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christophsax.bsky.social @christophsax.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Will this end my lifelong struggle with Swiss data? dataseries.org, a home for Swiss economic data, enters decade 2. And is finally ready for production! My post on the relaunch: cynkra.com/blog/2026-08...
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dataseries.org: Relaunch with 70 datasets - cynkra
Ten years after the first alpha, dataseries.org is relaunched: 70 Swiss economic datasets in one place, with a new UI, a public API, and a scraping pipeline that is derived by AI from plain markdown f...
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christophsax.bsky.social @christophsax.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I built a reinsurance treaty pricing tool from standard blockr blocks, with no code and no insurance-specific blocks. You can price a layered treaty in the deployed app. Write-up and live app: cynkra.com/blog/2026-06...
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A reinsurance pricing tool, built without code - cynkra
I built a reinsurance treaty pricing tool from standard blockr blocks, with no code and no insurance-specific adjustments. You can price a layered treaty in the deployed app.
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David Schoch @schochastics.net · 10/06/2026
We are currently working on the igraph 3.0.0 release which will bring big changes to the #rstats package! One that just landed on GitHub is a new, modern printing method that uses cli 🙂 Check it out at github.com/igraph/rigraph
Comparison of printing methods in igraph. On the top the old style and on the bottom the new method using cli
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Maëlle Salmon @masalmon.eu · 12/06/2026
New #RStats post on the cynkra blog with @schochastics.net & @kirill79.bsky.social "Three small dots for more readable code" cynkra.com/blog/2026-06...
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Three small dots for more readable code - cynkra
The ellipsis between required and optional arguments makes for more readable code. Here's how we handled it gently in older functions, without breaking users' code.
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David Granjon @davidgranjon.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Christoph Sax and I will be teaching at #useR2026: blockr, the open source no-code workflow builder for R. This is exciting after 3 years of intense work with @bristolmyerssquibb.bsky.social 📆 When: Monday July 6, time: TBA 🔥 More about blockr: blockr.site #rstats #shiny #nocode #reproducible
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christophsax.bsky.social @christophsax.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Here's what I showed at R/Medicine 2026: a clinician exploring an ADaM trial, building a chart from scratch, and adding a drill-down view to a multi-view app. blockr allows you to do all of it without code! cynkra.com/blog/2026-05... #rstats #pharmaverse
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blockr: Clinical Data Analysis without Code - cynkra
Recap of our R/Medicine 2026 talk. blockr is a no-code dashboard builder for R. We show the Clinical Explorer, a multi-page exploration tool built with Bristol Myers Squibb that brings the time to upd...
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christophsax.bsky.social @christophsax.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
We started YouTube video series about blockr, a visual framework for building data workflows in #rstats. Go and watch! www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j0d...
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what is blockr?
YouTube video by blockr
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christophsax.bsky.social @christophsax.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
A first version of #rstats blockr is now on CRAN! 🎉 Build interactive data workflows and dashboards without any code! cynkra.com/blog/2025-12...
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Introducing blockr: Data Apps Without Code - cynkra
In this blog post we celebrate the first stable release of blockr, a tool to build data apps in minutes, using a point and click user interface. See what is included in this first release and learn ho...
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Maëlle Salmon @masalmon.eu · 26/05/2025
Preparing a data-heavy dashboard with #RStats, in need of a table for exploration? Check out {cheetahR} by Olajoke Oladipo! cynkra.com/blog/2025-05...
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Introducing cheetahR: A Lightning-Fast HTML Table widget for R - cynkra
Say hello to cheetahR — the fastest way to explore massive datasets in R. Now available on CRAN, cheetahR is a high-performance table widget and a modern alternative to {reactable} and {DT}. Built for...
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christophsax.bsky.social @christophsax.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
That was a lot of fun, thanks, @schochastics.net 🥳
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