Kurtis Pivert, MS, CAP

“A republic if you can keep it.” - Benjamin Franklin

Voted! #Vote

Jack DeJohnette, versatile jazz drummer known for Miles Davis fusion recordings, dies aged 83 Drummer played on Bitches Brew and other landmark recordings, as well as making numerous albums as a bandleader

RIP Jack. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

I’m new to #Python and really like {uv} but when I’ve tried to use it on my work machine (Windows) it keeps crashing up against OneDrive. I’ve tried stopping tracking the directory, deleting the .venv folder, and using —link-mode=copy and nothing is working. Any advice for using #uv on #Windows?

OMG, epic typo in a half-page WSJ ad #copyediting #thisadshophassomeexplaingtodo

A combined beeswarm and violin plot showing the distribution of educational debt carried by current nephrology fellows stratified by medical school location: US medical graduates and international medical graduates. US medical graduates had a median $220,000 in educational debt compared to a median $40,500 for international medical graduates.

Out Today: Results from the 2025 ASN Nephrology Fellow Survey. Some highlights:
- Base starting salaries were up 3%-4% over 2024.
- Lifestyle factors—call frequency, desired locale, and vacation—are top of mind when fellows evaluate employment offers.
data.asn-online.org/posts/2025_f...

While the FT mentions it in passing, other coverage on the EO is really burying the lede on the impact to J-1 visa waivers for physicians who are providing care for Americans in underserved areas.

September 11 started as a beautiful Tuesday morning. It was the first crisp fall day in NYC after it had poured the night before. I won’t forget the “Missing” posters, the dust, the smell, the chaos, or the papers that floated across the East River landing in Park Slope.

A picture of the new Buccees in Rockingham Virginia.

Abandon all hope ye who enter here.

Best part of the “new” @dataconf.ai is no more R (or S) song coming back from breaks. Sorry (not sorry) @jaredlander.com

Zoom in view of the lower right of a Positron window with a mouse hovering on the Spaces setting for indentation set as 2 spaces

You can set the default indentation by clicking on the setting on the lower-right of the window, then edit your preference in the command palette window. Hope that helps

A Grammar of Nested Data Manipulation Provides functions for manipulating nested data frames in a list-column using dplyr <https://dplyr.tidyverse.org/> syntax. Rather than unnesting, then manipulating a data frame, nplyr allows users to ...

So, so grateful for the {nplyr} package. Makes working with nested dataframes an absolute breeze….OK, really easy. jibarozzo.github.io/nplyr/ Thanks @markjrieke.bsky.social

Voted! Democracy: use it or lose it.

Article. II. Clause 7. The President …. shall not receive within that Period any other
Emolument from the United States, or any of them. #USConstitution #FFS

The only thing missing from this is the endless cascade and of reviewers initials at the end

Thanks to @rfortherestofus.com for sharing @djnavarro.net excellent post on regex. Just wrote a lookbehind that worked the first time….without Google/ChatGPT/SO.

Well, I’ve been liberated from ever trying to retire….or help my daughter go to college.

It’s just jarring to see a Staten Island business with 212.

Laissez les mal temps rouler

Opinion | Trump Tilts Toward a Ukraine Sellout He puts more pressure on Kyiv for a deal than he does on the Kremlin.

I subscribe to @wsj.com because of their excellence in reporting...and the strong firewall between news and the editorial board. Yet their masthead has been unflinching, no more so than in tomorrow's edition (gift link) www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...

I want you to say on that day that I did try in my life to visit those who were in prison.

I want you to say that I tried to love and serve humanity."
- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. #MLKDay

I want you to say that day that I tried to be right on the war question.

I want you to be able to say that day that I did try to feed the hungry.

And I want you to be able to say that day that I did try in my life to clothe those who were naked. 4/

I'd like somebody to mention that day that Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to give his life serving others.

I'd like for somebody to say that day that Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to love somebody. 3/

Tell them not to mention that I have a Nobel Peace Prize—that isn’t important. Tell them not to mention that I have three or four hundred other awards—that’s not important. Tell them not to mention where I went to school. 2/

"If any of you are around when I have to meet my day, I don’t want a long funeral. And if you get somebody to deliver the eulogy, tell them not to talk too long. (Yes) And every now and then I wonder what I want them to say. 1/

Help me choose my new design! I’m running a logo contest on 99designs. Designers have submitted 214 designs so far. Please vote on your favorite as I’d love to receive your feedback.

Looking for design opinions 🗳️

I'm crowdsourcing logo ideas for my data consulting business, IndieVisual. I've received a lot of unique submissions. Now I need help narrowing it down.

And who better to ask than my creative data viz friends? 🧑‍🎨

99designs.com/contests/pol...

Done! That was a nice palate cleanser. Look forward to seeing the final selection.

Check out the “Building story maps with mapgl” vignette that @kylewalker.bsky.social dropped yesterday. His great documentation makes it super easy to get started. Between {Closeread} and {mapgl} it has been a big couple of months for scrollytelling in R.

Malaise Forever! Thank you Mr. President. #39

Picture of the line to checkout at Marshall’s on Christmas Eve afternoon.

Abandon all hope ye who enter here

The @wsj.com is covering this across multiple fronts. To be clear, I do not like their editorial pages, but their reporting is incredible and there is a strong firewall between news and editorial boards.