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yabellini

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I share my experience teaching computational skills and building welcoming communities of practice for programming scientists | rOpenSci Community Manager | R-Ladies Project Lead | 30 Years in Education | 24 Years as Researcher | Spanglish

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When my students ask me for a book for working with data with JavaScript, I always recommend:

JavaScript for Data Science by Maya Gans, Toby Hodges, and @gvwilson

https://third-bit.com/js4ds/

gvwilson, to random
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Sixteen years later, I still don't understand why writing lessons collaboratively in a wiki isn't the norm. Wikipedia is proof we can collaborate on prose at global scale, and when I think about how much well-intentioned effort would be saved if we didn't write (literally) thousands of introductions to XYZ, I want to sob quietly. All of the explanations people have given me (continuity, credit, etc.) ought to make Wikipedia and open source software impossible too, and yet here we are…

yabellini,
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@gvwilson

Some thoughts on the matter:

  • So far I have not been able to use a lesson generated by someone else exactly the same. I have always had to make adjustments (examples, language, amount of content).

  • None of the platforms where lessons are shared allow me to contribute those details.

I would love for a platform that allows "choose your own adventure" style lessons.

And one where we have clear roles and paths for contributions.

yabellini,
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@gvwilson

But even with these restrictions, it has been a long time since I generated lessons from scratch (and yes, The Carpentries, and you have much to do with that).

I always look for what others have done before and reuse materials (when allowed and given proper credit) to generate my own.

That has improved my lessons and the "build" process much faster.

gvwilson, to random
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Our garden on June 1, 2023.

yabellini,
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@gvwilson That looks great. 😃

yabellini,
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@gvwilson Then please tell Sadie that your garden is beautiful.

yabellini, to random
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A year it was passed very fast.

I started being the @rOpenSci Community Manager in mid-June last year.

It has been a beautiful experience. I promise another post with a little more profound reflection.

https://hachyderm.io/@rOpenSci/110469571874080792

yabellini, to random
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We are working hard to hold LatinR 2023 in Montevideo, Uruguay.

If you have something interesting that you did, tested, or learned using R, consider submitting a paper to the conference.

The deadline is June 16, 2023.

https://openreview.net/group?id=LATIN-R.com/2023/Conference

yabellini, to random
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✨ The newest book of Data Science by Design, Our Environment, will be available for purchase on June 7! ✨

This anthology has 20 sections full of original color illustrations and photos, including essays, zines, data visualizations, interviews, and more.

🤩 We have the incredible opportunity with Natalia Morandeira to contribute with one section in this edition.

It was an awesome experience 💜

Stay tuned for the weakly release!!!

👉 http://datasciencebydesign.org/book-2

yabellini, to random
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Since late 2021 I started reading in English to learn the language.

I started with the recommendations of a very good friend. The Lady Trent
series by Marie Brennan was the one. It took me months to read the first book
with my dictionary by my side.

By the middle of 2023, I have managed to have a reading speed similar to
what I have in Spanish, and I hardly need to use the dictionary anymore.

These are the book I read:

Books 1 to 5. Lady Trent: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38843816-the-complete-memoirs-of-lady-trent-series

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I have enjoyed each one of them.

It is incredible to discover new authors and converse with them in a language other than my native tongue.

I have several more in the reading and even more, waiting for me. So I will be sharing them 🤓 .

3/3

gvwilson, to random
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A friend is trying to decide whether to join a startup that plans to train LLMs on the writing of particular individuals so people can chat with their loved ones after they're gone. I said, "That's pretty fucking macabre." My friend said, "That's what I thought, but the founder asked me why it was different from re-watching old family movies and I don't have an answer." My friend has lost people to AIDS, cancer, and dementia and still misses them; I honestly don't know what to think…

yabellini,
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@gvwilson Well, the movies, the pictures, and the text that will feed the model are from your real loved ones.

The model is not. It is a parrot. It is fake.

What bothers me about the proposal is the profit from grief and pain.

For your friend:

It is okay always to miss them (I do).

It is okay to ask for professional help with your grief (I did it).

This book was very enlightening for me. It helped me understand my own grief: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58007238-the-grieving-brain

yabellini, to random Spanish
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Civic duty fulfilled. Already voted.

Voting is mandatory in my country. We always vote on Sunday so that everyone can go. From 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. One day only and you vote in the schools.

Today we elect authorities of the executive power: governors, mayors, councilmen for my province and my city.

I was not born in democracy. My children were. And I hope my grandchildren will too.

We should always celebrate being in democracy and have the right to choose.

yabellini, to random
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Including one of those apps that allows you to calculate your time zone for global events is always a good idea.

Here are some:

https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html

https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/?

Which one do you know/use?
Do you know how accessible they are?

yabellini, to random
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So in the last while, I have divided my list of todos into:

  • My notebook (paper and pencil)
  • My calendar
  • My issues in GitHub.

Crossing out the task or closing the issue is so pleasant.

yabellini,
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@gvwilson Wait, can you bookmark Slack threads?, only for you?...no, I don't want to know.

yabellini, to random
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Today I delivered a 10 minutes talk about code styling and testing in open source software for science. 📝 🛠️

It was in the context of a skills-up call for the cohort of Open Life Science 7 about Open Source Software.

I shared the meeting with @leahawasser and Olaitan Awe, who spoke about Open Source Drives Open Science, and Reproducible Code.

It was very fun to see @pyOpenSci and @rOpenSci presenting together 😍

My slides: https://olscoding.netlify.app/

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yabellini,
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The material I use as the source of my talk:

:rstats: R materials:

📌 rOpenSci Packages: Development, Maintenance, and Peer Review: https://devguide.ropensci.org/

📌 Tidyverse Style Guide: https://style.tidyverse.org/index.html

📌 Testing in R: testthat: https://testthat.r-lib.org/, swamp: https://github.com/maelle/swamp, and HTTP testing in R: https://books.ropensci.org/http-testing/index.html

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grimalkina, to random
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I genuinely and deeply enjoy going to conferences but I would never defend them on the level that some people defend them, without evidence and against all contextual impact claiming live synchronous confs are the ONLY WAY to have a scientific and intellectual community. Wildly disrespectful to the majority of humanity that doesn't get to do this and never did imho

yabellini,
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@gvwilson @mhoye @grimalkina People love exclusivity: exclusive journals, exclusive schools, exclusive conf. Like, if anyone can be there, then what is the value?

I know that there are studies that show that an activity "lowers" its level when more women and other minorities can do that activity.

I don't have a paper, but the same happens with confs and communities. When people like me can be part, it's not as cool as it used to be (even if the goal is "increasing diversity").

yabellini, to random
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Localization and translation at @rOpenSci

A first concept map

cc: @maelle @paocorrales @eliocamp

yabellini, to random
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Last weekend was for reading, and this one was for writing.

In pursuit of a VISA: https://yabellini.netlify.app/blog/2023-05-06-visa/

yabellini, to random Spanish
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This was a weekend of lots of reading (the rain and the holiday helped a bit): I finished another spectacular book. I couldn't stop reading it. Nettle and Bone by T. Kingfisher.

Thanks again @gvwilson for recommending it.

eliocamp, to rstats
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Does anyone know if you can make RStudio change the spellcheck language per document? Writing a multilingual blog can be annoying since I need to change the language of the project and then reopen the project.

@rstats

yabellini,
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@eliocamp @rstats OMG this!! I need this too!

yabellini, to random Spanish
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Another awesome book by Marie Brennan: Driftwood

Thanks one more time @gvwilson for the recommendation.

yabellini,
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@gvwilson Well, I would definitely read it

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