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Bits @bitshammer.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

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Amelia McNamara @amelia.mn · 26/07/2026

Pretty sure this is a local graffiti artist's tag, but it *is* kind of calling out for an #rstats package.

Lightpole covered in stickers. One reads RUINR NCG. HIGH VIZ

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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 09/07/2026

Today is Duodi the 22nd of Messidor in the year 234. Messidor is the month of harvest. Today we celebrate cumin. #JacobinDay See today's page

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Dirk Eddelbuettel @eddelbuettel.com · 11/07/2026

Norm Matloff (1948-2026) @matloff.bsky.social I was made aware of the post below made by his daughter. We lost another friend and valued long-time contributor the #Rstats community, gone far too soon, and sure to be missed. His memory will be a blessing.

Screenshot of post on X in the account of Norm Matloff in which his daughter announces his passing. Gone too soon, and sure to be missed.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Happy Pride Month. If you're a gay man, please remember your power. People often think that gay men are innately fashionable, which means if you wear some stupid shit for long enough, straight people, including homophobes, will copy you and then you can laugh at them.

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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 17/05/2026

Today is Nonidi the 29th of Floréal in the year 234. Floréal is the month of flowers. Today we celebrate white mustard. #JacobinDay More information on white mustard

An old time-y illustration of a White mustard.

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terence @tterence.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Land cover of Sri Lanka. The last time I did anything related to land cover was *checks history* almost three years ago. And I remember why: I spend way too much time on colours, just to end back up with the original palette. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

A visualisation of Sri Lanka's land cover

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Yourqueerprof @drcompton.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I didnt know there were such dreams to live as a child!

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James Williamson, Newfoundland GIS Specialist @northernmaps.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Density of point-of-view sections by word count in the Wheel of Time Another chart I did as part of my failed 30 days of charts. But I got a bit of a kick out of putting this on the economist theme. #wheeloftime #wot #robertjordan #thewheelweaves #fantasy #30DayChartChallenge

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Trying again: Instead of noting down #Qgis tricks and tips privately I'm going to do it here so maybe it can help other people too. First up: Prettier contours. 1/11 #GIS #cartography

A map of a bit of of a Sardinian mountain side (we clearly ain't in Denmark any more as we're several Himmelbjerger high). It shows a hydrological channel network with 1m contours denoted by a thin line. Thicker contours lines are drawn every 10m. These are labelled to show the elevation.
The next picture in the thread will hopefully illustrate why this is good..

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Jarome Ali 🇹🇹 🏳️‍🌈 @jarome.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Who said coding isn't fun? #Rstats

"NA" repeated many times, taken from R output

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James Williamson, Newfoundland GIS Specialist @northernmaps.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Radiocarbon Dates for Newfoundland Recent Indigenous Period archaeological sites. I wanted to see how many dates had been taken at each site, and how wide their errors were. #historic #error #radiocarbon #Newfoundland #archaeology #30DayChartChallenge

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Generational tweet that might even spawn a school of architecture.

Cairo Smith:
There's a common misconception that Brutalist buildings were unpainted, but thanks to microscopic analysis of the exteriors we can now recreate what they looked like in their prime.

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David Hugh-Jones @hughjonesd.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

One more from the classic graphs vignette. Annual flow of the Nile. The wet lines effect is got by set_brush("classic/ink_blot"); set_hand(human_hand(pressure = 0.6, pressure_taper = 0.6)) lines(years, flow, col = "#075079", lwd = 3) #rstats #rtistry

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Tuna @antea04.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I'm a data scientist @ourworldindata.org and I need help from a botanist or someone local to Kyoto, Japan! 🌸 We present one of the world’s longest climate records: 1,200 years of peak cherry blossom dates in Kyoto. The researcher who maintained it, Prof. Yasuyuki Aono, sadly passed away last year.

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Louis M Penrod @louismpenrod.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

#30DayChartChallenge #Day13 – Ecosystems. Well, a digital ecosystem. Radial plots of the relative abundance of monsters in the Stardew Valley mines per zone. Each zone has its unique "ecosystem" composed of different organisms that appear at different rates. #DataViz #Rstats

Four radial bar charts arranged vertically, each representing one zone of the Stardew Valley mines: Brown, Gray, Frozen, and Lava. Each chart shows the relative frequency of monster types found in that zone, with bars radiating outward from the center. A pixel art image of each monster type sits at the tip of its corresponding bar. An example level from the game shown next to each plot. The charts reveal how the monster community composition shifts as you descend deeper into the mines.

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James Williamson, Newfoundland GIS Specialist @northernmaps.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Day of the peak cherry blossom in Kyoto from 812-2025 I really just wanted to try making a pretty circular plot, so I'll take another shot at this sometime. #circularplot #kyoto #cherryblossom #30DayChartChallenge

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James Williamson, Newfoundland GIS Specialist @northernmaps.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

A Tanaka-style map of the Torngat Mountains National Park. I wanted to try out a few things with relief and toponym placement. #Torngats #Labrador #Nunatsiavut #NorthernCanada #Tanaka #Contours

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Wajdi @wajdi.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

#30DayChartChallenge Linkin Park, track by track: a song-level heatmap of rage, pain, identity, hope, loss, and strength across the full discography. Built from lyric-based theme counts to map the band’s emotional vocabulary in detail. Tools: Python, Matplotlib, Scipy & NLTK #DataViz

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James Williamson, Newfoundland GIS Specialist @northernmaps.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Tide chart for Lake Melville, Labrador, locations This shows how the tides are different depending on the location, and how these are different in different areas. #tidechart #LakeMelville #Labrador #30DayChartChallenge

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James Williamson, Newfoundland GIS Specialist @northernmaps.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

I won't make it through the whole of the 30 days of charts, but I was able to do some, and I'll probably do a few more. Here's a graphic of the NI historic monuments (omitting aerial photographs). #archaeology #NorthernIreland #heroni #treemap #30DayChartChallenge

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Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

This U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics road map is really good! #cartography #dataviz www.bts.gov/geography/ge...

Map of Transportation geography of the United States showing major cities and interstates.

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#30DayChartChallenge @30daychartchall.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Are you ready for the next #30DayChartChallenge? 🚀 Only 2 weeks left until the 6th edition starts — it’s time to reveal this year's topics 🎉 1 prompt for each day of April across 5 categories to spark inspiration, experimentation, and learning 📊 Who’s in? 👀 #dataviz #datavisualization

A banner with the prompts for the 6th edition of the #30DayChartChallenge.

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James Williamson, Newfoundland GIS Specialist @northernmaps.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Here's my day one of the 2026 30 days of charts challenge! I wanted to look at the toponyms for Labrador by type, to see what was most commonly named at each scale. I'm a little late to start, so I'll try to catch up. #Labrador #Toponyms #Place-Names #30daychartchallenge

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J¡m Vaughn @jiminyspigot.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Lapraschaun

An image of the Pokémon Lapras wearing a leprechaun hat.

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Damie Pak @damiepak.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

frankly though R is already pretty gay 🌈

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James Williamson, Newfoundland GIS Specialist @northernmaps.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

QGIS 4 is coming out soon, and I'm super excited! Also, this is really helpful: hub.qgis.org

hub.qgis.org

QGIS Resources Hub

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rainbowR @rainbowr.org · 06/11/2025

🌈 The website for the inaugural rainbowR conference is now live! 🎉 🗓️ Save the date: Feb 25th-26th, 2026 📣 Call for submissions is open 👯 We're bringing together LGBTQ+ R users to promote our work and foster connections among community members conference.rainbowr.org

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– rainbowR conference

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Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 06/11/2025

Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp.... genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.

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GitHub - hadley/genzplyr: dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap

dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap. Contribute to hadley/genzplyr development by creating an account on GitHub.

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rainbowR @rainbowr.org · 13/08/2025

🌈 rainbowR meet-up: Wednesday August 27th, 4pm UTC 🌈 - connect with other LGBTQ+ people who code in #RStats 🏳️‍🌈 - ask questions about R 🙋 - tell us about an R package you like 📦 - show us something R-related you’ve been working on 💻 ➡️ Registration via rainbowr.org/meetups

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James Williamson, Newfoundland GIS Specialist @northernmaps.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

A distribution map of the known archaeological sites on the island of Newfoundland. It shows how archaeological research has focused on the heavily populated coast, away from the boreal interior.

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James Williamson, Newfoundland GIS Specialist @northernmaps.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

A Relative Elevation map for the Churchill River. This is interesting because it shows how the river runs through a rugged area between two different relatively low areas, while going from the Smallwood Reservoir to the shores of Lake Melville. #Labrador #HVGB #qgis #maps #REM

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lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

The healthiest thing we can do for the internet is get as many regular users as possible running their own websites. You could buy a domain and such, but a super easy starting point is to get a free subdomain of neocities.org, which is like geocities but existing now.

neocities.org

Neocities

Create and surf awesome websites for free.

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QGIS @qgis.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2025

We're proud to announce that #Finland just launched theit new Topographic Data System built on #QGIS positio-magazine.eu/2025/06/finland… #osgeo #gischat #gis #OpenSource

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James Williamson, Newfoundland GIS Specialist @northernmaps.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

A joy plot view of Hopedale, Nunatsiavut, Labrador. With data from the Canadian MRDEM.

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James Williamson, Newfoundland GIS Specialist @northernmaps.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

A map of the Hexagonal churches of England, prepared for the Month of Maps in 2024. #England #churches #hexagons #gis #qgis #geospatial #maps

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James Williamson, Newfoundland GIS Specialist @northernmaps.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

A map of the National Parks of Canada, with data from NRCAN and Natural Earth. There is an amazing variation between the parks, in terms of their sizes and purposes. #parks #canada #maps #geospatial #gis #qgis

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James Williamson, Newfoundland GIS Specialist @northernmaps.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

The roads, trails, ferries and transport paths (and some boundaries) of Auckland, New Zealand in a lightening map. #qgis #geospatial #osm #gis

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James Williamson, Newfoundland GIS Specialist @northernmaps.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

A map of the Mexican Restaurants of North America, with data from OSM and Natural Earth. Really, I made this because I miss burritos soo much. #OSM #QGIS #NaturalEarth #MexicanRestaurants

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James Williamson, Newfoundland GIS Specialist @northernmaps.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

The watersheds of Labrador from NRCAN and Natural Earth data.

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