Matt Worthington

'Uncharted territory': Ongoing shutdown threatens food aid for 42 million people SNAP, the country's largest anti-hunger program, dates back to the Great Depression and has never been disrupted this way. Most recipients are seniors, families with kids, and those with disabilities.

Everyone should know: Trump is choosing to take money for food from millions of Americans.

Trump can and legally should keep SNAP running.

If you are struggling to afford groceries, it’s because Trump chose to make it that way.

The phrase we use most often at work is, “Microsoft can create a new state of matter, and yet…{insert valid criticism like constantly forcing two versions of outlook and teams onto a PC’s taskbar even if user doesn’t use one version.}”

All of the criticism applies, TBH.

Two dark-themed line charts showing daily IP activity from Turkmenistan and Tanzania, used to visualize source volatility—how erratic daily IP counts are. The Turkmenistan chart shows a volatility score of 1.665 with “unknown” intention, and the Tanzania chart a 1.441 score marked as “malicious” (in red). Both show a spike in early June, well above a dotted horizontal line representing average daily activity. Labels explain that higher volatility means more erratic IP activity.

I rly hope @observablehq.com Plot never goes away (along with Framework). It makes dashboarding so stupid easy.

Just added some new things to the internal alpha site before we put this up as another Viz Experiment.

GitHub - t-kalinowski/quickr: R to Fortran Transpiler R to Fortran Transpiler. Contribute to t-kalinowski/quickr development by creating an account on GitHub.

#RStats WHAT MAGICKS IS THIS?!?!?! github.com/t-kalinowski...

I think dplyr may be a better proxy for R usage than ggplot2. WRT ggplot2 decline, I think more accessible interactive tools have become available. For example, I use ggplot2 less because my daily work requires interactive tools like Observable Plot.

yup, I had to look at this so now you do too. God save our eyes.

Was taught w/ ISLR but had very little instruction on how to use RStudio. Even though RMD files existed, most people didn’t know what that was so everyone was copy/pasting code into Google Docs or Word. A woman in my class saw some of us doing that + gently suggested RMD. That was my starting gun!

I think about this, too. The narrative was, “more accessible/available info will make society better.”

As it’s played out, it appears to have made us (collectively) more narcissistic, less compassionate, and oriented around whatever confirms my own biases. Doesn’t seem like anyone saw that coming.

Funny enough, just used cmarker yesterday with a parameterized report. Had no idea the package was new, but it worked seamlessly. Workflow here is one parameterized quarto doc that builds all of the individual markdown files and another doc (this one) that reads them into a user-facing PDF.

Traces of Texas reader Stan Watty kindly sent in this humorous photo and, given the weather lately hereabouts and projecting into next week, when another massive cold front is expected, I laughed. Thank you, Stan.

Screenshot from my backup ForeignAssistance dot gov site, with links to different USAID datasets

Screenshot from a live map that uses data from the backup API

Screenshot of foreign aid by country

The data at USAID's ForeignAssistance dot gov was removed over the weekend, but it seems to be back (for now). As a backup, I've uploaded the data both as static CSV files and a queryable API

- Details: andrewheiss.github.io/foreignassis...
- API: foreignassistance-data.andrewheiss.com

Saw this post and thought a new #rstats package just dropped. 😂

In San Antonio back in the day, you could pay for your driver's license on the installment plan.

Another great photo from Russell Lee.

Thanks

Thanks, Bob.

Thanks! I used the typst template + show file structure that Quarto’s adopted in their docs

As a follow-up, I thought I'd show folks the kind of templated report I was able to build with typst after just a day of learning how to leverage it in Quarto.

Thanks to everyone mentioned below! Feeling super inspired to make more stuff, including maybe a #quartopub extension!

#rstats

That’s the one!

I think so, but it depends on your work + personal interest. @nrennie.bsky.social has good a great talk that helps people decide whether it’s worth the time. That said, I just started learning how to make templates today + was doing stuff by EOD in Typst that took me months to learn in Latex.

Whew. Spent a lot of time today learning about utilizing typst in quarto and wow, am I glad I did. Grateful to @nrennie.bsky.social, @dgkeyes.com, @cscheid.net, @hrbrmstr.dev, @chriskenny.bsky.social for sharing their knowledge via blogs, talks, and public repos.

#rstats #quartopub

Thank you, Garrick! I’m gonna give this a whirl.

Thanks, Simon! I figured that’s where we ended up. I just didn’t know if Posit had cooked up a nice helper function for Python users. That R helper function really takes the sting out of working locally with legacy databricks environments.

Thanks. I use GPT for lots of things. Still interested in learning to translate my knowledge from one language to another.

Resources like this from @allisonhorst.bsky.social are particularly helpful for bridging that knowledge. Looking for something like this.

observablehq.com/@observableh...

Do any #rstats folks know of good tutorials for developing #python packages coming from #rstats?

Heard someone say today that they felt like AI would likely eliminate the need for some jobs in their industry while creating new ones, but likely result in hiring more people overall for them.

Not an AI expert by any means, but curious what industries end up this way than what’s often projected.

Also grew up in SA, + I don’t think I really thought about salaries at that point in life. I just remember thinking that people who flew on planes must be very rich + how I couldn’t really imagine a future outside of the neighborhood where I grew up! Crazy how much has changed for me since then.

The app’s gotten a lot better in the last year, but one-time (non-recurring) departures prep is a feature I’d love to see. Maybe just like a button next to the fan if it’s plugged in? Or is the fan/start button equivalent to that?

I’ve been using ChatGPT but am very curious about Claude. There’s been a few outages on ChatGPT where I’ve tried Claude and I get the impression it *may* be better at R/Quarto/OJS coding tasks than ChatGPT. Do you have any strong feelings between the two?

Question for @posit.co #rstats + #python folks, is there a python equivalent for the odbc::databricks() function from {odbc} 1.5.0?

Asking for some 🐍 colleagues. Thanks in advance!