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smach, 9 days ago to rstats

Not traveling to Austria for next month's useR! conference? There's also a free virtual pre-conference on July 2! Sessions range from 4:30 to 21:30 CEST, so there's something for people in every time zone.
Topics include Redefining Interactive Data with Quarto and WebR, Stop Making Spaghetti (Code), Rix: Reproducible Environments with Nix, and more. Plus tutorials like Deploy and Monitor ML Pipelines with Open Source and Free Applications

https://events.linuxfoundation.org/user/program/virtual-schedule/

#rstats @rstats

smach, 10 days ago to USpolitics

Attention US voters concerned about the climate crisis:
#USPolitics #ClimateChange https://www.threads.net/@aaron.rupar/post/C7tx6nIgtjB

hrbrmstr, 15 days ago (edited 15 days ago) to random

Holy cow!

@yihui & Hiroaki Yutani (they're on fosstodon but I will never link to fosstodon) reimagined R Markdown into a new {litedown} #RStats package!

It's so fast!

https://github.com/yihui/litedown

smach, 16 days ago to rstats

The {tidylog} #rstats 📦 generates in-line additional data about your dplyr and tidyr operations. "It provides simple wrapper functions for almost all dplyr and tidyr functions, such as filter, mutate, select, full_join, and group_by." By Benjamin Elbers.

https://github.com/elbersb/tidylog

#tidyverse @rstats

smach, 18 days ago to rstats

The {mrup} #rstats 📦 is an “RStudio addin for searching for all local projects and editing the most recently used project list.
“Easily open any previous project. Add projects to, or remove projects from, the recent project drop-down menu.” By John Wilson, teaching fellow at Edinburgh University
https://github.com/jmcvw/mrup
#RStudio @rstats

smach, 20 days ago to rstats

New Kyle Walker tutorial: “Query the 2.35 BILLION row global buildings dataset from Overture Maps in #rstats and visualize in 3D w/deck.gl

“Learn about the open_dataset() function in R's arrow 📦, which might change your life (or at least your work with big datasets)”

https://walker-data.com/posts/overture-buildings/

#RSpatial @rstats

smach, 21 days ago to random

I cannot overstress how envious I am of democracies that have election campaigns of 6 weeks instead of 2 years

smach, 21 days ago to climate

#Climate threat not often discussed:
“Pound for pound, gallon for gallon, hour-for-hour, the two-stroke gas powered engines in leaf blowers and similar equipment are vastly the dirtiest and most polluting kind of machinery still in legal use.

“According to the California Air Resources Board (CARB), the two-stroke leaf blowers and similar equipment in the state produce more ozone pollution than all of California’s tens of millions of cars, combined.”

• James Fallows

https://fallows.substack.com/p/gas-powered-leaf-blowers-the-end

grimalkina, 25 days ago to random

I'm sorry WHAT and none of you told me?????

Position ENTIRELY reversed on Python. Literally going to learn it now. Call me pythonista Cat. I am so serious. WHAT.

https://masto.machlis.com/@smach/112462436451472935

smach, 25 days ago to random

What happens when you mandate masks at a conference now that most people no longer wear them but medically vulnerable people are still at risk because #CovidIsNotOver? In the case of #PyConUS, the conference sells out.

Why a masking policy? “Many of us and our fellow community members can’t attend without health and safety guidelines in place. We want PyCon US to be an event that everyone feels safe attending,” organizers explained.

Well done @pycon https://fosstodon.org/@pycon/112445571644276379

smach, 28 days ago to rstats

How Major League Teams Use R to Analyze Baseball Data - video presentation by Keith Woolner, principal data scientist for the Cleveland Guardians, at the Cleveland R User Group
https://youtu.be/1SR9C4td3TI?si=Ic7osZnMgb8vQd44

#RStats #SportsAnalytics @rstats

smach, 28 days ago to llm

New free course on #LLM agents from DeepLearning AI and crewAI:

“With crewAI, an open source library for building multi-agent systems, you'll get hands-on experience building agent crews for processes like:

💻 Tailoring resumes and interview prep for job applications
💻 Researching, writing, and editing technical articles
💻 Conducting customer outreach campaigns
💻 Financial analysis
💻 Planning events”

Taught by crewAI founder João (Joe) Moura

https://www.deeplearning.ai/short-courses/multi-ai-agent-systems-with-crewai/
#GenAI #AI

FantasticalEconomics, 30 days ago to Economics

We really need to rethink our capitalistic obsession of running things like a business. Cutting costs to increase profits obviously doesn't make sense in areas of education, healthcare, public utilities, and prisons, to name just a few.

Hell, Boeing is making a strong case that it doesn't even make sense for businesses to be run like a business, much less these public goods...

#economics

mekkaokereke, 1 month ago to random

If you got upset at me for pointing out that more people died of Covid under Biden than Trump, in large part because Biden rolled back common sense restrictions that were in place under Trump...

Then you'll hate me pointing out that Trump introduced a 25% tariff on Chinese EVs, and Biden is upping that to 100% tariff.

https://insideevs.com/news/719283/chinese-ev-tariffs-biden-quadruple/

We can't allow the US to get off of fossil fuels... unless US billionaires win! 🤡

Fear the BYD Dolphin! (an EV car for $12K)
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/T3nfyO_UHjk

smach, 1 month ago to LLMs

“The general problem of mixing data with commands is at the root of many of our computer security vulnerabilities.” Great explainer by security researcher Bruce Schneier on why large language models may not be a great choice for tasks like processing your emails.
https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/llms-data-control-path-insecurity/

#GenAI #LLMs #InfoSec

smach, 1 month 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, 1 month 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, 1 month 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, 1 month 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, 1 month 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, 1 month 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