Reposted by Thomas Lin PedersenTheo Priestley @theopriestley.net · 29/09/2026Every AI CEO sounds like this. 61023291
Reposted by Thomas Lin PedersenLucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · 28/09/2026🎙️ Today on Regression to the Mean Girls @sarahlotspeich.bsky.social & I chat with the amazing @emilyriederer.bsky.social about a deep dive into election data! We chat data quality! Headless browser automation! Connections to EHR data! It’s great. 2224
Reposted by Thomas Lin PedersenIlya Kashnitsky @ikashnitsky.phd · 26/09/2026😍We were exceptionally lucky at Statistics Denmark to have @thomasp85.com giving a thorough {ggsql} intro, with a focus on motivation and the theoretical foundations 🗣: In the era of LLMs, READABILITY of the code is essential for humans; SQL tops here 🏆 🔗 slides: thomasp85.github.io/2026_ggsql_4... 1211
Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 24/09/2026As announced at posit::conf(2026) #ggsql is now, with the release of version 0.5.0, in Beta. I'm so excited for the future of this project. Read all about what the latest version brings you in the release postopensource.posit.coggsql 0.5.0: Readers, Writers, and Beta statusAnnouncing ggsql 0.5.0, with new readers and writers for getting data in and out, and the project's graduation to beta status. 14814
Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 24/09/2026One of my greatest joys of the #rstats language is that it comes with both a runif() and stopifnot() function 0181
Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 15/09/2026Also, if you want to talk ggsql in any shape or form, come by during a break and I’ll be happy to chat 050
Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 15/09/2026I’ll be presenting our work on #ggsql today at #PositConf2026 It will be lovely and whimsical and I hope you’ll join both if your are new to ggsql or have been following along since the springggsql.orgggsql 1101
Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 14/09/2026Just arrived in Houston. Looking forward to a week of Data Science, R, and Viz at #PositConf2026 Come say hi if you see me 0203
Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 10/09/2026It's 3am, I'm waiting in line to buy tickets for Studio Ghibli Museum, there are 12000 in front of me... This will be the key evidence if my kids ever doubt that I love them 1190
Reposted by Thomas Lin PedersenBryce @brycemecum.com · 08/09/2026New post on the company blog that does a great job showing just how convoluted using ODBC is and how painless database access can be with ADBC and dbc: columnar.tech/blog/odbc-dr...columnar.techThe ODBC Driver Scavenger HuntADBC’s advantages start before the first query runs. 0133
Reposted by Thomas Lin PedersenPosit @posit.co · 08/09/2026Leland McInnes built UMAP to help humans (not AI) make sense of messy piles of images, documents, and video. His full thinking on data, taste, and exploration is on The Test Set. Listen now: posit.co/thetestset/episode/smuggle… 0152
Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 08/09/2026I've been hard at work on a new renderer for #ggsql to replace Vega-Lite and it is close to ready for primetime. Here, you can see it running in the browser, showing of a much improved layout model for faceted plots, along with native markdown rendering 1283
Reposted by Thomas Lin PedersenTeun van den Brand @teunbrand.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Also added to development version of ggsql too 🫡 Try it out in interactive examples at ggsql.org/syntax/coord.... ``` VISUALISE continent AS fill FROM ggsql:world DRAW spatial PROJECT TO equal_earth ``` 0234
Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 18/08/2026New native renderer for #ggsql supporting smooth resizing, rich text layout (not shown), and infrastructure to support interactivity, plot composition and more is coming along nicely 1190
Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 17/08/2026The second time you implement a rich text shaper is def better than the first 150
Reposted by Thomas Lin PedersenPosit @posit.co · 30/07/2026Ask more of your dashboard with querychat & ggsql! 📊 Explore data in your #RStats and #Python Shiny apps via natural language using safe, reproducible SQL and generate inline charts with ggsql. 🔗 opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06...opensource.posit.coAsk more of your dashboard with querychat and ggsqlquerychat now supports ggsql-powered visualizations — users can ask "show me" questions and get charts rendered directly in the chat, alongside SQL queries and reactive filtering, all without arbitrar... 092
Reposted by Thomas Lin PedersenRLadies+ Bot @rladies-bot.bsky.social · 26/07/2026📝 "Exploring other ggplot2 geoms" Level up your R data viz with these amazing ggplot2 plugins. 👤 Isabella Velásquez (@ivelasq3.bsky.social) 🔗 ivelasq.rbind.io/blog/other-geoms #rladies #rstats #oldiebutgoodie #reference 183
Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 20/07/2026This is totally a glitch in the renderer and no-one can convince me otherwise 0220
Reposted by Thomas Lin PedersenIsabella Velásquez @ivelasq3.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Ever used a ggplot2 extension package (like ggbump, geomtextpath, ggdensity) and wondered how they were made? @ginareynolds.bsky.social, @libbyheeren.bsky.social, and I will create an extension from scratch, live, tomorrow on the DS Lab! In #RStats and #Python! Register here: pos.it/dslab 2365
Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 20/07/2026One of the absolute best... among a backlog of absolutely terrific pieces! 060
Reposted by Thomas Lin PedersenPosit @posit.co · 29/06/2026Posit has joined the Jupyter Foundation! 🎉 @jupyter.org has powered interactive computing across our tools for years, from Notebooks to the kernels behind Positron. Now we're helping fund the infrastructure and community that keep it thriving. Read the blog: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06... 08116
Reposted by Thomas Lin PedersenMine Çetinkaya-Rundel @minecr.bsky.social · 25/06/2026TidyDevDay 2026: bring your laptop, leave with a merged PR, new friends, and sharper R skills! First-time contributor? Perfect. Seasoned developer? Also perfect. opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06... 📅 Sep 17, Houston, TX, after posit::conf(2026) 🕘 9 am - 4 pm 🎟️ luma.com/pnjuw08h #rstats #tidyverseopensource.posit.coTidy Dev Day 2026Join us for a full day of collaborative open source work — whether you're a seasoned contributor or making your very first pull request. 23013
Reposted by Thomas Lin PedersenrainbowR @rainbowr.org · 23/06/2026🌈 rainbowR meet-ups: June 24th & 29th 🌈 - connect with other LGBTQ+ people who code in #RStats 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ - show us something R-related you’ve been working on 💻 - ask questions about R 🙋 ➡️ Registration & timezones via rainbowr.org/meetups 01310
Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 23/06/2026Do you love maps? Of course you do! With the latest release of #ggsql we now support spatial plotting directly from your database. As a cherry on top, the release also provides powerful in-layer aggregation. Read all about it on the blogopensource.posit.coggsql 0.4.1: Spatial plotting and in-layer aggregationggsql 0.4.1 adds support for spatial plotting and data aggregation within layers. Read all about the new features in this release post. 08122
Reposted by Thomas Lin PedersenCarson Sievert (he/him) @cpsievert.bsky.social · 17/06/2026I'm thrilled to share that #querychat now supports more exploratory visualization powered by #ggsql. We're excited about what this direction can unlock for data scientists looking to curate "tidy" data for others explore. Expect more on this in the coming months. opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06...opensource.posit.coAsk more of your dashboard with querychat and ggsqlquerychat now supports ggsql-powered visualizations — users can ask "show me" questions and get charts rendered directly in the chat, alongside SQL queries and reactive filtering, all without arbitrar... 34012
Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 15/06/2026Join in on my first foray into the data science lab 060
Reposted by Thomas Lin PedersenIsabella Velásquez @ivelasq3.bsky.social · 15/06/2026That nice-looking plot might be R, Python, Typst... or even, SQL!? Join us tomorrow with @thomasp85.com , where he will introduce ggsql, a new package that brings the grammar of graphics (a framework for composing plots) to SQL. Join the ggparty here: pos.it/dslab 1293
Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 10/06/2026My god, I am building some amazing*... Can't wait to tell about it... *besides ggsql which is also amazing of course 2191
Reposted by Thomas Lin PedersenJonathan @jmcphers.bsky.social · 10/06/2026When we started working on Positron, we began by asking "what did we always want to do in RStudio, but couldn't"? Years of community upvotes on RStudio's issue tracker helped us form that wishlist. Here's how some big ideas made their way to Positron: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06...opensource.posit.coRStudio's Top Feature Requests ... In PositronMany of the most upvoted RStudio feature requests are already implemented in Positron, and we explore ten of them. 33911
Reposted by Thomas Lin PedersenJohan Larsson @jolars.co · 09/06/2026Panache v2.52.0 is out! 🚀 A formatter, linter & language server for Quarto, Pandoc & Markdown. New: experimental math formatter (align + whitespace normalization) and hand-written YAML parser & formatter, fully lossless, even hashpipe YAML (Quaro chunk options) panache.bzpanache.bzPanache: Language Server, Formatter, and Linter for Markdown, Quarto, and R MarkdownPanache provides authoring tools for Markdown, Quarto, and R Markdown: a language server, formatter, and linter to help you write better documents, more efficiently. 3317
Reposted by Thomas Lin PedersenCédric Scherer @cedricscherer.com · 05/06/2026This week we released the #maps module in #ggplot2 uncharted — and we cover a loooooot of maps in the 4 lessons and 19 exercises! ... and this collection doesn't even feature each 👀 As usual, the first lesson is available for everyone 🤙 www.ggplot2-uncharted.com/module5/spat... #rstats #tidyverse 24413
Reposted by Thomas Lin PedersenMark J. Nelson @mm-jj-nn.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Assistant/Associate Professor opening at the University of Southern Denmark in games & interactive technologies; focus areas Human-Computer/AI Interaction, data science, and AI. Deadline August 1.fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.comShape the Impact of Games research: Become an Assistant or Associate Professor at the SDU Metaverse LabThe SDU Metaverse Lab is seeking a new colleague to join our team. Our focus is on the interface of technology and people, working across domains to create experiences and technologies that enable peo... 0118
Reposted by Thomas Lin PedersenPosit @posit.co · 29/05/2026Announcing mori 0.1.0: Zero-copy shared memory for #RStats! Parallel R usually means duplicating data across every worker, causing RAM bloat. mori fixes this by sharing R objects across processes via OS-level shared memory. Share once, read anywhere Learn more: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04...opensource.posit.comori: Shared memory for R objectsmori is a new R package for sharing R objects across processes via OS-level shared memory. Parallel workers get zero-copy, lazy ALTREP access to the same physical pages — share once, read anywhere. 15714
Reposted by Thomas Lin PedersenMatthew Kling @matthewkling.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Announcing #RStats package ggcube, now on CRAN -- make 3D #ggplot2 figures using `coord_3d()` matthewkling.github.io/ggcube/ 812831
Reposted by Thomas Lin PedersenMickaël CANOUIL, Ph.D. @mickael.canouil.fr · 21/05/2026Gribouille v0.1.0: a Grammar of gGraphics for Typst. Modelled on ggplot2, drawn on cetz. Declare plots with aes, geom-*, facet-wrap and themes; compose hoists a shared legend. One toolchain, data straight to PDF. mickael.canouil.fr/posts/2026-0... #typst #rstats #grammarOfGraphics #ggplot2 #cetz 26214
Reposted by Thomas Lin PedersenNicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 19/05/2026New work-in-progress #ggplot2 extension package for chord diagrams hopefully coming soon! #RStats #DataViz 1969
Reposted by Thomas Lin PedersenArtur Carvalho @artur.carva.lu · 20/05/2026Hey @thomasp85.com @teunbrand.bsky.social, I created a chart builder built on top of #ggsql: plotr.org. Sort of the ggsql Esquisse version :) Would love to hear what you think! It's still very much experimental though.plotr.orgplotr — A ggsql chart builder 1103
Reposted by Thomas Lin PedersenThe R Foundation @r-foundation.bsky.social · 19/05/2026In memoriam Tomáš Kalibera (1978–2026). www.r-project.org/doc/obit/tom...r-project.orgR: 02411
Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 15/05/2026Nothing like a blooming rhododendron to light up your May evenings 2201
Reposted by Thomas Lin PedersenTeun van den Brand @teunbrand.bsky.social · 13/05/2026I'm please to celebrate that legendry 0.3.0 has hit the streets on CRAN 🎉 Legendry is a ggplot2 extension that lets you draw more guides. Read about all the guide goodness in this minor update here: teunbrand.github.io/teunbrand_bl... #rstats #ggplot2teunbrand.github.ioSymbolic update – Blog | Teun van den BrandThe latest and greatest in guide fashion. 25714
Reposted by Thomas Lin PedersenJulia Silge @juliasilge.com · 11/05/2026The latest release of #Positron went out last week, and it is chock full of exciting stuff! 🤩 Check out the new Packages pane, inline output for Quarto, the new Posit Assistant interface, and more: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-05...opensource.posit.coPositron May Release HighlightsHighlights from the 2026.05 release of Positron, including a new Packages pane and inline output for Quarto. 46015
Reposted by Thomas Lin PedersenRLadies+ @rladies.org · 11/05/2026We listened. We reflected. We evolved. Meet RLadies+. A more inclusive identity for our global community. Because belonging matters. 🔗 Read more about the rebrand: rladies.org/news/2026/re... 07731
Reposted by Thomas Lin PedersenAccessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Chartability is a resource to help make data visualizations and charts more accessible. It's organized into principles with testable criteria aimed at making sure people with disabilities are able to access data. chartability.fizz.studiochartability.fizz.studioChartabilityChartability is a set of heuristics (testable questions) for ensuring that data visualizations, systems, and interfaces are accessible. Chartability is organized into principles with testable… 12110
Reposted by Thomas Lin PedersenCharlie Gao @shikokuchuo.net · 07/05/2026OpenTelemetry has come to R 🎉 Shiny, plumber2, mirai, httr2, ellmer, knitr, testthat, and DBI are now instrumented: production-grade traces from R with no code changes. Set a few env vars and telemetry flows to the backend of your choice. Full write-up: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-05... #Rstatsopensource.posit.coBringing OpenTelemetry to R in productionPosit has instrumented Shiny, plumber2, mirai, httr2, ellmer, knitr, testthat, and DBI with OpenTelemetry, and created tools for you to instrument your own packages, bringing production-grade observab... 27413