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I feel like these types of plots are so easy to get wrong, especially the more observations there are, great article!

now?

#Rstats slides back into the top 10 programming languages. R is far from dead. www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

problem areas in current week over the past few months, tracked across survey rounds (panel) #rstats

El son cubano se convierte en Patrimonio Inmaterial de la Unesco El género que mezcla elementos españoles y africanos es reconocido como “un pilar histórico” en la música de la isla

El son cubano se convierte en Patrimonio Inmaterial de la Unesco. El género que mezcla elementos españoles y africanos es reconocido como “un pilar histórico” en la música de la isla

Amazing work! Just a heads up: add_geom_usage_to_files() has a bug where it returns a character instead of a dataframe (missing return statement). After some debugging, what I did was create a fix that stores the result before the cli message and returns it explicitly (it worked).

hell naw

deal with*

we do qualitative social research surveys (panels) for my job (via WhatsApp) and we've had to deal a couple of people answering using AI, they've been clumsy about it so far and the sample size has been small enough for us to realize and do something about it, but it is indeed an emerging threat

new paper by Sean Westwood:

With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research

I'm sure it's a pretty unorthodox way of doing it but I got Gemini CLI to run R code by using {mcptools} (I did this way back)

Democrats LOVE losing elections

Amazing! Do you publish any code for doing these kinds of maps? My city does a census of the trees here that I would love to see plotted this way!

2 years ago at the UN Datathon with some of my favorite people #rstats

The value of public R&D

Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term
www.gov.uk/government/p...

ranking coverage of news stories surveyed people have said they remembered over the past two months in Uruguay #rstats

started working as a research assistant at my university, where I'll be developing a Shiny app to visualize the results of a recent survey about the welfare state! #rstats

what happened to building great software? enshittification is killing me

unsurprising

this is a complete fiction and the sooner that foreign policy people recognize american imperial history is real the better

Self-inflicted wound

ok so this is how i want my culinary experiments to go from now on

IBM Granite-Docling: End-to-end document understanding IBM released Granite-Docling-258M, an ultra-compact, open-source vision-language model (VLM) for converting documents to machine-readable formats while fully preserving layout, tables, equations, code...

for those of us out there with a love-hate relationship with pdfs, this model is very small and very good! www.ibm.com/new/announce...

{gm} - Create music with R: flujoo.github.io/gm/

#RStats bookmark from old twitter

afaik you need rmd or qmd to do that since pdf needs a latex engine, that's what you get for it being an extremely proprietary format

finally, a worthy oponent for Xaringan

that's a really cool idea!

I mostly find this useful since we have a lot of mechanic workflows at my job, and some scripts that are ran once every couple of months need changes in their logic to work with new data, and AI is usually pretty useful and one-shots it. It's like checking the diff but with less steps!

genuinely curious as to what’s supposed to be used instead

my stylistic choice is to have all my comments be in lowercase, but it's more a feature than a bug, and helps me distinguish AI generated code from my own