Reposted by Emily RiedererDavid M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Bluesky, the app for books 643577
Emily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Had so much fun chatting with @lucystats.bsky.social and @sarahlotspeich.bsky.social about gnarly real world data wrangling — from elections to EHRs and beyond! Show link below! Meanwhile, I’m live-posting of my latest civic data eng sidequests here bsky.app/profile/emil... 1102
Emily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Yes, I would judge you for bringing iced coffee to an interview. But only because diluting previously hot brewed coffee with ice cubes is definitionally weak. Bring cold brew to show me you understand good things take time and are worth upfront investment. That’s a builder mindset 3292
Emily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026CFP for @causalscience.org closes on Wed! Selfish reminder to submit so I can watch your talk 🍿 Also remember to register; always closes before conf! IMHO everything you need to know about any flavor of DS can be learned from causal thinking (One day I will finish my drafted post on this... 🤦♀️) 1/ 121
Emily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026There's something really beautiful about canonical mathematical models or analytical frameworks (L-V in diffeq, epi study designs, etc.) Just a testament the extent to which all our x-discipline problems are the same at some level of abstraction and the power of taxonomizing / naming them 050
Reposted by Emily Riedererbpiros.bsky.social @bpiros.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I made this plot using Matplotlib + plotnine and added interactive tooltips with @joseph-barbier.bsky.social ’s ninejs library. A nice way to bring some interactivity to static visualizations! #matplotlib #ninejs #plotnine #rasterio #ghsl #populationgrid #dataviz 0101
Emily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Usually vote by mail but changed things up this year to be in the first ~350k midterm voters! 2100
Emily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Never going to look at NYT election data the same was again after hearing @christinezhang.bsky.social ‘s awesome @posit.co ::conf keynote! She discussed all the diff viz they considered to capture the plethora of sources of uncertainty in polling data (Also the needle and election night plots!) 291
Emily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Every year -- this is like the advent calendar of election day to me. Behold both democracy in action and a beautiful feat in data wrangling / harmonization 150
Emily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Incredibly sad and sorry to have missed everyone at posit::conf with a mind bending migraine which apparently was the harbinger of whatever bug has me down and out atm🤒. Grateful to the undeserved kindness of organizers and immense creativity of the lightning speakers who filled the gap 1/ 3361
Emily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Life advice but also good talk advice. The number of time I get stuck puzzling over, "I want to communicate xyz but what I'm saying isn't coming across" and the answer is "Well, just say xyz" is... a lot 190
Emily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026"It's not this it's..." I'm a monster. Make it stop! 3200
Emily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Accidentally said “and that difference matters” unironically during talk prep and now I hate myself 🙊 Claudish is coming for us all 2320
Emily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Inspired by this blog post, I was testing out how different LLMs perform `polars` tasks Gemini (Colab - I'm cheap what can I say) did NOT just convert to `pandas` to do a quantile instead of using a window function?! pola.rs/posts/llm-po... 1111
Reposted by Emily RiedererSimon P. Couch @simonpcouch.com · 11/09/2026I AM SO EXCITED FOR POSIT CONF 2223
Reposted by Emily RiedererYihui Xie @yihui.org · 21/08/2026I just came back from summer vacation, and would like to announce a tiny new R package I developed recently: {lt} yihui.org/en/2026/07/l...yihui.orgThe lt Package: Lightweight HTML Tables for R (and Beyond) - Yihui Xie | 谢益辉Recently I have released a new package on CRAN: lt, short for lightweight tables (or less than). Its origin story is a small moment of shock. About two years ago a project required gt, so I ran &helli... 48023
Emily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026We could save years of education across data science and data engineering by just printing t-shirts that say "know what makes a row" 1408
Emily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026tech debt except calendar debt where you keep moving the one-on-ones thinking you'll be less busy tomorrow 2171
Reposted by Emily RiedererDemetri @phdemetri.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Ah yes, the millenial problems. Among them: * Navier Stokes * Home ownership * That damn moustache tattoo on your index finger 0237
Emily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Major shout out to @dalefrakes.bsky.social @jounihelske.bsky.social @tiddlydump.bsky.social and @rbly.bsky.social for the help! Bluesky lazyweb is alive and well 🙏 031
Emily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026It is surprisingly difficult* to find someone to whom the phrase "data generating process" is first attributed. Stats lazy web? *as in, I Googled it and was not in top hits. I have tried (almost) nothing and it isn't working! 5164
Emily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Doing some volunteer data eng work and their infra is... interesting (probably built by a series of random vols over time) 📊 Not pointing fingers, but sharing a running list of antipatterns for your amusement and as I keep track for a future thing I want to write up 🧵 1522
Emily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Could not recall this quote. Thanks, Gemini, for "debunking" it for me. Really worried I was going to have to create a universe there... 061
Emily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026For no real reason, I was looking up something about the ancestry of causal DAGs in path diagrams and came across this picture. I got to see it so you do to. HT to Sewall Wright who both set the course for a very useful analytical tool but also took the time to include cute drawings of guinea pigs 818043
Emily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Just occurred to me I don’t think I’ve ever seen a post I thought to be AI authored on Bluesky. Zero ways to monetize and zero clout from building a following here. Incentives are a magical thing 6321
Emily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Appreciation post for the @dataelixir.com newsletter. Just saw it hop into my inbox and always a delight to read 040
Emily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 30/08/2026👀👀 @bsky.app beta feature to auto number slide multi-post threads from authors 👀👀 Love this, but would also/additionally love a more Reddit-like ➕ to expand/collapse threads 1200
Reposted by Emily RiedererChristian Minich @christianminich.com · 28/08/2026Short, to the point technical reports are both a flex and a sign of deep respect. “I would have written a shorter letter but I didn’t have the time” has never been more true. 1355
Emily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Something I think about a lot is two times in undergrad where a professor said "If you remember absolutely nothing else from this class, remember this"... and I still do. Very effective tool when used sparingly [talk prep thoughts] 2130
Reposted by Emily RiedererCODE@MIT @codemit.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Submissions for CODE@MIT are open until Sept 13th. As @dholtz.bsky.social noted www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... we're particularly interested in these topics this year: 066
Reposted by Emily RiedererJulia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 27/08/2026"Statistical analyses serve to answer statistical questions. It is imperative that these questions align closely with the substantive research questions. But quite often, research questions are vague or formulated in several logically distinct ways." 0356
Reposted by Emily RiedererKathryn Anne Edwards @kedseconomist.com · 25/08/2026I managed to take the Fed to task for bad leadership and discuss W.E.B. Du Bois's "The Philadelphia Negro," a real win of a column. Walking away from public data is going backwards in time, as the history of measuring the economic status of Black people shows. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...bloomberg.comThe Fed’s Data Task Force Is a Step BackwardThe logic seems straightforward enough: To make its decisions, the Federal Reserve needs timely and reliable information. A lot of that is public, but increasingly, there is relevant data in private h... 24622
Reposted by Emily RiedererEmily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Anyone teaching undergrads that would indulge me in a boondoggle? Idea is to share a trivial dataset and question but many potential interpretations or "data snags". Asking for <5 min of their time to do whatever seems reasonable; answers tend to cluster around diff made/missed assumptions 1/ 5215
Emily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Anyone teaching undergrads that would indulge me in a boondoggle? Idea is to share a trivial dataset and question but many potential interpretations or "data snags". Asking for <5 min of their time to do whatever seems reasonable; answers tend to cluster around diff made/missed assumptions 1/ 5215
Emily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Talking to my mom about Posit keynote prep and past talks Her: "The one of yours I never got was the column names. Surely everyone knows to do that" So, my mom thinks your database is bad and you should feel bad about it. You tell 'em, Mom! 2300
Emily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 22/08/2026What's the German word for: Sending five people an entirely human-crafted Google doc but being so fatigued of being on the receiving end of Gemini-written docs that you're paranoid they make think any part of it was AI written? Because that was my yesterday 4100
Reposted by Emily RiedererLibby Heeren @libbyheeren.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Did you miss Quarto Slidecrafting workshop from @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social last week? I gotchu. Pinging @emilyriederer.bsky.social who had to miss out! And y'all lemme know if anything is missing in the description! All resources from the chat should be linked there! Video: youtu.be/xpFy0UGeb9Qyoutu.beSlidecrafting - Creating beautiful slides in Quarto | 2-hr workshop | Emil HvitfeldtYouTube video by Posit PBC 5657
Emily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Claude: You’re absolutely right to push back on that! 3444
Emily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026New rule. If you reference it 3x in a week you have to skeet it. fs.blog/chestertons-... Chesterton's Fence is perhaps no where more true than in large pre-existing codebasesfs.blogChesterton’s Fence: A Lesson in ThinkingA core component of making great decisions is understanding previous decisions. If we don’t understand how we got “here,” we run the risk of making things much worse. 0100
Emily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Bought a quite niche* used book and was delighted that it came heavily bookmarked by past reader and felt instant kinship. But oh man do past reader and I have different interests! My dog-ears are in chapters they all but skipped and vice versa *but excellent! I’m rereading to find a cite 140
Emily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Something NOT better? Gemini BigQuery SQL auto-suggestions are just laughably awful. Hallucinating tables that aren't in the schema, columns that aren't in the table, and like, man you're a database you literally know this stuff 1131
Emily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 15/08/2026I have an inexplicable irresistible desire to build little event-driven systems when orchestration is more appropriate. Building professional things the right way, it's an odd guilty pleasure to spin up short-lived projects recklessly and know I'll deprecate them before the tech debt comes due 070
Emily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 15/08/2026There's something fun about checking back in with tools you use intermittently. I tend to have substantial but intermittent use cases for Google Cloud every other year. Neat to see which "papercuts" from last time were pernicious enough for enough folks to have been resolved (multi region queries!) 050
Emily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Last night I tracked down Jenny Bryan’s absolutely lovely 2019 UseR! keynote on Code Smells (worth the watch, btw!) riffing off of Martin Fowler Confronting more AI slop documents this morning, may is suggested we adopt the “Claude smells”? 2231
Emily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Amazing 🧵 How do I get a feed of 0% news and 100% people live-debugging causal analyses 🙏 1140
Reposted by Emily RiedererMike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 11/08/2026This also fundamentally misunderstands how people learn. Having access to very smart people (or machines) might help, but much larger factors are (1) being highly motivated to learn and (2) getting, and being receptive to, constructive criticism. 2619
Emily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 11/08/2026fortune.com/2026/08/10/i... This is the most Odd Lots story ever that (to the best of my knowledge) has not been on Odd Lotsfortune.comItaly's $4.7 billion cheese economy is feeling the heat as climate change threatens its cheese banks that hold Parmigiano wheels as loan collateral | FortuneExtreme heat is straining the vaults that hold Parmigiano wheels as loan collateral, and economists say the damage runs wider than the vault 2111
Emily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 07/08/2026We've heard the "got a crazy cloud bill because something was misconfigured story". We've heard the "coding agent gone rogue" story. Mark your calendars for the inevitable "coding agent terraforms its way to an insane cloud bill story" 3112
Emily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Solved a problem the old school way last night (following a Stack Overflow that linked to another Stack Overflow than linked to a GitHub repo with three stars), and I’m going to be riding that high all week long 1503
