Steven Kell

I love this idea: duckdb.org/community_ex.... It translates dplyr syntax _inside_ of duckdb so you can mix it with regular SQL

Promotional poster for the useR! 2026 Conference in Warsaw, scheduled for July 6–9 at the Warsaw School of Economics and online. The right side features a portrait of keynote speaker Kari Jordan, a Black woman with bright teal curly hair and a warm smile, wearing a pink blazer. The left side displays the conference title and four colorful squares—blue, yellow, orange, and purple—each containing a black geometric pattern representing iterations of a Sierpinski carpet fractal.

We are thrilled to announce Dr. Kari L. Jordan (@drkariljordan.carpentries.org) as a Keynote Speaker for useR! 2026 in Warsaw! Dr. Jordan will from her knowledge and experience deliver her talk: "The Work Behind the Work: Sustaining R Through Community"

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#rstats #useR2026

A promotional poster for PyData NYC 2026. The header text reads, "Support open science and data by volunteering with PyData NYC in 2026!". The central image is a black silhouette of the Statue of Liberty, holding a microscope aloft instead of a torch, against a gradient sky of orange and blue over a city skyline. Scattered around the statue are various science-related line icons: a lightbulb with gears, a molecule, a chemical flask, an atom, a virus, a brain, a stack of books, a DNA helix, and a graph. At the bottom left is the "NUMFOCUS OPEN CODE = BETTER SCIENCE" logo, and at the bottom right is the "PyData NYC" logo with a cube graphic.

With the new year PyData NYC is looking for more volunteers! We stayed active with often two events a month and co-organized a conference with @pydatabos.bsky.social! We are the outreach arm of NumFOCUS so our goal is to support projects like NumPy, Pandas, and SciPy.
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A poster for the "USER! 2026 CONFERENCE WARSAW," which is scheduled for "6th-9th JULY 2026" at "WARSAW SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS & ONLINE." The poster announces "Keynote Speaker Dariia Mykhailyshyna." On the right is a photo of Dariia Mykhailyshyna, a woman with brown hair wearing glasses and a white t-shirt with "KYIV" text and an illustration of a building. Below the conference details are four colored squares (blue, yellow, orange, purple) showing a progression of a fractal geometric pattern, starting from a single square.

We are honored to announce Dariia Mykhailyshyna (@dariia.bsky.social) as a Keynote for useR! 2026 in Warsaw!

A postdoctoral researcher at the Kyiv School of Economics and a recent PhD graduate from the University of Bologna, Dariia has been an avid R user for seven years.
user2026.r-project.org

If you are in or are able to make it out to Seattle this November, the Diversity Scholarship App is open until Sept 12. You can get free admission to the conference as well as a few other benefits that we manage to provide.

pydata.org/seattle2025/...

#PyDataSeattle2025 #PyData #Python #DataScience

And with that, the fabulous PyData Berlin 2025 has come to a close! Thank you to everyone who came, spoke, sponsored, or supported in any way!

This event would not have been possible without the support of our entire wonderful open source community. UNTIL NEXT TIME!!! 🇩🇪🖤❤️💛

Last but definitely not least we have Ruby Waller on Apprenticeships in Data: a practical pathway into the profession.

Promotional graphic for PyData Seattle, scheduled for November 7–9. The image shows the Seattle skyline with the Space Needle on the left and colorful buildings under a pastel sunset, with event details in white text on a pink overlay to the right.

The Call for Proposals for PyData Seattle 2025 is OPEN! Got something to share with the data community?
We want to hear from you. Submit your talk, tutorial, or lightning talk idea by Sept. 1, 2025 at pydata.org/seattle2025/.

#PyDataSeattle25 #PyData #NumFOCUS

🎤 PyData Seattle is seeking enthusiastic speakers for this 3-day in-person event by Sep. 1, all speaker proposals due in ONE WEEK! cfp.pydata.org/seattle2025/

We look forward to reading your proposal and appreciate you being a part of the community! 🩷

Poster for useR! 2025 conference. Top section features the conference logo with a blue bull silhouette and text 'useR! 2025 Duke University Durham, NC USA'. Below, white text on a dark gray background indicates 'In-person event August 8-10, 2025' and 'Virtual event August 1, 2025'. A prominent translucent banner across the middle reads 'Registration is now open!'. The bottom half of the poster shows a photograph of a tree-lined road in autumn leading towards a tall, gothic-style university building in the distance.

Join this gathering of leaders in industry, academia, and the government to network while you increase your expertise in R.

Register for in-person and virtual events:
user2025.r-project.org/register

useR! 2025 will be held Friday, August 8th to Sunday, August 10th at Duke University.

#RStats

A promotional image for the useR! 2025 Virtual Registration. The image features a laptop with a YouTube logo on the screen, placed on a wooden table. In the background, green leaves are visible through a window. Above the laptop, a blue banner with yellow text reads "useR! 2025 Virtual Registration." On the bottom left corner, a logo displays "useR! 2025" alongside a blue bull. On the bottom right corner, there is a QR code.

Registration is open for the useR! 2025 Virtual Program! The program features speakers from a diverse range of industries and parts of the world, covering topics from the basic to the advanced. Registration is free with options for suggested donations.

user2025.r-project.org/register

#RStats

Hacker and maker-spaces such as NYC Resistor have great potential to unlock creativity and innovation as you can be exposed to people from from many different fields and hobbies in a friendly, causal environment.

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Headshot of Mars Lee, speaker and organizer for PyData NYC.

Join PyData NYC on May 15th at the Microsoft Times Square building 6pm to 8pm for an introduction to using Git by Mars Lee. Learning source control is an invaluable skill as Git and Github are used extensively in both scientific and mainstream software development.

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#PyData

The useR! 2025 CFP closes today!

The useR! 2025 extended deadline closes today!

We invite R users and developers from around our region and the world to submit abstracts for useR! 2025.

useR! will be held from August 8th to 10th at Duke University in Durham, NC, USA.
user2025.r-project.org/call
#RStats

UseR! 2025 Call for Proposals is now open! We invite R users and developers from around our region and the world to submit abstracts for useR! 2025.
Deadline: Monday 3rd March 2025

useR! will be held from August 8th to 10th at Duke University in Durham, NC, USA.

user2025.r-project.org/call
#RStats

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Automatic differentiation with Guillaume Dalle Julia Dispatch · Episode

Look mommy, I’m famous now! Exhibit A: I’m on a podcast 📻
If you’re eager to hear me ramble about open source software, autodiff, French pronunciation, and of course #JuliaLang, tune in below

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Can Generative AI Help Generate Support for Infrastructure Projects? - Local Infrastructure Hub Discover how generative AI tools are transforming urban planning by enabling photorealistic renderings and data-driven maps, empowering communities to engage early and effectively in infrastructure…

Our very own Ashley Louie will be presenting at an upcoming webinar about generative AI! It takes place this Wednesday, December 18, at 2pm ET.

Learn more at RSVP here!

Stephanie A. Zimmer, Rebecca J. Powell, and Isabella C. Velásquez, Exploring Complex Survey Data Analysis Using R, A Tidy Introduction with {srvyr} and {survey}. A Chapman & Hall Book by CRC Press. The cover image is a fantasy style map consisting of farms, mountains, and oceans with hidden data-related images, such as buildings with error bars. Created by Allison Horst.

I always wanted a complete #RStats guide for complex survey data with the #tidyverse, and now it’s here! Huge thanks to @statsteph.bsky.social & RJP ❤️

"Exploring Complex Survey Data Analysis Using R"

Free online: tidy-survey-r.github.io/tidy-survey-...

Preorder: www.routledge.com/Exploring-Co...

🎉 Core Developers at #PyLadiesCon 2024! 🐍💻

Ever wondered how Python is developed?🤔 This is your chance to ask!
7 amazing female Core Developers will be answering your questions.

👉 Register now: conference.pyladies.com/news/pyladie...

Don’t miss this unique experience!🚀
#Python #PyLadies

Pydata Global 2024 has started! Make sure you check your email for the event link. #datascience #python #rstats

Release v1.11.2 · JuliaLang/julia Full change log: v1.11.1...v1.11.2

The second patch release for Julia v1.11 is now out!

Check out the commits since v1.11.1 here: github.com/JuliaLang/ju...

#JuliaLang

I hate my Apple Watch because of how often I have to charge it.

Whatever field you work in, from teaching, to pharmaceuticals, from plasma physics to DevOps and you use #JuliaLang please look into submitting a minisymposium. We want as broad of a set of minisymposia as possible at #JuliaCon 2025 in Pittsburgh next year!

#AcademicSky

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You gotta have that Oregon Trail ornament on your tree. That’s what Christmas is all about, dying of dysentery on your months long voyage out west.

Hey for the #rstats people out there - did you know that the R Consortium sponsored the Dengue Data Hub to provide a centralized repository for dengue incidence, mortality, and risk-related data. Learn more about it: r-consortium.org/posts/empowe...

A graphic detailing the work that Steven Kell does for the open science community.

So, do I ever really properly introduce myself?

#Pydata #DataScience #OpenSource

Announcing the winners of the Genie app competition! Discover the apps that won the Summer 2024 app competition, hosted by Genie and sponsored by JuliaHub.

🏆 Announcing the winners of our first app competition!

From thermodynamic modeling to production planning and veterinary diagnostics, the #JuliaLang community amazed us with their talent.

Check out the winners and their apps:
🌐 genieframework.com/blog/genie-competition-winners

#LowCode #DataApp

Apparently people do actually slow down posting during the holidays causing a shortage of content.