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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

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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

Thanks @analyst42.bsky.social. I've not tried the Garmin Connect developer yet. The raw data approach is looking appealing right now... 👀

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Rhian Davies @statsrhian.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I'm thinking Supabase is maybe a good place to start. If anyone knows of any fun projects using Supabase - please share with me :) I'm off to go write a schema... 🤓

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Rhian Davies @statsrhian.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Maybe it's time I move over to something like airtable to manage my own database... Sidequest time! 📜⚔️

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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

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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

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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

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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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Rhian Davies @statsrhian.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

You can find an overview of different pkg for parallelisation on CRAN task views cran.r-project.org/web/views/Hi... I think my first goto would be reading the articles from the {futures} package future.futureverse.org/articles/fut... #rstats

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CRAN Task View: High-Performance and Parallel Computing with R

This CRAN Task View contains a list of packages, grouped by topic, that are useful for high-performance computing (HPC) with R. In this context, we are defining ‘high-performance computing’ rather loo...

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Rhian Davies @statsrhian.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

+1 for Paul's comment. I used to teach Efficient R and the best speed-ups people found were often from - Using more compute - Profiling to identify bottlenecks This book is a bit out of date but has good concepts: csgillespie.github.io/efficientR/p... If you still need parallel in R... ⬇️

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7 Efficient optimisation | Efficient R programming

Efficient R Programming is about increasing the amount of work you can do with R in a given amount of time. It’s about both computational and programmer efficiency.

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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 · 25/11/2025

I didn't know about this roundup! It's really useful. Thanks for the shout out!

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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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Rhian Davies @statsrhian.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

It did! The matrix is such a helpful visual aid. 🙏

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Rhian Davies @statsrhian.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

I gave a talk on #QA in #GitHub: ditch the spreadsheets, embed QA in your workflow, make it a habit. More details ⬇️ 🛝 slides: statsrhian.github.io/qa-in-github 📝 blog post: rhian.rbind.io/posts/2025-1... #rstats #rap #quality-assurance

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Ditch the Spreadsheets

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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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Rhian Davies @statsrhian.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

I've been waiting for this recording to go up because I've heard _so many people_ say how useful it was. And I too am a very frustrated {renv} user. Thanks @pipinghotdata.com 🙏

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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

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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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