Sharon Machlis

No idea! Wish it would though.

Gemini Pro saying "I'm now completely stumped" in its thinking text is not very encouraging. (I'm asking it to debug an R Shiny app using the ragnar and shinychat #RStats packages)

testthat hex

testthat 3.3.0 is here! Major updates for #RStats testing include failure messages for easier debugging, 6 new specific expectations, and the SlowReporter to find your bottlenecks.

Heads Up: R 4.1+ is now required, and old mocking functions are removed.

Read the post: tidyverse.org/blog/2025/11...

Everyone is welcome to join us at our next virtual meetup for a talk on using #GenerativeAI in R with Sharon Machlis
@smachlis.bsky.social — Tech Journalist and Data Professional.

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Bar chart of Religion among white voters: Protestant/Other Christian (31%): 26% Democrat (blue), 72% Republican (red) Catholic (15%): 35% Democrat (blue), 63% Republican (red) Jewish (2%): 79% Democrat (blue), 20% Republican (red) Something else (5%): 55% Democrat (blue), 42% Republican (red) None (17%): 71% Democrat (blue), 28% Republican (red) [text extracted by ChatGPT]

Bar chart of Age by Race: White 18–29 (8%): 49% Democrat, 49% Republican White 30–44 (15%): 44% Democrat, 54% Republican White 45–64 (25%): 37% Democrat, 61% Republican White 65+ (23%): 43% Democrat, 56% Republican Black 18–29 (2%): 83% Democrat, 16% Republican Black 30–44 (3%): 83% Democrat, 15% Republican Black 45–64 (4%): 84% Democrat, 14% Republican Black 65+ (3%): 93% Democrat, 6% Republican Latino 18–29 (2%): 51% Democrat, 45% Republican Latino 30–44 (3%): 52% Democrat, 45% Republican Latino 45–64 (4%): 48% Democrat, 51% Republican Latino 65+ (2%): 58% Democrat, 41% Republican All other (6%): 49% Democrat, 47% Republican [text extracted by ChatGPT]

This is from 2024 exit polls in 10 "key states". Whites 18-29 were 49% Harris. Not a majority, but she'd be president if other whites voted that way. Age 45-64 was the big problem.
The only religious groups among whites in this data that voted Trump were Christians.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

You can still follow me (thank you!) without all my football posts by muting the NFL hashtag ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Doesn't seem like drafting good players helps this team.

#Giants #NYGiants #NFL

Although it would be helpful if the coaching staff didn't make them keep defending things they shouldn't have had to 🙁
#NFL

Well Kafka and his absurd decision not to kick abfield goal in Q4 will lose the game for the #NYGiants, and proved that he should not be considered for the head coaching job. Trick play TDs notwithstanding. Another winnable game that the coaching staff blew for them.

#Giants #NFL #NYG

I think that also depends on demos like religion, education, and location, though

The only reliable exception to that seems to be Black voters, who as far as I can tell do not vote Republican in large percentages regardless of other demographic characteristics.

I think often when you look at one or even two demographics among characteristics like race, age, gender, education, and religion, there's a risk of confounders.
And then there's location! All the same demos in VT can be different from NH. 1 reason why it's so hard to get political sampling correct.

Agree on your basics! It's just that for turnout *rates*, I'm not sure women are turning out at as much of a higher rate as it seems.
(I'd also add that if you want to predict white voting patterns, religion is a useful demo. White 'no religion' was very anti-Trump, for ex.; Christian very pro.)

Gratitude, and Loss – My Next Chapter: A Retirement Journey There can be much to be thankful for at this stage of life – especially if your health is decent. But aging also brings loss. How to honor both?

This stage of life often needs to balance gratitude for life's blessings with grieving the loss of more loved ones as we age. It's an odd juxtaposition at times. My latest #NextChapter post:
nextchapter.machlis.com/posts/2025-1...

Can you assume the potential voting pool starts off at 50-50, though? At least in the demographic that's among the most likely to vote in any elections, over 65, you start off with more women than men. (Nationwide it's around 55%-45% for 65+, I believe)

Mamdani was endorsed by a prominent Satmar Hasidic rabbi, Rabbi Moshe Indig. (However, as I understand it, the Satmar believe a Jewish state should wait for the coming of the Messiah, so aren't modern Zionists.) Indig was reassured that Mamdani would protect Jewish NYers and oppose antisemitism.

Bar chart of daily #RStats posts. Amounts range from around 25 in September 2024 to peaking over 100 some days. Latest totals were 48 yesterday and 60 the day before.

Daily number of Bluesky posts with the #RStats hashtag (case insensitive) Sept. 1 - Nov 21, excluding the CRAN Package Updates bot.
Coded with the {bskyr} and {ggplot2} R packages.

[Posted via R script and weekly cron job. Tx for your patience if something went awry] #RStatsStats

There were Mamdani voters who disagree with him on Israel but voted for him anyway. He wasn't running for Congress or Senate, and their mayor’s foreign policy opinions weren’t important enough for them. How many might have changed if he was running to go to DC, who knows.

Thank you! I'm looking forward to virtually joining you!

I tried the Olmo 3 32B thinking LLM at playground.allenai.org It coded an #RStats ggplot2 bar graph with bars ordered by desc value (Kimi K2 made an error) and a working demo R Shiny app.
I gave it some ragnar docs and it created a store on the 1st try! Retrieval took work, but still impressive.

#rstats Please welcome Jarl, a new R linter.

Jarl is a CLI tool with extensions in VS Code, Positron, and Zed. It can check thousands of lines of R code in milliseconds.

Jarl provides several output formats, a Github Actions workflow, and more.

Blog post: www.etiennebacher.com/posts/2025-1...

What are you even talking about, 'Finlandized by Russia.' FINLAND IS A MEMBER OF NATO. I don't think "Ukraine gets to join NATO" is likely to be part of a peace proposal.

"We are at a very dangerous moment right now. The President is engaged in the wholesale incitement, endorsement, and rationalization of political violence in this country." - CT Sen. Chris Murphy

Just a crazy, terrible moment to be reading a statement like this from six members of Congress:

“Every American must unite and condemn the President’s calls for our murder and political violence."

“This is a time for moral clarity.... We will continue to lead and will not be intimidated."

This is a great time for US folks to cull our email. SO many places are emailing for Black Friday and 'Giving Tuesday'. I'm (finally) being ruthless about unsubscribing from lists. And adding '30 days' filters to others I'll want to read but not keep, so they're auto deleted after 30 days.

Using Generative AI in R: Capabilities & Opportunities, Sun, Nov 30, 2025, 4:00 PM | Meetup We are excited to announce our next virtual meetup! Join us on November 30 from 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm CET (GMT+1) for a talk on using Generative AI in R with Sharon Machlis —

After days of family, friends & feasts, wouldn't it be fun to attend an @rladies.org meetup about AI and R? 😀
Join me at 10am ET / 4pm CET Sunday of US Thanksgiving weekend at an @rladiesparis.bsky.social virtual meetup! (Sadly I will not be in Paris….) #RStats #GenAI
www.meetup.com/rladies-pari...

The {mapgl} #RStats 📦 lets you use maplibre as well as mapbox, so you don't need a mapbox API key. @kylewalker.bsky.social is also keeping it pretty up to date and adding new features as the underlying Mapbox GL and Maplibre FL JavaScript libraries evolve. I'm really enjoying using it!

It would definitely be useful to teach that as well :(

It would be helpful if American schools taught kids that Hitler admired US racism and patterned many of his antisemitic laws on our anti-Black laws. Instead, we're teaching the Holocaust less altogether.

Hitler also admired American antisemites like Henry Ford. Bigots attract each other. . . .

Pre-pandemic, for 3 years I combined working from home much of the time when I needed concentration to get work done, with being close enough to walk or bike to the office when I wanted to meet with people in person. It was great.