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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Here’s a graph from the Economist showing GDP data from official government sources versus private estimates. Free countries, like the US, don’t manipulate econ data. Less free countries do. Trump is seeking to break that for short-term PR. (Yes I know GDP is BEA and not BLS.)

free countries have gdp data line up well. partly free countries are only mediocre. not free countries are bad.

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Elaine Houskeeper @ehouskee.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Consider the possibility that work life balance is not just a preferred lifestyle but necessary to allow people to raise the next generation of the human race. The alternative is a dropping birth rate and/or a stay at home parent in every household. stocks.apple.com/AKQokfrDGRO2...

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Think Work-Life Balance Is Overrated? You’re Hired! — The Wall Street Journal

Employers are getting brutally honest with applicants, warning them of long hours and few boundaries; ‘Companies are in control again.’

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Elaine Houskeeper @ehouskee.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

At this moment two weeks ago, I was picking my son up from a great week of sleepaway camp in the mountains. The situation for parents of the missing campers in Texas is just unspeakably heartbreaking.

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Elaine Houskeeper @ehouskee.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

I subscribed to @theatlantic.com in the last year, and it has been an unsuspected joy. What a wonderful publication. Not just news and politics, but all manner of things like this article. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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That Dropped Call With Customer Service? It Was on Purpose.

Endless wait times and excessive procedural fuss—it’s all part of a tactic called “sludge.”

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Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 03/06/2025

dplyr.tidyverse.org, tidyr.tidyverse.org, and ggplot2.tidyverse.org now have an experimental "ask AI" button powered by kapa.ai. It uses the contents of all 3 sites to (hopefully!) better answer your tidyverse questions. This is very much an experiment so please let me know what you think! #rstats

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Jeremy Allen @jeremy-data.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I wouldn't snooze on this opportunity #databs

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Elaine Houskeeper @ehouskee.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Does anyone have examples of collaborating with non-coders (scientists in my case) on #Quarto documents? Tips to share? I can imagine the visual editor working well for them, it’s the Github part that seems like a big ask.

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Elaine Houskeeper @ehouskee.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I’m hiring for a Senior Data Scientist / Data Developer role at EvE Bio, a non-profit! It requires substantial #rstats experience, including #Shiny. It’s a hybrid role located in Durham, NC. If you are interested and qualified, please apply or reach out to me w Qs. jobs.lever.co/convergentre...

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Convergent Research - Senior Data Scientist / Data Developer

Durham NC’s EvE Bio is seeking a Senior Data Scientist/Developer to join our data science team as its second member. The ideal candidate will have substantial experience with R and Shiny programming, ...

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Bind Research @bindresearch.org · 11/02/2025

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of Bind Research, the UK’s first not-for-profit Focused Research Organisation, with long-term support from the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology’s Research Ventures Catalyst Programme, industry, and charities.

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Niko McCarty @nikomccarty.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

We just published a deep look into E11 Bio, the research nonprofit creating tools to build a 3D map of every neuron and synapse in a brain. Jump in to learn how their technology could map an entire mouse brain in 5 years for $100 million—a 100x improvement over existing methods.

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Elaine Houskeeper @ehouskee.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

If only Observable plot had a functional facet_wrap equivalent 😞

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Elaine Houskeeper @ehouskee.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Phenomenal article by Lina Khan reminding us why breaking up monopolies isn’t about fairness, it’s about competitiveness! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/o...

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Opinion | DeepSeek Serves as a Warning About Big Tech (Gift Article)

The arrival of DeepSeek shows us the competitive weaknesses of America’s tech giants.

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David Gasquez @davidgasquez.com · 17/12/2024

Keeping and maintaining code and pipelines that provide open datasets for free, is not free. Excited to see initiatives like this gaining support of their communities!

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Elaine Houskeeper @ehouskee.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

I am very excited to try this out. More assistance writing tests is one of things I’d most like AI to provide!

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Elaine Houskeeper @ehouskee.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

First experience with #Shiny assistant today was good! A scientist I work with who also has some R skills got a basic app working, then Shiny assistant did the tricky part of making it possible for the user to advance through a series of plots, something I would have struggled to figure out myself.

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Elaine Houskeeper @ehouskee.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

This is a very exciting concept. I use the command line intermittently so I’m always in beginner mode. Now if we can have the same type of helper for CSS…

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Elaine Houskeeper @ehouskee.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

So, #DuckDB works with the #rstats #tidyverse via duckplyr. #DuckDB also works with #dbt. I’m daring to hope that somehow this means I could use dbt but write my models with duckplyr instead of SQL directly. 🤞🏻🤞🏻

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Elaine Houskeeper @ehouskee.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

A case where 3D data visualization is actually effective!

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Jenny Bryan @jennybryan.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Ah, "How to name files", a topic that is near and dear to my 💜 My most recent (and semi-polished) iteration on this stuff was a 5-minute lightning talk for NormConf 2022. Here's the video & the slides: youtu.be/ES1LTlnpLMk?... speakerdeck.com/jennybc/how-...

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How to name files - Jennifer Bryan

YouTube video by NormConf

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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

This is big: in collaboration with E11 Bio and @andrewcpayne.bsky.social, we are announcing today a new way to map brain circuits at scale. With improvements in AI and microscopy I think whole brain mouse and maybe human brain mapping will be feasible in ~5-10 years. 1/

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Elaine Houskeeper @ehouskee.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Here’s my plan: I have a handful of simple #Shiny apps for data collection. I’m going to use #DuckDB with GCS hosted files as the backend. 95% appending. Largest table will get to 10M+ rows but most are much much smaller. ~10 users. The goal is easy setup and maintenance. What pitfalls am I missing?

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Elaine Houskeeper @ehouskee.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

In a world of Slack and other tools that reduce communication friction so much that little thought is required, we do less of even the most basic writing to express our ideas in business contexts. I really think it’s hurt the quality of decision making.

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Jeremy Howard @howard.fm · 26/11/2024

Here’s a little script I made which I use to get a server up and running automatically (after you answering a few questions, including “what’s your name”) in just a few minutes. You can even fully automate it with a few environment variables. github.com/AnswerDotAI/...

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Elaine Houskeeper @ehouskee.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I have been working from a hypothesis that so far seems to be correct but I’d love to get some constructive input especially from #duckdb folks Hypothesis: Using JavaScript and DuckDB-wasm allows for the public deployment of data apps with minimal server costs and ongoing maintenance. Caveats in 🧵

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Elaine Houskeeper @ehouskee.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I work at a non-profit where our “product” is a high quality dataset, and we’ve just done our first data release - and many more to come. Data folks, note that the data browser is built with Quarto + ObservableJS + DuckDB. Blog post on that is in the works! data.evebio.org

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Eve Bio: Pharmome Data

Browse/download data for 1,400 FDA drugs' actions on an ever-growing collection of gene products. Data Release 1 now live.

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Sharon Machlis @smachlis.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Daily posts here with text that include #rstats, from Aug 1 thru yesterday. Excludes the CRAN package update bot. Data pulled with the {bskyr} #rstats 📦 christophertkenny.com/bskyr/ Data wrangled with dplyr & purrr, visualized with ggplot2

Bar chart showing daily Bluesky post statistics (excluding CRAN update bot) from August 2024 to November 2024. The y-axis ranges from 0 to 120 posts per day, and the x-axis shows dates. The data shows a general upward trend, with most activity in August-October ranging between 0-20 posts per day, but increasing significantly in November with some days reaching 60-115 posts.
(Alt text written mostly by Claude.ai)

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Elaine Houskeeper @ehouskee.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I have really missed Twitter, where for years my feed was full of awesome R and data posts from smart, funny, and generous people. Cautiously optimistic that Bluesky is reaching critical mass and will fill this gap!

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JD Long @jdlong.cerebralmastication.com · 14/11/2024

Huge and helpful list of starter packs.

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