Brenden

CDCPLACES 1.2.0 is live on CRAN 🥳

I wrote about some of the updates here: brendenmsmith.com/posts/cdcpla...

I think the coolest new feature is the github action I was able to add that checks for changes in the API URLs provided by socrata. Way more reliable!

#rstats #publichealth #episky

With the most robust rail network in the American Midwest, Chicago has the 2nd largest number of car-free households of any metro area (behind only NYC)

Most of those households live around the L, especially the Red Line and western parts of the Blue & Green Lines

Any #rstats folks interested in testing out a package for SQL linting in R workflows?

I made a package that wraps SQLFluff into R with reticulate. I've tried it on a few machines I own but would appreciate some experimentation before I try to send it to CRAN.

github.com/brendensm/sq...

Horizontal stacked bar chart showing water needs by plant cultivation class. High-water plants include Salad, Cucurbit, and Brassica, while Allium, Chenopodiaceae, and Solanum require mostly medium water levels.

First #TidyTuesday using python 🐍 🫣

Roundabouts across the world for #TidyTuesday, Week 50.

#rstats #dataviz #ggplot2

This one looks so fun omg

A man at a protest holding a sign that reads “add comments to your SQL queries”

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There are a number of issues with this analysis but I found one that I haven't seen anyone else mention: Kaufmann estimates gender ID from the FIRE data without using the survey weights

When the weights are used as designed, the evidence for his core claim disappears

I program in Squirrel, i.e. a mixture of SQL and R while leaving many small files littered around my drive

#Rstats

I also had this experience with mint. Oddly enough i tried an arch based distro recently and it was incredibly easy to set up R and RStudio

Bayesianism is ZuTara while Frequentism is KatAang.

I would be down to help out!

Tracking Census Dataset Changes See when the U.S. Census Bureau adds or removes datasets.

🚀 I made a tracker that shows when the Census Bureau adds or removes datasets from their APIs.
Dashboard at www.hrecht.com/census-api-d... and follow @censusapitracker.bsky.social for major updates.

I've been wanting to build this for years but now seemed an especially important time to keep track.

A screenshot of an open github issue that reads: “Who could forget the classic 11 second "skrrerrrrrrrrrrrt" on Halftime, or one of his many "SLATT"s? Perhaps even some of whatever is going on in the beginning of Audemars? Even Nicki Minaj saying "Thugger" in the opening of Anybody. Thug is criminally underrepresented in this package.”

Might be the best github issue I’ve ever read 😂

One day when I’m grown up I want to understand targeted learning.

A bar graph showing the top ten adjectives used to describe colors in the xkcd color survey. This is among the top 949 most commonly identified colors. Light and dark are by far the two most common words. Others include pale, bright, deep, very, baby, dull, dusty, and pastel.

Quick look at the most common adjectives used among the top identified colors in the xkcd color survey. #TidyTuesday #rstats

That’s so fair! it took some googling for me haha

bar graph showing the average price difference between conventional and reformulated gasoline over time. The main metric is an annual average of this difference, showing how reformulated (cleaner burning) gasoline is more expensive. Over the years, this difference has grown larger. Interestingly, midgrade fuel seems to have the highest price disparity compared to regular and premium.

#TidyTuesday week 26 - It ain't much but it's honest work.

I chose to look at the average differences in prices between conventional and reformulated gasoline -- which honestly I have not ever thought much about! Interesting to see such differences increase over the years. #rstats #dataviz

This is a great idea! i wish i had this 😭😭

This looks really great, thank you for sharing 😁

Yes thank you! I have been meaning to return to this

I really like this framing of it!! I have found it easier to motivate myself if I have a specific goal in mind. Thanks for the advice!

Thank you! These look great.

JavaScript for R Invite JavaScript into your Data Science workflow.

I am aware of Coene’s JavaScript for R, but am looking for more basic learning resources for the fundamentals
book.javascript-for-r.com

Any #rstats folks have resource recommendations for dipping your toes into javascript?

Keen to start up and running with #TidyTuesday this week? Try this command line method to create a #rstats script template.

Or if you want a quarto template, try my version...

github.com/jenrichmond/...

GitHub - brendensm/tt Contribute to brendensm/tt development by creating an account on GitHub.

Put together this (probably overkill) #TidyTuesday CLI tool to browse data sets and create template scripts. Maybe this will motivate me to participate more 😅

You can check it out here: github.com/brendensm/tt

Both the power BI and the cloud talk looked most interesting to me!

if you don’t end up recording them, would you be open to presenting to my team? Just a thought, i understand that might be a lot to ask.

Sorry to hear about the funding cut… this post stuck in my head and I was looking forward to finding your sessions!

Do you plan on sharing or presenting these in some other form? They sounded super interesting!!