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Adam Austin
@ataustin.bsky.social
Director of data science, fanboy of #rstats

Make interoperability, not war.

Also at @ataustin@fosstodon.org
This man absolutely understood the assignment
Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp....

genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
GitHub - hadley/genzplyr: dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap
dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap. Contribute to hadley/genzplyr development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:24 AM
*cracks knuckles* let's go AI fishing
November 6, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Reposted by Adam Austin
I've been dipping my toes in package development for #lua, #python, and #bash and #rstats friends -- let me tell you I didn't realize how good we have it with {devtools} , {usethis}, and the rich supportive rstats community
November 5, 2025 at 1:59 AM
remember how in The Matrix, agents were the bad guys?
#genAI
October 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I'm in this post and I like it!

Check out an overview of a recent Posit webinar in which I join a panel of brilliant insurance analytics professionals to talk about changes in the field.
#posit #dataBS #insurance
Debbie Dukeshire from Standard Publishing Corporation eloquently summarized our latest Insurance webinar while adding a fresh perspective, focusing on the scale in which Actuaries are currently working with data and the importance of documentation.

Read the reprint: posit.co/reprint/buil...
October 22, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Wake me up when gen AI can schedule a recurring meeting at a time convenient for both parties and proactively adjust future conflicts.
October 21, 2025 at 8:14 PM
happy "it's not so bad to be using MS Teams" day to all who celebrate
#AWS #outage
October 20, 2025 at 2:54 PM
People at work have been telling me "live long and prosper" which I know is not a Data thing, but TIL there is a Vulcan salute emoji and how did I not realize this earlier 🖖
I was master of ceremonies today at my company's annual analytics day celebration. So I came dressed as Data. Obviously.
#dataBS
October 16, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Chicago showing off today
#chicago
October 14, 2025 at 9:02 PM
When I started out in economics I used to joke "if you can't quantify it, it doesn't exist". The longer I lasted in the field, the less funny that became
Yes! Now simply dismiss words altogether and advocate for putting all claims in the form of an equation which can be added to a DSGE model, and your journey to the economist side will be complete.
October 14, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I was just using MS Copilot's "think deeper" mode to produce and modify a silly Halloween image, and when it returned the image it also coughed up the back-end prompt it was using to reply to me. Love that it got the word count wrong, too.
#copilot #genai
October 14, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Data available upon request
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

"Statistical analysis used SPSS"
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
October 12, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I was master of ceremonies today at my company's annual analytics day celebration. So I came dressed as Data. Obviously.
#dataBS
October 8, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I meant to rage-post about this experience and what it means about human-centered design, but I took a nap instead. was probably the better choice
Once-a-year traveler here who just flew yesterday and couldn't find the right security line, AMA
October 7, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Wow. Internet users are not prepared for the future of online threats, and AI companies do not have our backs
October 3, 2025 at 4:35 PM
For once, I can get behind the idea of a monarchy
Be glad I’m not queen of the world because if I was it would be illegal to report point estimates without uncertainty🤺🤺🤺
October 3, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The proliferation of half-baked, disjointed AI tools jammed into every app in a company's ecosystem underscores the desperation to deliver in the wake of CharGPT. In the long run, this terrible UX has probably made consumers more wary of AI and less certain how to engage with it
October 2, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Who's making the bumper stickers with "this awful gen AI web workflow could have been a REST API" because I'm buying all of them
Tomorrow I have to take 25 blurbs of text, copy paste them one by one into a UI, get an ID and link, and then go paste those into some docs

I’m reminded how much more I value of a good REST API or RPA/headless browser (Playwright!) over AI for the kind of work I want to delegate to a robot
October 1, 2025 at 12:12 PM
"Teun van den Brand and the ggplot2 extenders" is absolutely a band I would listen to
posit.co Posit @posit.co · Sep 30
The new ggplot2 4.0.0 is here! 🎉

This major update includes a foundational rewrite of S7 and user benefits such as smarter labeling and a revamped theming system.

Check the details: www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09...

BONUS: Join the release party on Oct 3, 3pm ET. bit.ly/join-gg-extenders

#RStats
September 30, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I keep forgetting about the #dataBS tag, so this one is for y'all
September 27, 2025 at 1:59 PM
here's a Not Terrible™️application of gen AI: summarizing a long Outlook email chain that someone forwarded. At least now I don't have to scroll through dozens of messages and try to ignore the headers, business signatures, and meeting info just to find the content that matters
September 26, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I want the old Windows "save as" file browser back. The default now is useless and I have to click a bunch of times to get a proper directory listing window to pop up
#windows
September 26, 2025 at 8:58 PM
As a recovering economist working in data science, I'm still uncomfortable at the business prioritization of predictive accuracy over correct model specification
Data Science programs often put too little emphasis on causal inference, and it’s hurting their graduates on the job market! The econometrics people are coming for your jobs lol
September 26, 2025 at 3:27 PM
No more squinting down a dozen lines of code! inject this directly into my veins!!
While I had been using rainbow parentheses for a while, I only recently found out about rainbow indentation thanks to @ijlyttle.bsky.social and @3mmarand.bsky.social 🌈 #rstats
September 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
new life motto just dropped
joking aside, I'll give it a cursory review tomorrow. Vibe code drunk, validate sober.
September 25, 2025 at 2:04 PM