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Roland Schmidt

@zoowalk.bsky.social
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Dad. PhD Comp Pol @CEU alumnus. Im Garten. #rstats werk.statt.codes

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MikeKSmith @mikeksmith.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
kton is an open standard for capturing provenance (inputs -> code -> outputs) and sign-off (review, approval). It's informed by work from the DDMoRe project, but is a lightweight implementation coded in the Go language. kton.dev
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kton — a substrate for verifiable science
Record how data was produced and who vouched for it, as signed content-addressed records anyone can verify. Federated, standards-based, open. Test it, read the examples, help build the standard.
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Roland Schmidt @zoowalk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
#rstats package update: ParlAT 0.1.0 is available now. Overall increased robustness and improved internals. One new auxiliary function: get_party_colors provides quick access to Austrian party colors. Changelog werkstattcodes.github.io/ParlAT/news/... Download github.com/werkstattcod... #PoWi
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Roland Schmidt @zoowalk.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Climate change & Asylum Law: How often does "climate change" appear in judgements on asylum issues by the Austrian Federal Admin. Court (BVwG). What's the dynamic? New #rstats {risAT} pkg makes answering questions like these straightforward. Blog (incl. caveats): werk.statt.codes/posts/2026-0...
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Roland Schmidt @zoowalk.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Oh no... A friend of mine got to know Glen while doing his year abroad in IRL & eventually organized a tour for the Frames in Austria in the early 00s. My parents had a VW bus then & so I became their tour driver for about two weeks. Fond memories. A great musician & person with a big heart. RIP.
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Roland Schmidt @zoowalk.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
If you belong to the peculiar, yet very relatable intersection of people working in R and on the Austrian legal system, I might have something for you. New #rstats package: release 0.1.0 of {risAT}, a wrapper to access the API of the Austrian Legal Information System (RIS). 🧵 1/4
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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Presumably, after the end of Audicracy, just selling himself to the highest BYDder.
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rOpenSci @ropensci.org · 29/06/2026
🎉 We've just moved @ropensci.org on Bluesky to a fully independent account! We were previously bridged from our Mastodon account via Bridgy Fed. Same community, same content, fresh start. Give us a follow if you haven't already! 🦋 #RStats
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Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room +
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Roland Schmidt @zoowalk.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Nachtrag zum Erneuerbaren-Ausbau-(Beschleunigungs)gesetz: Wurde ja mit den Stimmen aller Parteien außer der FPÖ in der 3. Lesung angenommen. Das ist akutell die häufigste Konstellation mit der Gesetze in der 3. Lesung verabschiedet werden. werk.statt.codes/posts/2026-0... 1/2
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Juraj Medzihorsky @medzihorsky.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
The ruinous 20th century ethnic cleansing in parts of Central Europe was driven by ethnic-cleansing entrepreneurs. Thugs inflicting street violence were just one instrument in their self-advancement schemes.
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Roland Schmidt @zoowalk.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
For those working on the Austrian Parliament - latest release of #rstats ParlAT pkg contains improved `get_item_details()` function; 'votes' parameter returns vote results for the relevant items ('Verhandlungsgegenstände) in the third readings in the National Council. Still evolving, but sfsg. 1/2
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Roland Schmidt @zoowalk.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Very happy (and exhausted), and also very happy for @arseblog.com @tim-stillman.bsky.social and @gunnerblog.bsky.social... Thanks for the ride... #arsenal
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Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
🇭🇺🎶 For the first time in Hungarian history, 'The forest is green / Pădure vergyé', the Hungarian Roma community's anthem — which gained that status after a 1993 civil rights protest — was played in parliament, at Prime Minister Péter Magyar's suggestion. Many MPs were in tears, and so was I.
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Juraj Medzihorsky @medzihorsky.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
“1940: The Invention of Western and Eastern Europe”, one is tempted to quip tongue in cheek.
A screenshot of a Google Books Ngram Viewer chart for the following terms (case-sensitive, 0 smoothing): Eastern Europe, Western Europe, Balkans, Central Europe, 1900-2022 in the English corpus.
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Juraj Medzihorsky @medzihorsky.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Fidesz-KDNP is on track to ~28% of the seats with ~30% of the electorate. That's a larger electorate share than in 2014. Then, they got 67% of the seats with 28% of the electorate. Thanks to lower turnout and their electoral engineering. Now that very engineering has hit them hard. “Loop closed.”
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Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
trying to do a NYT-style swing map but the swings are too mad
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Juraj Medzihorsky @medzihorsky.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Hungary's population pyramids on four elections years: 1990 - the 1st free and fair 2010 - Fidesz's return to power 2022 - the previous 2026 - today's Per the UN WPP '24 estimates. NB not all adult inhabitants can vote, and some Hungarian citizen live abroad and are thus not in the pyramids.
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Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
💥Orbán’s intelligence agencies have been secretly using Webloc — a mass surveillance tool that tracks hundreds of millions of people via smartphone advertising data — making Hungary the first confirmed EU country to deploy it, in likely violation of GDPR.
vsquare.org
Orbán’s Spying Kit Revealed: Israeli Surveillance Tool Combined with Hungarian Technology - VSquare.org
Intelligence agencies of Viktor Orbán's government have been secretly using Webloc — a mass surveillance tool that tracks hundreds of millions of people via smartphone advertising data — making Hungary the first confirmed EU country to deploy it, in likely violation of GDPR. Moreover, our investigation confirms the existence of "homegrown" OSINT and spyware tools.
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CEU Democracy Institute @ceudeminst.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
✍️ “The vote on April 12 is Hungary’s best chance in 16 years to choose democracy over autocracy. It may not come again,” our researchers Balint Magyar and Balint Madlovics write in their op-ed in @foreignaffairs.com. 🇭🇺🗳️ Read it now: 👉 cutt.ly/etFh64Cc
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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 17/03/2026
this is good stuff
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James Balamuta @coatless.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
This IS the droid you're looking for. webRoid v1.0.0: R on Android. Console, editor, plots, packages, 9 themes. No server required. Tested extensively on emulators. Your actual device? The Force is strong, but no promises. play.google.com/store/apps/d... #rstats #webR #Android #WebAssembly
Promotional card for webRoid v1.0.0 with the tagline "R on Android" on a dark navy background with green circuit-trace accents. Three phone screenshots show the R console after running a plot command (with a notification badge on the Plots tab), the plots gallery displaying the resulting scatter plot, and the code editor with syntax-highlighted R script and output panel.
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Roland Schmidt @zoowalk.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Hajmo ljudi!
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The R Foundation @r-foundation.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Opening for a tenure track position in statistical computing: wirtschaftsuniversitaet-wien-portal.rexx-systems.com/Assistant-Pr... As dept chair, R Core member Kurt Hornik invites applications from people who could make substantial contributions to #RStats, including base R. Deadline Mar 18!
wirtschaftsuniversitaet-wien-portal.rexx-systems.com
Job opportunity Assistant Professor, tenure track, qualification agreement at Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien Jobportal
others in Wien
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 21/02/2026
Here's the documentary that 1.1 million Hungarians have watched over the past week, documenting the damage that Viktor Orban's regime has done to health, education and public transportation in Hungary with English subtitles: youtu.be/9NQEcLIiOpM?...
youtu.be
A CSAPDA (THE TRAP) - Az Orbán-korszak elvesztett lehetőségeinek története
YouTube video by Direkt36
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Kevin Patrick O'Brien @kobriendublin.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
UseR! 2026 – Warsaw 🇵🇱✨ CFP is now open! Submit abstracts for talks, lightning talks, posters, tutorials, and panels. 🗓 Deadline: Sun 8 Mar 2026 📅 Conference: 7–9 July 🎓 Tutorial Day: 6 July 🔗 user2026.r-project.org/call/ #rstats #warsaw #datascience
A rectangular promotional graphic for the useR! 2026 Conference. On the left, large bold text reads “useR! 2026 Conference Warsaw,” followed by the dates “6–9 July 2026” and the location “Warsaw School of Economics & Online.” The typography is clean and modern, set against a white background. On the right, a 2×2 grid of four square panels displays a fractal‑style geometric pattern: each square shows a progressively more detailed zoom‑in of a swirling, branching, blue‑and‑purple fractal shape on a light background. Beneath the main graphic, a banner states: “The useR! 2026 Call For Proposals is open until March 8th!” The overall design is bright, mathematical, and visually structured, emphasizing both the conference branding and the CFP announcement.
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Roland Schmidt @zoowalk.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Happy to release the initial version of ParlAT, an #rstats package wrapping the API of the Austrian Parliament @parlament.gv.at . If you are a researcher, student, journalist, simply someone interested in the AT Parliament, ParlAT hopefully comes as a helpful tool. werkstattcodes.github.io/ParlAT/
a hex sticker showing the autrian parliament with palace athene
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Roland Schmidt @zoowalk.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
👏👏👏
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Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Where do parents find the time to parent? Less sleep, work and screens. Amazing chart feat. in @alphaville.ft.com Further Reading. homeeconomics.substack.com/p/where-do-p...
Difference in time use between working parents of small children vs working non parents. Areas above zero are activities parents do more of; areas below are what they give up. 

Compiled by analyzing the Census Bureau’s American Time Use Survey.

Analysis and chart by Aziz Sunderji, https://homeeconomics.substack.com/p/where-do-parents-find-the-time
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Roland Schmidt @zoowalk.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Next release of #rstats package usethis will include an (experimental) function to setup projects using Claude code: use_claude_code. Interesting to see how ai tools will form part/play together with the tidyverse & co. usethis.r-lib.org/dev/referenc...
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daviss @daviss.org · 30/01/2026
Now: Bruce Springsteen sings “Streets of Minneapolis” in Minneapolis
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Daniel Ziblatt @dziblatt.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
open.substack.com/pub/ziblatt4...
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Knowing too much to see fascism ?
By Daniel Ziblatt
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Roland Schmidt @zoowalk.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Just read these 2 blog posts on AI and software development & data science. Both resonated with me quite strongly. Many thanks to the authors. "My First Look at Claude Code" by @stephenturner.us blog.stephenturner.us/p/claude-cod... The post is on much more than #Claude. and... #rstats
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Garrick Aden-Buie @grrrck.xyz · 23/12/2025
Happy holidays! 🎄 I snuck in a {btw} release just before CRAN went on vacation for the year. {btw} is an #RStats package full of tools for LLMs, including a new tool for running R code. Here's a quick demo using `btw_app()` to create a quick festive ggplot2 from holiday movie titles. Cheers! 🧑‍🎄
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
forever-wars.com
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
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Roland Schmidt @zoowalk.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
New #positron release, new shortcut. #rstats 🎉
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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
A festive digital illustration features the blue R logo wearing a red Santa hat with white trim on the left. To its right stands a green Christmas tree made entirely of curly braces arranged in a triangular shape. White and light-blue %>% pipe symbols float across a dark blue, starry background like snowflakes. A speech bubble above the R logo says “Ho Ho Ho! 📦” in red text. At the bottom, white text reads: “R Package Development Advent Calendar 2025” and below it, “25 Days of Coding Magic • Dec 1–25.”
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Roland Schmidt @zoowalk.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
can #google pls ask gemini to finally introduce the ability into #googletasks to 1) easily share tasks with other g users; 2) archive todo lists, and 3) provide a view which shows all tasks across lists. thank you.
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James Balamuta @coatless.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
{ripper} dissects your #Quarto documents, extracting code blocks by language and leaving executable scripts behind. Supports #rstats, #python, #julia, and 13 other victims. For those who never stopped celebrating Halloween. 📚 quarto.thecoatlessprofessor.com/ripper/ 💻 github.com/coatless-qua...
Ripper extension hex logo with Halloween-inspired design. Black hexagonal badge featuring a white .qmd document on the left with red blood splatter effect, and multiple file extension labels on the right (.R, .py, .jl, .js, .lua, .sh, .ts, .md) resembling torn paper. The word 'RIPPER' appears in large red distressed lettering at the bottom, with additional blood drip effects throughout.Screenshot demonstrating the ripper Quarto extension workflow. Shows the ripper logo (a dark house silhouette with red text), documentation page for Default Configuration, example R and Python code blocks in the rendered document, and two code editor windows displaying the generated script files (qripper-default-config.R and qripper-default-config.py) with extracted code. A red arrow connects the 'Script files' section to the generated output files.
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Posit @posit.co · 19/11/2025
Introducing bluffbench, a new tool to evaluate how well LLMs actually see data plots. When we trick LLMs with secret #RStats transformations, they can miss the visual contradiction. bluffbench helps us measure this "blind spot" in AI coding agents. Learn more: posit.co/blog/introdu...
posit.co
When plotting, LLMs see what they expect to see - Posit
Data science agents need to accurately read plots even when the content contradicts their expectations. Our testing shows today's LLMs still struggle here.
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Roland Schmidt @zoowalk.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
#rstats user: I am trying to get #Gemini CLI running R scripts, but fail "due to issues with how the command line (powershell) parses and passes the R code to Rscript.exe". Instead G creates a separate file which is then triggered. This is quite different to Claude Code. Am i missing sth?
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Posit @posit.co · 14/11/2025
Have some free time this weekend? How about 2,500 hours? The recordings from posit::conf(2025) are now online! Learn about the innovations and insights from conf. We celebrated #RStats and #Python, with a focus on next-gen tools & #AI integration. See the info here: posit.co/blog/talks-a...
posit.co
Talk recordings and workshop materials from posit::conf(2025) - Posit
2500+ hours of posit::conf content just landed on YouTube.
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Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 06/11/2025
pkgdown 2.2.0 now out — tidyverse.org/blog/2025/11.... Main feature is new build_llm_docs() which makes your websites easier to understand by LLMs. (Which you can easily turn off if desired) #rstats
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pkgdown 2.2.0
The latest version of pkgdown automatically builds markdown files that make it easy for LLMs to use your website.
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Xavier Marquez @marquezxavier.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
New version (0.6.0) of my #rstats package {democracyData} xmarquez.github.io/democracyData/ with @freedomhouse.bsky.social data to 2024, as well as several other sources, plus minor improvements all around
xmarquez.github.io
Access and Manipulate Most Available Democracy Datasets
Archives a large number of democracy datasets, many of historical interest. It also provides a number of functions to download these datasets (where available) and determine membership of a country in...
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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 16/10/2025
Quarto friends! I need your help: We are implementing a new QMD parser in Quarto. It will be super nice. But it's a big change, and we want to minimize the impact. 1. Can you share a link to your Quarto project at github.com/quarto-dev/q... 2. repost this and let your Quarto friends know too?
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Epic: are we production yet · Issue #63 · quarto-dev/quarto-markdown
We need to check against many large sites to get a good sense for the impact of this new syntax in practice. autogenerated qmd quartodoc-generated sites (tbd meet with @machow) sites quarto.org Shi...
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Kevin Patrick O'Brien @kobriendublin.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
📅 Save the Dates: UseR! 2026 The international #Rstats community will gather in Warsaw, Poland 🇵🇱 from 6–9 July 2026 for the next edition of UseR!, the premier conference for users and developers of the R programming language. Website: user2026.r-project.org/index2.html
Promotional poster for UseR! 2026, the international R programming conference scheduled for July 2026 in Warsaw, Poland. The image features a stylized cityscape of Warsaw rendered in warm orange and cool blue tones, with prominent architectural landmarks including a bridge and high-rise buildings. In the upper left corner, the logo of the R programming language is displayed—a stylized “R” in gray and blue—signifying the event’s focus on R, a powerful open-source language and environment for statistical computing, data analysis, and graphics. R is widely used in academia, research, and industry for tasks ranging from machine learning to data visualization. Bold white text across the image reads: “R useR! 2026 · JULY 2026 · WARSAW.” The composition blends modern design with geographic identity, inviting viewers to mark their calendars for a global gathering of data scientists, educators, and developers.
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Anton Pelinka was Austria's most prominent political scientist, who was also one of my inspirations, combining insightful research with important public outreach. I met him a few times and was always humbled by his kind support. He gave this interview less than 3 months ago. R.I.P. Anton! 💔
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Politikwissenschafter Anton Pelinka: "Im 'Club 2' konnte man frei ausreden"
Der bekannte österreichische Politikwissenschafter Anton Pelinka zieht im Gespräch mit seinem ehemaligen Moderatorenkollegen Peter Huemer politisch Bilanz
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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 17/09/2025
look what you made me do (#rstats code here gist.github.com/andrewheiss/... )
Original world map sliced into 8 areas, using the Mercator projectionThe same 8 slices, but with the Robinson projection. Slice A is tiny and curvy nowThe same 8 slices, but with the Robinson projection. Slice A is even tinier and curvier now
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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 11/09/2025
I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats
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ggplot2 4.0.0
A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.
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Sharon Machlis @smachlis.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Learn how to ask natural-language questions of your text data with #RStats and support Ukraine! “RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) in R with ragnar“ is tomorrow, Sept. 11, 12-2 pm ET for a 20 euro donation. Can't attend live? Register for recording & materials. sites.google.com/view/dariia-...
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Dariia Mykhailyshyna - Workshops for Ukraine
Feedback on the past workshops (if you want to learn how to make wordclouds, check out Text Data Analysis workshop below)
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Dariia Mykhailyshyna @dariia.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Just 3 days left until this workshop, don't miss your chance to register! Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S Please share! #AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats
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