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Ryan Plain @ryanplain.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I still remember the one time I heard that from a professor in undergrad. That comment also helped me a lot later in life. Like reading a book and focusing on taking away the main idea, rather than stressing out trying to remember every little thing.

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Andy Timm @andytimm.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Bayesian friends- if you’re curious to try out the blazingly fast nutpie sampler in R, I just put together a pretty lightweight package that’ll compile your existing Stan models!

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GitHub - andytimm/nutpieR

Contribute to andytimm/nutpieR development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Ryan Plain @ryanplain.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

This is neat. I haven’t had a chance to go through it in detail yet, but it looks like you’re using PyMC + Plotnine? I’ve been exploring similar integrations myself. Are you using any existing libraries, or is most of it custom tooling?

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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 12/03/2026

Another day, another stupid Excel chart.

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Ryan Plain @ryanplain.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

This is cool, I liked the interactive sliders to see how the prior is constructed.

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Christian D'Andrea @trainisland.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

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Ryan Plain @ryanplain.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

It’s a “Rob Lowe NFL hat” kind of day for me

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Ryan Plain @ryanplain.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Updated my bookmark, is this one supposed to be titled with brms instead of rstan? Love the work, this helped me so much to supplement the text and continues to be a great resource.

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

why I have trust issues

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Ryan Plain @ryanplain.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Yes I got a trackball mouse, no it’s not for ergonomics

Sitting at my desk with our cat laying across my arm, limiting movement.

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Ryan Plain @ryanplain.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

I wasn’t either until I did a big change a couple years ago in the fall. After getting through the holidays it was very much like “if you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball”. But I agree with atypical starts, and spring makes a lot of sense

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Ryan Plain @ryanplain.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Glad you like the fridge, we‘ve been looking at that line too. havent looked much into dishwashers and other kitchen appliances yet but will check this one out

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Ryan Plain @ryanplain.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

What dishwasher and refrigerator brand did you go with

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Ryan Plain @ryanplain.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

This is the closest thing to the doctor from Arrested Development that I‘ve encountered in real life

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Sebastian Carl @mrcaseb.com · 19/11/2025

-- WEEK 12 #NFL 🏈 Playoff Leverage -- Here you can see 1.) how the playoff probability of each team changes depending on whether they win or lose the next game, and 2.) the combined playoff leverage of the teams involved in each game, sorted by kickoff time.

The chart shows NFL team logos. Their position corresponds to the current probability that the team will make the playoffs this year.
Comets go from the logos to the right and left. Their final position corresponds to the probability that the respective team will make the playoffs if it wins or loses in the current week.
At the end of the comets are the probabilities in percent.
The probabilities are based on 50,000 simulations of the remaining NFL season.

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Python Software Foundation @python.org · 27/10/2025

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

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The official home of the Python Programming Language

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 10/10/2025

oooh new version of Positron just released and it has (1) github copilot chat and (2) automatic {dplyr} code generation based on filtering/sorting/etc that you do in the data viewer #rstats

Me saying "hey it's github copilot chat in my positron"

Automatically generated dplyr code that matches the filtering and arranging that I did by clicking on columns in the data viewer

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Ryan Plain @ryanplain.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Also gained a tremendous amount of respect for people that do flooring

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Ryan Plain @ryanplain.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

We bought our house a couple years ago and took on replacing floors by ourselves. I spent the entire time I budgeted for the project simply removing staples from the mix of wood and carpet upstairs. will never take that on again lol

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Chelsea Parlett @chelseaparlett.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

“it’s October 3rd” Happy K-Mean Girls Day to those who celebrate

A drawing of two clusters one cluster has a blonde girl with a ponytail in it, and the other cluster has a redhead a blonde and a brunette. This represents the scene and mean girls where Gretchen tells Regina George “you can’t sit with us!”

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Umair Durrani @transport-talk.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

{gm} - Create music with R: flujoo.github.io/gm/ #RStats bookmark from old twitter

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Ryan Plain @ryanplain.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

now #BigDataBowl decides to get on board with snake_case after I gave up and embraced their camelCase

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datawithbliss.bsky.social @datawithbliss.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

The 2026 Big Data Bowl #BigDataBowl is live! Participants can sign up for two competitions: - leaderboard - traditional analytics competition This year's task: predict/understand player movement when the ball is in the air

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Libby Heeren @libbyheeren.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Tell me something you do when you code that other people would tell you that you shouldn't do. Tell me the rules you break! I'll go first: I work in untitled files in the wrong project directories all the time. Like, all the time. Yes, I do tend to lose things 😂 #databs #rstats #python

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Ryan Plain @ryanplain.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

I adopted it fairly early, but yesterday I opened an old script of mine last night that had all %>% pipes. it brought up more emotions than I would have expected

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Pierre-Simon Laplace @learnbayesstats.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

🏈 NFL meets Bayesian stats! In this episode @alex-andorra.bsky.social chats with Ron Yurko on 👉 Writing your own models 👉 Building a sports analytics portfolio 👉 Pitfalls of modelling expectations 👉 Using tracking data for player insights 👉 Causal thinking in football data 🎧 lnkd.in/gWz4v2JG

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 08/09/2025

v1.108 is rolling out today 🚚 Now live, at long last: Bookmarks, aka Saved Posts. For all those posts you'll definitely plan to come back to! Update the app and give it a try. The button is right down there 👇

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Sebastian Carl @mrcaseb.com · 05/09/2025

At the start of a new season, there is a particularly high interest in the update schedule for nflverse data. We have a dedicated website where you can view the status of the automated pipelines and obtain information about the schedules. nflreadr.nflverse.com/articles/nfl...

Data Status Last Updated
pbp_raw pbp_raw raw pbp data
pbp pbp and ps pbp
stats_player pbp and stats stats_player
stats_team pbp and stats stats_team
rosters rosters rosters
players players players

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John Paul Helveston @jhelvy.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

If you use #tidyverse / dplyr, breakerofchains by @milesmcbain.bsky.social is one of my favorite productivity #rstats 📦 Very excited to learn that it works in #positron too! One more reason to keep using this IDE, absolutely loving it forum.posit.co/t/breakerofc...

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breakerofchains or similar for Positron

One of my all-time favorite R packages is Miles McBain's breakerofchains. You can put your cursor anywhere in a piped command, run a keyboard shortcut, and RStudio will run everything up to the curre...

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qntkhvn @qntkhvn.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

New #CMSAC #SportsAnalytics paper on evaluating change of direction in the #NFL by myself and @stat-ron.bsky.social arxiv.org/pdf/2507.06122 Spoiler alert: DK Metcalf displays straight-line, less agile movement, while George Pickens exhibits erratic, more variable directional movement.

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Posit @posit.co · 18/06/2025

Data science junkies, get ready! 🚀 "The Test Set" #podcast trailer is here for your viewing pleasure. Tune in July 1st and every Tuesday after for new episodes with hosts @mchow.com, @hadley.nz, and @wesmckinney.com as they welcome thought leaders in #DataScience. Subscribe now: pos.it/thetestset

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Ryan Plain @ryanplain.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

There is a decent amount of general NFL people here, but the NFL analytics community seems to still be using a twitter a lot.

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Ryan Plain @ryanplain.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

yeah I didn't think about that because it took some fumbling for me to get used to it, but once I got the coordinates down it was nice to be able to map labels do you build a custom class that wraps arviz.InferenceData to extend it?

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Ryan Plain @ryanplain.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

What are some features in Arviz you like? I've been using PyMC to learn, it's a good tradeoff of complexity/abstraction for me, but I struggle with the posterior a lot. I'm typically porting it back to R via reticulate/parquet - but hearing you say that furthers its worth getting comfortable with

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Nick Wan @nickwan.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Huge week for competitive data visualization! Viz Buzz returns this Thursday! 9 data visualizers compete all through June to see who can replicate intricate and elaborate graphs in under 40 mins Every Thursday starting at 8pm ET twitch.tv/nickwan_datasci See you there!!

viz buzz 2025 featuring avery smith, damie pak, brett fraley, john edwards, tan ho, sam kirschner, quang nguyen, tony elhabr, and jacob patterson-stein. live at twitch.tv/nickwan_datasci 8pm ET, two games back to back

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Just a dumb little joke to brighten your day.

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Ryan Plain @ryanplain.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

R support on databricks can definitely be frustrating

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Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

We have a "never use yellow if you can help it" rule for our charts. We couldn't help it on this one www.economist.com/united-state...

Chart from The Economist showing the contribution to California's energy supply of natural gas, wind, hydro, batteries, nuclear and solar. There's a huge jump in solar from around 8am to 6pm

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Sam Hoppen @samhoppen.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Can see the valley that Arizona comes out of around the midway mark of the season. They do trend down a bit after that, but they had a great stretch there specifically against the Bears, Jets, and Seahawks.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 23/05/2025

open chart, keep scrolling down www.gelliottmorris.com/p/republican...

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Ryan Plain @ryanplain.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

TIL DuckDb Python has a relational API

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