Kurtis Pivert, MS, CAPX @kpivert.bsky.social · 27/08/2026RIP Yayoi Kusama. Was lucky to see the Kusama exhibit at @buffaloakg.bsky.social this summer. 000
Reposted by Kurtis Pivert, MS, CAPXASN Publications @asnpublications.bsky.social · 09/06/2026ASN survey of nephrology fellows found 74% felt moderately prepared. Fellows want teaching focused on inpatient emergencies, workflow, and dialysis/goals-of-care using didactics, shadowing, simulations, and small-group learning. #ASNKidney360 twp.ai/9OXJn1 @kpivert.bsky.social 031
Kurtis Pivert, MS, CAPX @kpivert.bsky.social · 03/12/2025My brief analysis of the AY 2026 Nephrology Match is up at data.asn-online.org/posts/ay_202.... Just 66% of offered nephrology fellowship positions were filled on Match Day. #MatchDay #Nephrologydata.asn-online.orgASN DataNephrology Programs Matched 66% of Positions for AY 2026 030
Kurtis Pivert, MS, CAPX @kpivert.bsky.social · 02/12/2025Great map scrollytelling on office -> apartment conversions in NYC by @bmcgill.bsky.social in the @wsj.com Gift Link: www.wsj.com/real-estate/... #map #scrollytellingwsj.comOffice-to-Residential Conversions Are Booming and New York Is the EpicenterA tour of Manhattan buildings you can now call home, and a peek inside the architectural hacks that make transformations possible. 030
Kurtis Pivert, MS, CAPX @kpivert.bsky.social · 27/11/2025Hope Mo Willems has a good copyright lawyer because that G00gl3 ad is totally stolen from Knuffle Bunny. 000
Kurtis Pivert, MS, CAPX @kpivert.bsky.social · 04/11/2025“A republic if you can keep it.” - Benjamin Franklin Voted! #Vote 010
Kurtis Pivert, MS, CAPX @kpivert.bsky.social · 27/10/2025RIP Jack. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...theguardian.comJack DeJohnette, versatile jazz drummer known for Miles Davis fusion recordings, dies aged 83Drummer played on Bitches Brew and other landmark recordings, as well as making numerous albums as a bandleader 010
Kurtis Pivert, MS, CAPX @kpivert.bsky.social · 15/10/2025I’m new to #Python and really like {uv} but when I’ve tried to use it on my work machine (Windows) it keeps crashing up against OneDrive. I’ve tried stopping tracking the directory, deleting the .venv folder, and using —link-mode=copy and nothing is working. Any advice for using #uv on #Windows? 000
Kurtis Pivert, MS, CAPX @kpivert.bsky.social · 13/10/2025OMG, epic typo in a half-page WSJ ad #copyediting #thisadshophassomeexplaingtodo 010
Kurtis Pivert, MS, CAPX @kpivert.bsky.social · 29/09/2025Out Today: Results from the 2025 ASN Nephrology Fellow Survey. Some highlights: - Base starting salaries were up 3%-4% over 2024. - Lifestyle factors—call frequency, desired locale, and vacation—are top of mind when fellows evaluate employment offers. data.asn-online.org/posts/2025_f... 000
Kurtis Pivert, MS, CAPX @kpivert.bsky.social · 21/09/2025While the FT mentions it in passing, other coverage on the EO is really burying the lede on the impact to J-1 visa waivers for physicians who are providing care for Americans in underserved areas. 000
Kurtis Pivert, MS, CAPX @kpivert.bsky.social · 11/09/2025September 11 started as a beautiful Tuesday morning. It was the first crisp fall day in NYC after it had poured the night before. I won’t forget the “Missing” posters, the dust, the smell, the chaos, or the papers that floated across the East River landing in Park Slope. 010
Kurtis Pivert, MS, CAPX @kpivert.bsky.social · 26/08/2025Best part of the “new” @dataconf.ai is no more R (or S) song coming back from breaks. Sorry (not sorry) @jaredlander.com 010
Kurtis Pivert, MS, CAPX @kpivert.bsky.social · 25/07/2025You can set the default indentation by clicking on the setting on the lower-right of the window, then edit your preference in the command palette window. Hope that helps 000
Kurtis Pivert, MS, CAPX @kpivert.bsky.social · 18/06/2025So, so grateful for the {nplyr} package. Makes working with nested dataframes an absolute breeze….OK, really easy. jibarozzo.github.io/nplyr/ Thanks @markjrieke.bsky.socialjibarozzo.github.ioA Grammar of Nested Data ManipulationProvides functions for manipulating nested data frames in a list-column using dplyr <https://dplyr.tidyverse.org/> syntax. Rather than unnesting, then manipulating a data frame, nplyr allows users to ... 040
Kurtis Pivert, MS, CAPX @kpivert.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Article. II. Clause 7. The President …. shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them. #USConstitution #FFS 020
Kurtis Pivert, MS, CAPX @kpivert.bsky.social · 09/04/2025The only thing missing from this is the endless cascade and of reviewers initials at the end 010
Kurtis Pivert, MS, CAPX @kpivert.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Thanks to @rfortherestofus.com for sharing @djnavarro.net excellent post on regex. Just wrote a lookbehind that worked the first time….without Google/ChatGPT/SO. 020
Kurtis Pivert, MS, CAPX @kpivert.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Well, I’ve been liberated from ever trying to retire….or help my daughter go to college. 010
Kurtis Pivert, MS, CAPX @kpivert.bsky.social · 07/03/2025It’s just jarring to see a Staten Island business with 212. 020
Kurtis Pivert, MS, CAPX @kpivert.bsky.social · 19/02/2025I subscribe to @wsj.com because of their excellence in reporting...and the strong firewall between news and the editorial board. Yet their masthead has been unflinching, no more so than in tomorrow's edition (gift link) www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...wsj.comOpinion | Trump Tilts Toward a Ukraine SelloutHe puts more pressure on Kyiv for a deal than he does on the Kremlin. 082
Kurtis Pivert, MS, CAPX @kpivert.bsky.social · 20/01/2025 I want you to say on that day that I did try in my life to visit those who were in prison. I want you to say that I tried to love and serve humanity." - Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. #MLKDay 020
Kurtis Pivert, MS, CAPX @kpivert.bsky.social · 20/01/2025I want you to say that day that I tried to be right on the war question. I want you to be able to say that day that I did try to feed the hungry. And I want you to be able to say that day that I did try in my life to clothe those who were naked. 4/ 100
Kurtis Pivert, MS, CAPX @kpivert.bsky.social · 20/01/2025I'd like somebody to mention that day that Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to give his life serving others. I'd like for somebody to say that day that Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to love somebody. 3/ 100
Kurtis Pivert, MS, CAPX @kpivert.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Tell them not to mention that I have a Nobel Peace Prize—that isn’t important. Tell them not to mention that I have three or four hundred other awards—that’s not important. Tell them not to mention where I went to school. 2/ 100
Kurtis Pivert, MS, CAPX @kpivert.bsky.social · 20/01/2025"If any of you are around when I have to meet my day, I don’t want a long funeral. And if you get somebody to deliver the eulogy, tell them not to talk too long. (Yes) And every now and then I wonder what I want them to say. 1/ 110
Reposted by Kurtis Pivert, MS, CAPXTanya Shapiro @tanyashapiro.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Looking for design opinions 🗳️ I'm crowdsourcing logo ideas for my data consulting business, IndieVisual. I've received a lot of unique submissions. Now I need help narrowing it down. And who better to ask than my creative data viz friends? 🧑🎨 99designs.com/contests/pol...99designs.comHelp me choose my new design!I’m running a logo contest on 99designs. Designers have submitted 214 designs so far. Please vote on your favorite as I’d love to receive your feedback. 561
Kurtis Pivert, MS, CAPX @kpivert.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Done! That was a nice palate cleanser. Look forward to seeing the final selection. 110
Kurtis Pivert, MS, CAPX @kpivert.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Check out the “Building story maps with mapgl” vignette that @kylewalker.bsky.social dropped yesterday. His great documentation makes it super easy to get started. Between {Closeread} and {mapgl} it has been a big couple of months for scrollytelling in R. 021
Kurtis Pivert, MS, CAPX @kpivert.bsky.social · 29/12/2024Malaise Forever! Thank you Mr. President. #39 030
Kurtis Pivert, MS, CAPX @kpivert.bsky.social · 19/12/2024The @wsj.com is covering this across multiple fronts. To be clear, I do not like their editorial pages, but their reporting is incredible and there is a strong firewall between news and editorial boards. 120
Kurtis Pivert, MS, CAPX @kpivert.bsky.social · 18/12/2024You’d think the company behind Google Fonts would be able to handle tracking but OMG this is incredibly distracting. #keming 030
Kurtis Pivert, MS, CAPX @kpivert.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Understood. FWIW, I wish the last “()” weren’t necessary in the lambda notation. 000
Kurtis Pivert, MS, CAPX @kpivert.bsky.social · 17/12/2024That’s a nice mnemonic. FWIW, I really like the base R pipe (even with the extra parens in the lambda function) since it’s explicit. @ivelasq3.bsky.social post really helped: ivelasq.rbind.io/blog/underst...ivelasq.rbind.ioUnderstanding the native R pipe |> – %>% dreamsOr, why mtcars |> plot(hp, mpg) doesn’t work and what you can do about it. 2112
Kurtis Pivert, MS, CAPX @kpivert.bsky.social · 07/12/2024My wife recommends Magnolia Studios and Emily at Tenacity Tattoo in Scottsville. 110
Kurtis Pivert, MS, CAPX @kpivert.bsky.social · 05/12/2024As Dr. Baxi notes, the positions often do fill. 020
Kurtis Pivert, MS, CAPX @kpivert.bsky.social · 05/12/2024I have hypotheses, but no definitive answer to what caused the decline in matched fellows. 020
Kurtis Pivert, MS, CAPX @kpivert.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Just pushed my analysis of this afternoon's AY 2025 Nephrology Match live at data.asn-online.org/posts/ay_202... #nephsky #nephrologydata.asn-online.orgASN DataMatched Candidates in Nephrology Were Up 13% in AY 2025 0165
Kurtis Pivert, MS, CAPX @kpivert.bsky.social · 01/12/2024Nearly 8 months after losing our wonderful cat Malcolm, it was time to adopt another orange kitten. Meet Percy! #orangecat 040
Kurtis Pivert, MS, CAPX @kpivert.bsky.social · 01/12/2024Doubt I'll be able to keep up, but FWIW, I just completed "Historian Hysteria" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/1adventofcode.comDay 1 - Advent of Code 2024 010
Reposted by Kurtis Pivert, MS, CAPXShannon Pileggi @pipinghotdata.com · 26/11/2024The R-Ladies Philly 🔔 recording of Jenny Bryan on "Let me GitHub search that for you" is available on YouTube! 🎉 #rstats #rladiesbuff.lyLet me GitHub search that for you with Jenny BryanThere's an amazing amount of R code on GitHub, including the source of all CRAN packages and the source of R itself. As a result, lots of intermediate-to-adv... 2308
Kurtis Pivert, MS, CAPX @kpivert.bsky.social · 22/11/2024I was asked after my presentation yesterday if I was of Native American heritage because I had included a land acknowledgment for the Council of the 3 Fires. Only to go to a Chicago Blackhawks game that started with a land acknowledgment. 220
