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Rhian Davies

@statsrhian.bsky.social
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🧮 NHS Data Scientist 🗣️ RSS Stats communicator 👩‍💻 #RStats educator 💜 Community champion: rainbowR, NHS-OA, R-Ladies+ 🔗 rhian.rbind.io 🚣‍♀️ 🚴‍♀️🧗‍♀️ 🏊‍♀️🏃‍♀️🚐🎼 🥁 🧶🏳️‍🌈 she/her

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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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rainbowR @rainbowr.org · 27/07/2026
🌈 Big news! After the huge success of our conference we're doing it all again! 🎉 Want to help shape an amazing community event, gain experience, and meet brilliant people? We're recruiting volunteers for the 2027 conference organising committee. bit.ly/4vRGXKk #rstats #LGBTQinTech #OpenSource
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Conference organising committee 2027
Following the success of our inaugural conference in 2026, rainbowR will run a conference again in 2027 and we're looking for people to help organise it. If you're interested in being on the conferenc...
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Rhian Davies @statsrhian.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Best phrase I've heard at #AiInProduction2026 so far? "Prompt fondler" 😅 Thanks @mikeksmith.bsky.social
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Tom Smith @analyst42.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Sooo #rstats, I built a thing... Deploying R shiny to your own cloud server is still too hard in 2026. Lightbulb.is is my answer - connect to your digital ocean account, click to create a server, and point it at a shiny GitHub repo. That's it - spend the time you save making your customers happy!
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LGBTQ+ STEM @lgbtqstem.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
As @thelabandfield.bsky.social noted, chatGPT learned some about gender from 4.0 to 5.5. 😅
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Rhian Davies @statsrhian.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
I'm pretty AI grumpy... but in a bid to try and become more AI open I'm at @jumpingrivers.com #aiinproduction2026 Hoping to hear real stories about #AI, honest struggles & thoughtful approaches. Come say hi if you want to nerd out or grab a @rainbowr.org or @nhsrcommunity.bsky.social sticker 👋
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Grumpy Cat's Signature Scowl
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R Contributors @r-contributors.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2026
📢 Contributor Office Hour (AMER) 📅 June 9, 09:00 - 10:00 PDT Join us online to - discuss how to get started contributing to R - get help/feedback on contributions you are working on - look at open bugs/work on translations together www.meetup.com/r-contributors/event…
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R Contributor Office Hour (AMER), Tue, Jun 9, 2026, 4:00 PM | Meetup
Join the online Office Hour to \\- discuss how to get started contributing to R \\- get help/feedback on contributions you are working on \\- look at open bugs/work on transl
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Libby Heeren @libbyheeren.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Learn all about PARQUET FILES 😍 on the #DSLab with us! TOMORROW, TUESDAY JUNE 2ND! WITH NIC CRANE! ( @niccrane.bsky.social) 12PM ET / 9AM PT REGISTER: pos.it/dslab #databs #rstats #pydata #CAPSLOCK
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Rhian Davies @statsrhian.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Oh no :( Guess I'm going to have to have to rethink my #rStats & #Quarto #strava backend :/ Any suggestions for alternative activity tracking website that plays nicely with Garmin? rhionthesea.netlify.app github.com/StatsRhian/p...
Screenshot of the Strava API manager. Says "We're updating API access to be subscriber-only. Start a subscription to maintain your access."
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Dr. Jess Hartnett @notawfuljess.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
New post! Are you following @sketchplanations.bsky.social ? He is great at explaining complex ideas via text and images, and some of those complex ideas are statistical.
An image by Sketchplanations, illustrating Geroge Box's quote, "All model are wrong, but some of useful"
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Rhian Davies @statsrhian.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Last chance to register! See you there! 💜
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rainbowR @rainbowr.org · 20/02/2026
🌈 rainbowR is next week! ⏳ Registration closes this Sunday at 23:59 UTC. If you’re planning to join us, now’s the time to sign up 💜 🔗 pretix.eu/rainbowr/con... #RStats #LGBTQ #QueerInTech #DataScience
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rainbowR Conference 2026
Feb. 25 – 26, 2026
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Rhian Davies @statsrhian.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
How its going... ☕💥 connect.strategyunitwm.nhs.uk/oh-no/ Happy Friday 🙃
Strategy Unit Data Science Coffee Disaster Counter with a coffee cup icon. Text shows 0 days since last disaster on February 13, 2026.
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Dr Kirstie Ken English (they/them) @kenglish.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Alongside @nrennie.bsky.social I’m running a (#TidyTuesday inspired) workshop on "Visualising the UK’s LGBTQ+ population" on February 25th 7pm–9pm UTC as part of the rainbowR conference!
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RSS Celebrating Diversity @rssdiversity.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
🚀 The RSS presents "Statistics for Every Body: Inclusive Data Communication" on Jan 28, 2026! 📊 Learn to make your data accessible for audiences with visual & auditory impairments with experts from BBC News, ONS & more. 🔗Event details: bit.ly/Stats4Every1 #StatsSky #DataVis #RStats #InclusiveStats
An informational flyer for the Royal Statistical Society's 'Statistics for Every Body' online event. The flyer includes a summary of the inclusive data communication topic, headshots and affiliations of key speakers, and practical information like the event date (Jan 28, 2026), time (12:00-13:30), and how to register: bit.ly/Stats4Every1
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rainbowR @rainbowr.org · 17/12/2025
👇 rainbowR meet-up TODAY, it's not too late to sign up! 👇
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
AI could be hugely beneficial to the NHS, but only if it augments, not replaces, human judgement, and is deployed with strong governance and equity-aware data. Plus of course the challenges of workforce and infrastructure remain! A new piece by me. www.digitalhealth.net/2025/12/ai-i...
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AI in the NHS: rewards, risks, and reality
The NHS must avoid AI's seductive overdiagnosis trap, writes Professor Christina Pagel, director of UCL’s clinical operational research unit
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Ella Kaye @ellakaye.co.uk · 12/12/2025
🎉 Big news for the future of #RStats. The project "Enabling the next generation of R contributors" has received £500k over 2 years. - mentoring expert contributors - modernising infrastructure - improving governance - strengthen communication and outreach www.software.ac.uk/rsmf-round-1...
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RSMF Round 1 Projects | Software Sustainability Institute
Round 1 of the Research Software Maintenance Fund awarded just under £3 million to 13 projects selected for their potential to deliver high impact, value for money, feasibility, and quality. The funde...
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Barret Schloerke @schloerke.com · 10/12/2025
Shiny for R v1.12 is here with built-in OpenTelemetry support! 🎉 Trace sessions and reactive calculations in production with zero code changes. Just install {otel}/{otelsdk} and set your env vars. Learn more: shiny.posit.co/blog/posts/s... #RStats #RShiny #OpenTelemetry
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rainbowR @rainbowr.org · 08/12/2025
Today is the last day to submit proposals to speak at the rainbowR conference 🌈 Deadline is midnight, Anywhere on Earth time. #RStats #QueerData
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Rhian Davies @statsrhian.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Really enjoying #HACA2025! It brings the #publichealth & #socialcare community together and surfaces all the brilliant work happening quietly in the background. 💙 Bonus of an online conf: lunchtime sea swim 🌊 Join us tomorrow (free!) events.hubilo.com/health-and-c... #DataScience #DataAnalytics
Selfie of Rhian at the beach. She is smiling, wearing a red swimsuit and a silly yellow bobble hat. There is a calm, cold looking sea in the background.
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rainbowR @rainbowr.org · 03/12/2025
We are absolutely thrilled to welcome Daphna Harel, @daphna.bsky.social, PI of the NYU Queer Data Lab, as a keynote speaker for the rainbowR conference! For more about the conference, including how to submit a proposal, and to sign-up for updates, see conference.rainbowr.org #RStats #QueerData
Conference announcement for rainbowR 2026 featuring a colorful rainbow striped border. The main text reads 'Conference Keynote: Daphna Harel - Studying Queer Data While Living It: Positionality, Power, and Practice' with event details 'February 25-26th, 2026, online' and website 'conference.rainbowr.org'. A professional headshot of Daphna Harel appears on the right side of the dark blue text panel.
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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
The statistical performance indicators data from the World Bank for 2024 has been released today, and I've been working on a little interactive explainer 📊 Check it out here: nrennie.rbind.io/statistical-... #DataViz #ggplot2
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ᴅʀ. ᴍᴏᴡɪɴᴄᴋᴇʟ'ꜱ @drmowinckels.io · 30/11/2025
🎄 ANNOUNCEMENT: R Package Development Advent Calendar 2025! 🎄 Starting December 1st, I'm launching a 25-day journey through modern R package development. here's why you should follow along 🧵 #rstats #RPackageAdvent2025 #OpenSource
A festive digital illustration features the blue R logo wearing a red Santa hat with white trim on the left. To its right stands a green Christmas tree made entirely of curly braces arranged in a triangular shape. White and light-blue %>% pipe symbols float across a dark blue, starry background like snowflakes. A speech bubble above the R logo says “Ho Ho Ho! 📦” in red text. At the bottom, white text reads: “R Package Development Advent Calendar 2025” and below it, “25 Days of Coding Magic • Dec 1–25.”
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rainbowR @rainbowr.org · 01/12/2025
Would you like to present at the inaugural rainbowR conference? If you're LGBTQ+, we'd love you to tell us 🦄💻 How you use R 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ How you work with LGBTQ+ data Call for submissions extended to December 8th. conference.rainbowr.org/abstracts #RStats #QueerData
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Abstracts – rainbowR conference
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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
One of the things that has been on my to do list for a very long time, is building a gallery of all of the charts I've made across #TidyTuesday, #30DayChartChallenge, #30DayMapChallenge, and other miscellaneous projects 📊 And it's finally here! Link: nrennie.rbind.io/viz-gallery/ #DataViz #RStats
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Data Visualisation Gallery
Gallery of data visualisations created by Nicola Rennie.
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Rhian Davies @statsrhian.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Call for abstracts for the first ever @rainbowr.org conference is still open! We're looking for talks that either 🦄 Showcase how our diverse community uses #RStats 🏳️‍🌈 Use LGBTQ+ data Get in your abstracts before December 1st. conference.rainbowr.org/abstracts.html #queerdata #PrideinSTEMDay
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Abstracts – rainbowR conference
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Rhian Davies @statsrhian.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Back from @nhsrcommunity.bsky.social conference with a very full brain + heart 💙🤓🐍 So good to swap ideas with people who care about #opendata, #reproducibility, and quality code. Very grateful for this community 💙
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Rhian Davies @statsrhian.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Free #RAP support for #NHS staff. Tomorrow at 10am. Come join the chat 🗨️ Links to register in the thread 🧵
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The Strategy Unit @strategyunit.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
It was great to see so many NHS data professionals at @nhsrcommunity.bsky.social 2025! There was lots of fantastic discussion about #RAP (Reproducible Analytical Pipelines) and our next #NHS RAP drop-in is this Wednesday 19th November 2025 from 10-11 AM.
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Nic Crane @niccrane.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
If you've ever fought with {renv}, you *have* to go watch Shannon's talk from posit::conf. I had soooo many 💡 moments the first time I saw it!
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rainbowR @rainbowr.org · 10/11/2025
rainbowR event: Trans Lived Experiences in Data 🏳️‍⚧️ We are partnering with the @rssdiversity.bsky.social Celebrating Diversity SIG to host an online event next week. More info below! 📅 19th Nov 17:30–18:30 (GMT) 👉 bit.ly/rsscdnov
event flyer, see details via http://bit.ly/rsscdnov
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Jer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
It took me about three months to get here but... Here's a 🪶 for (nearly) every species of bird, with colors extracted from wikipedia descriptions. 10,151 species. #dataviz #birds #data
A wheel-like visualization of bird feathers colored from wikipedia descriptions
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Rhian Davies @statsrhian.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Needed to hide the bar on a #Shiny numeric slider. Shiny sliders are ion.rangeSlider under the hood, so you can target the bar directly with .irs-bar. github.com/The-Strategy... The more I play with Inspect Element, the more comfortable I get tweaking little things to improve #UIUX #RStats #CSS
https://github.com/The-Strategy-Unit/elicitation_hsa_2025_11/commit/8f31370ab6874647e1a11d1e0102d053337b2b61
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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 29/10/2025
Maternal deaths have more than halved in the last forty years
The global number of maternal deaths has more than halved. Line chart titled "Estimated annual number of women who die from maternal conditions," showing a steady decline in estimated annual maternal deaths worldwide from about 625,000 in 1985 to about 260,000 in 2023, with a small uptick around 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic before falling again. Data source: World Health Organization - Global Health Observatory (2025). Chart licensed CC BY to Our World in Data.
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Posit @posit.co · 29/09/2025
A data scientist and product owner shares her take on why the new Positron IDE is a game-changer for her workflow. Learn how Dr. Claire Welsh of The Strategy Unit uses Positron to streamline everything from project management to documentation. Read her insights: posit.co/blog/positro...
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Maëlle Salmon @masalmon.eu · 23/09/2025
"How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner" by Annie Mueller 😅 😂 😭 anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-...
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How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner - annie's blog
“Hello! I am a developer. Here is my relevant experience: I code in Hoobijag and sometimes jabbernocks and of course ABCDE++++ (but never ABCDE+/^+ are you kidding? ha!)  and I like working with ...
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Royal Statistical Society @royalstatsoc.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
🌟 The ninth round of the Mardia Prize is now open for applications! If you’re passionate about connecting statistics with other sciences, this is your chance to run an interdisciplinary workshop series. Deadline: 30 Nov 2025 More info & application form: rss.org.uk/news-publica...
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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 11/09/2025
I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats
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ggplot2 4.0.0
A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.
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Rhian Davies @statsrhian.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
I'm hosting the @strategyunit.bsky.social RAP drop-in session on Wednesday morning. Free, fortnightly support for NHS folk who want a space to ask or chat about Reproducible Analytical Pipelines and all things #rap #rstats #python #datascience 👩‍💻💙💼Techys and managers welcome Register below ⬇️
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Rhian Davies @statsrhian.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Had a brilliant time running the “Give it a go: build an R package” workshop today 🎉 Huge thanks to everyone who jumped in and gave it a try - can’t wait to see what you build! 📦 Materials here if you want to play along ⬇️ statsrhian.github.io/build-r-pkg/ #RSS2025Conf
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👋 Welcome – Learn to build an R package
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Rhian Davies @statsrhian.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Packed room for "Learn from my mistakes" career session organised by @zakvarty.bsky.social for @statsyss.bsky.social Featuring the excellent Richard Samworth, Fiona Underwood and @stateecetics.bsky.social #RSS2025Conf
Packed conference room. Richard Samworth at the podium Lucy Teece at the podium with a slide saying "Learn from my mistakes"
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RSS Celebrating Diversity @rssdiversity.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
We've managed to snap pics of some brilliant statisticians and data professionals at #RSS2025Conf - lured in by #UnicornSkye🦄 's beauty! #RSSConf2025
Members of the RSS celebrating diversity group posing behind a conference poster with Skye the unicorn
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Rhian Davies @statsrhian.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Having a great time at #RSSConf2025 and it hasn't event started yet 😄 #WillCycleForIceCream
Brompton bicycle under a large tree looking out over the ForthTub of pink ice-cream being held infront of the Forth Rail bridge
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Rhian Davies @statsrhian.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
It’s Statistician’s Eve! 🤩 This weekend I’m heading to Edinburgh for the @royalstatsoc.bsky.social International Conference – my favourite of the year (sssh 🤫 don’t tell the others) #RSSConf2025
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Rhian Davies @statsrhian.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Absolutely thrilled our open-source demand model won the Florence Nightingale Award @royalstatsoc.bsky.social @ap.brid.gy! 🎉 Proud to be part of a kind, clever team at @strategyunit.bsky.social who value open-source, probabilistic thinking & public value. 🔗 strategyunitwm.nhs.uk/news/strateg...
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Strategy Unit demand model wins prestigious Florence Nightingale Award
Our open-source demand model, developed in collaboration with the New Hospital Programme, has been named the 2025 winner of the Florence Nightingale Award for Excellence in Health and Care Analytics.
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RSS Celebrating Diversity @rssdiversity.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
We are delighted to organise this @kevinguyan.bsky.social talk in Edinburgh jointly with @rssedinburgh.bsky.social ➡️Rainbow Trap: How Inclusive Statistics Still Box Us In⬅️ 📅7 July 📌 @bayescentre.bsky.social ⏰6pm-7.30pm 🎫Book your place! rss.org.uk/training-eve...
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Rhian Davies @statsrhian.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Great chat in this morning’s #RAP drop-in about how to avoid refactoring code. Honestly, refactoring is how I figure out what I’m really trying to do. I rarely understand the full flow of my code until I’ve reworked it a few times. It’s not something to avoid, it’s part of the process!
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How do I avoid the need to refactor my code? · The-Strategy-Unit RAP_Drop_In · Discussion #12
From a RAP drop-in audience member: "When I start coding, I sometimes over-engineer. And then find myself stripping back the code again to be simple. How do I avoid this?"
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We Are RLadies+ @weare.rladies.org · 08/05/2025
One of the warmest and most empowering communities I’ve found in the R world is @rainbowr.org 💜 ✨ Their mission? To connect, support, and promote LGBTQ+ people in the R community and to spread awareness of LGBTQ+ issues through data-driven activism. 🌈📊 #RStats #RLadies
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