mark padgham

Original post on hachyderm.io

February news! 📨 #RStats

📜 Open Science and Open Source only with Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility

🎉 New rOpenSci Champion(a|e)s Program cohort

🤝 @mpadge is now Software Review Lead (Former lead @noamross became director last year)

🎙️ “This is Tech Talks” episode with […]

27.02.2025 09:06 — 👍 31    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 0

Main map view of the app centered on Stanford University campus with a 2km bounding box shown as a dashed line. The left panel contains input parameters: City Name (Stanford), Bounding Box Size (2 km), Number of Steps (100), Number of Walks (5), and a 'Generate Random Walks' button. Several colored walk paths are visible on the map.

Statistics dashboard displaying three main sections: Walk Metrics, Average Metrics, and Walk Extremes. Walk Metrics shows Total Distance (1.6 km), Network Coverage (0.3%), and Unique Streets (24). Average Metrics includes statistics like Distance per Walk (0.3 km) and Step Length (3.3 m). Walk Extremes shows the Longest Walk (0.6 km) and other extremes.

Individual Walks view showing a detailed map with a single random walk plotted in red. A triangle marks the start point and a square marks the end point. The left panel displays Walk Selection and Walk Details, including Distance (0.5 km), Number of Turns (1), and Intersections (0).

Help page of the Random Walks on Streets app showing a Quick Start Guide with three steps: Choose a City, Set Parameters, and Generate & Explore. Below are detailed Parameters Guide and Features Guide sections, followed by Tips & Troubleshooting with performance tips and common issues.

By request: Simulate random street walks 🚶‍♂️ in #rstats #shiny! Pick any city, set bounding box + walks to visualize paths via #OpenStreetMap 🗺️. (Note: paths may be problematic!)

💻 Code: github.com/coatless-shi...

23.12.2024 11:27 — 👍 13    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 5

CRAN weekly package submissions

The amazing #RStats CRAN team demonstrating that they (exponentially!) scale

17.01.2025 11:43 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

UA Urban Analyses for the world

@trainspiration.bsky.social I like your claim about no one living more than 1/2mile from a station. Let me know if you need tools to measure that. My urbananalyst.city platform measures distances to schools, and distances to transport are all in there, just not exposed at the moment.

29.11.2024 14:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Original post on hachyderm.io

[blog] Give Thanks with the allcontributors Package 🙏

Discover the {allcontributors} package in this post by its maintainer @mpadge ✨

In the spirit of Thanksgiving, we encourage all developers of packages both within rOpenSci and beyond to acknowledge contributions wherever and whenever […]

26.11.2024 08:33 — 👍 4    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

Give Thanks with the allcontributors Package The allcontributors package helps to given thanks to software contributions

New @rOpenSci.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy blog post about my allcontributors package ropensci.org/blog/2024/11... - a great way to give thanks to all contributions to your open-source software projects.

26.11.2024 09:20 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

A graph titled "Cost of Transport" showing the relationship between body weight (in kilograms) and energy consumption for distance traveled (calories per gram per kilometer) for various animals and machines. It highlights that a person on a bicycle ranks first in efficiency.

A person on a bicycle is by far the most energy-efficient among animals and machines per distance traveled relative to body weight. The bicycle is magic.

www.jstor.org/stable/24923...

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UA Urban Analyses for the world

Thanks Brent! I'd also be delighted to be added -see urbananalyst.city

23.11.2024 13:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks for all your great work @kylewalker.bsky.social, some of which ends up in my own urbanalyst.city. The LODES dataset will be really useful for future ideas there. Thanks!!!

14.11.2024 21:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

How people describe themselves is so endlessly fascinating. If that's all there is to this bluesky thing, then maybe that's enough. A fabulous example: "Vegetarian studying cows". Nice one @solivaz.bsky.social

10.11.2024 11:35 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Good-enough practices for language model packages

What do y'all think of my first-cut attempt at "Good enough practices for language model packages"? It's intended to apply to open source software, and possibly to help guide adaptation of @rOpenSci's software review process. docs.ropensci.org/pkgmatch/art...

08.11.2024 08:46 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

📖 Working with an ethi... | Knowledge Base Code assistants can be incredibly helpful and save developers a lot of time, but it can take a lot o...

I'd say no need to acknowledge or refer, but huge need for transparency and ethical openness. Lots of my thoughts in kb.prototypefund.de/books/code-d.... Oh, plus never use that-tool-you-referred-to

07.11.2024 22:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I partook in a Legoland visit this summer, my favourite bit by miles of which was that they've got an actual florists shop. It's amazing!!

04.11.2024 18:31 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Wow, 1,000! Congratulations Yani!

03.11.2024 10:57 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Good to see a Sunday morning appearance of one of my fave hashtags #r2u

03.11.2024 09:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

👍 for that. And now we archers get to say, Hey, it's what Steam is built in, and so should you

02.11.2024 08:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hi Jeremy, I've been here since, well, yesterday, and be chuffed if you could craft a chair for me in your list

01.11.2024 12:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yeah, it's a pretty perfect lifestyle, really. A few too many cargo bikes though 😜

01.11.2024 12:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Münster, Germany. Overlooked, middle-of-not-much-else city of 300,000 with 60,000 students. And bicycle capital of the country

01.11.2024 12:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I suppose as a non-resident Aussie, I'm excluded?

01.11.2024 12:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Gidday Miles, honoured recipient of my first words written here

01.11.2024 11:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0