Oscar Baruffa @oscarbaruffa.com · 11/05/2026Steam deck is the best tech purchase I've made in a decade 110
Oscar Baruffa @oscarbaruffa.com · 26/04/2026added, thank you! www.bigbookofr.com/chapters/pac...bigbookofr.com25 Packages – Big Book of R 140
Oscar Baruffa @oscarbaruffa.com · 26/04/2026added, thank you! www.bigbookofr.com/chapters/geo...bigbookofr.com18 Geospatial – Big Book of R 010
Oscar Baruffa @oscarbaruffa.com · 26/04/2026this ggplot book is really awesome @nrennie.bsky.social , nice work! www.bigbookofr.com/chapters/dat...bigbookofr.com12 Data Visualization – Big Book of R 093
Oscar Baruffa @oscarbaruffa.com · 10/01/2026Ive 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 000
Reposted by Oscar BaruffaR-Podcast (Eric) @rpodcast.bsky.social · 16/12/2025Testing bluesky post from the {bskyr} package! Nothing to see here 😎 2111
Reposted by Oscar BaruffaJD Long @jdlong.cerebralmastication.com · 11/12/2025Despite the 1990’s advertisement assuring me I would not do this; I did, indeed, download a car. 2183
Reposted by Oscar BaruffaMartine Jansen @martinejansen.bsky.social · 06/12/2025Possibly major update needed for your @bigbookofr , bookdown.org announced is going to stopbookdown.orgbookdown: Authoring Books and Technical Documents with R MarkdownThe 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... 151
Oscar Baruffa @oscarbaruffa.com · 07/12/2025Off the top of my head, not really. Most have their own domains 110
Oscar Baruffa @oscarbaruffa.com · 06/12/2025Ah interesting! Big Book of R was converted to a quarto doc about 2 years ago, luckily! 120
Oscar Baruffa @oscarbaruffa.com · 06/12/2025Hey #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? 570
Oscar Baruffa @oscarbaruffa.com · 06/12/2025I 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 030
Oscar Baruffa @oscarbaruffa.com · 05/12/2025I had the chance to flex some old Excel skills and I must say I've still got it 030
Oscar Baruffa @oscarbaruffa.com · 07/09/2025Few things give me greater joy than when I can fix an appliance. Bonus points if it's quick and easy 010
Oscar Baruffa @oscarbaruffa.com · 08/08/2025Maybe I'm late to the party but I've realised that when people say AI now they mean any kind of tech 110
Reposted by Oscar BaruffaPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 20/06/2024This 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. 19774031380
Reposted by Oscar BaruffaMikhail Popov @mpopov.com · 30/07/2025Holy moley today's featured Wikimedia Commons picture of the day (vertical panorama of the Milky Way) is breathtaking commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:03... 083
Reposted by Oscar BaruffaPlausible Analytics @plausible.io · 25/07/2025There'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... 161
Reposted by Oscar BaruffaDavid 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. 3339
Oscar Baruffa @oscarbaruffa.com · 21/07/2025All my resource management games were a precursor to my professional life 🤓 010
Oscar Baruffa @oscarbaruffa.com · 21/07/2025I've just discovered Good Old Games (GOG). My wishlist... 140
Oscar Baruffa @oscarbaruffa.com · 21/07/2025I'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 020
Reposted by Oscar Baruffajamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/07/2025the 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 642746246
Oscar Baruffa @oscarbaruffa.com · 19/07/2025I loved this book, and wrote a short review of anyone's keen to find out a bit more about it oscarbaruffa.com/kill/oscarbaruffa.comKill it with Fire: Book review & notes - Oscar BaruffaModernizing systems is hard work 26 July 2023 I highly recommend Kill it with Fire by Marianne Bellotti for data professionals building or inheriting a system. It’s just over 200 pages long and took m... 010
Reposted by Oscar BaruffaShel 🇰🇪 🇮🇪 @shelkariuki.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Being 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 #energyshelkariuki.netlify.appWork with me – Shel 121
Reposted by Oscar BaruffaDavid Keyes @dgkeyes.com · 16/06/2025My 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...humblebundle.comHumble Tech Book Bundle: Coding for the Curious by No StarchLearn JavaScript, Kotlin, and more with this outstanding library of coding and programming courses. Pay what you want & support charity! 183
Reposted by Oscar BaruffaRLadies+ @rladies.org · 12/06/2025We'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... 11920
Oscar Baruffa @oscarbaruffa.com · 06/06/2025I'm late to the game but this robot vacuum/mop purchase is like introducing a dishwasher to home life 110
Oscar Baruffa @oscarbaruffa.com · 05/06/2025Chat is for chatting and channel is what one ignores....correct? 100
Oscar Baruffa @oscarbaruffa.com · 24/05/2025If there's one game I would LOVE to experience again for the first time, it's Hotline Miamimedia.tenor.coma pixel art drawing of a man with a chicken head holding a baseball batAlt: a pixel art drawing of a man with a chicken head holding a baseball bat (an artistic rendering of the actual gameplay) 030
Oscar Baruffa @oscarbaruffa.com · 24/05/2025The Millennial Curse: My parents hogged the TV when I was a kid, and now my kids hog the TV from me 030
Reposted by Oscar BaruffaWe 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 045
Oscar Baruffa @oscarbaruffa.com · 20/05/2025I can't explain how badly I wanted an iBook. I even carried around a little picture of it in my Velcro wallet 😅 110
Oscar Baruffa @oscarbaruffa.com · 18/05/2025I'm happy to announce the addition of 15 books to @bigbookofr.com including 9 in Portuguese! #Rstats oscarbaruffa.com/bbof-20250518/oscarbaruffa.com15 New Books added to Big Book of R - Oscar BaruffaI’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... 02611
Reposted by Oscar BaruffaJohn Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 12/05/2025Ever 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... 1331377
Oscar Baruffa @oscarbaruffa.com · 11/05/2025I think if you have the time, then go ahead and chase every interesting thing 120
Oscar Baruffa @oscarbaruffa.com · 09/05/2025Remember when trendy companies names all end in ".ly" 010
