Reposted by Amol Borkardylan @pinkponysub.bsky.social · 28/07/2026I want 4 day work weeks, free universal healthcare, and a livable wage to meet my basic needs!! 310122471973
Reposted by Amol BorkarM Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 31/05/2026themainemonitor.org/maine-data-c...themainemonitor.orgMaine lawmakers pass the first statewide ban on large data centersThe bill, which would prohibit new power-hungry facilities until late 2027, awaits Gov. Janet Mills’ signature or veto. 10945511074
Reposted by Amol BorkarIan Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 07/05/2026God damn it I just want a normal search 661829126
Reposted by Amol BorkarHadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 03/06/2025Want to easily use LLMs from R? ellmer 0.2.0 provides: • Batch & parallel processing • A universal parameter interface • Cost tracking • Support for Mistral, Hugging Face, & Portkey And much more! Read all about it at: www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/05... #rstatstidyverse.orgellmer 0.2.0ellmer 0.2.0 lands with a swag of upgrades: Garrick Aden‑Buie joins the team, we make a couple of breaking changes, and add serious scale with `parallel_chat()` and `batch_chat()`. A new `params()` ... 17526
Reposted by Amol BorkarEugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 02/06/2025A lot of debugging is just having a good guess of what the likeliest mistake is 3362
Amol Borkar @amolborkar.bsky.social · 29/05/2025New day, new blog. This week I talk about why Functional programming matters and how to adopt it. #rstats #python open.substack.com/pub/borkar/p...open.substack.comWhy You Should Care About Functional Programming (Even in 2025)A History Lesson and Practical Introduction to Core Tenets of Functional Programming 092
Reposted by Amol BorkarHannes Mühleisen @hannes.muehleisen.org · 27/05/2025It's a big day for us - we are finally launching #DuckLake, a new Lakehouse format! bsky.app/profile/duck... 1354
Amol Borkar @amolborkar.bsky.social · 27/05/2025For the first #tidytuesday post wanted to share this benchmark of data.frame vs data.table across common ops on datasets up to 10M rows. Full #rstats breakdown here 👉 open.substack.com/pub/borkar/p... 050
Amol Borkar @amolborkar.bsky.social · 26/05/2025Love seeing elements from functional languages show up in unlikely places. This will save us writing 5 CTEs before the actual query. 000
Reposted by Amol BorkarClément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 26/05/2025Folks—I think I've lost the plot 71317
Reposted by Amol BorkarDidier Brassard @didierbrassard.bsky.social · 23/05/2025Great tips to improve your R coding experience 021
Amol Borkar @amolborkar.bsky.social · 22/05/2025In this week's #rstats blog, I talk about small #R workflow changes that compound into massive productivity gains. Link: open.substack.com/pub/borkar/p... 0355
Reposted by Amol BorkarSteven Ponce @sponce1.bsky.social · 04/05/2025📊 #TidyTuesday – 2025 W18 | NSF Grant Terminations under the Trump Administration . 🔗: stevenponce.netlify.app/data_visuali... . #rstats | #r4ds | #dataviz | #ggplot2 12710
Reposted by Amol BorkarChris Brownlie @bsky.chrisbrownlie.com · 02/05/2025this week in #rstats ✨ - Positron tips & tricks 🖥️ @albertrapp.bsky.social - DuckDB+R=🔥 @amolborkar.bsky.social @duckdb.org - Comparing spatial ML in R 🗺️ @jakubnowosad.com - Why R & Python are friends 🤝 this and more below! 🏃 #news #data #python www.linkedin.com/pulse/week-r...linkedin.comThis week in R (2025-05-01)Deep dive into R-Python interoperability; getting the most out of Positron IDE; spatial ML in R comparisons; evidence supporting DuckDB & R usage, and more! 063
Amol Borkar @amolborkar.bsky.social · 01/05/2025My post getting liked by the creator of DuckDB wasn't on my Thursday bingo :) Checkout the blog here: tinyurl.com/RwithDuckDB #rstats #duckdb #analytics 030
Amol Borkar @amolborkar.bsky.social · 01/05/2025This weeks blog is up. I talk about how @duckdb.org gels really well with #rstats and why you might wanna give it a try. open.substack.com/pub/borkar/p...open.substack.comSupercharge your R workflows with DuckDBSpeed up your data wrangling in R without rewriting your codebase. DuckDB lets you keep using dplyr-style syntax while handling large datasets effortlessly. 2191
Reposted by Amol BorkaruseR! - The R User Conference @user-conf.bsky.social · 22/04/2025@hadley.nz Wickham is a developer and teacher whose impact on the R ecosystem is immense. He is Chief scientist at @posit.co where he leads the Tidyverse team. His keynote "I wrote this talk with an LLM" explores how AI can help rather than replace data scientists. Register: user2024.r-project.org 0193
Reposted by Amol BorkarChristen Rexing, PhD, MPH @christenrexing.bsky.social · 26/04/2025Happy Saturday! 8090261184
Amol Borkar @amolborkar.bsky.social · 26/04/2025Am I the only one who’s not able to open any hashtags right now? I’m on iOS app. 000
Amol Borkar @amolborkar.bsky.social · 26/04/2025open.substack.com/pub/borkar/p... #python #rstats #analyticsopen.substack.comUnlocking Zen: How R's data analysis ecosystem outshines PythonIn this article, I highlight some pain-points when working with Python & Pandas and how R's ecosystem proves to be a great alternative. 031
Amol Borkar @amolborkar.bsky.social · 26/04/2025How R's data analysis ecosystem shines against Python. borkar.substack.com/p/unlocking-... #rstats #python #analyticsborkar.substack.comUnlocking Zen: How R's data analysis ecosystem outshines PythonIn this article, I highlight some pain-points when working with Python & Pandas and how R's ecosystem proves to be a great alternative. 14015