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Tyler Clark, EdD @tylerclark12.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I’m looking forward to seeing folks in Ljubljana next summer for the 27th World Conference! Hope to see you there! World-gifted.org/register27 #gtchat #edchat #gifted #talentdevelopment #creativity

Conference attending image - Ljubljana, Slovenia, World Council for Gifted and Talented Children

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Libby Heeren @libbyheeren.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Did you know you can search for R packages by what they do, as opposed to just their names? Look! 👉🏼 rwarehouse.netlify.app @kylieainslie.bsky.social made The Warehouse for just this purpose. Send it to a new R programmer today ❤️ because it's the resource we all wish we'd had at some point #rstats

Screenshot of a website with "The Warehouse" at the top. The user has typed "add interactivity to a ggplot" into the search bar at the top of the website and results below include plotly and ggiraph

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Tyler Clark, EdD @tylerclark12.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

This isn’t opening for me on mobile.

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Tyler Clark, EdD @tylerclark12.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Does it work with the latest R release? I couldn’t get it to install via CRAN the other day, but I didn’t have much time to look into it.

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Tyler Clark, EdD @tylerclark12.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Hey, #rstats friends! I'm trying to make a poster using Quarto (quarto.org/docs/output-...). It is pulling images from a subsub...directory. I'm wanting it to pull from the upper level. Am I doing something wrong? Or do you have a different way you make posters?

quarto.org

Custom Typst Formats – Quarto

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Tyler Clark, EdD @tylerclark12.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Ohhhh. Nope I don’t do that! The root is my home directory! I do really like here, though. It is nice.

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Tyler Clark, EdD @tylerclark12.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I do it similarly. I have my code in R subfolder and data in the data subfolder. I use the here package that references my project root then data folder then the file.

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Tyler Clark, EdD @tylerclark12.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

It was a busy day! I’m please with this project!

Trellis with edging and landscape fabric

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Tyler Clark, EdD @tylerclark12.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I actually just took to ChatGPT to look for distinctions before I scrolled down to your comment. 😂

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 16/03/2026

Full list of updates and new features here prerelease.quarto.org/docs/download/

prerelease.quarto.org

Download Quarto – Quarto (Pre-release)

Install a release or pre-release build of Quarto.

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Tyler Clark, EdD @tylerclark12.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

After I asked I googled…… 😕

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Tyler Clark, EdD @tylerclark12.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Actual question - what makes the other one evil?

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Tyler Clark, EdD @tylerclark12.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

This week I received copies of my first book! It was fun to collaborate with Julia Link Roberts on editing a book with international perspectives about acceleration practices. Check it out at www.routledge.com/Internationa... #gtchat #edchat #gifted #giftededucation #talentdevelopment #creativity

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Tyler Clark, EdD @tylerclark12.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Totally missed that little symbol!

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Tyler Clark, EdD @tylerclark12.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

On mobile, I only see the chat. It isn’t showing me the schedule as well. Is that as expected?

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Tyler Clark, EdD @tylerclark12.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

@libbyheeren.bsky.social thought you might have ideas of folks who might be interested in something like this.

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Tyler Clark, EdD @tylerclark12.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Do you all have a need to encrypt files you generate before sending? I’ve been working with honeycakefiles.com to protect files. Just seeing if there might be interest in an r package to use it to protect your files if I can get one put together (with permission of the company)? #rstats

honeycakefiles.com

Honeycake - Enterprise File Security. For Everyone.

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Dariia Mykhailyshyna @dariia.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

I am very happy to announce that I will be a keynote speaker at useR!2026 in Warsaw! Hope to see many incredible members of #RStats community in person there 😀

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Tyler Clark, EdD @tylerclark12.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

I’m looking to develop a research agenda. Do you all have resources for doing it or have one you’d be willing to share? #academicchatter #rstats

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Tyler Clark, EdD @tylerclark12.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Thank you!🙏 I’ve never done #TidyTuesday but maybe that can be a resolution for this year!

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Tyler Clark, EdD @tylerclark12.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Oh! This is cool! Do you have resources for how you did this or willing to share code?

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Tyler Clark, EdD @tylerclark12.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Thanks! I’m interested in thinking about how using time scale calculus rather than approximating using continuous or discrete functions does or does not impact the results from analyses. I’ll give what you have a read.

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Tyler Clark, EdD @tylerclark12.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

I’m planning to dig deeper into these notes. For temporal analysis, have you read anything on time scale calculus techniques (Hilger) for this? It keeps coming to my mind lately and am just curious if you’ve explored it.

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Tyler Clark, EdD @tylerclark12.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Categories for those type of variables but not summary statistics or actual observations.

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Tyler Clark, EdD @tylerclark12.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

I guess I’m concerned that things change so quickly, unless you pay SUPER close attention, these polices may change and your data are exposed. Would it be as effective to have a feature to only give explorer variable info to the AI tool? Maybe I’m okay giving the variable names and types and

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Tyler Clark, EdD @tylerclark12.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

@jonthegeek.com I’m looking at the book clubs. Are there any listings of upcoming book clubs? I see several already going but would love to know if there are any scheduled to start soon.

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Tyler Clark, EdD @tylerclark12.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Possibly next fall…. Not positive yet.

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Tyler Clark, EdD @tylerclark12.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Great resource! I watched his videos in grad school!

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Tyler Clark, EdD @tylerclark12.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Does anyone on #rstats teach an undergraduate linear algebra for data science course? If so, what textbook or resources do you use?

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 09/12/2025

Some closing thoughts for my students this semester on LLMs and learning #rstats datavizf25.classes.andrewheiss.com/news/2025-12...

Will you incorporate LLMs and AI prompting into the course in the future?
No.

Why won’t you incorporate LLMs and AI prompting into the course?
These tools are useful for coding (see this for my personal take on this).

However, they’re only useful if you know what you’re doing first. If you skip the learning-the-process-of-writing-code step and just copy/paste output from ChatGPT, you will not learn. You cannot learn. You cannot improve. You will not understand the code.

In that post, it warns that you cannot use it as a beginner:

…to use Databot effectively and safely, you still need the skills of a data scientist: background and domain knowledge, data analysis expertise, and coding ability.

There is no LLM-based shortcut to those skills. You cannot LLM your way into domain knowledge, data analysis expertise, or coding ability.

The only way to gain domain knowledge, data analysis expertise, and coding ability is to struggle. To get errors. To google those errors. To look over the documentation. To copy/paste your own code and adapt it for different purposes. To explore messy datasets. To struggle to clean those datasets. To spend an hour looking for a missing comma.

This isn’t a form of programming hazing, like “I had to walk to school uphill both ways in the snow and now you must too.” It’s the actual process of learning and growing and developing and improving. You’ve gotta struggle.

This Tumblr post puts it well (it’s about art specifically, but it applies to coding and data analysis too):

Contrary to popular belief the biggest beginner’s roadblock to art isn’t even technical skill it’s frustration tolerance, especially in the age of social media. It hurts and the frustration is endless but you must build the frustration tolerance equivalent to a roach’s capacity to survive a nuclear explosion. That’s how you build on the technical skill. Throw that “won’t even start because I’m afraid it won’t be perfect” shit out the window. Just do it. Just start. Good luck. (The original post has disappeared, but here’s a reblog.)

It’s hard, but struggling is the only way to learn anything.

You might not enjoy code as much as Williams does (or I do), but there’s still value in maintaining codings skills as you improve and learn more. You don’t want your skills to atrophy.

As I discuss here, when I do use LLMs for coding-related tasks, I purposely throw as much friction into the process as possible:

To avoid falling into over-reliance on LLM-assisted code help, I add as much friction into my workflow as possible. I only use GitHub Copilot and Claude in the browser, not through the chat sidebar in Positron or Visual Studio Code. I treat the code it generates like random answers from StackOverflow or blog posts and generally rewrite it completely. I disable the inline LLM-based auto complete in text editors. For routine tasks like generating {roxygen2} documentation scaffolding for functions, I use the {chores} package, which requires a bunch of pointing and clicking to use.

Even though I use Positron, I purposely do not use either Positron Assistant or Databot. I have them disabled.

So in the end, for pedagogical reasons, I don’t foresee me incorporating LLMs into this class. I’m pedagogically opposed to it. I’m facing all sorts of external pressure to do it, but I’m resisting.

You’ve got to learn first.

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Tyler Clark, EdD @tylerclark12.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Oh this is really neat! I’d hang this in my office!

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Collin Berke @collinberke.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Seeing this years @posit.co table contest winners was inspiring: posit.co/blog/2025-ta.... It's amazing to see the functionality others came up with. My favorite? Leo Ohyama's: github.com/leoohyama/po... . The ticker at the top was a really neat idea. #RStats #dataBS

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Winners of the 2025 Table Contest - Posit

We had many submissions to the Posit 2025 Table Contest and this post will show you the winners, the special prize recipients, and the runners up!

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Emi Tanaka @emitanaka.org · 16/11/2025

Congratulations to my student, Maggie Ma, for publishing her first #rstats package {ggincerta} on CRAN 🥳 Spatial uncertainty visualisation (bivariate, pixel, exceedance, glyph), like {Vizumap}, but fully integrated with ggplot2 -- a much simpler API with all the advantages of the ggplot2 system.

exceedance plot

ggplot(nc) + geom_sf(aes(fill = duo_exceed(value, sd)))

bivariate plot

ggplot(nc) + geom_sf(aes(fill = duo(value, sd)))

glyph plot

ggplot(nc) + geom_sf_glyph(mapping = aes(v1 = value, v2 = sd))

pixel plot

ggplot(nc) + geom_sf_pixel(mapping = aes(v1 = value, v2 = sd))

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Tyler Clark, EdD @tylerclark12.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Omg! I literally have so many places in some code I’m working on now that would be cleaner with this! Def going to try it out. I had heard of glue but never looked into it…. Thanks for sharing!

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Tyler Clark, EdD @tylerclark12.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

I read right over the autocorrect and didn’t even think anything of it. 🤣 I was like, what is she talking about? He literally typed…oh nvm.

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Tyler Clark, EdD @tylerclark12.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Ha! Im still using magrittr, no reason other than habit though. I did check out this video when I saw your post, though youtu.be/TmSwDAvPX2Q?...

youtu.be

The magrittr and base R pipe: what's the difference? (CC241)

YouTube video by Riffomonas Project

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Tyler Clark, EdD @tylerclark12.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Just |> or do I not know something here??

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Tyler Clark, EdD @tylerclark12.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

I also did the Coursera Tidyverse Skills for Data Science in R. That was really well done and helped me with learning more about R.

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Tyler Clark, EdD @tylerclark12.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

It was business data analytics through WKU. Looks like they changed the name but I think the requirements are similar (catalog.wku.edu/graduate/bus...). It was just a taste but it gave me confidence to run with my ideas.

catalog.wku.edu

Data Analytics, Certificate (1753) < Western Kentucky University

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Tyler Clark, EdD @tylerclark12.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

#rstats friends -- What tools do you use for planning through and diagramming a workflow before you actually start your coding?

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Rémi Thériault @remi-theriault.com · 08/11/2025

{report} #rstats package version 0.6.2 is now on CRAN! MANY bug fixes in this version! Including corrected duplicated text outputs and dramatic speed increases for brmsfit models (which used to refit the model entirely every time). easystats.github.io/report/ With the @easystats.github.io team

easystats.github.io

Automated Reporting of Results and Statistical Models

The aim of the report package is to bridge the gap between R’s output and the formatted results contained in your manuscript. This package converts statistical models and data frames into textual repo...

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