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Niki Hubbard, PhD 🐙🦀 @nikihubbard.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Once upon a time I just admired nudis and sea slugs. But it was not enough. Now apparently I'm creating an R package to celebrate their colour palettes? 😅 First up, my Sydney fave, Hypselodoris bennetti. #rstats #nudibranch #dataviz 🦑🐙🧪 #marinelife #invertebrates

Close up with a beautiful nudibranch on a rocky reef. The lower half of the image is a palette of swatches made from the nudi's vibrant colours.

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Brenden @beesm.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

CDCPLACES 1.2.0 is live on CRAN 🥳 I wrote about some of the updates here: brendenmsmith.com/posts/cdcpla... I think the coolest new feature is the github action I was able to add that checks for changes in the API URLs provided by socrata. Way more reliable! #rstats #publichealth #episky

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CDCPLACES 1.2.0 – bs

Place geography, 2025 data, and a major reliability overhaul.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

With the most robust rail network in the American Midwest, Chicago has the 2nd largest number of car-free households of any metro area (behind only NYC) Most of those households live around the L, especially the Red Line and western parts of the Blue & Green Lines

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Brenden @beesm.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Any #rstats folks interested in testing out a package for SQL linting in R workflows? I made a package that wraps SQLFluff into R with reticulate. I've tried it on a few machines I own but would appreciate some experimentation before I try to send it to CRAN. github.com/brendensm/sq...

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GitHub - brendensm/sqlfluffr: R Wrapper to the SQL Linter and Formatter 'sqlfluff'

R Wrapper to the SQL Linter and Formatter 'sqlfluff' - brendensm/sqlfluffr

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Manasseh @manasseh6.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Roundabouts across the world for #TidyTuesday, Week 50. #rstats #dataviz #ggplot2

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Brenden @beesm.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

This one looks so fun omg

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Jacob @jcb.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

There are a number of issues with this analysis but I found one that I haven't seen anyone else mention: Kaufmann estimates gender ID from the FIRE data without using the survey weights When the weights are used as designed, the evidence for his core claim disappears

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Dawn Macdonald @yukondawn.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

I program in Squirrel, i.e. a mixture of SQL and R while leaving many small files littered around my drive #Rstats

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Bayesianism is ZuTara while Frequentism is KatAang.

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Hannah Recht @hannahrecht.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

🚀 I made a tracker that shows when the Census Bureau adds or removes datasets from their APIs. Dashboard at www.hrecht.com/census-api-d... and follow @censusapitracker.bsky.social for major updates. I've been wanting to build this for years but now seemed an especially important time to keep track.

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Tracking Census Dataset Changes

See when the U.S. Census Bureau adds or removes datasets.

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 24/07/2025

One day when I’m grown up I want to understand targeted learning.

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Brenden @beesm.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Quick look at the most common adjectives used among the top identified colors in the xkcd color survey. #TidyTuesday #rstats

A bar graph showing the top ten adjectives used to describe colors in the xkcd color survey. This is among the top 949 most commonly identified colors. Light and dark are by far the two most common words. Others include pale, bright, deep, very, baby, dull, dusty, and pastel.

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Brenden @beesm.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

#TidyTuesday week 26 - It ain't much but it's honest work. I chose to look at the average differences in prices between conventional and reformulated gasoline -- which honestly I have not ever thought much about! Interesting to see such differences increase over the years. #rstats #dataviz

bar graph showing the average price difference between conventional and reformulated gasoline over time. The main metric is an annual average of this difference, showing how reformulated (cleaner burning) gasoline is more expensive. Over the years, this difference has grown larger. Interestingly, midgrade fuel seems to have the highest price disparity compared to regular and premium.

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Brenden @beesm.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Any #rstats folks have resource recommendations for dipping your toes into javascript?

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Jen Richmond @jenrichmondphd.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Keen to start up and running with #TidyTuesday this week? Try this command line method to create a #rstats script template. Or if you want a quarto template, try my version... github.com/jenrichmond/...

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GitHub - jenrichmond/quarto_tt_template

Contribute to jenrichmond/quarto_tt_template development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Brenden @beesm.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Put together this (probably overkill) #TidyTuesday CLI tool to browse data sets and create template scripts. Maybe this will motivate me to participate more 😅 You can check it out here: github.com/brendensm/tt

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GitHub - brendensm/tt

Contribute to brendensm/tt development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

We're looking at Pokemon data for #TidyTuesday this week! 📊 Stream plot showing speed and colour using {ggstream} 📷 Image added with {ggimage} 🎉 Aiming for a minimalist, fun, and arty chart Code: github.com/nrennie/tidy... #RStats #DataViz #ggplot2

Stream chart showing number of pokemon of different colour and the speeds they have

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Brenden @beesm.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Does anybody in the #rstats world have advice on using a custom docx template with Quarto? I’m looking to be able to customize the header of the docx from the qmd too.

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Merlin Unterfinger @munterfi.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

hereR 📦 v1.1.0 is now on CRAN! 🚀 - Add speed limit configuration for isolines & routes ⏱️ - Expand isoline transport modes: bicycle, bus & more 🚴 - Migrate deprecated mocking functions and fix test coverage ⚙️ Details: cran.r-project.org/package=hereR #rstats #rspatial #routing #datascience

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hereR: 'sf'-Based Interface to the 'HERE' REST APIs

Interface to the 'HERE' REST APIs <<a href="https://developer.here.com/develop/rest-apis" target="_top">https://developer.here.com/develop/rest-apis</a>>: (1) geocode and autosuggest addresses o...

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Larry Levitt @larrylevitt.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

New: If enhanced federal payments for the ACA Medicaid expansion are eliminated, states have two choices: 1. Make up for the cut, at a cost of $626 billion over a decade. 2. Rollback the expansion, leading to 20 million people losing Medicaid. www.kff.org/medicaid/iss...

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Eliminating the Medicaid Expansion Federal Match Rate: State-by-State Estimates | KFF

This analysis examines the potential impacts on states and Medicaid enrollees of eliminating the 90% federal match rate for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) expansion. Eliminating the federal match rate ...

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Brenden @beesm.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Yaay we are staying on CRAN

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Absolutely the wrong move in the midst of a pandemic and an emerging pan-zoonotic, and and and...

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Kyle Walker @kylewalker.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Update (3pm ET on February 5th): the Census FTP site, including the ACS flat files and TIGER/Line shapefiles, is back up! This means that your #rstats / #Python Census geodata packages are now working as normal. Get your data now!

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Christopher Silber @csilber.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Some friends noticed that they can’t download U.S. Census TIGER/Line spatial files this morning. Hopefully this is just a temporary issue. In the meantime, I suggest using the IPUMS National Historic GIS database. They have both the census data and the spatial files you would probably need.

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 31/01/2025

looks like it’s really down now

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 31/01/2025

When you can only win with disinformation, data become a threat.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I'm keeping a running list of disappearing federal data in the 🧵 below. If there are others I missed let me know. crampell[at]washpost[dot]com or Signal username crampell.13

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 30/01/2025

It appears that the Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) page has been removed from the CDC website. The SVI is an important database that measures and quantifies the potential negative effects of disasters of human health at the county level. www.atsdr.cdc.gov/place-health...

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Brenden @beesm.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

#TidyTuesday week 4 ✅ This week’s data is from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. I took a look at how the data on lack of indoor plumbing among U.S Counties compares to other census provided geographies, specifically American Indian/Alaska Native/Native Hawaiian Areas. #rstats

Percentage of households lacking plumbing (2023). Four out of the five U.S. Counties with the highest percentage of households without complete indoor plumbing overlap with the boundaries of the Navajo Nation Reservation and Off-Land Trust Land. The maximum percentage among counties was 3.9%, while the maximum among American Indian/Alaska Native/Native Hawaiian Areas was 5%.

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Isabella Velásquez @ivelasq3.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Join @statsteph.bsky.social, RJP, & me on Feb 25 11am CT for a session on Analyzing Complex Survey Data in #RStats! Learn how to use srvyr and tidyverse for weighted survey analysis. Thanks to @rladiesamsterdam.bsky.social & R-Ladies RTP for hosting! ⚖️ Sign up here: www.meetup.com/rladies-amst...

Tidy Data, Weighted Insights, Analyzing Complex Survey Data in R. The book cover of Exploring Complex Survey Data Analysis Using R.

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Kyle Walker @kylewalker.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Next month, I'm partnering with @UMich and @UMSSDAN to give three FREE webinars on working with US Census data in #rstats! I'll cover the new 2023 ACS data; decennial Census data; and mapping with some brand-new interactive tools. Learn more & register: ssdan.net/events/the...

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Brenden @beesm.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

The more I learn about docker the more my mind is blown

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Dr Anna Lombardi @annalombardi.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Very nice #dataviz on the illusion of recycling ♻️

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Brenden @beesm.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

#TidyTuesday Week 3: The History of Himalayan Mountaineering Expeditions ✅ Had some fun with `geom_polygon` and `geom_text`. Also used a beautiful palette from {NatParksPalettes}. #rstats #dataviz #ggplot2

Heights of the most commonly climbed Himalayan peaks (2020-2024)

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Brenden @beesm.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Week 2 of #TidyTuesday looks at posit::conf data for 2023 and 2024. I examined the most common words in talk titles between the two years and plotted the relative change. Looks like there was a big shift towards AI, learning, art, and reproducibility in 2024. #rstats #dataviz #ggplot2

Relative change in the twenty most common words in talk titles between posit::conf 2023 and 2024

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Emil Malta 🇬🇱 @emilmalta.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Messing around with shinylive. For real, how are people not freaking out?!! Zero hosting costs, no online requirements, no installation required, nothing not a damn thing. #rstats #databs

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Brenden @beesm.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Self hosting a shiny server on my homelab is so cool and surprisingly easy with docker compose. Shout out to the folks at rocker!! #rstats #shiny rocker-project.org

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Rocker Project - The Rocker Project

Docker Containers for the R Environment

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Brenden @beesm.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Quick #TidyTuesday for the new year looking at the CDCPLACES package downloads over last year! Shout out to cranlogs for the data! #rstats #ggplot2 Code: tinyurl.com/yufuz9rz CDCPLACES package: tinyurl.com/46z6tfaa

Area graph showing the number of weekly downloads of the CDCPLACES R package in 2024.

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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

For the first #TidyTuesday of 2025 (bring your own data!), I'm taking a look at the talks and workshops I delivered in 2024. Lot's of #RStats and #DataViz sessions in there! 📊 Timeline scatter plot with #ggplot2 ✍️ Annotations with {cowplot} ➡️ Arrows with {grid} Code: buff.ly/42jHQjN

Timeline plot showing talks and workshops I delivered during 2024, with at least one every month except August. Colours highlight topic with many R and Data Visualisation workshops.

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Brenden @beesm.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I'm setting up freshrss on my home server. What are some must-have #rstats blogs and feeds I should include?

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