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Matt Worthington

@mrworthington.bsky.social
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Husband, parent | Policy + Data Science | @spurs & SATX native | Used to flip @Whataburger | #rstats, #observablehq, #rshiny, + #txlege 🤓

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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Everyone should know: Trump is choosing to take money for food from millions of Americans. Trump can and legally should keep SNAP running. If you are struggling to afford groceries, it’s because Trump chose to make it that way.
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'Uncharted territory': Ongoing shutdown threatens food aid for 42 million people
SNAP, the country's largest anti-hunger program, dates back to the Great Depression and has never been disrupted this way. Most recipients are seniors, families with kids, and those with disabilities.
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Matt Worthington @mrworthington.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
The phrase we use most often at work is, “Microsoft can create a new state of matter, and yet…{insert valid criticism like constantly forcing two versions of outlook and teams onto a PC’s taskbar even if user doesn’t use one version.}” All of the criticism applies, TBH.
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hrbrmstr 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @hrbrmstr.dev · 18/06/2025
I rly hope @observablehq.com Plot never goes away (along with Framework). It makes dashboarding so stupid easy. Just added some new things to the internal alpha site before we put this up as another Viz Experiment.
Two dark-themed line charts showing daily IP activity from Turkmenistan and Tanzania, used to visualize source volatility—how erratic daily IP counts are. The Turkmenistan chart shows a volatility score of 1.665 with “unknown” intention, and the Tanzania chart a 1.441 score marked as “malicious” (in red). Both show a spike in early June, well above a dotted horizontal line representing average daily activity. Labels explain that higher volatility means more erratic IP activity.
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hrbrmstr 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @hrbrmstr.dev · 03/06/2025
#RStats WHAT MAGICKS IS THIS?!?!?! github.com/t-kalinowski...
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GitHub - t-kalinowski/quickr: R to Fortran Transpiler
R to Fortran Transpiler. Contribute to t-kalinowski/quickr development by creating an account on GitHub.
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JD Long @jdlong.cerebralmastication.com · 18/03/2025
yup, I had to look at this so now you do too. God save our eyes.
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Traces of Texas @tracesoftexas.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Traces of Texas reader Stan Watty kindly sent in this humorous photo and, given the weather lately hereabouts and projecting into next week, when another massive cold front is expected, I laughed. Thank you, Stan.
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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 03/02/2025
The data at USAID's ForeignAssistance dot gov was removed over the weekend, but it seems to be back (for now). As a backup, I've uploaded the data both as static CSV files and a queryable API - Details: andrewheiss.github.io/foreignassis... - API: foreignassistance-data.andrewheiss.com
Screenshot from my backup ForeignAssistance dot gov site, with links to different USAID datasetsScreenshot from a live map that uses data from the backup APIScreenshot of foreign aid by country
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Matt Worthington @mrworthington.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Saw this post and thought a new #rstats package just dropped. 😂
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Traces of Texas @tracesoftexas.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
In San Antonio back in the day, you could pay for your driver's license on the installment plan. Another great photo from Russell Lee.
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Matt Worthington @mrworthington.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
As a follow-up, I thought I'd show folks the kind of templated report I was able to build with typst after just a day of learning how to leverage it in Quarto. Thanks to everyone mentioned below! Feeling super inspired to make more stuff, including maybe a #quartopub extension! #rstats
Creative Report (Gray Colored) made with Quarto + Typst. There's a title page with a map looking background and a separate page with a table of table of contents that also has a light looking map in the background.
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Matt Worthington @mrworthington.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Whew. Spent a lot of time today learning about utilizing typst in quarto and wow, am I glad I did. Grateful to @nrennie.bsky.social, @dgkeyes.com, @cscheid.net, @hrbrmstr.dev, @chriskenny.bsky.social for sharing their knowledge via blogs, talks, and public repos. #rstats #quartopub
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Matt Worthington @mrworthington.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Do any #rstats folks know of good tutorials for developing #python packages coming from #rstats?
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Matt Worthington @mrworthington.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Heard someone say today that they felt like AI would likely eliminate the need for some jobs in their industry while creating new ones, but likely result in hiring more people overall for them. Not an AI expert by any means, but curious what industries end up this way than what’s often projected.
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Matt Worthington @mrworthington.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Question for @posit.co #rstats + #python folks, is there a python equivalent for the odbc::databricks() function from {odbc} 1.5.0? Asking for some 🐍 colleagues. Thanks in advance!
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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Instead of manually updating dates in your file names (which we often forget to update), programmatically add the current date in #rstats using something like lubridate::today(). :)
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Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 25/11/2024
I'm writing up a brief history of the tidyverse? What do you want to know about it? #rstats
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Paul Saldaña @paulsaldanaatx.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Latino Wealth Gap Persists Despite Their Growing Role In The U.S. Economy - The Latino economic story is two-sided. One end tells the story of contributions, growth, and strength, and the other tells the story of struggles and financial instability. www.forbes.com/sites/noreen...
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Latino Wealth Gap Persists Despite Their Growing Role In The U.S. Economy
One tells the story of contributions, growth, and strength, and the other tells the story of struggles and financial instability.
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Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 14/11/2024
Bluesky really is the new #rstats twitter because we have the first base R vs tidyverse flame war 🤣
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Matt Worthington @mrworthington.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
Feel like I keep seeing that bluesky’s the data app now. Is that for real, for real? Cause I heard LinkedIn was kinda becoming that too. Asking cause I don’t want to get my hopes up, but also… hopes are kinda up. #rstats #quarto #observablehq
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Matt Worthington @mrworthington.bsky.social · 30/09/2024
Maaaaaannn… the combo of DuckDB, Arquero, Observable Plot, and Quarto Dashboards is ridiculously good for so many ideas. For all my #rstats peeps, I still use R in these workflows, but almost entirely for the pre-processing and data engineering side of things.
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Matt Worthington @mrworthington.bsky.social · 17/07/2024
First go w/ Docker in GH Actions today + I’m sold! For anyone interested, here’s the repo I created to learn how to do it! LT goal is using GH Actions, R, + Docker to build pipelines that feed parquet files to DuckDB in quarto dashboards w/ OJS data viz. github.com/mrworthingto...
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GitHub - mrworthington/irs_migration_data: This is a repo that downloads and organizes US migration data for consumption into a Quarto Dashboard
This is a repo that downloads and organizes US migration data for consumption into a Quarto Dashboard - mrworthington/irs_migration_data
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Matt Worthington @mrworthington.bsky.social · 01/07/2024
On a related note, I’m wondering how folks make nice tables in @observablehq with similar quality to reactable or gt in #rstats? I know of tan stack table, but wondering if there’s anything similar to how Plot offers a lot of JS equivalent functionality to what ggplot2 does in #rstats?
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Matt Worthington @mrworthington.bsky.social · 01/07/2024
Do any #rstats observable nerds know if there’s a ggrepel equivalent for #observablehq’s Plot library?
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hrbrmstr 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @hrbrmstr.dev · 18/02/2024
Threw together a small Observable Framework dashboard example that has a basic shell CISA KEV JSON data loader and 2 pages. Code: rud.is/kev-dashboar... Preview: rud.is/kev-dashboar...
dashboard example showing a sidebar with 2 entries, and a main section with a calendar heatmap and obscured barchart
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Matt Worthington @mrworthington.bsky.social · 19/02/2024
Been playing around w/ @observablehq for some spatial viz. I can’t quite figure out how to pass a bounding box to the domain argument of a projection. Goal is to select a county and have the county fill the entire viewport of the chart. Anyone got a solution? #rstats #quartopub #ObservablePlot
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Plot County Map with Filter
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Matt Worthington @mrworthington.bsky.social · 25/01/2024
The 🤓 in me has always wished I could work with some fellow #rstats friends I’ve made through social media. That chapter begins this week, after @tonyelhabr.bsky.social joined my team at work. Couldn’t be more thrilled about having a co-conspirator in everything data!
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Matt Worthington @mrworthington.bsky.social · 27/08/2023
Recently used arrow + duckdb to get some SQL practice in and blogged about it. Was blown away that this doc rendered even though the dataset was originally 10GB in size. On a side note: does anyone know if you can use arrow::open_dataset() on a pins parquet or arrow object? #rstats #quartopub
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Matt Worthington - Gnarly Data w/ Arrow, DuckDB, + SQL
Knowing SQL is a must for Data Scientists + other analytics professionals, but how can R users start practicing their SQL skills in a familiar environment? That’s this post!
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