Veerle van Son

A couple of workshops we've recently given:

- Making Code Ready for Publication
- Package Management for R and Python

Links in the thread. #datascience #rstats #python

Adobe Acrobat has to be the most fun sounding/least fun to use of all programs

new theory of mind test: how you name your files when you & many others will be submitting the same thing.
scale ranges from "myfile Final(3).docx" to "jones_review_smith_feb2026.pdf"

pilot testing shows wide variation from age 18-80.
shared variance with chaos/organization scale

A graph with the title "Sheep to people ratio in Aotearoa/NZ: Data from 1935–2024 by 5-year averages" on a light blue background with a pale green area resembling land. The x-axis shows years by 5-year increments and the y-axis shows the rounded number of sheep per people. Between 1935 and 1980, the ratio is about 20:1, but then rapidly dropping to about 5:1 in the 2020s. The top corner shows an outline of Aotearoa. Caption reads: "Packages: {tidyverse, marquee, patchwork, rnaturalearth, rvest}; Data: StatsNZ & Statista via TidyTuesday & Wikipedia; Visualization: C. Börstell"

Sheep to people ratio in Aotearoa/NZ for #TidyTuesday

🐑:👤 🇳🇿🌿

#R4DS #DataViz #ggplot2

Code: github.com/borstell/tid...

A map of an island labelled "Isle of Ewe"

Happy Small Scottish Island Day to all who celebrate.

Snow coverage in the Netherlands over the past few days

#map #animation

Bridget the cat infiltrates the 'Abbey Road' cover shoot and becomes THE definitive fifth Beatle.

THREAD.

My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments.

I've collected his work here...

My answer is NORTH BY NORTHWEST. The picture shows a delicious cinnamon swirl

“Probably” implies there’s a non-zero chance they 𝘥𝘰.

All known roads of the Roman Empire displayed as lines on an otherwise blank canvas. The lines form the shape and extensions of the Roman Empire.

All roads lead to Rome?

Well, here’s a map to check that saying.

#30DayMapChallenge | Day 11 - Minimal map #rstats #ggplot2

[03/24] 18h01 (French time, that is)? Time for the third riddle of the data advent calendar! Let's hear it from you then

[06/24] I have to confess today's riddle is an upcycle from my first data calendar, back to 2022, but I quite loved it so allow me one little selfplagiarism, ok?

[08/24] 🎄📊 let's start this new week of data riddling with an easy one, shall we?

Like Newton and the apple, it hit me: my answer today is GRAVITY. The photo shows a hand coming in from the lower left corner, picking a red apple hanging from a tree.

Stop all the clocks, it's FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL! The photo shows the clock face on the Tower at the Palace of Westminster.

Cliffs of Moher, not Mohair 🙈

The Cliffs of Mohair (Ireland) bathing in sunlight. I have never been there – walking too close to the edge would probably give me VERTIGO

ascii stuff for the first time in a while

The photo shows a large, colorful globe with pictures of landscapes and animals. My answer to the riddle: NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN

A world map infographic comparing annual per capita consumption of coffee versus tea, with countries shaded brown where coffee is consumed more and teal where tea is consumed more. Large swaths of the globe including most of Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and the UK are shown preferring tea, while North America, most of South America, much of Europe including Scandinavia, and Australia are shaded for coffee. The split shows clear regional trends: coffee dominates in the Americas, Northern and Central Europe, and Australia, while tea dominates in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. The map is titled “COFFEE VS TEA What’s consumed more in cups per year,” with a key identifying coffee in brown and tea in teal, and cites Statista as the source. At the bottom is the logo for The World in Maps.

Ways to divide the world pt 17 of 185

The giraffe appears on the painting The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch. The sculpture can be found in Bosch' home town Den Bosch 😊

Just like medieval people trying to draw a giraffe while never having seen one in real life, details can get LOST IN TRANSLATION

I'm back from the dead and you know that can only mean one thing: the data riddle advent calendar is back!! One riddle every day around 6pm (Paris time), a movie title hidden in a chart... Will you play along this year??

A festive digital illustration features the blue R logo wearing a red Santa hat with white trim on the left. To its right stands a green Christmas tree made entirely of curly braces arranged in a triangular shape. White and light-blue %>% pipe symbols float across a dark blue, starry background like snowflakes. A speech bubble above the R logo says “Ho Ho Ho! 📦” in red text. At the bottom, white text reads: “R Package Development Advent Calendar 2025” and below it, “25 Days of Coding Magic • Dec 1–25.”

🎄 ANNOUNCEMENT: R Package Development Advent Calendar 2025! 🎄

Starting December 1st, I'm launching a 25-day journey through modern R package development. here's why you should follow along 🧵

#rstats #RPackageAdvent2025 #OpenSource

Screen grab from Dropbox saying Emojis in file names are finally here!

No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?

My handwriting in blue pen on lined paper. The writing says: ‘Sometimes I’d love to see people’s posts in their original handwriting.’ My writing is not joined up. It is a little bit curly, but (I think), quite easy to read.

Curator Charlotte Wickham, Developer Educator at at Posit PBC. They spend most of their time using and writing about Quarto, but R remains their go-to language for creating examples, managing repositories and files, and exploring and visualizing data whenever the opportunity arises.

This week’s #RLadies curator is @cwick.co.nz!

My favorite new initialism: AI;DR I'll be using this a lot from here on out.