Allison Horst

Notebooks 2.0 is here! 📓🔮 Previewing today:
Notebook Kit, an open file format for notebooks with open-source tooling for generating static sites; and
Observable Desktop, a macOS desktop application for editing notebooks as local files, with a radical new approach to AI. observablehq.com/notebooks/2/

Course: Introduction to data wrangling and analysis in JavaScript with Allison Horst - YouTube

- My intro course on data wrangling & analysis in JS: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
- Intro course on data visualization w/ Observable Plot: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

I do! Here are some I made specifically with #rstats folks in mind:

- Data wrangling w/ Arquero: observablehq.com/@observableh...
- Observable Plot from ggplot2: observablehq.com/@observableh...
- Data wrangling in R, Python, JS, + SQL: observablehq.com/@observableh...

This is so exciting to see! Congratulations and thank you to everyone who contributed 👏❤️

A cute round monster, smiling while skating on a frozen pond in a winter snowscape with frosty pine trees. The skate tracks reveal what developers hope for in package checks: "0 warnings, 0 errors, 0 notes."

Happy first day of December! Hope you're skating through your R CMD checks 🤍❄️⛸️

Cartoon split screen, on the left a demoralized zombified data scientist fails to write code at 5pm Friday, needing a serious break. On the right, they've woken up and look totally refreshed and happy at 6am on Saturday, the scene now looking delightful.

also holidays

A cartoon turkey looks on in frustration at a sunburst chart, drawn and colored to look like a flared turkey tail.

Grateful for all you #dataviz & #databs turkeys.

Resspondamess through and through

Digital sketch of a bag of Mission tortilla chips.

A quick bag of tortilla chips.

OR IS IT observable_insight_prep <- c("Allison", "Tanya")?

These look so great 🤩 Makes me want to start a TidyTuesday Framework project!

Book cover of the book 'Exploring complex survey data analysis using R', showing a light blue background with a hand-drawn map showing mountains, houses, roads and the sea.

To celebrate this gem of a book by @statsteph.bsky.social, @ivelasq3.bsky.social and Rebecca Powell on complex survey data with #RStats and the #tidyverse, we are giving away one copy to a lucky winner. To enter, re-post this and follow me by Nov 24. Not affiliated with bsky.

lol nightmarish stuff 😂😱

Cartoon monsters dressed as characters from "It." Pennywise holds balloons, one with the Microsoft Teams logo on it, while peering out from a storm drain while another little monster in a raincoat looks on.

I recently had the opportunity to interview Ben Welsh (Reuters news applications editor), during a very interesting time for data journalists. Check out the story below! 👇

Apricot mallow quick sketch

love that place!

Trump victory has sweeping climate change consequences From the endorsement of climate denial to a brain drain of climate scientists, Trump's victory will bring major changes.

I'm a climate scientist living in Texas who served as a lead author on the National Climate Assessment under the previous Trump administration. I witnessed first-hand its chilling impact on access to data, funding & publication of research, implementation of solutions, and scientists themselves. 🧵

lol I had *completely* forgotten about this version of evil recipes 😂. And yeah @ivelasq3.bsky.social & @kellybodwin.bsky.social I'm up for an R dangers hex 🖤

Blank version:

An illustration recreating the It movie poster, where a monster version of Pennywise peers out of a storm drain holding red balloons and hex stickers, enticing a little monster in a yellow raincoat who looks on. On the balloons are written different things to be cautious about in R / stats. On the raincoat are different hex stickers (for janitor, naniar, usethis, dplyr, renv...).

👻 Here's the ✨ new 2024 art, feat. community responses to the question "What's something in R that feels tempting, but is actually dangerous?"

I couldn't fit them all, so I've added a blank version 👇🧵 so you can make your own (could be a fun class activity 😉)

Happy Halloween, #rstats world! 🤡🎈

Aw this warms my heart 😍, so glad you two found each other there!

Small fuzzy R monsters in costume as famous villains from horror movies. Left to right: Chucky (wearing a wig, rainbow shirt and overalls, with stitches on its face), the girl from The Ring (black long hair over face), Hannibal Lecter (masked with bars in front of mouth), and Jason (iconic hockey mask). On the wall behind them are different menacing tools (butcher knives, saws, scythe) with scary things on them, e.g. "Can't automatically merge," "screenshot error message," "no such file or directory", "$ operator is invalid for atomic vectors."

Little R horror monsters (2022). New R community inspired Halloween 2024 illustration coming up tomorrow 🎃🎈

I plead guilty, show mercy ✋

I'm having a ton of fun drawing it 👻 and YES, a real life pumpkin mashup??? 🎃🖤🧡!!

The responses are so good, & I learned quite a few new things! Thanks everybody, keep 'em coming -- the thread feels like the start of a fun blog post.

👻🎀👾🎀👾👻

Here's one that wasn't specifically made for Halloween but feels like the right vibes, from early 2021.

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👋 💚 hi!!!

YES this is a brutal one

Yes and they are *amazing* -- they even have little R's knitted all over them 😭💜