Brenden @beesm.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Honestly one of the reasons i love owning a road bike from the 80s! 020
Reposted by BrendenNiki Hubbard, PhD 🐙🦀 @nikihubbard.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Once 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 411494368
Brenden @beesm.bsky.social · 16/02/2026CDCPLACES 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 #episkybrendenmsmith.comCDCPLACES 1.2.0 – bsPlace geography, 2025 data, and a major reliability overhaul. 050
Reposted by BrendenJoey Politano🏳️🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 06/02/2026With 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 826138
Brenden @beesm.bsky.social · 06/02/2026Any #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...github.comGitHub - brendensm/sqlfluffr: R Wrapper to the SQL Linter and Formatter 'sqlfluff'R Wrapper to the SQL Linter and Formatter 'sqlfluff' - brendensm/sqlfluffr 053
Reposted by BrendenManasseh @manasseh6.bsky.social · 15/12/2025Roundabouts across the world for #TidyTuesday, Week 50. #rstats #dataviz #ggplot2 1142
Reposted by BrendenJacob @jcb.bsky.social · 15/10/2025There 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 1236
Reposted by BrendenDawn Macdonald @yukondawn.bsky.social · 13/09/2025I program in Squirrel, i.e. a mixture of SQL and R while leaving many small files littered around my drive #Rstats 4517
Brenden @beesm.bsky.social · 10/09/2025I also had this experience with mint. Oddly enough i tried an arch based distro recently and it was incredibly easy to set up R and RStudio 100
Reposted by Brendenlastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 30/08/2025Bayesianism is ZuTara while Frequentism is KatAang. 5409
Reposted by BrendenHannah 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.hrecht.comTracking Census Dataset ChangesSee when the U.S. Census Bureau adds or removes datasets. 45729
Reposted by BrendenJulia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 24/07/2025One day when I’m grown up I want to understand targeted learning. 11304
Brenden @beesm.bsky.social · 10/07/2025Quick look at the most common adjectives used among the top identified colors in the xkcd color survey. #TidyTuesday #rstats 080
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 190
Brenden @beesm.bsky.social · 30/06/2025I really like this framing of it!! I have found it easier to motivate myself if I have a specific goal in mind. Thanks for the advice! 010
Brenden @beesm.bsky.social · 30/06/2025I am aware of Coene’s JavaScript for R, but am looking for more basic learning resources for the fundamentals book.javascript-for-r.combook.javascript-for-r.comJavaScript for RInvite JavaScript into your Data Science workflow. 151
Brenden @beesm.bsky.social · 30/06/2025Any #rstats folks have resource recommendations for dipping your toes into javascript? 6123
Reposted by BrendenJen Richmond @jenrichmondphd.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Keen 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/...github.comGitHub - jenrichmond/quarto_tt_templateContribute to jenrichmond/quarto_tt_template development by creating an account on GitHub. 071
Brenden @beesm.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Put 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/ttgithub.comGitHub - brendensm/ttContribute to brendensm/tt development by creating an account on GitHub. 061
Brenden @beesm.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Both the power BI and the cloud talk looked most interesting to me! if you don’t end up recording them, would you be open to presenting to my team? Just a thought, i understand that might be a lot to ask. 110
Brenden @beesm.bsky.social · 09/06/2025Sorry to hear about the funding cut… this post stuck in my head and I was looking forward to finding your sessions! Do you plan on sharing or presenting these in some other form? They sounded super interesting!! 110
Reposted by BrendenNicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 02/04/2025We'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 05311
Brenden @beesm.bsky.social · 25/03/2025Does 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. 133
Reposted by BrendenMerlin Unterfinger @munterfi.bsky.social · 23/02/2025hereR 📦 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 #datasciencecran.r-project.orghereR: 'sf'-Based Interface to the 'HERE' REST APIsInterface 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... 0104
Reposted by BrendenNicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 16/02/2025I'm really looking forward to running this "Git and GitHub for R Users" workshop for @r-ladies-stl.bsky.social! 📅 April 23rd 2025 ⏰ 11am CST / 5pm BST 📍 Online Register: www.meetup.com/rladies-st-l... #RStats #Git #GitHub #RLadiesmeetup.comGit and GitHub for R Users, Wed, Apr 23, 2025, 11:00 AM | MeetupIn this workshop, attendees will learn how to use GitHub in conjunction with RStudio. Contents * Understand why version control is necessary and useful. * Be able to coll 49327
Reposted by BrendenLarry Levitt @larrylevitt.bsky.social · 13/02/2025New: 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...kff.orgEliminating the Medicaid Expansion Federal Match Rate: State-by-State Estimates | KFFThis 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 ... 39579
Brenden @beesm.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Looks very clean! Only complaint is the blue text on the white background is a little hard to read. But great job the flags look awesome 😁 010
Reposted by BrendenArrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Absolutely the wrong move in the midst of a pandemic and an emerging pan-zoonotic, and and and... 02010
Brenden @beesm.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Let’s hope it stays up! And great work with the webinar today! 000
Reposted by BrendenKyle Walker @kylewalker.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Update (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! 44711
Reposted by BrendenChristopher Silber @csilber.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Some 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. 082
Brenden @beesm.bsky.social · 03/02/2025This looks very cool! I picked up an A6X used and will have to try this out. 010
Brenden @beesm.bsky.social · 02/02/2025I’m sorry this happened. I always love seeing the art you share on here. 000
