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smach, 2 days ago to ai

“AI Use Cases for R Enthusiasts” - Upcoming Workshop for Ukraine this Thursday, May 9, noon ET/6 pm CET/9 am PT with Dr. Albert Rapp ( @rappa753 but not too active here). Donate 20 euro/20 USD for this live 2-hour session - or if you can’t make it, access to recordings & materials.
Rapp says you'll leave with “fresh ideas and practical strategies for using AI.”
https://sites.google.com/view/dariia-mykhailyshyna/main/r-workshops-for-ukraine
#rstats #AI #GenAI @rstats

smach, 4 days ago to python

Ari Lamstein says his "Visualizing the Impact of Covid-19 on US Counties" blog post may be of interest if you want to "learn how to build data apps in Python, as the entire project is released under a permissive license (MIT), and is publicly available on GitHub."
Post: https://arilamstein.com/blog/2024/05/04/visualizing-the-impact-of-covid-19-on-us-counties/
Streamlit app: https://census-explorer.streamlit.app/
GitHub repo: https://github.com/arilamstein/censusdis-streamlit/tree/main

#Python #Streamlit #Covid19 #dataviz #ddj #USCensus @python

smach, 5 days ago to LLMs

The TinyChart-3B LLM answers questions about data visualizations. It can also generate underlying data from a dataviz and Python code to re-create a similar chart.

Demo on Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/spaces/mPLUG/TinyChart-3B

Code: https://github.com/X-PLUG/mPLUG-DocOwl/tree/main/TinyChart

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16635 8 authors from the Alibaba Group and Renmin University of China

#GenAI #LLMs

smach, 7 days ago to rstats

{tidycensus} #rstats 📦 creator Kyle Walker: "Want all 8.13 million US Census blocks available for your #GIS project? It's a one-liner in #rstats thanks to the tigris and purrr packages:

us_blocks <- purrr::map_dfr(c(https://t.co/RfFgUSx1a6, "DC"), ~tigris::blocks(state = .x, year = 2023))

Downloading will take time; set options(tigris_use_cache = TRUE) beforehand to build a local cache of block shapefiles that you can access without having to download."

#rspatial @rstats

smach, 9 days ago to rstats

The {summarytools} #rstats 📦 aims to:
“Provide a coherent set of easy-to-use descriptive functions [like] those in commercial statistical software suites such as SAS, SPSS, and Stata
“Offer flexibility in terms of output format & content
“Integrate well with commonly used software & tools for reporting”
Results can be displayed in console or rendered/saved as HTML, plain text, or R Markdown. By Dominic Comtois
https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/dcomtois/summarytools/blob/master/doc/introduction.html
#EDA @rstats

Posit, 14 days ago to python

Introducing Shiny for Python templates! 🐍

We're thrilled to offer opinionated boilerplate Shiny Templates code that allows you to hit the ground running, whether you need a quick, simple app or a quick, complicated one.

• Read more on the Shiny blog: https://shiny.posit.co/blog/posts/introducing-shiny-templates/
• Watch Carson Sievert quickly get an app running locally with Shiny Templates on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQJiMRStYE8

#Python #Shiny

smach, 15 days ago to rstats

File import/export in R is simple and elegant with the {rio} #rstats 📦. It uses just 2 main functions for dozens of file types: import() and export(). Whether .zip, .xlsx, Google sheets, json, .rds, .csv or more, rio handles file-extension checks and selecting the right functions.
http://gesistsa.github.io/rio/
There's also a convert() function.
One of my favorite R packages!
By Thomas J. Leeper, Chung-hong Chan, David Schoch & Jason Becker
@rstats

smach, 16 days ago to rstats

The {styler} #rstats 📦 “formats your code according to the tidyverse style guide (or your custom style guide) so you can direct your attention to the content of your code. It helps to keep the coding style consistent across projects and facilitate collaboration.” By Lorenz Walther & Kirill Müller

https://styler.r-lib.org/

@rstats

smach, 20 days ago to LLMs

“But this doesn’t save any time!” 3 useful questions when trying #LLMs:

• Is there another way to get results I want? Don't give up right away.
• Does AI make this task less or more annoying? Sometimes supervising drudge work feels better even if it's not faster; other times you'd still rather do it yourself.
• Are results likely to improve as LLMs get better? If so, add a calendar reminder to try again in a few months. Or, keep a list of things you want to re-try post GPT-5 class models.
  #GenAI

smach, 20 days ago to rstats

“Another base R gem: toString()” - @josi
#rstats
@rstats

smach, 25 days ago to ai

“Star Trek's Holodeck is no longer just science fiction. Using AI, engineers have created a tool that can generate 3D environments, prompted by everyday language.” This was designed to train robots, not entertain us humans. But Star Trek fans can easily envision other uses.
#GenAI #AI

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/04/240411130301.htm

smach, 28 days ago to random

From {tidycensus} creator Kyle Walker: “My webinar Analyzing 2020 Decennial US Census Data in #rstats is now on YouTube!
In the 3-hour webinar, you'll learn about:

📈 Available datasets in the 2020 US Census, and how to access and use them in R;
📈 How to explore decennial US Census data with tidyverse tools;
📈 Using interactive maps to explore US Census data;
📈 Advanced topics like working with detailed DHC-A data and analyzing change over time“ 1/2

https://youtu.be/JQRS5wYtPlY?si=ex4SHu7Xm3BmxdTM
#RSpatial

smach, 1 month ago to random

I'm not sure why Claude's Haiku LLM started responding in Spanish to questions in English in a RAG application I'm building when all of the context was in English. Odd.

smach, 1 month ago to random

NASA has a useful interactive map with solar eclipse time & totality info by zip code if you’re in the US and looking for info

https://eclipse-explorer.smce.nasa.gov/

#SolarEclipse2024 #Eclipse

mekkaokereke, 1 month ago to random

H/T to Kelsey Trainor, for pointing out that
the women's college basketball finals today will get north of 14 million viewers... but will still not be aired in a primetime viewing slot.

One of the most watched sports events of the past decade! More than NBA finals. More than MLB world series. More than NHL Stanley cup finals. And they can't get a primetime slot?

This didn't just suddenly happen. The audience has been building for years. Last year was a huge indicator.

underdarkGIS, 1 month ago to llm

🤔 Where do we stand re #geocoding? Still no magic #LLM bullet to solve our problems?

I must be missing something.

Any pointers, #GISChat?

#GeoAI #nominatim #osm

hrbrmstr, 1 month ago to random

Bonus Drop #46 (2024-03-24): Method To The Madness

Today's Drop discusses 3 resources, madonctl, csvlens, and DuckDB, and how they can be combined for data FUN. madonctl is a Mastodon client for the terminal, csvlens is a CLI tool for viewing CSV files, and DuckDB is a powerful database system that is quite magical.

http://dailydrop.hrbrmstr.dev/2024/03/24/bonus-drop-46-2024-03-24-method-to-the-madness/

smach, 1 month ago to rstats

The {packageRank} #rstats 📦 “helps put package download counts into context. It does so via two core functions, cranDownloads() and packageRank(), a set of filters that reduce download count inflation, and a host of other assorted functions.” By Peter Li.

https://github.com/lindbrook/packageRank

@rstats

smach, 1 month ago to ai

I doubt it's coincidence that “GPT-5 is on the way!” news cropped up after some key #AI industry analysts praised Anthropic's Claude Opus as better than GPT-4. Large language models at this scale may be new, but tech vendor strategies are not.

#LLM #LLMs #GenAI #GPT5

smach, 1 month ago to rstats

The {tidyHeatmap} #rstats 📦 “introduces tidy principles to the creation of information-rich heatmaps.”
“For plotting, you simply pipe the input data frame into heatmap, specifying:
The rows, cols relative column names (mandatory)
The value column name (mandatory)
The annotations column name(s)”
By Stefano Mangiola
https://github.com/stemangiola/tidyHeatmap
@rstats