@tanyashapiro.bsky.social
Solopreneur @ IndieVisual Data geek who loves problem solving Rambles about fitness & random stuff too https://indievisual.tech
Oof, now that’s REALLY rough. Hope you, wife, and kiddos feel better soon!
19.11.2025 15:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Reminder to get your flu and COVID shots before holiday travel.
Don’t be like me and wait until you catch it this season.
On day 5 of recovery. This is rough. 😷
My LinkedIn feed is now filled with JSON vs TOON content for LLMs.
A girl likes one post, and the algo gets wayyy too eager.
Such. A fun. Panel.
If you missed it and want to listen in, the recording is live! Thank you Observable team for hosting 😊
www.youtube.com/live/ciV3q3w...
Yes! I’ll share a link when it’s out 😊
11.11.2025 17:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Happening tomorrow!
10.11.2025 15:42 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Pretty amazing initiative by Instacart 👏
They've made it easy to connect you to local food banks. Build a cart of most needed items and get it delivered directly to a food bank near you.
Donating made easy 👇
www.instacart.com/store/hub/co...
This shutdown is starting to have major consequences. But we can still play our part to help those in need.
If you have the means, you can help by donating to orgs like Feeding America or your local food banks.
www.feedingamerica.org
PS. Fontawesome, I see you charging a premium for the sparkles icon. It's fiiiine, I'll make do the magic wand instead 🪄
30.10.2025 19:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The next experiment: making this Shiny doc gen app work with an LLM. First time playing around with the R openai package.
Safe to say, I'm blown away 🤯
You know where I’m going with this 😉
30.10.2025 13:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thanks Giles!
This one is not publicly available. But I’m open for project work if your team needs help. 😊
Shiny application that blends inputs and markdown to pass into R markdown. The application features a section to fill out information about the client, the project, and then has a markdown editor to pass in text to create nice looking R markdown PDF documents.
Another screenshot of the app, this one focuses on the Compensation section to show how you can use markdown to generate a table.
Example of the PDF output (uses mix of fixed content with the input variables to create dynamic documents).
I really enjoy tool building. A use case that comes up a lot in my world is dynamic doc gen.
Sharing an example of how you can leverage the powers of Shiny + R markdown to create something bespoke to your needs.
Use case below to generate contract docs ✨
New Data Viz Event 🚨
Let's be real. This is just an excuse for me to geek out about my favorite topic with my data viz sheroes.
Catch me, @allisonhorst.bsky.social, Kelsey Nanan + @shirleywu.studio on Tuesday Nov 11th @ 1pm ET. Registration link below 😊
streamyard.com/watch/dHiSp8...
Our next meetup will be Wednesday Oct 29th at 6pm CST!
Efficient File Management in R with {fs} with @jadeynryan.bsky.social
www.meetup.com/rladies-st-l...
So what’s next? As I’m heading into Year 4 I’m seriously considering whether or not to bring on partners to help this growth trajectory.
A lot to think about. Exciting and terrifying, but maybe this feeling is normal?
Option C: I quit to become a full time trophy wife @kweest0n.bsky.social 💁🏻♀️
My journey so far as a solopreneur:
Year 1 - no $ yet, relationship building phase, focus on creating an online presence
Year 2 - finally landing clients! learning & revising product offering
Year 3 - consistently busy, automating admin work to maximize client hours
A treemap showing the world’s population by country, grouped by continent. Each rectangle’s area represents a country’s estimated 2023 population, with labels on the 10% most populous countries. Asia dominates with over 60% of the global population, followed by Africa, the Americas, Europe, and Oceania.
🌏 A compact snapshot on where people live around the globe (2023 data) — over 60% of #humans live in #Asia!
I originally created a more basic version for our new #ggplot2 [un]charted lesson on 🎨 "Color Choice" to discuss color accessibility:
👉 www.ggplot2-uncharted.com/module2/colo...
+1. Regex is somewhere at the bottom of my “to learn list.” The lies I tell myself… when will I stop?!
14.10.2025 20:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Making time to do a fun “how to” data viz exercise this week.
If you’re new and want to learn, what would you want to see? Example with Observable Plot (js) or ggplot2 (R)?
I think we just have to "yes and" until we get through it.
If you solve the problem, no one really cares about the magic behind the curtain. Maybe it's AI? Maybe it's Maybelline? 🤷♀️
ah yes, also known as vintagecore AI
13.10.2025 15:59 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0So if I solve something without AI, your girl is just going to pretend it was AI (🤫).
13.10.2025 15:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0We are living in the "everyone has an AI hammer, therefore everything is a nail" era of problem solving.
And it is extremely pervasive in tech & data circles.
rifling through my old workshop materials to remember how i did that cool thing in R with tables.
oh, you thought my workshops were for you? friends, make no mistake - i am the primary beneficiary of my own teaching content.
if you happened to learn something too, that's just a bonus.
how did you catch him on camera?!
09.10.2025 15:47 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Listening to my dad on a work call today: "The API is the API"
And me thinking "API? What is he talking about? This is the guy who doesn't even know how to flip the FaceTime camera around."
Then realizing, duh, acronyms stand for many things. In his world, API = Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient 👨🔬
This workshop is tomorrow, don't miss your chance to register!
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