Nathan Jeffery

I believe that!
Last year I learned about the submerged bubble tubes in Chicago that catch trash but let fish and boats through. I'm sure there's a lot of other cool hydro engineering I don't know about.

I had no idea it was so large!

A visualisation of the rivers of the Mississippi basin

The Mississippi basin.

#rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

I'm excited about this! Thanks for sharing

This is so promising!

My office makes reports and we've largely switched to HTML due to accessibility concerns. With tools like this, we might be able to give PDF reports to clients who prefer them.

The pkg overview video in this blog post is really helpful.

I submit: nathanieldphillips-yarrr.share.connect.posit.cloud
by Nathaniel Phillips

I'm also curious about this! Looking forward to attending

I'm interested but have a couple questions -- I'll DM you

More than anything, I like being part of the R community. So many good, hardworking, and inspiring people!

There's a learning curve! But if you're looking to switch, I say it's worth it.

I love writing reports in R + Quarto, where my report text and my code all live together, and I can output an accessible HTML doc with university branding with no extra work.

(And I know SPSS syntax exists, but I don't know many folks who use it consistently.)

But I still use R more than I use SPSS.

Mainly, it's because I want my work to be reproducible. I love coming back in 6 months and understanding how I turned a raw dataset into a report with models and graphs. I love saving time by re-using my code.

Now, I'm in an office that uses SPSS a lot. It's good for quick ad-hoc analyses, and it's an amazing upgrade for people coming from Excel.

Oh, and it's better than R at labelled data (i.e. Likert scales) and labelled missings (9999) which are so common in education and the social sciences.

Personally, I made the choice in grad school to put my time toward learning R (over SPSS) because I know SPSS is expensive. I didn't know where I'd be working after graduation, and I didn't trust my hypothetical future employer to provide SPSS for me.

SPSS is more user-friendly and still has a number of users. (And it does some things really well!)

But you're right, R is taking over because it's:
- free
- open-source
- cutting-edge
- actively being improved upon

(Sorry in advance - I started typing my thoughts & it got long!)

I love `virtualSelectInput()`, especially for multi-select drop-downs!

Buried the lede yesterday: OpenAI’s Whisper speech-to-text model now runs natively in R via torch.

Local inference, CRAN-bound (🤞)

Blog + packages:
cornball.ai/posts/speech...
#rstats

The algogator is an ambush predator who lies
still as a floating log,
waiting to snatch your line of sight.
So, we tip-toe the water’s edge,
whispering of lynx in the bio,
hinting at the real topics beneath the surface
like the ripple of a fleeing frog
sliding away from the banks’ soft-screen glow.

Well I'm dismayed that 1 in 4 is the crazification floor, but yeah, that tracks

Screenshot of a course module interface listing topics in a Data Science program. The modules shown are: 1. Data Science: R Basics 2. Data Science: Visualization 3. Data Science: Probability 4. Data Science: Inference and Modeling 5. Data Science: Productivity Tools 6. Data Science: Wrangling 7. Data Science: Linear Regression 8. Data Science: Building Machine Learning Models 9. Data Science: Capstone [alt text by ChatGPT]

Harvard University has a 9-course EdX online data science program that teaches R, with topics like dataviz and building machine learning models. You can “audit” any of the courses for free in any order (despite the displayed price, that's for a certificate). #RStats
www.edx.org/certific...

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Ooh, thanks for sharing!

No worries! Happens to all of us

Codeberg.org Codeberg is a non-profit community-led organization that aims to help free and open source projects prosper by giving them a safe and friendly home.

Adding because I'm interested and for anyone else who wants to try codeberg:

There was a slight typo in the url, but codeberg.org works!

Are you willing/able to share the code you used?

My dad-in-law is a retired programmer with an interest in genealogy, and I'd love to be able to nerd out about this with him.

My guess is that somebody brought quicksand into the Bermuda Triangle and they canceled each other out.
And that's why I don't hear much about those dangers anymore.

Anyway, happy new year.

Happy UTC New Year!! 🎉 🥂

Analog buttons are a big reason why I went with a 2013 rather than a newer car!

I'm not car shopping right now (my 2013 CRV is doing great), but I *also* want a car that's just a car. No data sharing, no autopilot. (Though I won't say no to heated seats!)

Not sure this is the right vibe, but yeah #rstats 🚀