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I'm not sure you understand what kind of things a convincing plot can coerce people to do...

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📦 Introducing shinyreact for R & Python Write your UI natively in React. Shrink your Shiny server to data-only logic. Agent Skills write the React for you. ✨ opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-09... This is the start! Tell us what you build and what breaks. #RStats #Python #Shiny #React

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 6h

We have been hard at work on ggvis2 but we will have to severely restrict access to it due to safety concerns. The visualisations are just too convincing

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Theo Priestley @theopriestley.net · 29/09/2026

Every AI CEO sounds like this.

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Lucy 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.

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Ilya 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...

Thomas Lin Pedersen in front of the slide featuring a 6x4 wall of R package hex stickers -- all of them authored by Thomas 🤯

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 24/09/2026

As 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 post

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ggsql 0.5.0: Readers, Writers, and Beta status

Announcing ggsql 0.5.0, with new readers and writers for getting data in and out, and the project's graduation to beta status.

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 24/09/2026

BTW, I know that Blend2D already does pipeline optimisation through a JIT, which is partly why it can be so performant while still being pure CPU - you should read into that if this is your thing

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 24/09/2026

One of my greatest joys of the #rstats language is that it comes with both a runif() and stopifnot() function

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 20/09/2026

(there's not a chance in hell that you'll get me to use Skia 😅)

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 20/09/2026

This looks great (haven't deep-dived yet), but also perhaps more for the Vello and Blend2D developers But I'll look through to see if there are things that apply to the higher level as well

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 15/09/2026

Recordings will become available once ready

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 15/09/2026

Also, if you want to talk ggsql in any shape or form, come by during a break and I’ll be happy to chat

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 15/09/2026

I’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 spring

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 15/09/2026

Peak positconf vibe. Sad to not have you here tho

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 14/09/2026

Just arrived in Houston. Looking forward to a week of Data Science, R, and Viz at #PositConf2026 Come say hi if you see me

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 10/09/2026

I was unsuccessful... Any weird code I add to ggsql today is due to 2h of missing sleep

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 10/09/2026

It'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

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Bryce @brycemecum.com · 08/09/2026

New 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...

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The ODBC Driver Scavenger Hunt

ADBC’s advantages start before the first query runs.

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Posit @posit.co · 08/09/2026

Leland 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…

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 08/09/2026

You could argue that she's starting by defining an axiom and then uses that as a base for arguing about the mental fitness of certain people... But that is still very close to the bare assertion fallacy... On the flipside she never claimed to make a logical argument

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 08/09/2026

That is to say, I suspect that PISA itself has partly been a cause of the decline (among many other factors), purely due to how the results have been used

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 08/09/2026

I just saw how badly Denmark has fared... I remember when the first results came and how everyone in DK was up in arms that we scored in the middle, resulting in decades of flailing policies rather than a cohesive vision for education...

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 08/09/2026

not visible here but take my word on it: Legends now works much better, merge in expected ways, and are generally awesome

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 08/09/2026

you may anticipate some updates to your plot builder since Vega-lite will be deprecated in the future and removed completely before the 1.0.0 release (whenever that is)

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 08/09/2026

Also visible is support for concepts that are unknown to Vega-Lite such as captions and minor ticks+gridlines

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 08/09/2026

I'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

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 08/09/2026

sticker scientists who are data enthusiasts

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Teun van den Brand @teunbrand.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Also 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 ```

Map of the world with countries coloured by continent. The map has the Equal Earth projection.

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 31/08/2026

I think it is cute that you think it will be released

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 26/08/2026

That paper gives me the feels. Remember it from my gganimate days

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 19/08/2026

yes, eventually - still some work to be done though VegaLite was a lift-off ramp but we outgrew it months ago and the constraints have annoyed us since

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 18/08/2026

New 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

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 17/08/2026

Cut-outs from my posit::conf presentation

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 17/08/2026

I pray to god I'll never know how the third time feels

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 17/08/2026

The second time you implement a rich text shaper is def better than the first

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 11/08/2026

“They told me all my cages were mental. So I got wasted like all my potentia” - V

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 10/08/2026

The shading is soo atmospheric. Lovely!

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 03/08/2026

lol - there is not a full overlap but so it's not a competition. I'm excited to see what you come up with

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 03/08/2026

We might be working along similar lines :-)

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Posit @posit.co · 30/07/2026

Ask 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...

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Ask more of your dashboard with querychat and ggsql

querychat 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...

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RLadies+ 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

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