Stephen Olivier 🇿🇦

A little bit of self-promotion, I @ivelasq3.bsky.social will be giving a talk on Positron for RStudio Users!

Hoping to share some perspectives, extensions, and other tips in case you're interested in exploring Positron.

Sign up here: www.meetup.com/rladies-gabo...

Tight pants and a red flag

It's almost as if maths gives the illusion that statistics is simple

😇 Speak for yourself. I'm flying high, I'm sure it's not my flu medication

Always read Danielle (ARD)

Prediction modelling hat on: this great post extends to how humans interact with predictions. Generally we appear to be good at discrimination, ie ranking things by risk. Calibration OTOH: cooked. Maybe we should focus decision support on realistic risk preds, w less focus on AUROC?
#statsky #rstats

Temptation of St Anthony

Temptation of St Anthony

#rstats An interesting post if you're interested in learning how things work in {ggplot2}
-> layer_data() give you a view of what goes on inside the box

As if they haven't been actively trying deport them already

GLMcat: An R Package for Generalized Linear Models for Categorical Responses by Lorena León, Jean Peyhardi, Catherine Trottier <p>In statistical modeling, there is a wide variety of generalized linear models for categorical response variables (nominal or ordinal responses); yet, there is no software embracing all these models...

GLMcat: An R Package for Generalized Linear Models for Categorical Responses. Lorena León, Jean Peyhardi, Catherine Trottier. Journal of Statistical Software. www.jstatsoft.org/article/view...

A poor worm once had the life sucked out of it by mistakenly seeking refuge in the brain of a parasitic RFK Jr

Does it only plot a line between the first 2 data points?

I'm not shocked at all

Prince Andrew and the "guilty monkey"

Separated at birth

CHANGE TECHNICALLY IS ON THE CASE

www.changetechnically.fyi/2396236/epis...

Facebook post by disgraced journalist Johann Hari ignorantly holding up a Asian cuisine book, "Cooking with Poo"

Apparently Hari's books are edible

Remember the first person you must fool is yourself. Then you can seemingly get away with anything

Happy to announce ✨quarto-revealjs-editable✨

This fully supersedes the imagemover extension, as I back then didn't realize the potential. You can now also move, resize, change font size and alignment for text in your slides

github.com/EmilHvitfeld...
#quarto #slidecrafting

these were new to me, look very useful though!

Perfectly safe until you try dunk

It's like the trend of trying to make very realistic looking things out of cake. They can fool you until it really matters

YUP:

"In RFK Jr.’s America, it will never be safe to practice public health or medicine"

He has put a target on our backs

🤣 Check all that apply.

Continuing to talk about why AGI is not near is, at this point, continuing to beat a two-headed horse.

Oh, wait.

Announcing Positron's dedicated console for interactive coding!

Run single lines of #RStats or #Python code, switch languages & versions on the fly, and quickly scan outputs.

Learn more about Positron’s dedicated console: positron.posit.co

Of course, you know what comes next

He's trying to take over the "is it aliens?" guy moniker

Al Overview Willem Dafoe is not in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, but he has appeared in other Star Wars films, including The Last Temptation of Christ (1988).

I honestly can’t believe there are still any AI skeptics out there. This tech is obviously revolutionary

Job coach!

How Quarto embed fixes data science storytelling | Emily Riederer Literate programming excels at capturing our stream of conscience. Our stream of conscience does not excel at explaining the impact of our work. Notebooks enable some of data scientists’ worst tendenc...

Technical writing is hard bcs "writing is thinking" but we often should tell our story not in the order we worked. Solution? I wrote a quick post on how @quarto.org 's embed shortcodes can reframe technical writing as reproducible evidence curation

www.emilyriederer.com/post/quarto-...

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