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Oscar Baruffa

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Yes it's me from twitter and @bigbookofr.com! #dataBS #RStats

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Oscar Baruffa @oscarbaruffa.com · 10/01/2026
Ive rewatched Starship Troopers after having last seen it as a teen. It holds up pretty well and the CGI is quite impressive. I wonder if they remastered it something, I can't believe CGI was so good in 1997
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R-Podcast (Eric) @rpodcast.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Testing bluesky post from the {bskyr} package! Nothing to see here 😎
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Oscar Baruffa @oscarbaruffa.com · 14/12/2025
Millennial tombstone inscription: Unsubscribed.
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JD Long @jdlong.cerebralmastication.com · 11/12/2025
Despite the 1990’s advertisement assuring me I would not do this; I did, indeed, download a car.
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Martine Jansen @martinejansen.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Possibly major update needed for your @bigbookofr , bookdown.org announced is going to stop
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bookdown: Authoring Books and Technical Documents with R Markdown
The platform bookdown.org is provided by RStudio for authors to publish books online for free. The bookdown package is an open-source R package that facilitates writing books and long-form articles/re...
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Oscar Baruffa @oscarbaruffa.com · 06/12/2025
Hey #rstats folks, I've not seen any new open-source books being published in some time. Have I just missed them or are there very few?
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Oscar Baruffa @oscarbaruffa.com · 06/12/2025
I think part of LLM chatbots' appeal (especially in their native apps) is that you get information in a clean text format, with no other distractions
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Oscar Baruffa @oscarbaruffa.com · 05/12/2025
I had the chance to flex some old Excel skills and I must say I've still got it
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Oscar Baruffa @oscarbaruffa.com · 07/09/2025
Few things give me greater joy than when I can fix an appliance. Bonus points if it's quick and easy
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Oscar Baruffa @oscarbaruffa.com · 09/08/2025
Gorgeous!
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Oscar Baruffa @oscarbaruffa.com · 08/08/2025
Maybe I'm late to the party but I've realised that when people say AI now they mean any kind of tech
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 20/06/2024
This is probably part of why everyone on bluesky is 38 years old: 38 year olds are basically the only people who consider it totally normal to flee a sinking ship and then just casually resume the conversation on the tropical island they end up on. They've outlived dozens of ships.
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Mikhail Popov @mpopov.com · 30/07/2025
Holy moley today's featured Wikimedia Commons picture of the day (vertical panorama of the Milky Way) is breathtaking commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:03...
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Plausible Analytics @plausible.io · 25/07/2025
There's been some discussion about many analytics tools counting pageviews without actual visitors. This happens when Chromium-based browsers, WordPress, etc., pre-render a page (for quicker loading) before an actual click has occurred. The visitor may or may not click & visit the page, but...
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David Keyes @dgkeyes.com · 22/07/2025
🎉 Big news! After 5+ years of consulting work under the R for the Rest of Us name, I'm launching Clarity Data Studio. The name confusion was real – people thought we only did courses, not knowing about our consulting work building reports, websites, and more.
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Oscar Baruffa @oscarbaruffa.com · 21/07/2025
I've just discovered Good Old Games (GOG). My wishlist...
Wishlist showing classic 90s and 200s games like dungeon keeper, syndicate plus, theme hospital and more
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Oscar Baruffa @oscarbaruffa.com · 21/07/2025
I've been thinking lately that Excel is actually way ahead of its time, even today 😅. It gets abused because it's actually way too powerful
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/07/2025
the excel spreadsheet would almost certainly be legible to humans across the recorded history of the species, from a sumarian scribe to whatever techno organic collective that emerges as our evolutionary successor
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Shel 🇰🇪 🇮🇪 @shelkariuki.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Being in the job market is very scary, but I am not one to give up. I now work in the clean energy, sustainability, climate change and ESG space. You can find a list of services I offer here: shelkariuki.netlify.app/services/ #rstats #quarto #sustainability #esg #energy
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Work with me – Shel
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David Keyes @dgkeyes.com · 16/06/2025
My book R for the Rest of Us: A Statistics-Free Introduction is available as part of the Humble Bundle. Pay what you want, get some great books, and support the Electronic Frontier Foundation at the same time! www.humblebundle.com/books/coding...
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Humble Tech Book Bundle: Coding for the Curious by No Starch
Learn JavaScript, Kotlin, and more with this outstanding library of coding and programming courses. Pay what you want & support charity!
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RLadies+ @rladies.org · 12/06/2025
We're looking for more curators for the second half of 2025! Want to share your voice or know someone who should? 📝 Sign up to curate: airtable.com/appjkZZgtF0i... 📖 Learn what curating involves: guide.rladies.org/rocur/guide/ 💌 Nominate someone you admire: airtable.com/appFIBzsk2Ax...
A chic lady (in a French outfit) shows off her gallery: a plot, a hex sticker of a group she loves, and a how to guide with an homage to the penguin dataset. It says "Volunteer to be an R-Ladies curator" with the subtitle "Showcase what you love about R" as well as the link to it! All in dashing purple.
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Oscar Baruffa @oscarbaruffa.com · 06/06/2025
I'm late to the game but this robot vacuum/mop purchase is like introducing a dishwasher to home life
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Oscar Baruffa @oscarbaruffa.com · 24/05/2025
If there's one game I would LOVE to experience again for the first time, it's Hotline Miami
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a pixel art drawing of a man with a chicken head holding a baseball bat
Alt: a pixel art drawing of a man with a chicken head holding a baseball bat (an artistic rendering of the actual gameplay)
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Oscar Baruffa @oscarbaruffa.com · 24/05/2025
The Millennial Curse: My parents hogged the TV when I was a kid, and now my kids hog the TV from me
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We Are RLadies+ @weare.rladies.org · 02/05/2025
🚨 Cool book club alert 🚨 Join #rladies Rome organizer and @dslc.io mentor @fgazzelloni.bsky.social as she and other's read her new book, "Health Metrics and the Spread of Infectious Diseases". How often do you get to read a book alongside the author!? 🤯 #rstats
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Oscar Baruffa @oscarbaruffa.com · 18/05/2025
I'm happy to announce the addition of 15 books to @bigbookofr.com including 9 in Portuguese! #Rstats oscarbaruffa.com/bbof-20250518/
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15 New Books added to Big Book of R - Oscar Baruffa
I’m very excited to announce that 6 English-language books and 9 Portuguese books have been added to the collection of over 400 free, open-source R programming books. Many thanks to Bruno Mioto for th...
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Niels Ohlsen @nielsohlsen.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
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Oscar Baruffa @oscarbaruffa.com · 12/05/2025
Wow, this is an amazing collaboration #RStats!
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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 12/05/2025
Ever wondered why some charts are more effective and engaging than others? I’ll be going through all the theory, evidence and principles behind compelling data storytelling from this Wednesday. Free to watch for anyone who is interested: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-fundam...
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Oscar Baruffa @oscarbaruffa.com · 09/05/2025
Remember when trendy companies names all end in ".ly"
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Oscar Baruffa @oscarbaruffa.com · 01/05/2025
What ever happened to BEAM electronics? I would've thought it would be much bigger than 20 years ago. Mostly seems like very expensive kits now when the point was kind of to be cheap way to build cool little robots
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We Are RLadies+ @weare.rladies.org · 28/04/2025
✋ Show of hands, how many of you have heard of the Data Science Learning Community (@dslc.io) before? How about the R4DS Online Learning Community? I’m curious, when, where, and how folks learned about DSLC (nee R4DS). Share your DSLC story below!
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milos makes maps @milos-makes-maps.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Yesterday I launched my very first digital book. And, wow, your response has been incredible! I’m grateful for the overwhelming interest & all the positive feedback. Here’s a Payhip map showing our community stretching to nearly every corner of the globe. Thank you for making this journey special!
“Visits Map” — a world choropleth showing the geographic distribution of visitors to the ebook Mapping Worlds with R: Your Journey from Beginner to Data Cartographer. Countries are shaded from very light tan (1 visit) through medium greens up to dark green (155 visits). The United States is the darkest green (155 visits), followed by India and Canada in mid-green tones; Australia, Brazil, the United Kingdom, and several European nations appear in lighter greens, and many countries in Africa, Asia, and South America are in pale tan or light green, indicating lower but global reach. A legend at the bottom left shows the scale (1 – 155).

Credits: Payhip

Author Information
	•	Title: Mapping Worlds with R: Your Journey from Beginner to Data Cartographer
	•	Author: Milos Popovic, PhD (Data Science & Geospatial Education)
	•	Publisher: Self-published via Payhip
	•	Release Date: 2025
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Chelsea Parlett @chelseaparlett.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
If you want to support local bookstores but also love audio books, @libro.fm is having a sale today 🥳 I picked up a few books on my to-read list like Piranesi, and The House in the Cerulean Sea for ~ $5 each 😱 📚 libro.fm
libro.fm
Buy audiobooks & support local bookstores
Libro.fm makes it possible for you to buy audiobooks directly through local bookstores.
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Mine Doğucu @minedogucu.com · 22/04/2025
So many books to read, so little time.
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Oscar Baruffa @oscarbaruffa.com · 17/04/2025
I was 6 months into my first job when the credit crisis hit. Back then it was called "the credit crunch". Almost sounds appetising...
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David Keyes @dgkeyes.com · 15/04/2025
In putting together the new version of the Mapping with R course, I came across lots of great resources for learning to make maps in #rstats. Here are some of my top recommendations, all of which are available online for free.
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Oscar Baruffa @oscarbaruffa.com · 13/04/2025
DogMan is an great movie! It got many chuckles from me
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Oscar Baruffa @oscarbaruffa.com · 12/04/2025
The Minecraft movie was quite watchable, and even enjoyable with a kid getting excited at all the references
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We Are RLadies+ @weare.rladies.org · 01/04/2025
If you're looking to expand your #DataScience skills, the Big Book of #RStats (www.bigbookofr.com), #TidyTuesday (github.com/rfordatascie...), JHU's MOOCs (jhudatascience.org/courses.html), and the #OpenSource DS Masters (datasciencemasters.org) are outstanding free resources. #PyData #RLadies
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Oscar Baruffa @oscarbaruffa.com · 04/04/2025
HODL!! (my boring investments)
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Tan @tanho.ca · 31/03/2025
DSLC book clubs are fantastic and if you’ve ever wanted to get started with R while doing baseball analytics this is a perfect group to help with accountability! #rstats
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Dr Vicki Yorke-Edwards @vickiye.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
⚠️WANTED⚠️ Dirty datasets that can be used in training courses! Have you got any great examples of datasets (preferably CC0 or CC-BY) that you think demonstrate some of the key issues with dirty data? I'm interested in teaching how to improve data collection, & about cleaning data once you have it. 📊
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Oscar Baruffa @oscarbaruffa.com · 16/03/2025
The single biggest downside of #RStats is the currency conversion but for those brave enough (or with access to someone else's money) to exploit it, arbitrage presents huge opportunities
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Leah Teague 🏳️‍⚧️ @leah.teague.bio · 11/03/2025
Via mastodon.online/@nikitonsky/..., replace semantic versioning with pride versioning.
In large text, "2.7.123". The 2 is annotated "Proud version - bump when you are proud of the release." The 7 is annotated "Default version - just normal or okay releases." The 123 is annotated "Shame version - bump when fixing things to embarrassing to admit."
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Big Book of R @bigbookofr.com · 10/03/2025
Hey #RStats peeps, 9 books have been added to the collection! oscarbaruffa.com/9-new-books-...
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9 new books added to Big Book of R - Oscar Baruffa
I’m happy to announce 9 additions to the Big Book of R! Many thanks to Gary, Luis, Roger and Stephen for their contributions! The collection stands at almost 450 free, open-source (and some paid) book...
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Emil Hvitfeldt @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
sharing some love today
valentine's card. text reads "you are awesome" but "are" is replaced with R programming language logo, below is a modified Python programming language logo modified to look like a heart.
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Big Book of R @bigbookofr.com · 04/11/2024
Hello world! I'm the Big Book of R bot 🤖. Every few hours I post a random entry from my collection of over 400 open-sourced, free #RStats books.
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Prof Andy Field @profandyfield.com · 10/02/2025
Probably no-one except me uses my R tutorials in their teaching, but if you do, I'm re-writing them over the next 6-9 months. My goal is to streamline them based on 5 years of using them in class, but if you have (polite) requests/suggestsions let me have them. www.discovr.rocks/discovr/
discovr.rocks
discovr: a package of interactive tutorials | discovr
Statistics education
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Mine Doğucu @minedogucu.com · 10/02/2025
Why does @weare.rladies.org have less than 1000 followers? We can do better than this #rstats folks. It is a terrific account to follow because every week not only we get to know a new member of the #RLadies community but we also get to read their R favorites, tips, and jokes.
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