iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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📦 Introducing shinyreact for R & Python Write your UI natively in React. Shrink your Shiny server to data-only logic. Agent Skills write the React for you. ✨ opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-09... This is the start! Tell us what you build and what breaks. #RStats #Python #Shiny #React

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Ambassador Frank Hull @frankiethull.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

ohh thank you so much for custom providers within Posit Assistant 🤖 able to run it with my own custom router wrapped with plumber and its working 🥳

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R Consortium @rconsortium.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

What does it take to sustain R? Join R Consortium, R Core & R Foundation Oct 6 to discuss the people, infrastructure & community behind R. 12 PM PT / 3 PM ET / 8 PM London Register: r-consortium.org/webinars/sus... #RStats

Graphic for upcoming R Core and R Foundation panel discussion - Oct 6, 2026

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David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I was looking at metrics at my (admittedly New Zealand) University recently, and I can make a very strong case that most of the research code being written here is ATM in R, and it is the Linga Franca of evidence discussions (where speed is not the optimisation, understanding of method is)

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Jeremy Allen @jeremy-data.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A. When you use code to **analyze data** outside of an IDE, what are using instead? B. When you analyze data without using code, what are you using to do it? #rstats #databs #pydata

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Jeremy Allen @jeremy-data.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I created a new large language model called Bev. You give Bev a list of dinner options and it returns equal probability for all. It then asks you which you prefer, and when you pick one it then discloses a preference for another one.

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Jeremy Allen @jeremy-data.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Putting on my sociology hat to build on what Tanya says: it’s important to “see” ourselves as a community, and having lost an online space where most gathered, conf is now the place where we are reflected back at ourselves and recognize ourselves as a community. Long live #positconf

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Jeremy Allen @jeremy-data.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Was great seeing so many peeps from federal agencies and state and local governments at #positconf2026. Open source data science is stronger than ever in #government. I’m always happy to chat if you want to talk more. #RStats #PyData #DataBS

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Jeremy Allen @jeremy-data.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

#RStats and #PyData peeps. Don’t fear IT at work. We’ll demo Package Manager (PPM) for your IT and their fear of the ecosystems will fade and open doors for you. PPM is your gateway to approved R and Python at work! Thanks to all at #positconf2026 who talked PPM with me. You got this!

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Sharon Machlis @smachlis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"We have a lot of R fans on my team" NY Times graphics editor @christinezhang.bsky.social tells #PositConf2026 🎉 She also said she often sketches out graphics using #RStats ggplot2 and is a frequent user of the Positron IDE.

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Jeremy Allen @jeremy-data.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

y'all i live in georgia with a dog and creek so don't expect me to survive much longer

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 25/08/2026

hey hey hey I got Positron Server working through JupyterHub running on a DigitalOcean droplet thanks to Posit's Positron for Education license positron.posit.co/education.html - I have a few iPad-only students this semester and now they can use Positron like the rest of the class #rstats

Screenshot of Positron, but in a browser

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Jeremy Allen @jeremy-data.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

If you've wanted to hear what an AI data center sounds like, now you can because I recorded one for you. Grab your headphones and listen. www.thetreeline.pub/p/what-does-...

thetreeline.pub

What does an AI data center sound like?

I recorded this audio for you. You tell me.

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Jeremy Allen @jeremy-data.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

You should disclose if you took a train, car, or bike to work. And if you took an artificial path like sidewalk or road. And if you wore shoes. And if you skipped protein or meds at breakfast. And got less than 8 hours of sleep… Otherwise I don’t trust you or your fitness

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Jeremy Allen @jeremy-data.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Inspired by Haldey's post, I also wrote about how I use AI outside of work open.substack.com/pub/thetreel....

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AI Outside of work and in the creek

Is AI good for anything?

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Jeremy Allen @jeremy-data.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

On mastodon I am only @jeremy_data@fosstodon.org. If you see something from "Jeremy Allen" check it's full handle, and if it's not @jeremy_data@fosstodon.org but is impersonating me, report it and block it.

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Jeremy Allen @jeremy-data.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Done! Hoping others will join me in donating.

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Jeremy Allen @jeremy-data.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

It’s Friday. Do a breakthrough.

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Jeremy Allen @jeremy-data.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I was reflecting on my breakfast burrito this morning when out of nowhere came an antifa vandal cutting a 350 ft slit right down the length of it.

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Jeremy Allen @jeremy-data.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I still log AI's transformation of work at www.thetreeline.pub/p/ais-transf.... I defined the collection, processing, and writing workflow for Claude. I lightly edit final text. It's a semi-automated curation service for me, so I can keep up. You are welcome to it if you want. #AI #work

thetreeline.pub

AI's transformation of work

A running log

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Jeremy Allen @jeremy-data.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

One of the two owlets growing up on our creek. This one came very close this morning. They are very curious when they are young. #birds #owls

Juvenile Barred Owl photographed face-on against a bokeh-softened green canopy, revealing downy transitional plumage and asymmetric catchlights

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Simon P. Couch @simonpcouch.com · 11/06/2026

Fable 5 is the new highest scorer on bluffbench! The eval measures models' ability to accurately describe plots that show counterintuitive patterns. Six months ago, the strongest models were still in the single digits. simonpcouch.github.io/bluffbench/

A horizontal bar chart comparing AI models' performance on the bluffbench eval. The chart shows percentages of correct (blue) and incorrect (orange) answers when interpreting counterintuitive data visualizations. The best score across all models is Fable 5 (Medium thinking), around 72%. The second best scores is Gemini 3.5 Flash (High thinking), around 60%. Without thinking enabled, most models cluster around 25%.

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Max kuhn @topepo.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I'm getting around to updating the #rstats caret package. No new features is still the rule. The goal is to keep the interface the same while making it much easier to support. Link to the initial plan below; add comments if you have thoughts on improving the upkeep. github.com/topepo/caret...

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upkeep plan for summer 2026 · Issue #1418 · topepo/caret

We have a paid intern this year who is interested in helping modernize caret to make support and upkeep easier. The current overall plan of no new features is still in place. We just want to make t...

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Robin Lovelace @robinlovelace.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

I've just tried Posit Assistant on the free plan and must say, I'm impressed. Using the super-cheap Gemma 4 26B model (10% cost of Sonnet) on free plan it worked instantly. Hats of to the #posit team for integrating this into RStudio and allowing people to test with free plan!

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Jeremy Allen @jeremy-data.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

🤖 it's weird that we will have artificial general intelligence before reliable home printing 🖨️

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Jeremy Allen @jeremy-data.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Rough days in the Allen family recently and ahead. If you can love |> send() I would grateful

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Jeremy Allen @jeremy-data.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

just in case an LLM hasn't told you already today, "the difference matters"

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Rami Krispin @ramikrispin.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

We have an open data science role on our team. The role is in our Cupertino office (no remote) and is open only in the US. More details: jobs.apple.com/en-us/detail...

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Services Finance, Data Scientist - Jobs - Careers at Apple

Apply for a Services Finance, Data Scientist job at Apple. Read about the role and find out if it’s right for you.

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Jeremy Allen @jeremy-data.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

according to tech influencers, i’ve been using nearly all software completely wrong, and if i could just use them correctly they’d all completely destroy their competition, which if true would be mutual destruction across the board, leaving no software at all, so to use any i have to use some poorly

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Libby Heeren @libbyheeren.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Well, it's been a highly requested topic for the DS Lab, so @schloerke.com is going to come hang out with us on May 26th and talk about how HE uses worktrees! I hope you'll be able to make it that day!

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Jeremy Allen @jeremy-data.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

I'm checking out the new packages pane in our #Positron IDE. Python or #RStats. The little blue arrows mean package updates are available. Search, sort, install, update, remove, and filter by category. More cool metadata coming in a future release.

Positron IDE showing bird_card.R open in the editor, with library calls for ebird, mggick, and ggplot2. A purple arrow annotation points to the Packages pane on the left, which lists installed R packages. The terminal panel at the bottom shows the script being sourced with dplyr attaching.

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Charlie Gao @shikokuchuo.net · 07/05/2026

OpenTelemetry has come to R 🎉 Shiny, plumber2, mirai, httr2, ellmer, knitr, testthat, and DBI are now instrumented: production-grade traces from R with no code changes. Set a few env vars and telemetry flows to the backend of your choice. Full write-up: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-05... #Rstats

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Bringing OpenTelemetry to R in production

Posit has instrumented Shiny, plumber2, mirai, httr2, ellmer, knitr, testthat, and DBI with OpenTelemetry, and created tools for you to instrument your own packages, bringing production-grade observab...

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Rajo @rajodm.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Inline outputs for #Quarto documents in #Positron are finally here!

Screenshot of Posit's Positron IDE showing a Quarto markdown file with code chunk output displayed inline beneath the code

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Jeremy Allen @jeremy-data.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

I am not going to fly in planes until they flap their wings as birds do. There's just too much risk with such artificial flight.

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Simon P. Couch @simonpcouch.com · 01/05/2026

Still pretty wild to me that this works (and quite well!)—pull a pre-trained neural network, provide some of your own data in-context (in lieu of "training"), and start making predictions. Kudos to the team for the R interface and tidymodels integration.

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 30/04/2026

Saw this white-crowned sparrow having a lot of a sing

A photograph of a white crowned sparrow. The sparrow is perched on a fence post and its little beak open and its head thrown back in song.

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Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

"If someone says it’s raining and another person says it’s dry, it’s not your job to quote them both. It’s your job to get on Polymarket and pump the arbitrage opportunity."

Chart from the Financial Times showing temperature and climate anomalies in Paris and a concomitant spike in unique bettors on excess temperatures

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Tyler Morgan-Wall @tylermw.com · 25/04/2026

I implemented a fork of {targets} which provides the necessary changes to support {mori} shared memory regions! Check out the discussion thread below to learn more about the implementation: github.com/ropensci/tar... And try out the primary fork here: github.com/tylermorganw... #RStats

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[ideas] Proposal: cache marshalled target values for custom formats, motivated by shared-memory backends · ropensci targets · Discussion #1584

Help I understand and agree to https://books.ropensci.org/targets/help.html. Description I wanted to start a discussion before opening PRs, per the contributing guide. I have two related branches i...

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Simon P. Couch @simonpcouch.com · 24/04/2026

Our AI newsletter has moved to the new @posit.co Open Source blog! In this edition, AI and cybersecurity, a step change for local coding agents, and a new dataviz engine for SQL. opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04...

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2026-04-24 AI Newsletter

The latest AI newsletter, covering AI cybersecurity efforts, improvements in local models, and a grammar of graphics for SQL.

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Ansgar Wolsing @ansgarw.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

The Grammar of Graphics for SQL – and it’s for real! 😅 #ggsql brings the Grammar of Graphics to SQL - developed by the team behind ggplot2 at Posit. No need to switch to another tool to create nice charts once you have queried your database. #30DayChartChallenge | Day 22 - New tool #dataviz 📊

A chart showing how the new registrations of BEV developed in Germany between January 2017 and March 2026. From a share below 1 % there were major drivers that a highlighted with annotations:
- June 2020: Purchase incentive introduced.
- Fall 2021: Rush to secure purchase incentive before scheduled 2021 expiry and government change.
Dec 2022: Last chance for maximum incentive before rates decreased in Jan 2023.
Aug 2023: Final month for incentive for commercial buyers; private buyers only thereafter.
Dec 2023: Immediate termination of all EV subsidies following federal budget ruling.
2024-25: Organic growth from 10 percent to 24 percent.
Share of Tesla cars is added from 2021 onwards, showing a typical pattern of a weak first month of the quarter, followed by two stronger months. The share increased up to 6 percent until mid 2023, since then it has declined. Strong uptick in March 2026 (about 3 percent of total new registrations).

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Tyler Morgan-Wall @tylermw.com · 23/04/2026

This is really big (if it works!)—a big limitation for the use of R in simulation up to this point has been memory bloat. I’ve had to turn off parallel processing/reduce the number of workers many times in my {targets} workflows due to OOM errors. Hopefully this will solve that problem #RStats

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Me and a small nugget of love. 🇸🇪♥️🇺🇦 @mnotme.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

two images of the human body's circulatory system. One of them with good cable management

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Ben Harrap @bharrap.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Any #rstats people with thoughts?

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Joe Kirincic @jkirincic.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

New post. You built an ML model with {tidymodels} that you want automated in Dagster. Engineering's reply: "Sorry, we need this rewritten in Python to deploy." No more. With the {dagsterpipes} R package, you can run R code in Dagster with full observability. #rstats joekirincic.com/posts/use-r-...

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Use R in your Dagster pipelines with {dagsterpipes} – Joe Kirincic

Learn how R can now be used seamlessly within Dagster projects.

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Jeremy Allen @jeremy-data.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

There is a class of LLM critique I find impossible to take seriously. It goes like this: If left unchecked, a car will drive straight into anything in front of it. No shit, Sherlock. Let's do better at critique.

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