Taylor Rodgers 📊📈

If he builds that new monument in front of the Lincoln Memorial, we should add plaques for the Jan 6 police officers, and maybe some statues of them as well.

I Recognized My Country Yesterday Maybe there's hope for our grand ol' Republic yet

After attending No Kings yesterday, I am more hopeful about our country than I have been in a long time. The country we grew up in is still there, and we can save it. 🇺🇸

#nokings

scribesfordemocracy.substack.com/p/i-recogniz...

No Kings As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

You can find a local event here: www.nokings.org#map

Centrists Should Attend "No Kings" Protest The forgotten middle needs to speak

Are you a left-leaning political centrist who doesn't like protests? Me too. But this time, I'm going to the No Kings protests on Saturday. And I hope you join me.

I even wrote a whole article about why:

I'll be going to the No Kings protest this weekend. I hope you do too. :)

Thank you! I appreciate hearing that!

I know grammatically, it is correct to say "the data are...", as opposed to "the data is..."

But it still just sounds so wrong.

Nice

If you produce charts, I would love to see the comparison.

A new hobby I have is asking ChatGPT to write something that I know will be terrible.

Today, I asked it to write me a LinkedIn post, describing how I overcame my grandmother's passing by reflecting on the Bootstrapping technique used in data science.

It did not disappoint.

I have only seen two LinkedIn posts today, and both started with, "Is [X] dying? Not quite. But it is changing."

I am liking Posit Connect Cloud so far. :)

I have a single R Shiny application to deploy that needs secured database connections and user authentication.

shinyapps. io can't do both, and I have feeling Posit Connect Cloud is gonna charge too much for just for SSO.

What do folks here think about Shiny Server vs Shiny Proxy instead? #rshiny

I used to build dashboards with Tableau and SSRS that relied on SQL databases. My gosh were they sluggish.

For the first time, I'm using SQL with R Shiny and – OMG! – talk about an improvement.

There is something so satisfying about getting to work with SQL again. :)

Google says my Workspace Business subscription will go up in price next month because of the "significant added AI value."

All I'm gonna say is Google Drive and gmail worked just fine without AI.

I'll never understand why it takes like 10 clicks to get to your zoom account's URL.

I’ve always been proud to live in a country people wanted to move to. Most of my best friends have been immigrants or the children or grandchildren of immigrants.

I’d like to keep our door open to new friendships.

🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

I attended a #nokings rally today in Barcelona, Spain. I did not have enough time to buy a poster and make my own sign, so I thought I’d share the ones I saw :)

Trade Court Strikes Down Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ Tariffs Businesses and states had sued the government, saying the president didn’t have the authority to impose the levies.

🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Stock market futures are way up this morning. It's almost like investors view a reduction in tariffs as a good thing.

I've been writing more on substack nowadays. I love the platform, but it's challenging to get my ggplot2 graphs copied over.

I wish I could just copy and paste from Posit Cloud, but I'm forced to save the image to my desktop, only to then re-upload it to substack.

Anyone found a better way?

I made another chart about Target's stock.

The company's stock price has, dare I say, missed the mark.

Ah yes, I have read about this too. Foot traffic declined between 4-7% compared to the previous year.

Did you yourself stop shopping there for that reason? If so, are there changes that would bring you back?

Of course, Target hasn't been helped by their earnings decline this past year, but it wasn't such a severe decline to explain its stock price's massive drop, nor was Walmart's earnings growth enough to explain its stock price's massive increase.

This is odd, because both companies have had relatively strong earnings growth the six years

I've been getting back to my roots with stock market analysis, which is why I've been posting so much about it lately.

One interesting story I've uncovered is the dramatic difference between Walmart and Target's stock price.

A better way to approach this would be to add labels to the lines themselves, rather than color code them. Regarding the colors themselves, use black and blue or something with a more stark contrasts.

I sometimes like to post about #dataviz that I can't read because I'm red-green colorblind. Usually, I can get around it, but this one is genuinely hard for me. I can't tell which line belongs to which group.

Red and black shapes and text, unless very large, are hard for me to distinguish.