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Cosima @cosima.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

If you know overviewR, you may have also heard of overviewpy. If not, let me introduce you to it :) When working on overviewR, it opened me so many (learning) doors. Understanding the language a bit better, trying things out and building a tool that could be helpful for the community. #rladies

A screenshot of the website of overviewpy (technical documentation with a green snake holding a light bulb)

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Cosima @cosima.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

After a bit of tinkering, my "gallery" got a small facelift. I'm so happy how it turned out! I also wrote a (very) short reflection on the process and how I got there. Why very short? Because it didn't take too long and was surprisingly straightforward! cosimameyer.com/post/updatin...

A screenshot with portraits of amazing women in tech

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Cosima @cosima.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

It's been a while since we last updated {overviewR} but it's officially updated on CRAN! 🚀 If you want to learn what's new, here's a short summary: cosimameyer.com/post/newest-... In a nutshell: - Export tables as markdown - Proportional Venn diagrams - More flexible plot colors #rladies

Two circles in different blue shades with the sames “Data set 1” and “Data set 2” where data set 2 represents a subset of data set 1.

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Cosima @cosima.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Artificial intelligence is shaping our world, but how do we ensure it aligns with human and moral values? Here’s a short review of “Moral AI” which addresses these and other questions: cosimameyer.com/post/moral-a... #MoralAI #AIethics #Ethics #ResponsibleAI

Photo of the book “Moral AI” by Jana Schaich Borg, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, and Vincent Conitzer. The cover has a red background with white and black text. It features an illustration of a sliding puzzle with a partially completed image of a person’s face, symbolizing the complexity of moral AI. The book is part of the Pelican Books series.

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Cosima @cosima.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

When I started creating portraits of women in tech last year, I had no idea how quickly it would grow into the "Amazing Women in Tech" series ✨ I set up a gallery where you can flip through the portraits: 🌟 Amazing Women in Tech Gallery: gallery.cosimameyer.com #womenintech #amazingwomenintech

Screenshot of the Illustrations Gallery website showing a preview on “Amazing Women in Tech”. It shows hexagon tiles with small portraits of different amazing women in tech.

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Cosima @cosima.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I played around with some functionalities of the @rladies-bot.bsky.social and @pyladies-bot.bsky.social to improve the blog post promotion. Using Gemini, I had a setup up and running in ~30 minutes. If you want to try it out yourself, here's my step-by-step guide: bit.ly/embed-gemini #python

Image showing the architecture of the bot. The bot's backend resides in a GitHub repository. GitHub Actions serves as a CRON trigger, running on a regular schedule. The CRON trigger activates a Python script named "promote_blog_posts.py". The script gathers RSS feed content from an RSS metadata pickle file containing basic information. Using the RSS feed text, the script interacts with Google AI Studio, where the Gemini API is connected. The script instructs the API to summarize the text and returns the summary. The script combines the title, author, hashtags, link, and summary to create a social media post. The post is then automatically published on Bluesky and Mastodon.

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Cosima @cosima.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Because it never gets old... integrated gradients are a great (and accessible) way to start making your LLMs explainable 📖 Here's a blog post that I co-authored with @ankuepfer.bsky.social on this topic: bit.ly/bert-xai-post #pyladies #python #xai

Image showing integrated gradients from tokenization, vector representation, and starting with a baseline arriving step-by-step at an explainable model approach.

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Cosima @cosima.bsky.social · 14/09/2023

Are you based in Cologne? Join our R-Ladies chapter! We're currently mainly virtual but eager to have a growing with a local community 🙌 As a co-organizer, you'll connect, learn, and shape our chapter's future 🥳 If this sounds interesting or if you have more questions, reach out 💜

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Cosima @cosima.bsky.social · 23/07/2023

When you come from Hugo, playing around with MkDocs for your package documentation is so smooth! (and when you click the link, you can see how the light bulb "turns on" when you switch to dark mode 💡) cosimameyer.github.io/overviewpy

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Cosima @cosima.bsky.social · 14/07/2023

New addition for my baby 💙 I love how the robot hugs the octopus and the snake hugs the R pirate ✨

Photo of a MacBook with two stickers. In the top left corner there is an R with a pirate hat being hugged by a snake and in the top right corner there is a robot hugging a blue octopus.

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Cosima @cosima.bsky.social · 11/07/2023

The PyLadies and R-Ladies bot now also promote YouTube videos on Mastodon 🥳 (and this is what debugging looks like on an extremely warm summer day - at least there are some living plants 🌱)

Balcony showing a table with a computer and three hanging plants on a rack

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Cosima @cosima.bsky.social · 23/04/2023

The Awesome PyLadies' Blogs Repository is growing 🤩 I spent some evenings during the past weeks finding and reaching out to people (also for the Awesome R-Ladies' Blogs repository). It's so cool to see all the different blogs and feeds! 😍 (screenshot shows README of the repository)

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Cosima @cosima.bsky.social · 01/04/2023

It feels like this week is all about exciting news 🤩 Andreas Küpfer and I have been working on this post for a while now - it covers BERT and XAI from different angles and provides something for everyone 🤓 bit.ly/bert-xai-post

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Cosima @cosima.bsky.social · 09/03/2023

Playing around with #quarto for an upcoming event and it's great! 🤩 #pyladies #rladies #rstats #python

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Cosima @cosima.bsky.social · 26/10/2022

When I first learned the basics of #shiny, I thought of the server as the 🧠 and the UI as the 👤 Just in time for Halloween, here’s an intro to the #shinyverse in #rstats with more brains and bodies🧟‍♀️ ✨

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Cosima @cosima.bsky.social · 16/10/2022

Here's a short post on the basics of package development in #rstats. It covers the general logic and the very first steps you'll take when writing a package 🤓 It also comes with many helpful resources and other 📦to get you started! 👉

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Cosima @cosima.bsky.social · 03/10/2022

Debugging is a good approach to understanding code. And the cool thing: it’s not difficult but powerful 💪 There are 3 commands in #rstats that you need to know that do the work for you: 🛠️ debug() 🛠️ browser() 🛠️ undebug() 👉 To see them in action:

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Cosima @cosima.bsky.social · 30/09/2022

We’re exploring the beauty of #plotnine with @tanya_shapiro 👩🏻‍🎨 at the second event of our joined @pyladies and @RLadiesGlobal 💜

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Cosima @cosima.bsky.social · 27/09/2022

Writing functions is one of the core pillars of programming. If you want to learn how to write them and what I picked up as best practices, here's a short blog post (including an analogy why writing functions is like a blooming flower 🌸): 👩🏼‍💻 #rstats

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Cosima @cosima.bsky.social · 21/09/2022

Last week I talked about the perks of using #Git at @WeAreRLadies 😺 If you want a summary, I have a blog post for you 👇 (including a guide on how to use @rstudio’s code snippets to automatically set up your project structure 🤗) #rstats

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Cosima @cosima.bsky.social · 20/09/2022

If you’re looking for ideas on how to customize your #Hugo theme, I might have some inspiration for you 💅🏻 I recently moved from Hugo Academic to Hugo Portio and tweaked the theme a bit to make it a better fit for me 😊

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Cosima @cosima.bsky.social · 18/09/2022

I had an amazing time curating the @WeAreRLadies💜 If you consider curating the account, sign up for it! It's a fantastic experience☺️ If you need more convincing, here's my experience and why you should do it: (while the memory is still fresh✨) #rstats

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Cosima @cosima.bsky.social · 15/09/2022

The best part about curating @WeAreRLadies is that you always learn something new yourself 🤗 I just learned that GitHub has finally also an organization README - have a look at our overview at @mzes_ssdl! 🤩 #rstats #python #data

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Cosima @cosima.bsky.social · 07/09/2022

One of the coolest features of our #rstats 📦 {overviewR} is the possibility to present your sample in a cross-table. Coming from a #polisci background where I studied post-conflict countries, I often wanted to know how my observations behave depending on two conditions. #rladies

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Cosima @cosima.bsky.social · 30/08/2022

With overview_tab and overview_print you can generate publication-ready tables for reports or scientific articles 🥳 #rstats #rladies #overviewR

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Cosima @cosima.bsky.social · 28/08/2022

To better understand how your ids are distributed across time in your data, you can use overview_plot from {overviewR}. #rladies #rstats #overviewr

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Cosima @cosima.bsky.social · 13/08/2022

We updated {overviewR}‘s cheatsheet 💡 The updated version is already available on our website and will also be updated in @rstudio‘s repository 🥳 If you’re looking for a smooth intro to the package, here’s everything you need: #rstats

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Cosima @cosima.bsky.social · 09/08/2022

{overviewR} turns 2 and we’re hitting the 11k downloads - what a perfect birthday present 🥳 Thanks to everyone for using it and for sharing your feedback on how to continuously improve it ♥️ #rstats

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Cosima @cosima.bsky.social · 24/07/2022

It’s finally out! Britt Bolin’s and my article on the effectiveness of gender quotas in post-conflict countries studies whether (and when) there are higher shares of women represented in national cabinets in sub-Saharan Africa 👉

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Cosima @cosima.bsky.social · 24/04/2022

{overviewR} 📦 is updated and on CRAN 🔦 #rstats #rladies we spend some time adding new functions and improvements as well as an updated {pkgdown} website for increased documentation 🎉

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Cosima @cosima.bsky.social · 18/02/2022

If you didn’t RSVP yet, here’s your chance 🥳 Next Monday, R-Ladies Cologne (@RLadiesGlobal) have a roundtable on “Empowering Women in Data Science” with the fantastic @apreshill, @ACarolinaLeote, @angelicamabg and @NinaInData1! 👉 #rladies #rstats

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Cosima @cosima.bsky.social · 28/09/2021

I am thrilled to share that my article "Bringing the World to the Classroom: Teaching Statistics and Programming in a Project-Based Setting" is published in @ps_polisci (open access, thanks to @UBMannheim 🥳). 👉

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Cosima @cosima.bsky.social · 20/03/2020

Every writer has a pet word… how about The Office writers? 📑 #TidyTuesday #TheOffice (the code is available here: 👩‍💻

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Cosima @cosima.bsky.social · 11/03/2020

That's what you do on a Tuesday evening: #TidyTuesday! I love ggplot and what's a better occasion to play around with its functions? ♥️ I was wondering whether it really pays off going to an expensive school - and, if so, whether the type of school makes a difference.

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