Reposted by Howard BaikIsabella Velásquez @ivelasq3.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Join us on Tuesday at the Data Science Lab 🧪 We are joined by @sara-altman.bsky.social, who will show us how to explore and analyze data using AI assistants in #RStats or #Python! Feb 3 @ 12 pm ET: pos.it/dslab 0209
Reposted by Howard Baikitcrtraining.bsky.social @itcrtraining.bsky.social · 26/11/2025We appreciate your use of our free research and bioinformatics resources. If you’re interested in sharing your thoughts, you’re invited to take our survey: xiar7j-itn.shinyapps.io/itn_follow_up/ 011
Reposted by Howard Baikitcrtraining.bsky.social @itcrtraining.bsky.social · 18/11/2025The ITCR Training Network (ITN) www.itcrtraining.org develops training materials for informatics and research. We have a short survey ~3-9 min about your experience & preferences for learning as a researcher. Previous engagement not required! xiar7j-itn.shinyapps.io/itn_follow_up/ 057
Howard Baik @howardbaik.bsky.social · 25/09/2025New #rstats blog post: Deep Dive into ellmer: Part 3. I explore the source code behind ellmer's structured data functionality: www.howardbaik.com/posts/deep-d... Thanks to @hadley.nz, @grrrck.xyz, @atheriel.bsky.social, others for 🐘ellmer🐘! 040
Reposted by Howard BaikBarret Schloerke @schloerke.com · 17/09/2025Thank you for attending the #PositConf2025 Shiny session and all of your great questions! I'm excited to see the @opentelemetry.io integrations improve over time 🎉 🗣️: Observability at scale: Monitoring Shiny Applications with OpenTelemetry 🐙: github.com/schloerke/pr... #RStats #RShiny 0184
Howard Baik @howardbaik.bsky.social · 16/09/2025New #rstats blog post: Deep Dive into ellmer: Part 2. I explore the source code behind ellmer's tool calling functionality: www.howardbaik.com/posts/deep-d... Thanks to @hadley.nz, @grrrck.xyz, @atheriel.bsky.social, others for 🐘ellmer🐘! 0132
Reposted by Howard BaikCharlie Gao @shikokuchuo.net · 11/09/2025I'm hoping you'll join our session on Strengthening the R Ecosystem at posit::conf(2025) on the Thursday morning! Find out about the hottest new thing in the tidyverse: "purrrfectly parallel, purrrfectly distributed" (yes, it's something about cats). #rstats #tidyverse #PositConf2025 pos.it/conf 0112
Reposted by Howard BaikAaron Jacobs @atheriel.bsky.social · 10/09/2025More #rstats + OpenTelemetry news: @schloerke.com finally got all of the async issues in {ellmer} and {shiny} sorted out and tracing now works! Here's what combining {shiny} + {ellmer} + {httr2} + {mirai} + {otel} looks like today. (All credit for the screenshots to @schloerke.com.) 1123
Reposted by Howard BaikBarret Schloerke @schloerke.com · 10/09/2025{otel} + #rstats is becoming a crazy partnership. This project has driven me to use/write {promises} in ways that makes my 🧠 ache 😅. The reward is worth it! See you at #PositConf2025 where I'll talk about this in more detail 0165
Howard Baik @howardbaik.bsky.social · 09/09/2025I've been reading the internals of {ellmer} and writing about it in my blog, and it's been fun seeing how all the pieces come together. 010
Howard Baik @howardbaik.bsky.social · 26/08/2025#rstats Anyone notice the new "Ask AI" feature on all the tidyverse package websites? 👀👀 240
Reposted by Howard Baiksarah @sarahjohnson.io · 21/08/2025I was loving Claude Code... until I tried it with #rstats. Constant errors, wouldn't use the tidyverse even when asked, "optimized" functions were slower. Frustrated, I started a session just to teach R to Claude and summarize what it learned into a CLAUDE.md file gist.github.com/sj-io/3828d6...gist.github.comClaude R Tidyverse ExpertClaude R Tidyverse Expert. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets. 1115229
Reposted by Howard BaikEmil Hvitfeldt @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Excited to share my newest quarto revealjs plugin: imagemover Easily reposition and resize images directly in your quarto revealjs slides for a much smoother slidecrafting experience github.com/EmilHvitfeld... #quarto 620550
Reposted by Howard BaikuseR! - The R User Conference @handle.invalid · 08/08/2025You can watch Hadley's keynote at this link: www.youtube.com/live/ctc2kx3... #useR2025youtube.comI wrote this talk with an LLM - Hadley Wickham (useR! 2025 Keynote 1)YouTube video by Duke Center for Computational Thinking 15319
Howard Baik @howardbaik.bsky.social · 05/08/2025Thank you! There is more to come in the blog series! 000
Reposted by Howard BaikRami Krispin @ramikrispin.bsky.social · 04/08/2025Code with Claude 👇🏼 This looks like a great playlist. Anthropic released its developer conference. The conference included a variety of talks, keynotes, and tutorials focusing on Anthropic API, tools, MCP, prompt engineering, and vibe coding. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... #ai 0102
Howard Baik @howardbaik.bsky.social · 04/08/2025New #rstats blog post: Deep Dive into ellmer: Part 1. I explore the source code behind ellmer's starter workflow - creating a new Chat object and calling the $chat() method. www.howardbaik.com/posts/deep-d... Thanks to @hadley.nz , @grrrck.xyz, @atheriel.bsky.social, and others for 🐘 ellmer 🐘 ! 1256
Howard Baik @howardbaik.bsky.social · 29/07/2025Just out of curiosity (I've been tracing the ellmer source code to learn), what's the design choice behind the new streamlined chat() function? 100
Reposted by Howard BaikHadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 25/07/2025🐘 ellmer 🐘 makes it easy and fun to use LLMs from #rstats, and 0.3.0 is out now. Read about the new streamlined chat() function, improvements to tool specifications, and more at www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/07....tidyverse.orgellmer 0.3.0The newest version of ellmer introduces a simpler `chat()` interface that can works with any provider, a bunch of improvements to tool calling, and a handful of smaller quality of life improvements. 28124
Reposted by Howard BaikAndrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 22/07/2025New blog post! @posit.co Positron doesn't use Rproj files tofor #rstats projects—instead you open folders in the IDE directly. Opening folders can be a little tricky though. This shortcut lets you right click on a folder in macOS Finder to open a it in Positron! www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/07... 6355
Reposted by Howard BaikHadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 11/07/2025Thanks to everyone who responded to my question about what folks should know about using LLMs to generate #rstats: I've summarised the feedback with a few of my thoughts at gist.github.com/hadley/77d42...gist.github.comllms-for-R.mdGitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets. 19019
Reposted by Howard BaikCarlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 20/06/2025Putting myself out there a bit. Honest request from an open-source developer: Can I please ask you to encourage people you know to stop with the "any updates on this?" discussion post? Every post like that genuinely makes me die inside a little bit. I'll try to explain in this thread. 1/ 25422
Reposted by Howard BaikJakub Nowosad @nowosad.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/06/2025Chapter 8: Geographic Data I/O 📂🌍💾 Covers how to read and write spatial data in various formats, access open geoportals, and work with geographic web services in R. Includes tips on metadata and exporting maps. 🔗 r.geocompx.org/read-write #rstats #rspatial #geocompx 033
Howard Baik @howardbaik.bsky.social · 28/05/2025Ah okay, that makes sense. Thanks for the helpful reply. 000
Howard Baik @howardbaik.bsky.social · 28/05/2025Hey Charlie, what's a good resource to learn about event-driven async and modern communications, and anything else that serves as the foundation of mirai? 100
Reposted by Howard BaikSimon Willison @simonwillison.net · 15/05/2025Here's the full workshop handout plus annotated slides from "Building software on top of Large Language Models", a three hour tutorial I presented yesterday at PyCon US #PyConUS simonwillison.net/2025/May/15/...simonwillison.netBuilding software on top of Large Language ModelsI presented a three hour workshop at PyCon US yesterday titled Building software on top of Large Language Models. The goal of the workshop was to give participants everything they … 418642
Reposted by Howard BaikJakub Nowosad @nowosad.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 07/05/2025🚀 New blog post by Tim Appelhans: State of the (open source) web map – Part I: The base(map) A thoughtful dive into the open source web mapping tools. Recommended. Read here: tim-salabim.codeberg.page/sotwm/sot… #WebMapping #OpenSourceGIS #MapLibre #gischat 068
Reposted by Howard BaikRami Krispin @ramikrispin.bsky.social · 28/04/2025The following workshop by Sheetal Borar, Chuxin Liu, PhD, and Shefali Shrivastava from the PyData Global conference dives into the foundation of transformer models. This includes building a transformer model from scratch using Python and numpy 🚀. 📽️: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWxD... #python #aiyoutube.comBorar, Liu, & Shrivastava - Build Your Own Transformer | PyData Global 2024YouTube video by PyData 021
Reposted by Howard BaikDariia Mykhailyshyna @dariia.bsky.social · 19/04/2025On June 13, we will have a workshop on Using LLMs by @hadley.nz More info: bit.ly/4jmEAJW Please share! #RStats #EconSky #AcademicSky 49731
Howard Baik @howardbaik.bsky.social · 16/04/2025#rstats Can someone explain the meaning of these prefixes in commit messages? "docs" is clear enough, but what do "feat", "chore", and "fledge" mean? This is from a screenshot of commit messages in the {duckplyr} repo. 310
Reposted by Howard BaikMid terms are November 3rd 2026. Go register voters. @usrbinr.bsky.social · 02/03/2025@emilyriederer.bsky.social nails it on her blog on #shiny modules Excited to do some deep dives on shiny modules this weekend emilyriederer.netlify.app/post/shiny-m...emilyriederer.netlify.appA beginner’s guide to Shiny modules | Emily RiedererDon’t believe the documentation! Shiny modules aren’t just for advanced users; they might just be a great entry point for development 051
Howard Baik @howardbaik.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Initially, does your .gitignore file look like that, leading you to push .Rproj to GitHub before later adding .Rproj to .gitignore to ignore it in the future? 000
Howard Baik @howardbaik.bsky.social · 13/02/2025If I follow this workflow, will .Rproj be ignored initially, preventing it from being included in the initial commit/push? I want to commit and push the .Rproj file to GitHub initially but avoid dealing with changing ProjectIds afterward. 000
Howard Baik @howardbaik.bsky.social · 13/02/2025#rstats How do people handle the .Rproj file appearing in the Git tab with the following diff? Do you use gitignore? 120
Howard Baik @howardbaik.bsky.social · 21/01/2025New Blog Post: My Notes on "How Tracking Data is Used in Football and What are the Future Challenges", a presentation by @spearman.bsky.social , Laurie Shaw, Javier Fernandez, Suds Gopaladesika, and David Sumpter: www.howardbaik.com/posts/how-tr...howardbaik.comHow Tracking Data is Used in Football and What are the Future Challenges – Howard BaikNotes I took watching Youtube video embedded below. 010
Reposted by Howard BaikRami Krispin @ramikrispin.bsky.social · 13/01/2025A short tutorial for OOP in Python www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLyY... #pythonyoutube.comLearn Python OOP in under 20 MinutesYouTube video by Indently 0112
Reposted by Howard BaikEmil Hvitfeldt @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · 10/01/2025I am using Positron every day and having a blast! Wrote up a small post outlining the key bindings I use and have created to make my life easier emilhvitfeldt.com/post/positro...emilhvitfeldt.comPositron: My Key BindingsPositron is a new and existing IDE for data science. Using and adding key bindings to improve my experience. 68215
Reposted by Howard BaikJoe Chou @incidentalfindings.org · 21/12/2024As far as I’m concerned, #webr and #shinylive is indistinguishable from magic. I can’t believe that since first installing #quarto-webr a few hours ago till now, I’ve gotten a relatively complicated #shinyapp exported, deployed, and running serverless. This is magic. #rstats 28810
Reposted by Howard BaikYutani @yutannihilation-en.bsky.social · 06/12/2024A slide which I decided to delete from tomorrow's presentation at #JapanR because I just found I know too little about graphics to talk about ggplot3. 1154
Howard Baik @howardbaik.bsky.social · 11/12/2024That's very cool. I remember {gganimate} being very slow! 010
Howard Baik @howardbaik.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Doesn’t gganimate let you create tracking data animations? I used gganimate for this blogpost on NBA player tracking data: www.howardbaik.com/posts/animat...howardbaik.comAnimating Expected Possession Value in the NBA – Howard BaikI extend a MIT SSAC Research Paper by Cervone, DAmour, Bornn, and Goldsberry on Expected Possession Value or EPV. 100
Reposted by Howard BaikTeun van den Brand @teunbrand.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Can I tell you about the gospel of our lord and saviour `theme_set()`? github.com/teunbrand/gg...github.comGitHub - teunbrand/ggplot_tricks: Here, I collect some tricks I've learned about the {ggplot2} R packageHere, I collect some tricks I've learned about the {ggplot2} R package - teunbrand/ggplot_tricks 1257
