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smach, 3 months ago to rstats

Video of @PipingHotData ‘s presentation on Debugging in R is now live on YouTube 🎉
https://youtu.be/BkEWV4gjZjI?si=idKzQzXICkfNCmjn
Slides https://shannonpileggi.github.io/debugging-2hr/#/title-slide
Posit cloud https://posit.cloud/spaces/434909/join?access_code=7t8IP5pBzXMsTtAMiGdXQftqOlrBcxrf98svmhBj
#rstats @rstats https://fosstodon.org/@rladiesrome/111958048873492229

smach, 3 months ago to rstats

The {workflowr} #rstats 📦 “helps researchers organize their analyses in a way that promotes effective project management, reproducibility, collaboration, and sharing of results.
“Workflowr combines literate programming (knitr and rmarkdown) and version control (Git, via git2r) to generate a website containing time-stamped, versioned, and documented results. Any R user can quickly and easily adopt workflowr.”
By John Blischak & others
https://workflowr.github.io/workflowr/index.html

@rstats

smach, 3 months ago to python

uv is “an extremely fast Python package installer and resolver, written in Rust. Designed as a drop-in replacement for pip and pip-compile. uv is backed by Astral, the creators of Ruff.” - 📦 website
https://github.com/astral-sh/uv

“The company’s benchmarks show uv to be 8x to 10x faster than pip and pip-tools without caching, and 80x to 115x faster when running with a warm cache.” - InfoWorld
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3712790/astral-unveils-extremely-fast-python-package-installer.html

#python #InfoWorld @python

smach, 3 months ago to rstats

“It is sometimes useful to perform a computation in a separate R process, without affecting the current R process at all.” The {callr} #rstats 📦 “does exactly that.” By @gaborcsardi & others
https://callr.r-lib.org/
@rstats

smach, 3 months ago to llm

Of course the airline is liable if a chatbot gives customers bad information - the same as if an employee sticks a lower price on an item by mistake, or a sale sign is posted too early, or a price scanner makes an error. Arguing otherwise is ridiculous.
Better testing pre-deployment might have helped prevent this, but there's no guarantee. LLMs may not be human, but they can be unpredictable and imperfect.
https://wapo.st/49m97Ta
#chatbot #chatbots #LLM #LLMs #GenAI

smach, 3 months ago to vscode

Updated: How to run R in Visual Studio Code: https://www.infoworld.com/article/3625488/how-to-run-r-in-visual-studio-code.html

#rstats @rstats #VSCode

ramikrispin, 4 months ago to python

This weekend, on Sunday afternoon none important facts 👇🏼

The Pandas Python library name is not related to the cute bear 🐼. Rather, it is derived from the term 𝐩𝐚𝐧el 𝐝𝐚ta.

Source: Wikipedia
Image: Midjourney

#python #pandas

smach, 4 months ago to rstats

The {explore} #rstats 📦 aims to offer “faster insights with less code for experienced R users.” It features interactive data exploration, automated reports, and a few key functions like describe, explain & abtest.
“Exploring a fresh new dataset is exciting. Instead of searching for syntax, use all your attention searching for interesting patterns in your data, using just a handful easy to remember functions.” By Roland Krasser
https://rolkra.github.io/explore/
#EDA @rstats

smach, 4 months ago to random

WHY DO PEOPLE PUT SPACES IN FILE NAMES

smach, 4 months ago to random

We've launched a generative AI tool that answers reader questions based solely on articles from Computerworld, CIO, CSO, InfoWorld and Network World!

Tool: https://www.cio.com/smart-answers/

Info about the Smart Answers app: https://www.cio.com/article/1303995/introducing-smart-answers-a-genai-tool-for-cio-com-readers.html

odr_k4tana, 4 months ago to random

Do yourself a favour and don't use the {likert} package in #rstats. It apparently isn't maintained anymore, uses close to EOL functions (even whe it still was maintained) and its documentation + usability is crappy as heck.

smach, 4 months ago to OpenAI

Still amazed that I can convert audio to text on my PC for free with a local version of #OpenAI Whisper. Handles multiple audio & video formats and generates txt, srt & 3 more result files.

GitHub repo: https://github.com/openai/whisper - open-source MIT License!

Python library: https://pypi.org/project/openai-whisper/

Easy-to-follow installation video by Kevin Stratvert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABFqbY_rmEk

Even easier video for free cloud use via a Colab notebook https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SQV-B83tPU

#AudioToText #AI #ddj

smach, 4 months ago to rstats

Kyle Walker: “This year, I’ll once again be hosting a webinar series with the University of Michigan’s Social Science Data Analysis Network (SSDAN)! This year’s series is titled Analyzing 2020 Census and 2022 ACS Data with R. The webinar series will take place this February and March and is completely free to attend. You can register for all three webinars from the link below: “

https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_S82g8r1DTAyxb5Nbsf7Jhw#/registration

#rstats #tidycensus #USCensus #ddj @rstats

smach, 4 months ago to LLMs

“If you last checked in on AI a few months ago, you might be surprised at how much the quality of the output has improved. While there are still errors and hallucinations, they are increasingly subtle and rare, and the quality of even first draft output has improved tremendously. It isn’t as good as good human work, but it is surprisingly capable.AI use is becoming normalized. And I think many people are not ready for what happens next.” - Ethan Mollick
https://open.substack.com/pub/oneusefulthing/p/what-can-be-done-in-59-seconds-an
#GenAI #LLMs #AI

smach, 4 months ago to USpolitics

“This is an extremely weak and unimpressive win for Trump, and shows that he faces big trouble with independents and college-educated voters in the general election. I am struck by the clear anti-Trump shift by later deciders and his failure to decisively win on the economy.” - Geoff Garin, Hart Research, on NH primary results

“Exit poll, breakdown of NH GOP primary vote by party ID:
Republican: Trump 74-25%
Independent: Haley 61-37%” - Steve Kornacki, NBC

#NH #NHPrimary #USPolitics

anneapplebaum, 4 months ago to random

Still marvelous to think that 110,000 people voted in the Iowa Republican caucus, yet it will be interpreted as sending a significant message about America. That's less than a third of the population of Bydgoszcz. (if your response is "where?" then you are making my point)

smach, 4 months ago to rstats

The {rhdf5} #rstats 📦 “provides an interface between HDF5 and R. HDF5's main features are the ability to store and access very large and/or complex datasets and a wide variety of metadata on [disk] through a completely portable file format.” Funded by the German Network for Bioinformatics Infrastructure & the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. By Mike Smith & others

https://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/rhdf5.html

#Bioconductor #bioninformatics @rstats

smach, 5 months ago to OpenAI

Melissa Van Bussel: “📹 My latest video is all about how to use R to interact with APIs, using the httr2 package. No background knowledge about APIs is necessary ☺️ 🔗Check it out here: https://youtu.be/8tilyqp4bZY?si=9DqhrOfSCbrqUfIt “
Uses #OpenAI and #GitLab APIs

@rstats

#rstats #httr2

smach, 5 months ago to rstats

Intro to the #rstats {data.table} 📦 this Tuesday, January 16, 7 to 9 pm EST (6 pm local time) with Susanna Supalla, Ph.D at #RLadies St. Louis. Free online MeetUp!
https://www.meetup.com/rladies-st-louis/events/298315363/

#RDataTable #RLadies @rstats

njtierney, 5 months ago to random

Hello #rstats folks! I am focussing on trying to condense my #rstats reading into an RSS reader, and I was wondering if people could share some links to blogs that they follow?

I also understand that you can follow tags on mastodon with RSS, e.g., https://fosstodon.org/tags/rstats.rss

Current bloggers I follow:

@milesmcbain
@maelle
@PipingHotData
@hrbrmstr
@nrennie
@brodriguesco
@yabellini
@yihui

andrew, 5 months ago to random

I've been using Make.com to run automated stuff for a while, but didn't realize that it can work with branches, so now my Goodreads RSS feed magically gets fed to a Google sheet and gets autoposted to Mastodon

It's like modern version of Yahoo! Pipes!

smach, 5 months ago to ChatGPT

The {narrator} #rstats 📦 is a framework to generate “text narratives out of data and enhance them using #ChatGPT. Package is available in both R and #Python, with all core features and even syntax being the same or similar. Corresponding classes and data types are used in both languages:

• data.frame vs pandas data frame
• list vs dictionary
• character vector vs list”
  By Denis Abdullin
  https://denisabd.github.io/narrator/
  @rstats

You can analyze changes over time using narrate_trend() function: narrative_two <- sales %>% narrate_trend( measure = "Sales", date = "Date", dimensions = c("Region", "Product") ) narrative_two #> $

smach, 5 months ago to rstats

R Markdown, knitr creator @yihui laid off from full-time job at Posit; will be working as a paid contractor there. My story for InfoWorld:
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3712061/posit-lays-off-r-markdown-knitr-creator-yihui-xie.html

#rstats @rstats @Yi