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Joe Fernander

@joefernander.bsky.social
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Data dude passionate about learning analytics & learning sciences in higher education. #rstats #quarto #shiny #learninganalytics

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Joe Fernander @joefernander.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
😂
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Joe Fernander @joefernander.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
I feel the same about CSS in my Shiny apps. I’m not good at CSS, but I do know what I want my apps to look like.
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Joe Fernander @joefernander.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Terrifying.
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Joe Fernander @joefernander.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
I work I higher education. We are already seeing this on end of course evaluations. Terrifying.
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Joe Fernander @joefernander.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Really great running into you a few times! Great conf!
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Joe Fernander @joefernander.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Doing the work. Thank you, Senator!
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Joe Fernander @joefernander.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
llm_classify() from the mall package can fix that in a jiffy.
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Joe Fernander @joefernander.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
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Joe Fernander @joefernander.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
*images, not text. Need more coffee.
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Joe Fernander @joefernander.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Couldn’t agree more on AI text and videos being “aesthetically repulsive.”
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Joe Fernander @joefernander.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Health Wanted from Rollins School of Public Health is 🤯
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Joe Fernander @joefernander.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
📌
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Joe Fernander @joefernander.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Shut the front door 😯
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Joe Fernander @joefernander.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
But what about the 84 tabs of Workbench that I seem to always have open?
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Joe Fernander @joefernander.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Hope to get to meet you in person! It’s going to be a great conference!
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Joe Fernander @joefernander.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
I ❤️ paying taxes. Taxes maintain our nation’s infrastructure, contribute to educating the next generation, advancing our health and innovation, and pay for the military to keep us safe. I think more folks need to start celebrating the taxes we pay and the benefits we all receive.
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Joe Fernander @joefernander.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Jamovi allows for pivoting wider/longer and uses R under the hood.
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Joe Fernander @joefernander.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
It’s so easy to use. I ❤️ the Quarto integration.
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Joe Fernander @joefernander.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
*steak - I’m vegetarian, so I’m excused from knowing how to spell.
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Joe Fernander @joefernander.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Before the microwave, there was no market for microwaveable foods. Which, for the most part, we know to be trash foods. Sounds about right for LLMs, too. I’m thinking Salesforce’s Agentforce is akin to the Salisbury stake dinner.
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Joe Fernander @joefernander.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
For those of us using R, Plummer is absolutely amazing for deploying APIs in hours. Deploy locally, to Docker, or Posit Connect with ease.
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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 21/03/2025
I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired. It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵
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Joe Fernander @joefernander.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
WWJD?
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Joe Fernander @joefernander.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Great episode, but full of AI propaganda advertisements. I know you can’t control the ads, just thought it was ironic.
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Joe Fernander @joefernander.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
I love how NOAA doesn’t seem to give a shit about Trump and continues to post science.
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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 01/03/2025
I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org
18f.org
We're not done yet | 18F
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Joe Fernander @joefernander.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
recreation.gov (Mapbox) is still holding on the the Gulf of Mexico.
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Joe Fernander @joefernander.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Dude! The books are wayyyyy better than the movie. My 5-year old and I are on the third book and it’s truly epic.
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Joe Fernander @joefernander.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Same experiment with ChatGPT
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Joe Fernander @joefernander.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
I’m not laughing. This is legit terrifying.
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Joe Fernander @joefernander.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
I had a similar conversation using the 1.5b model. I tried for hours to get it to provide information about Taiwan, North Korea and Russia/Ukraine. Under the guise of a code of ethics, the model seems to refuse, in a strange way, to discuss any geopolitical issues.
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Joe Fernander @joefernander.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Under his eye.
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Pr Carlos Moreno - IAE Paris1 Sorbonne University @carlosmorenofr.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
JD Vance: The professors are the enemy - Professors who give time and vital energy with respect and passion for knowledge, learning and sharing, let us say that the enemy is ignorance and greed, which are at the root of the loss of our humanity, and lead us back to the barbarism of the strongest.
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Joe Fernander @joefernander.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
“I lost my critical thinking,” she said on Wednesday, reflecting on her involvement in the riot and the “Stop the Steal” movement. “Now I know it was a cult, and I was in a cult.”
nytimes.com
Jan. 6 Defendant Shuns Trump’s Pardon, Likening ‘Stop the Steal’ to a ‘Cult’
Pamela Hemphill, 71, of Boise, Idaho, who served 60 days in prison, said it would be “an insult to the Capitol Police” if she accepted the pardon.
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Joe Fernander @joefernander.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
I have about an inch in Newnan. Far more than expected.
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Joe Fernander @joefernander.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
How are we going to fund the new lazy river now?
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Joe Fernander @joefernander.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
We all love an open API until some pimple with Ubuntu figures out what a cron job is.
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Joe Fernander @joefernander.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Agreed- but what about SharePoint and MS Forms? A form would automatically collect date time and user. Also, better data privacy.
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Joe Fernander @joefernander.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
I feel this.
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Joe Fernander @joefernander.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Anyone have a citation to fact check this?
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Joe Fernander @joefernander.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
“All models are wrong, but some are useful.” -George Box Went to bed last night with NOAA forecasting a 4% chance of snow for my area and woke up with 2 inches.
A Great Pyrenees plays in the snow.
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Joe Fernander @joefernander.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
I started reading “The Effect” over the winter break and I might try to follow along with your course this semester. I finished my thesis last semester and wish I had the opportunity to take this class with you!
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Joe Fernander @joefernander.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Health insurance is wild. I was reading through my new policy for 2025 and under section 1267 “Payments” 42 §§ 4(c)a it just reads “🖕🏼”.
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Joe Fernander @joefernander.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
I was beginning to think I was a moron for having issues with it until I saw your rant a few days ago. One of my coworkers, who doesn’t code, told me that there was no way a company like Microsoft could make something as horrible as I described it.
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Joe Fernander @joefernander.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
You’re braver than I am. We recently switched from Google to Microsoft365 and it has been a nightmare. The Google API was incredibly easy to use and Microsoft365 is horrible. I got so frustrated that I switched a ton of automated loads to Smartsheet. I miss Google Sheets.
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Joe Fernander @joefernander.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Looks like my B.A. in Religious Studies is finally worth something. 15/15
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Joe Fernander @joefernander.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
You can use mermaid directly in Quarto. It’s amazing.
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Joe Fernander @joefernander.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
I will add, it was lightening fast. Way faster than if I had read it into memory and used dplyr.
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Joe Fernander @joefernander.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
I mostly interact with MS SQL servers, so I don’t use it a lot. But I was given a large CSV (37GiB) and my Posit Workbench machine only has 36 GiB of memory spread between 4 analysts. It was nice to be able to open and query that large CSV file without reading the entire file into memory.
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Joe Fernander @joefernander.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
If you have Spotify Family, they have a dedicated Spotify Kids app that you can run side-by-side with the normal app. Plays on the Kids app are excluded from your Wrapped data.
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