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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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Roland Schmidt @zoowalk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Oh... Should you ever come to Vienna, let me know. Coffee on me.
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Roland Schmidt @zoowalk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Ah got it. Many thanks. Commons looks very interesting.
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Roland Schmidt @zoowalk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
patterns? Patterns, the modeling tool? ggpatterns? Curious to know what to meant. Thx!
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Roland Schmidt @zoowalk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Obama quote?
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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 · 07/09/2026
... and, AFAIK, quarto 2 will natively support real time collaborative editing. What's next: Quarto 2 :: Posit Open Source share.google/JkRw7lxrsEER...
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What's next: Quarto 2
We've started working on [`quarto-dev/q2`](https://github.com/quarto-dev/q2/), a full rewrite of Quarto in Rust.
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Roland Schmidt @zoowalk.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Link to the package: werkstattcodes.github.io/risAT/
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An R Package Wrapping the API of the Austrian Legal Information System (RIS)
Search and parse Austrian legal information from the Rechtsinformationssystem (RIS) Open Government Data REST API <https://data.bka.gv.at/ris/api/v2.6/> provided by the Austrian Federal Chancellery. S...
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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 · 31/07/2026
CAT art 6 anyone?
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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
📖 Intro blog post: werk.statt.codes/posts/2026-0... 📦 Repo: github.com/werkstattcod... Suggestions, feedback, bug reports etc. are most welcome at the repository! 🧵 4/4
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Introducing {risAT}: An R package to access with Austria’s Legal Information System (RIS) – werk.statt.codes
{risAT} is an R package that wraps the Austrian RIS (Rechtsinformationssystem) Open Government Data API, making it easier to work with Austrian jurisprudence in R.
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Roland Schmidt @zoowalk.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Whenever you work with legal data beyond the single case, be it for text analysis or descriptive stats, {risAT} should be a helpful tool. It returns clean data structures that integrate seamlessly into a tidyverse workflow. 🧵 3/4
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Roland Schmidt @zoowalk.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Search the full jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court, Supreme Administrative Court, and more. {risAT} includes pre-filled convenience wrappers to make querying specific courts fast and straightforward. werkstattcodes.github.io/risAT/refere... 🧵 2/4
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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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Roland Schmidt @zoowalk.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Thx. Wollte nicht auf deiner Nachricht piggybacken, aber es passt halt wirklich dazu...
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Roland Schmidt @zoowalk.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
weil's dazu passt... werk.statt.codes/posts/2026-0...
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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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Roland Schmidt @zoowalk.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
1) It's a drug, don't get into it.... ;-) 2) read (don't watch) "fever pitch" by Hornby. 3) listen to the @arseblog podcast Greetings, An Arsenal supporter for more than 3 decades...
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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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Roland Schmidt @zoowalk.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Can recommend using Claude Code and the btw package to give CC access to your r environment
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Crystal Fleming is on sabbatical @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
*zumindest innerhalb des hier angeschauten Zeitraums....
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Roland Schmidt @zoowalk.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Die FPÖ stimmt in der 3. Lesung öfters gegen etwas als für etwas (63 %). Eine höhere Zahl gab's nur Ende der 90er. Details & Caveats (!) hier:... werk.statt.codes/posts/2026-0... 2/2
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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
Details and caveats (!) in the blog post here werk.statt.codes/posts/2026-0... Post looks into some voting patterns for the 20 to 28th legislative periods, e.g., who votes with whom; and which party says most often "no"... 2/2
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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 · 04/06/2026
Wait till it's about SQL....🙃 share.google/eNjBU2kDC7fm...
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SQL or Sequel: the Pronunciation Debate
In the realm of technology, where acronyms are commonplace, debates on pronunciation can arise, such as with SQL. Is it spoken as “S-Q-L”…
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Roland Schmidt @zoowalk.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
What, you guys don't use signal?
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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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Roland Schmidt @zoowalk.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
In hybrid regimes they mix engines....
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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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Roland Schmidt @zoowalk.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
What I like about the grill-me skill is that it starts a conversation which gradually narrows down on what to actually code. In a way it's a try to remedy the shortcomings of a single prompt... And by narrowing down, I actually have to think more carefully about the edge cases etc...
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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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Roland Schmidt @zoowalk.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Did you give the grill-me skill a try? github.com/mattpocock/s... Works also with codex.
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skills/skills/productivity/grill-me at main · mattpocock/skills
Skills for Real Engineers. Straight from my .claude directory. - mattpocock/skills
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Roland Schmidt @zoowalk.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Same here. I use the grill-me skill, btw mcp... Token usage seems to be much more parsimonious than Claude
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Roland Schmidt @zoowalk.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
But Pelikan Opus can cycle backwards!
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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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Roland Schmidt @zoowalk.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
"around the buffet"? ... definitely Peter ;-) Very happy for him tonight.
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Roland Schmidt @zoowalk.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
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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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Roland Schmidt @zoowalk.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
bsky.app/profile/szab...
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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.
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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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Roland Schmidt @zoowalk.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Curious about the causal path...
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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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