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Umair Durrani @transport-talk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Can't wait to see agent tidyverse voting to 🗡️ agent pandas #RStats

Umair Durrani @transport-talk.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I know nothing about music but have this idea to map street network to music notes. Goal is to show how urban shape sounds like. So, ideally, I'd like to see grid patterns have different tunes than the circular patterns in city streets. Any ideas where to start in #RStats?

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Umair Durrani @transport-talk.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

SUMO Workshop 1 recording is now available. This workshop discussed: - Setup - Case Study: Creating a network and Traffic Analysis Zones (TAZs) of Durham region in Toronto Website: transportation-sci.github.io/sumo_worksho... Recording: youtu.be/rkBTaRFLr1A #python #simulation #SUMO

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SUMO Lessons

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Tyler Morgan-Wall @tylermw.com · 26/08/2026

Ever wonder "how big is the `volcano` dataset in #RStats, really?" No? Oh. ... Well, no need to (not) wonder any longer, thanks to rayshader's upcoming raypeople with render_people() + render_trails() here! #rayshader #rayrender #rayverse

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psychometrician @gogdeveloper.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Rosling's bubble chart, with one word added. In gog time is a channel, so play(year) sits beside color() and size(). The same word moves a bar chart, a histogram and a cube. Be agog. Use gog. #rstats #DataViz psychometrician.github.io/posts/one-wo...

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One word makes the plot move – psychometrician

Hans Rosling’s bubble chart is a scatterplot with one word added. In gog, time is a channel, written beside color and size, so animation is not a second package with a second vocabulary. The same word...

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Ben Harrap @bharrap.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

🎉New tool for RevealJS slide theming🎉 You can play with: - background colours - base font size - colour and typeface for text and code - aspect ratio It displays contrast info, to help keep things accessible, and outputs the corresponding scss! benharrap.com/tools/quarto... #rstats #Quarto

A screenshot of a revealjs slide theme editor. An example slide is presented with several options to change colour schemes, typefaces, and font size

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Umair Durrani @transport-talk.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Having fun making a quarto blog for the Simulation of Urban Mobility (SUMO) software workshops. The site looks like the SUMO interface! Learning a lot about quarto and bootstrap classes in the process. #quarto

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Umair Durrani @transport-talk.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Two new #rstats pkgs by @yihui.org. {gglite} for interactive plotting and {lt} for table creation pkg.yihui.org/gglite/ pkg.yihui.org/lt/

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gglite: Lightweight Data Visualization via the Grammar of Graphics

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Umair Durrani @transport-talk.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I've started working on my own materials using vehicle trajectories data. Using: * uvr * arrow * purrr, dplyr, ggplot2, patchwork * trelliscope * officer * flextable github.com/transportati... #RStats

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course_transport_ds/01_intro_to_r at main · transportation-sci/course_transport_ds

Contribute to transportation-sci/course_transport_ds development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Umair Durrani @transport-talk.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Calepin notebook by @vincentab.bsky.social powers typst with your R/Python code. Comes with an extension. #RStats

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Umair Durrani @transport-talk.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

What are your favourite Intro. to #RStats workshop materials? Looking for max. 5 hr class materials with slides and mini exercises.

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Umair Durrani @transport-talk.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I saw an #RStats pkg here that shows the results at any intermediate step of a pipeline in Excel without explicitly exporting the data to a sheet. Does anyone know the pkg's name?

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Tyler Morgan-Wall @tylermw.com · 18/07/2026

The raypeople are coming. #RStats #rayshader #rayrender

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hrbrmstr 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @hrbrmstr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

The always awesome @coatless dropped {livelink} for #RStats and it is pretty darned spiffy. It turns R code into a URL that runs in the browser, with no server and nothing to upload. It covers webR for a full R REPL and Shinylive for R and Python Shiny apps […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

$Three-step diagram showing how the webr R package shares live R sessions. Step 1, "You write R": a code card with the R call webr_repl_link({ data(mtcars); plot(mtcars$mpg, mtcars$wt, pch = 16, col = "steelblue") }), captioned "A string, a file path, or the clipboard work too." Step 2, "You get a URL": a long encoded link beginning https://webr.r-wasm.org/latest/#code=. Step 3, "They get a live R session": a browser mockup of webr.r-wasm.org with four panes — a script.R editor containing the same code, a file tree showing home/web_user/script.R, a terminal showing source('script.R') and mean(mtcars$mpg) returning 20.09062, and a scatter plot of steelblue points trending upward.$

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Umair Durrani @transport-talk.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

TSLC is hosting a new, weekly book club for learning Machine Learning and the prerequisite Maths. Let me know if you'd like to participate. #rstats #python #machinelearning

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Umair Durrani @transport-talk.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Did you know {ggplot2} is available almost everywhere you work with data? * R * Python * SQL * Typst #RStats #ggplot2

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Jenny Bryan @jennybryan.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I have to update one of the most inflammatory things I said back on the bird site, but for the LLM era: 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 If your agent prefaces every tool call with `cd /the/current/workspace &&`, I will come set your data center on fire 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥

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Manasseh @manasseh6.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Italian industrial production for #TidyTuesday, week 18. At it again!, svgparser📦package turning ideas into life. #Rstats #Dataviz #ggplot2

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Umair Durrani @transport-talk.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Anyone interested in reading these books in a combined book club: 1. Mathematics for Machine Learning 2. ML with PyTorch & Scikit-Learn Here's a rough reading plan: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #rstats #python

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Umair Durrani @transport-talk.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Book club Traffic Flow Dynamics had our first meeting today. Thanks to everyone who attended. Want to join the book club at Transportation Science Learning Community? Join the Pumble workspace: invite.pumble.com/2bn1y5k3vdvi... #transportation

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Umair Durrani @transport-talk.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Are you a proponent of cities investing in the infrastructure for self-driving cars? Or would you propose public transit investments instead? TSLC is planning to host a discussion panel around the questions above and more. Let me know if you'd like to participate. #transportation #transit

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Umair Durrani @transport-talk.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

TSLC is an online platform for anyone working/studying in any aspect of transportation. Inspired by DSLC, TSLC will host book clubs, help channels, presentations, and projects. Traffic Flow Dynamics is our first book club. Register here: forms.gle/MpURLJVbxRQ6... #transportation

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Umair Durrani @transport-talk.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Gearing up for the Traffic Flow Dynamics book club with a work-in-progress carfollowing Python package and reproducing figures from the book. Interested in participating in the book club? Register here: forms.gle/g3ZmqLH4sgZq... #transportation #positron #python

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Umair Durrani @transport-talk.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Would you be interested in completing courses/books in the upcoming #transportation science learning community (TSLC) in 2026? Proposed book clubs: 1. Transport Data Science 2. Road Safety Research 3. Traffic Flow Dynamics 4. Intro. to Urban Accessibility 5. Traffic Simulation with SUMO #RStats

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Umair Durrani @transport-talk.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Hey folks who work/study in any field of transportation, would you be interested in an online community that hosts book clubs, help channels, contests, etc.? What would you like to see in it? #RStats #transportation

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Umair Durrani @transport-talk.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Quarto fenced divs, custom layout, and SCSS can make pretty nice websites. Website: quarto-bighead.netlify.app Source: github.com/durraniu/qua... #RStats #Quarto

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Umair Durrani @transport-talk.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

My R+AI Conf talk is now available on YouTube: youtu.be/828KuEORQdg?... I talked about my R package {brandthis} that helps you getting started with theming your quarto outputs and shiny apps by quickly generating brand.yml files and color palettes for R and Python plots #RStats

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Umair Durrani @transport-talk.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Thanks @rconsortium.bsky.social for organizing the R + AI conference. The slides for my talk are available here: dru.quarto.pub/brandthis/#/... #RStats

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Brand Your Docs, Apps, and ggplots Using LLMs

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Umair Durrani @transport-talk.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Can you believe this is made with {ambiorix} + tailwind? #RStats

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R Consortium @rconsortium.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

TOMORROW! R+AI 2025 goes live! Highlights: • Joe Cheng (Posit): Keeping LLMs in Their Lane • Oracle ML: RAG from your DB (Hornick & LaMonica) • Troy Hernandez: Stable Diffusion in R • Many, many more! Nov 12–13. See the full program and register: rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_webs... #rstats #AI

Screenshot showing speakers from the upcoming R+AI event - View of many headshots

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Umair Durrani @transport-talk.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

CTRL + / is so good for commenting in any language in positron! # R/Python // CSS/JS  #RStats

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Umair Durrani @transport-talk.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

createBranding app is now available with the {brandthis} R package: github.com/durraniu/bra... Use LLM to generate brand.yml -> Review and iterate on results -> Create color palettes for plots Credit goes to the brand.yml app in {bslib}. Thanks @grrrck.xyz #RStats

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Umair Durrani @transport-talk.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Did the chat interface use to be pipeable in {ellmer}? I saw this in a talk on the @landeranalytics.com channel: youtu.be/OLXp7I7xmtU?... But could not find the functions add_model, add_params, etc. in {ellmer} docs. #RStats @hadley.nz

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Umair Durrani @transport-talk.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

{brandthis} is ready to install. Try it and let me know if anything breaks: github.com/durraniu/bra... Here's an example site that uses the generated _brand.yml and color palettes: dru.quarto.pub/brandthis-de... #RStats

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Umair Durrani @transport-talk.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

TIL that brand.yml works for closeread outputs! #RStats

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Umair Durrani @transport-talk.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

{brandthis} R package is almost ready with functions for: * Generating _brand.yml * Color scale suggestions from {ggsci} and {paletteer} * Generating discrete, sequential, and diverging color palettes from the _brand.yml color palette #RStats

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Umair Durrani @transport-talk.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

My useR! 2025 talk on Web APIs with R is now available on youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPMs... I showed the basic workflow of {httr2} and how to create fictional stories by calling LLM provider APIs. #RStats

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Web APIs for useRs: Getting data from websites, databases, and LLMs - Umair Durrani

YouTube video by useR! Conference

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Umair Durrani @transport-talk.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Interesting useR! 2025 talk about ensemble modeling packages that do **everything** for you: youtu.be/csGcnGJ2t0U?... Nice example of AutoML. Curious to know what you think #RStats

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"How did you even think of that???" Techniques to code much faster - Russ Conte

YouTube video by useR! Conference

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Umair Durrani @transport-talk.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Experimented with creating art pieces with {artpack} using {axolotr} agents (autoeda example as a starting point). You either get beautiful results or the agents fail miserably. #RStats

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R Consortium @rconsortium.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Skip the hype. Deep dive on R + AI 🧠 R+AI 2025 · Nov 12–13 · online · low cost 💻 Keynote: Joe Cheng (CTO, Posit) — “Keeping LLMs in Their Lane” 🎯 Register: rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_webs... #rstats #AI #LLMs #Quarto #RConsortium

Main image: R+AI 2025 · Nov 12–13 · online · low cost

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Umair Durrani @transport-talk.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

{ragnar} creates a store using duckdb. Where would you store this db (size > 5 MB) if you want your package to use it to retrieve relevant chunks? Put it on S3? #RStats

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Umair Durrani @transport-talk.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

I am giving 2 talks abt making your data analysis outputs into polished products with the power of #RStats and #Python pkgs + my pkg {brandthis}. Talk 1: DevFest 2025. Register here: wedevfest.com Talk 2: R+AI 2025 organized by R Consortium. Register here: rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_webs...

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Umair Durrani @transport-talk.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Does the `pip install <pkg>` command work on python REPL also or is it just the #positron console that supports it? #python

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Umair Durrani @transport-talk.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

{brandthis} progress: Generate _brand.yml and see the results in the live app. Still work-in-progress. Building on the brand.yml app from {bslib}. #rstats

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Umair Durrani @transport-talk.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Work-in-progress #RStats package {brandthis} that enables you to efficiently create themes and color scales from personal/company branding. Uses {ragnar}, {ellmer}, {ggsci} and other R packages.

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Umair Durrani @transport-talk.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

There's also {raylibr} that enables you to make snake and DOOM games among others: github.com/jeroenjansse... #rstats

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