!

Oops. That didn’t last long.

A very important Wikipedia article. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

Box of LEGO Star Wars set 40806 Gingerbread AT-AT and gingerbread darth Vader

Patiently waiting for 12:01 AM so I can build this bad boy.

Me posing with the 9,000 piece LEGO Death Star in 2025.

Me posing with the 4,000 piece LEGO Death Star in 2013.

Glow up! 2025 ⬅️ 2012

I can’t prove it but I feel like my iPhone is subtly increasing font size as I age.

Utah Mammoth vs Nashville Predators (saber tooth logo)

Very excited for the first Ice Age meetup between Utah Mammoth and the Predators. 🏒🦣🐅

Selfie with the husky Hunter at a lake

Hike with the pup and rocking the #positconf2025 merch

Ryan 2 dot 0

Also I’m gen z now and won’t use punctuation

Giving Up Air by The Temper Trap on Apple Music Song · 2025 · Duration 4:47

really thought the song Sweet Disposition was untouchable but have been listening to Giving Up Air by The Temper Trap for 25 hours music.apple.com/us/album/giv...

YouTube video by Posit PBC Ryan Timpe | Learning R with humorous side projects | RStudio (2020)

Sharing this talk by @ryantimpe.bsky.social as this week’s recommendation, a solid example of learning by drawing inspiration from what we love and making the process fun. :)
#RStats

🔗: youtu.be/oOG-aXP_ICI?...

Slide title “AI missteps as steppingstone” and a cartoon image of a happy Husky walking across grey stones

Speaking at the 1pm Facepalm-driven development session at #positconf2025 ! Hope to see you there!

Haven’t run into you yet! Hopefully tonight

The moment things start to click 😍