Not traveling to Austria for next month's useR! conference? There's also a free virtual pre-conference on July 2! Sessions range from 4:30 to 21:30 CEST, so there's something for people in every time zone.
Topics include Redefining Interactive Data with Quarto and WebR, Stop Making Spaghetti (Code), Rix: Reproducible Environments with Nix, and more. Plus tutorials like Deploy and Monitor ML Pipelines with Open Source and Free Applications
The {tidylog} #rstats 📦 generates in-line additional data about your dplyr and tidyr operations. "It provides simple wrapper functions for almost all dplyr and tidyr functions, such as filter, mutate, select, full_join, and group_by." By Benjamin Elbers.
The {mrup} #rstats 📦 is an “RStudio addin for searching for all local projects and editing the most recently used project list.
“Easily open any previous project. Add projects to, or remove projects from, the recent project drop-down menu.” By John Wilson, teaching fellow at Edinburgh University https://github.com/jmcvw/mrup #RStudio@rstats
@Lazarou
It's precisely because no one knows exactly when the election will be (until the PM decides) that the campaign period is limited. If the Tories and Labour knew a year ago that the election would be at the start of July, then they'd have had an incentive to start campaigning earlier, to get a jump on the other party.
#Climate threat not often discussed:
“Pound for pound, gallon for gallon, hour-for-hour, the two-stroke gas powered engines in leaf blowers and similar equipment are vastly the dirtiest and most polluting kind of machinery still in legal use.
“According to the California Air Resources Board (CARB), the two-stroke leaf blowers and similar equipment in the state produce more ozone pollution than all of California’s tens of millions of cars, combined.”
@smach It's about time. These could be electric at 1/100 the noise pollution at the same power with no design changes and with appropriate "silent fan" technology, they could be reduced by another 1/10 to 1/100 multiple.
Now do gas powered lawn mowers.
Crew doing the yard for our neighbors across the street recently had THREE guys with leaf blowers cleaning ONE driveway after mowing. No leaves involved. One guy with a broom would have worked.
What happens when you mandate masks at a conference now that most people no longer wear them but medically vulnerable people are still at risk because #CovidIsNotOver? In the case of #PyConUS, the conference sells out.
Why a masking policy? “Many of us and our fellow community members can’t attend without health and safety guidelines in place. We want PyCon US to be an event that everyone feels safe attending,” organizers explained.
@cferdinandi@chriswood@smach@pycon very much this. AuDHD, tall for a woman and my hair constantly changes colour. Adding a mask in public honestly hasn't noticeably changed the level of staring
How Major League Teams Use R to Analyze Baseball Data - video presentation by Keith Woolner, principal data scientist for the Cleveland Guardians, at the Cleveland R User Group https://youtu.be/1SR9C4td3TI?si=Ic7osZnMgb8vQd44
“The general problem of mixing data with commands is at the root of many of our computer security vulnerabilities.” Great explainer by security researcher Bruce Schneier on why large language models may not be a great choice for tasks like processing your emails. https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/llms-data-control-path-insecurity/
“AI Use Cases for R Enthusiasts” - Upcoming Workshop for Ukraine this Thursday, May 9, noon ET/6 pm CET/9 am PT with Dr. Albert Rapp ( @rappa753 but not too active here). Donate 20 euro/20 USD for this live 2-hour session - or if you can’t make it, access to recordings & materials.
Rapp says you'll leave with “fresh ideas and practical strategies for using AI.” https://sites.google.com/view/dariia-mykhailyshyna/main/r-workshops-for-ukraine #rstats#AI#GenAI@rstats
I may be totally wrong, but I thin @charlesgaba was the 1st person to do county level data sorted by vote share for Trump or Biden, with the astonishing finding that red (trump) counties had more covid at least after intro of vaccines
The TinyChart-3B LLM answers questions about data visualizations. It can also generate underlying data from a dataviz and Python code to re-create a similar chart.
@hrbrmstr@eliocamp That's what I get for posting before testing it myself beyond the examples (it's been a busy weekend, out-of-town family were visiting). I thought the Alibaba group made it worth sharing. Lesson learned!
{tidycensus} #rstats 📦 creator Kyle Walker: "Want all 8.13 million US Census blocks available for your #GIS project? It's a one-liner in #rstats thanks to the tigris and purrr packages:
us_blocks <- purrr::map_dfr(c(https://t.co/RfFgUSx1a6, "DC"), ~tigris::blocks(state = .x, year = 2023))
Downloading will take time; set options(tigris_use_cache = TRUE) beforehand to build a local cache of block shapefiles that you can access without having to download."