iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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James Balamuta @coatless.bsky.social · 15h

webrarian is a new R package. It turns a folder of R scripts and data into a static website where R runs in the visitor's browser, with no compute server and nothing to install. blog.thecoatlessprofessor.com/posts/introd... #rstats #webr #webassembly

A card for the R package webrarian. Large text reads "A folder in. A website out." On the left, a small card lists a folder named lab-01 holding lab.R, setup.R and a data folder. A red arrow points from it to a browser window that shows a scatterplot of car weight against miles per gallon with brick-red points. The address coatless-wasm.github.io/webrarian is on the card.

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Ahmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A great opportunity for budding designers looking to harness their skills for social justice... Find out more and apply for the #VisualizingPalestine Design Fellowship here: visualizingpalestine.org/contact-us/?...

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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Spectacular sunset + spectacular rain

Photo of raindrops on a window with a darkening orange sky in the background

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Eric Bailey @ericwbailey.website · 02/10/2026

Have an ACCESSIBILITY.md file in your GitHub repo? It now shows up on the project root! Don't have one? Why not take some time today to create one. #a11y ericwbailey.website/published/gi...

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GitHub repository landing pages now show an accessibility tab, if provided

I’m excited to see how people use this new addition to the platform.

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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Later this month, I'll be speaking at the @royalstatsoc.bsky.social "Data Quality & Statistics: Perfect together!" event 📊 I'll be discussing when and how to communicate quality and uncertainty, and showcasing some of the guidance we've developed on this topic at the ONS 📖 #DataViz #Stats

Data Quality and Statistics: Perfect together!
Date: Thursday 22 October 2026, 9.00AM - 5.00PM
Location: Bayes Centre, Edinburgh

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EdinbR (R usergroup) @edinbr.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Save the date! Our next #RStats #meetup will be at 6pm on the 21st October. Details coming soon. #tech #DataScience #Edinburgh

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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's October 1st which means there's only 1 month until the #30DayMapChallenge 🗺️ #RStats #Maps #RSpatial #DataViz

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ricochet 🐇 @ricochet.rs · 01/10/2026

App deployment in R got a whole lot simpler thanks to {plumber2}🪠 and the _server.yml standard! 🧵1/4 👀 📜 ricochet.rs/blog/server-... #rstats #databs

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Simplifying app deployment in R | ricochet

Understanding the _server.yml standard.

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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you missed today's @rinpharma.bsky.social workshop, here are a few of my favourite "quick fixes" for some common #ggplot2 issues 📊 1. Use {ggview} to preview plots at the same size and resolution as you want to save them with ggsave() to avoid the annoying resizing #RStats #DataViz

library(ggview)
ggplot(mtcars, aes(wt, mpg)) +
geom_point() +
canvas(
width = 6, height = 4,
units = "in",
dpi = 300
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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 29/09/2026

Some heavy rain is expected for some of us overnight and early on Wednesday 🌧️ Especially in the west. But the areas which need the rain most, will again not see as much.

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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This week's #TidyTuesday data looks at health metrics in cities across the world 🏥 I created a dot density plot of the population density around hospitals 📊 Thanks to @gabspalomo.bsky.social for curating this week's dataset! #RStats #DataViz #ggplot2

Four-panel dot density chart comparing the median population living within 1 km of a hospital in 2025 across World Bank income groups. Each dot represents approximately 200 people. Low-income countries have 50,000 people, lower-middle-income countries 53,000, upper-middle-income countries 44,000, and high-income countries 28,000. The chart’s main message is that higher-income countries tend to have lower population density around hospitals.

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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This weekend's project was making a crochet version of Gromit 🧶

Photo of crochet Gromit from the side showing his toes

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Benjamin Hlina, PhD @benjaminhlina.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Check out {ggview}…this was a game changer for me to solve this. It creates the plot in viewer at the dimensions you give it/would want to save it so you don’t have to export and then check and reconfigure and then reexport. github.com/idmn/ggview

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GitHub - idmn/ggview: Ggplot picture previewer

Ggplot picture previewer. Contribute to idmn/ggview development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This was such a great workshop to run with @kenglish.bsky.social earlier this year! Also very happy to add some @rainbowr.org #RStats stickers to my collection as well this week 🌈

Photo of silver board with magnetic stickers covering it.

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Significance magazine @significancemag.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Exciting to hear our September cover feature on BBC Radio 4's More or Less this morning! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Thank you🙏 @timharford.ft.com @mitchellst.bsky.social Read the full article for free right here: academic.oup.com/jrssig/artic...

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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We're exploring green spaces for #TidyTuesday this week! 🌳 A simple small multiple bar chart showing changes in (some) UK cities over time 📊 Impressive increase from Stoke! (Obviously I felt the need to style the bars as a mowed lawn pattern) #RStats #DataViz #ggplot2

Small-multiple bar chart showing the average share of green area in 18 UK cities in 1990, 2000, 2010 and 2020. Stoke-on-Trent had the largest increase, from 8% in 2000 to 26% in 2020, while Dundee remained lowest, falling from 7% in 1990–2010 to 6% in 2020. Overall, green-space shares increased in several cities, while others were stable or declined.

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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A question for the #RStats and #ggplot2 hivemind: What things do you find most tricky or frustrating in ggplot2? It might be things like specific chart types, aspects of styling, your workflow, saving charts etc.

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Marleen Stikker @marleen.oso.social · 21/09/2026

Meta: “any mention of civil rights, feminism or social reform (topics that are central to Woolf’s work) are usually classified as ‘social topics’ by our automatic system” and are filtered out. “ www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they cover ‘social topics’

Facebook and Instagram ads mentioning ‘civil rights or feminism’ are filtered out, Meta tells theatre

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R in Pharma @rinpharma.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

R/Pharma Workshops are just around the corner! From Sept 28–Oct 1, join us for 25 workshops and a Pharmaverse hackathon across Europe/US and Asia Pacific timezones. See what’s on the schedule and find registration links for all the sessions: rinpharma.com/docs/blog/po... #rstats #pharma #ai

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R/Pharma Workshops – R/Pharma

Free workshops at R/Pharma

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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Wondering if you can outsource your data viz work to ChatGPT? 📊 I tested out a few different generative AI tools, giving them prompts to visualise two different data sets. If you're interested in the results, you can read them here: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/gen-ai-... #RStats #Python #DataViz #GenAI

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Generative AI for Data Visualisation – Nicola Rennie

Can generative AI create good data visualisations? This blog post compares the performance of ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, and Gemini when presented with a generic request to visualise a dataset.

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 20/09/2026

Please, I am begging you. Do not use dplyr::ntile() in any serious statistical analysis in which you want to group continuous observation into quantile-based bins. Despite the name it doesn't actually do that, and the thing it actually does is very dangerous when accuracy matter. #rstats

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The trouble with ‘ntile()’ – Notes from a data witch

Please, please, please do not use ‘dplyr::ntile()’ in an analysis that will be submitted to a regulatory agency. It’s secretly an ill-conceived SQL tool that doesn’t do what you probably want it to, a...

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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My list of data-related resources had a bit of a re-fresh recently! They're now all in the one site. You can still browse by topic or see them all at once! 📊 Link: nrennie.rbind.io/resources/ #RStats #DataViz #StatsEd

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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

100% this. For personal projects, the fun part for me is writing the code rather than making the end product. I'm not outsourcing the fun part.

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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This week's #TidyTuesday data is from the Dead Sea Scrolls digital library 📖 I created an interactive Voronoi diagram showing the number of images of manuscripts found in different locations 📊 #DataViz #ggplot2 #RStats

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David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I sincerely hope that the people who have begun following me recently via Data Viz starter packs are following Nicola, as someone putting out current originally written thoughts into the world.

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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Join me on October 1 for a #ggplot2 workshop as part of the @rinpharma.bsky.social conference! 📊 #RStats #DataViz

R in Pharma flyer. Date October 1 and time 3-5pm GMT+8

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Mickaël CANOUIL, Ph.D. @mickael.canouil.fr · 10/09/2026

Need a Quarto feature the documentation does not cover? Three places to look before you write it yourself. First, Awesome Quarto, a curated list of documentation, talks, tools, examples, and articles, kept current by the community. github.com/mcanouil/awesome-quarto #Quarto #OpenSource #QuartoPub

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GitHub - mcanouil/awesome-quarto: A curated list of Quarto talks, tools, examples & articles! Contributions welcome!

A curated list of Quarto talks, tools, examples & articles! Contributions welcome! - mcanouil/awesome-quarto

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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A very quick pictogram for #TidyTuesday this week where we're looking at The Cappuccino Index ☕ #RStats #DataViz #ggplot2

Pictogram chart titled "Italy is one cup ahead," showing how many small cappuccinos a barista can buy with one hour of pay across various European countries. Italy leads at 5 cups, followed by countries like Switzerland, Netherlands, and Germany at 4 cups, down to nations like Romania and Belarus at 1 cup.

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Ben Harrap @bharrap.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Recently in my Intro to R workshop, I had a brief section on error messages, debugging, and how to solve your own problems. An attendee asked why LLMs were at the bottom of the list — here's a few thoughts on why benharrap.com/post/2026-09...

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Limited Learning Mode: Why LLMs are my last resort – Ben Harrap

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matia 🇭🇷 @joyofcode.xyz · 07/09/2026

I made a Svelte component wrapper around Rough.js for creating graphics with a hand-drawn, sketchy appearance 😄

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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

If you're at @royalstatsoc.bsky.social conference this week, come along on Tuesday morning at 9am for #TidyTuesday live! A workshop to help you develop your programming skills, ability to work with data, and be part of a wonderful data community! 📊 #RStats @rssannualconf.bsky.social

Screenshot of first slide of "Developing your data skills"

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Owen Boswarva @owenboswarva.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Early example of the open public data principle, from a report produced in 1990 by @royalstatsoc.bsky.social's Working Party on Official Statistics in the UK academic.oup.com/jrsssa/artic... #opendata #deepcuts

Screenshot of a highlighted passage in 'Official Statistics: Counting with Confidence' a report produced in 1990 by the Royal Statistical Society's Working Party on Official Statistics in the UK:

"Many statistical inquiries are financed through public money and depend on public co-operation for the information provided. It follows that, subject to constraints to protect the confidentiality of individual respondents, the public are rightful consumers of the statistical product. Analyses should be in the public domain and basic data made available for further analyses."

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 05/09/2026

You can use this UN-approved Equal Earth projection right now in #rstats #gis #databs

library(tidyverse)
library(sf)
library(rnaturalearth)

world <- ne_countries() |> filter(sov_a3 != "ATA")

ggplot(data = world) +
geom_sf() +
coord_sf(crs = "+proj=eqearth") +
theme_void()

A basic world map using the Equal Earth projection

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RSS Teaching Statistics Section @rss-teach.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Calling all short statistics course providers attending @royalstatsoc.bsky.social conference! We invite all short course providers attending conference to join us on Tue 8 September at 1:50pm for a discussion on the accreditation framework for short statistics courses. Seeing you there! #StatsEd

RSS conference flyer with dates 7-10 September, and location Bournemouth,

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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This week's #TidyTuesday data is all about castles 🏰 I focused on Scottish castles and created an interactive explorer map! 🗺️ antique styling with compass 💬 tooltips with images to view castles 🔼 different shapes for icons All made entirely in #RStats #ggplot2 #DataViz

Map of Scotland with icons denoting the location of castles. The shape of the icon shows whether it is a castle, fortress, palace, or ruin. A tooltip hovered over Blair Castle shows it dating from 1269 with an image of the castle.

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Vicki @vickiboykis.com · 02/09/2026

New post: we need to be deleting more code. vickiboykis.com/2026/09/01/b...

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Observable @observablehq.com · 01/09/2026

For more than a year, we’ve been quietly building an all-new Observable. Today, that new Observable is live on observablehq.com. Read Mike @ocks.org’s announcement: observablehq.com/@observableh...

A screenshot of the new Observable interface, showing a notebook visualizing “Bollinger bands”. Several interface elements are labeled. Along the top: workspace menu, new notebook button, user menu. Along the right side: file attachments, dependencies, comments, settings, enable tinkering, show AI. In the interior: cell inserter, cell menu, cell toolbar.

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