AWS deleted my 10-year account and all data without warning After 10 years as an AWS customer and open-source contributor, they deleted my account and all data with zero warning. Here's how AWS's 'verification' process became a digital execution, and why you s...

AWS Deleted all data despite redundancy, backup, dead man’s switch. This is why you need to keep all your data offline. Never trust hosting company for your backups. www.seuros.com/blog/aws-del...

Building notes: Linear regression viz in 3D Listening to Chappell Roan’s new single “Subway” on an hour-long loop—can’t tell if I’m crying because of the song or the XQuartz installation error.

A fool's errand? Making a 3D ggplot? I had Chappell Roan's newest single on loop and tortured myself into getting something complicated to work when I found an easier solution #dataviz #ggplot2 #rstats

Check out "Scaling the r-spatial ecosystem" by Dewey Dunnington 🌍📦
An exploration of how R’s spatial tools can be used for big(ger) data.

Video: youtu.be/tjNEoIYr_ag?...
Slides: dewey.dunnington.ca/slides/rspat...

#RStats #rspatial #GIS #SpatialData

happy august! I did a little data visualization project this week trying to see what genres of books I've read and liked the most so far in 2025. (if you, like me, are a big fan of scifi + fantasy + dark academia, please give me book recs!)

🔗📚: github.com/jkaminags/bo...

#ggplot2 #dataviz #Rstats

Switching my website from Hugo to Quarto – Nicola Rennie Having recently converted my personal website from Hugo to Quarto, this blog post explains the motivation behind it, the things that were tricky to switch, and some tips if you’re thinking about doing...

I've written a short blog post about the process of switching my personal website from Hugo to Quarto, some of the tricky things, and advice for those thinking about doing the same!

Link: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/hugo-qu...

#RStats #QuartoPub

Introducing the Data Explorer in Positron!

Quickly view raw data files (CSV, Parquet, etc.) or dataframes from your #Python / #RStats sessions with a data grid, summary panel, and filter bar.

Learn more: positron.posit.co/data-explore... #Positron

Air, an extremely fast R formatter We are thrilled to announce Air, a new R formatter.

Okay, I saw @libbyheeren.bsky.social mention Air recently but did not realize what it was until today's Data Science Hangout. Looks very cool for formatting code!

www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/02...

Animated Maps with {ggplot2} and {gganimate} In this blog we are creating an animated map of the gapminder data using {ggplot2} and {gganimate}. In the process we will cover some of the common pitfalls when working with spatial data and how to get round them!

In our latest blog post, our Data Scientist Osheen MacOscar shares a great overview of how to use {ggplot2} and {gganimate}, when dealing with spatial data.

#rstats #datavis #spatialdata #maps

Wrote a new, modern stats curriculum.

Teach about probability and sampling via computational examples / simulations with real data. It's unbelievably helpful for intuition. Everything else follows.

Online and open-source: jrudoler-teaching.github.io/understandin...

And if you can’t join, raise a toast and share her classic How To Name Files (github.com/jennybc/how-...) with all your teams so she doesn’t have to SET YOUR COMPUTER(S) ON FIRE 🔥.

GitHub - cwida/FastLanes: Next-Gen Big Data File Format Next-Gen Big Data File Format. Contribute to cwida/FastLanes development by creating an account on GitHub.

New data oriented file format just dropped.

FastLanes, "like Parquet, but with 40% better compression and 40× faster decoding". 👀

Seems it can exploit correlations between columns and have fully SIMD friendly encodings to help with vectorization.

github.com/cwida/FastLa...

Revisiting Moneyball Data, sports, payrolls, and memes

I have finally published my post about Moneyball, as promised (a long time ago). If you're interested in baseball, numbers, or movies, please take a look. I'd love to know what you think.

cc @matsonj.com @alexnoonan.bsky.social

djpardis.medium.com/revisiting-m...

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~~ making sense of academic statistics ~~

i wrote about the confusing relationship between statistics and data analysis, and also about how statistics relates to science

#statistics #rstats #datascience

www.alexpghayes.com/post/making-...

Importing Data with Python Importing data is a key step in the data science workflow. Here we compare data import for two key Python data-frame libraries - Polars and Pandas.

Importing data is a key step in the data science workflow. In our latest Python blog post, we compare this process for two key libraries - Polars and Pandas - emphasising how to convert to the correct data-type and why you should validate the structure and content of the imported data.

#rstats

sippey.com/2010/11/even... this post was so influential in my understanding of how to think of internet culture, and it's held up so well in everything except the optimistic positivity

To listen, just search for The Random Sample wherever you get your podcasts, or head to our website: www.therandomsample.com.au/podcast/hadl...
#rstats #rstudio #datascience #statistics #opensource #programming #rstudio @robjhyndman.com @posit.co

Discovering cognitive strategies with tiny recurrent neural networks - Nature Modelling biological decision-making with tiny recurrent neural networks enables more accurate predictions of animal choices than classical cognitive models and offers insights into the underlying cog...

This looks awesome!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Writing a basic Linux device driver when you know nothing about Linux drivers or USB

i've always been curious about how to write a Linux USB device driver and this blog post looks like a great intro: crescentro.se/posts/writin...

I wrote a blog post to celebrate 10 years of loo package 🎉 (R package implementing fast Pareto smoothed importance sampling cross-validation and many other useful methods for cross-validation)

This week's #ChemSciPicks comes from @graemeday.bsky.social (University of Southampton), @ffmmgg.bsky.social‬, Chengxi Zhao‬, Xenphon Evangelopoulos, and @aicooper.bsky.social‬ (University of Liverpool).

Read the full paper here: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...

#ChemSky

Pitfalls of premature closure with LLM assisted coding When LLM models generates clean, professional-looking code, it's tempting to stop exploring alternatives. But therein lies the risks that comes with premature closure. So what is premature closure?

New to me is the term "premature closure", where you too quickly latch on to the first solution you see. Always a danger in coding, but particularly so today when LLMs can give you a plausible fix so so quickly.

www.shayon.dev/post/2025/16...

“71-75: Extremely gross”

That tracks

Really nice interactives from @rospearce.bsky.social in this deep dive into Glassdoor company-review data

www.economist.com/interactive/...

Writing Manually (In Times of AI-generated Content) In times of [[AI Writing]], writing manually is more important than ever. As with many [[Generative AI|AI Generated]] texts, I’d rather see the prompts, it would have more soul and character than the…

Is writing a manual like driving a car manually, instead of automatically?

In my experience with AI-writing, every time I use it for a bigger task (restructuring or telling me the missing chapters), it does things I don't like, most importantly, distracting me from my actual task: writing.

R Package Quality: Validation and beyond! Not all R packages are clearly “good” or “risky”, most fall somewhere in between. This post introduces a scoring framework to help users assess package quality, based on documentation, code, maintenance, and popularity. We also share key principles to ensure the scores are useful, fair, and adaptable to different contexts.

At Jumping Rivers, we've developed a scoring framework to help users assess R package quality.

Our latest blog post, "R Package Quality: Validation and Beyond!", walks through this new framework and shares guiding principles that ensure the scores are fair, flexible, and context-aware.

#rstats #R

YouTube video by Apache Iceberg Scalable Lakehouse Architecture with Iceberg & Polaris: A Battle-tested Playbook

Scalable Lakehouse Architectures with Iceberg and Polaris!

Simon from Tactile shared insights on tackling bottlenecks in data loading using Apache Iceberg and our open-source dlt library.

youtu.be/gb5fwIO4pX0?...

#databs #iceberg

I wrote a short blog post about our experimental work on the logic of guesses:
xphi.net/2025/06/03/e...

GitHub - ryancdotorg/freq: Like `sort | uniq -c | sort -rn` but better Like `sort | uniq -c | sort -rn` but better . Contribute to ryancdotorg/freq development by creating an account on GitHub.

There are now binary builds of my data analysis tool `freq` available for Linux, MacOS and Windows, and I've added a few more features.

It's great for ad-hoc log file analysis.

github.com/ryancdotorg/...

I think the thing I'm most excited to see over the next ~10 years of #dataviz is web-based content that interweaves long-form text and modular interactives.

Not as heavy as scrollytelling and not as aimless as a dashboard, but something in between.

This is what I was going for with the QR project!

Deep Dive into Apache Iceberg with Flink CDC - tech.kakao.com 이 글은 를 영어로 작성한 문서입니다. 다른 번역본 보기: 🇰🇷 한국어: h...

Some excellent deep-dive blogs from Kakao on their use of Flink CDC and Iceberg:

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