Javier Orraca-Deatcu
@javierorracadeatcu.bsky.social
R // Data Science // MLOps
🏠 https://www.javierorracadeatcu.com
💼 https://www.linkedin.com/in/orraca
👾 https://github.com/JavOrraca
🏠 https://www.javierorracadeatcu.com
💼 https://www.linkedin.com/in/orraca
👾 https://github.com/JavOrraca
Awesome opportunity to contribute to open source ML tooling at @posit.co (f.k.a. RStudio), a Public Benefit Corp AND Certified B Corporation. Posit sells enterprise software that allows them to hire FTEs that contribute to open source projects, and now their OSS ML team is hiring for a Python dev! 💯
Come work with us! We are so excited to announce this new position. With the same core goal; making modeling easier for users
We're hiring an open-source #python developer focused on modeling APIs!
tidyverse.org/blog/2025/11...
#numpy #scipy #scikitlearn
tidyverse.org/blog/2025/11...
#numpy #scipy #scikitlearn
November 12, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Awesome opportunity to contribute to open source ML tooling at @posit.co (f.k.a. RStudio), a Public Benefit Corp AND Certified B Corporation. Posit sells enterprise software that allows them to hire FTEs that contribute to open source projects, and now their OSS ML team is hiring for a Python dev! 💯
Found this on LinkedIn but truer words never spoken. Stop the Python project "dependency hell" and make the switch to Python's {uv} framework. Here's a great YouTube video that really resonated with me being an R first dev... From Posit's Julia Silge: youtu.be/pMVYl9fx1EE
November 10, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Found this on LinkedIn but truer words never spoken. Stop the Python project "dependency hell" and make the switch to Python's {uv} framework. Here's a great YouTube video that really resonated with me being an R first dev... From Posit's Julia Silge: youtu.be/pMVYl9fx1EE
EmbeddingGemma looks awesome 👀
EmbeddingGemma, a compact 308M parameter multilingual embedding model, perfect for on-device RAG applications - and we've made it super easy to integrate with LlamaIndex!
🛠️ Ready-to-use integration with LlamaIndex's HuggingFaceEmbedding class - just specify the query and document prompts
🛠️ Ready-to-use integration with LlamaIndex's HuggingFaceEmbedding class - just specify the query and document prompts
October 9, 2025 at 10:28 PM
EmbeddingGemma looks awesome 👀
SoCal RUG is back! @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social will be demoing Orbital, a framework to convert your fit model workflows from scikit-learn (Python) or tidymodels (R) to native SQL for in-database prediction! 🛸 Please RSVP for this hybrid in-person + YouTube Live event: meetu.ps/e/Py49Y/v02v...
Stop Horsing Around - Ship the Query!, Thu, Oct 16, 2025, 6:30 PM | Meetup
Ready to launch models straight from SQL? Join SoCal RUG with presenter **Emil Hvitfeldt,** a Software Engineer at Posit, on **Orbital**, a new tool that converts scikit-le
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September 23, 2025 at 7:37 PM
SoCal RUG is back! @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social will be demoing Orbital, a framework to convert your fit model workflows from scikit-learn (Python) or tidymodels (R) to native SQL for in-database prediction! 🛸 Please RSVP for this hybrid in-person + YouTube Live event: meetu.ps/e/Py49Y/v02v...
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In 2022, inspectors described a “cascade of failure” at one foreign factory.
The FDA barred it from shipping drugs to the U.S. — then excused more than 20 drugs from the ban, despite risks to consumers.
The FDA barred it from shipping drugs to the U.S. — then excused more than 20 drugs from the ban, despite risks to consumers.
Threat in Your Medicine Cabinet: The FDA’s Gamble on America’s Drugs
A ProPublica investigation found that for more than a decade, the FDA gave substandard factories banned from the United States a special pass to keep sending drugs to an unsuspecting public.
www.propublica.org
June 20, 2025 at 11:32 AM
In 2022, inspectors described a “cascade of failure” at one foreign factory.
The FDA barred it from shipping drugs to the U.S. — then excused more than 20 drugs from the ban, despite risks to consumers.
The FDA barred it from shipping drugs to the U.S. — then excused more than 20 drugs from the ban, despite risks to consumers.
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Quarto 1.7 is here! 🎉
Now you can easily add light/dark mode to your projects with brand files and control which computational outputs appear in each mode with the new renderings option.
See it in action on quarto.org and learn more: quarto.org/docs/blog/po...
#Quarto #QuartoPub
Now you can easily add light/dark mode to your projects with brand files and control which computational outputs appear in each mode with the new renderings option.
See it in action on quarto.org and learn more: quarto.org/docs/blog/po...
#Quarto #QuartoPub
Quarto 1.7 – Quarto
Quarto 1.7 brings big improvements to dark mode along with updates to Typst, Pandoc, a new version shortcode, and improvements to the julia engine.
quarto.org
May 5, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Quarto 1.7 is here! 🎉
Now you can easily add light/dark mode to your projects with brand files and control which computational outputs appear in each mode with the new renderings option.
See it in action on quarto.org and learn more: quarto.org/docs/blog/po...
#Quarto #QuartoPub
Now you can easily add light/dark mode to your projects with brand files and control which computational outputs appear in each mode with the new renderings option.
See it in action on quarto.org and learn more: quarto.org/docs/blog/po...
#Quarto #QuartoPub
SoCal RUG is hosting Karandeep Singh on April 24! He released Tidier.jl in Jan 2023, basically R's {dplyr} for Julia, and with the help of OSS contributors, there are now 10+ packages in Julia that implement {tidyverse} packages! 🔥 Please RSVP for in-person event here: www.meetup.com/socal-rug/ev...
Tidier.jl: The Story Behind Rebuilding the {tidyverse} in Julia, Thu, Apr 24, 2025, 6:30 PM | Meetup
How far would you be willing to go to make {tidyverse} faster? Would you learn C? Would you learn C++? For the people and teams behind packages like {data.table} and {colla
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April 13, 2025 at 7:24 PM
SoCal RUG is hosting Karandeep Singh on April 24! He released Tidier.jl in Jan 2023, basically R's {dplyr} for Julia, and with the help of OSS contributors, there are now 10+ packages in Julia that implement {tidyverse} packages! 🔥 Please RSVP for in-person event here: www.meetup.com/socal-rug/ev...
Today I learned about k3s... Cool stuff!
Check out my post on how to get started with k3s fast here:
www.heathyates.com/posts/gettin...
This is a no nonsense way to stand up a kubernetes cluster without worrying about the underlaying complexities of k8s.
www.heathyates.com/posts/gettin...
This is a no nonsense way to stand up a kubernetes cluster without worrying about the underlaying complexities of k8s.
Heath Yates - Getting Started with K3s Fast
www.heathyates.com
March 11, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Today I learned about k3s... Cool stuff!
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I've just found the best hack. Swear in your search request. It's a great way to bypass the AI summary and make your search history look like you're chronically pissed off at everything!
January 30, 2025 at 10:04 PM
I've just found the best hack. Swear in your search request. It's a great way to bypass the AI summary and make your search history look like you're chronically pissed off at everything!
I presented these slides last night to Tech by the Beach (@nicmoe.bsky.social 🙏) and CSULB's MSIS graduate program. It was fun to highlight workflows and benefits with the Positron IDE, Quarto, Arrow, and more! This is not 100% mobile-optimized. #pystats #rstats #datascience rrr.is/BigDataTinyL...
January 30, 2025 at 10:54 PM
I presented these slides last night to Tech by the Beach (@nicmoe.bsky.social 🙏) and CSULB's MSIS graduate program. It was fun to highlight workflows and benefits with the Positron IDE, Quarto, Arrow, and more! This is not 100% mobile-optimized. #pystats #rstats #datascience rrr.is/BigDataTinyL...
Just rented the independent #documentary Pistachio Wars. If you're interested in some of the history of #California #water rights, this is a phenomenal watch that exposes the greed behind the private hands that control so much of California's water for profit. gathr.com/vod/537d592b
Pistachio Wars - Video On Demand - Gathr
As Los Angeles burns, everyone wants to know…why do cities in California seem to constantly go up in flames?
Investigative journalist Yasha Levine and filmmaker Rowan Wernham take a road trip into th...
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January 22, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Just rented the independent #documentary Pistachio Wars. If you're interested in some of the history of #California #water rights, this is a phenomenal watch that exposes the greed behind the private hands that control so much of California's water for profit. gathr.com/vod/537d592b
Meta trained Llama on copyrighted materials. But, didn't all mainstream GenAI model developers do the same? Not saying it's right, just feels obvious. Are we really surprised by any of this? techcrunch.com/2025/01/09/m...
Mark Zuckerberg gave Meta's Llama team the OK to train on copyrighted works, filing claims | TechCrunch
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave Meta's Llama team approval to train on copyrighted documents, according to a new court filing.
techcrunch.com
January 9, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Meta trained Llama on copyrighted materials. But, didn't all mainstream GenAI model developers do the same? Not saying it's right, just feels obvious. Are we really surprised by any of this? techcrunch.com/2025/01/09/m...
SoCal friends! If you're using SQL, Python, and/or R for data processing and analysis, I'll be presenting some neat tools at CSULB in Jan 2025, including live demos with Positron, Quarto, Arrow, DuckDB, and Polars for processing huge data on your laptop. RSVP here: www.meetup.com/socal-rug/ev...
Big Data, Tiny Laptop, Wed, Jan 29, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup
Ever wonder how you can work with "bigger than RAM" datasets on your laptop’s memory without needing a supercomputer? Join us for this in-person approachable and practical
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December 10, 2024 at 11:15 PM
SoCal friends! If you're using SQL, Python, and/or R for data processing and analysis, I'll be presenting some neat tools at CSULB in Jan 2025, including live demos with Positron, Quarto, Arrow, DuckDB, and Polars for processing huge data on your laptop. RSVP here: www.meetup.com/socal-rug/ev...
We are hiring for an Associate Actuary with #rstats experience! 🔥 Two hard reqs: You must be a credentialed #actuary (ASA or FSA), and you must have #healthcare experience. We have over 150 R users at Centene so it's a great place to learn and contribute. Please share! 🙏 tinyurl.com/rstats-actuary
Associate Actuary - R Studio
You could be the one who changes everything for our 28 million members. Centene is transforming the health of our communities, one person at a time. As a diversified, national organization, you’ll hav...
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November 20, 2024 at 6:34 PM
We are hiring for an Associate Actuary with #rstats experience! 🔥 Two hard reqs: You must be a credentialed #actuary (ASA or FSA), and you must have #healthcare experience. We have over 150 R users at Centene so it's a great place to learn and contribute. Please share! 🙏 tinyurl.com/rstats-actuary
If you're into data science and networking, available next Thursday evening, and can make it to Chapman University in Orange, CA, I definitely encourage you to join us for our monthly #rstats meetup. Free food (please RSVP!) and always a great learning opportunity!
meetu.ps/e/NDQtL/v02v...
meetu.ps/e/NDQtL/v02v...
Mumps and Models: Crunching the Numbers Behind a Resurgent Disease, Thu, Nov 21, 2024, 6:30 PM | Meetup
Mumps, a vaccine-preventable childhood disease, has unexpectedly resurged in many developed countries, raising questions about the long-term effectiveness of current vaccin
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November 15, 2024 at 1:28 AM
If you're into data science and networking, available next Thursday evening, and can make it to Chapman University in Orange, CA, I definitely encourage you to join us for our monthly #rstats meetup. Free food (please RSVP!) and always a great learning opportunity!
meetu.ps/e/NDQtL/v02v...
meetu.ps/e/NDQtL/v02v...
George is a genius and this is a really exciting addition to the Tidyverse blog on WebAssembly + R! #datascience #wasm #rstats
I've written a series of blog posts about what I've been up to over the last few months! 📝
In the posts I talk about webR, R Shinylive, and a new Quarto extension for interactive code exercises.
Take a look if you're interested in the latest for R for WebAssembly.
www.tidyverse.org/blog/2024/10...
In the posts I talk about webR, R Shinylive, and a new Quarto extension for interactive code exercises.
Take a look if you're interested in the latest for R for WebAssembly.
www.tidyverse.org/blog/2024/10...
WebAssembly roundup part 1: webR 0.4.2 - Tidyverse
First in a series of blog posts about what's new in R for WebAssembly. The latest release of webR 0.4.2 is now available, with updates to the viewer mechanism, support for displaying htmlwidgets, an I...
www.tidyverse.org
November 6, 2024 at 3:14 PM
George is a genius and this is a really exciting addition to the Tidyverse blog on WebAssembly + R! #datascience #wasm #rstats
The #Iconify #Quarto extension came to the rescue! Desktop site navbar updated with #Bluesky logo 🔥 www.javierorracadeatcu.com
Quarto extension: github.com/mcanouil/qua...
Quarto extension: github.com/mcanouil/qua...
November 2, 2024 at 12:23 AM
The #Iconify #Quarto extension came to the rescue! Desktop site navbar updated with #Bluesky logo 🔥 www.javierorracadeatcu.com
Quarto extension: github.com/mcanouil/qua...
Quarto extension: github.com/mcanouil/qua...
Found this neat blog post written by @tylerburleigh.bsky.social covering some common and unique categorical encoding methods. Bookmarked! 🔖 #rstats #machinelearning #stats #datascience
tylerburleigh.com/blog/2023/09...
tylerburleigh.com/blog/2023/09...
Encoding high cardinality features with “embeddings” | Tyler Burleigh
In this post I show how the performance of an ML model can be improved by encoding high cardinality features using “embeddings”, a method that uses deep learning to represent categorical features as v...
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October 31, 2024 at 11:07 PM
Found this neat blog post written by @tylerburleigh.bsky.social covering some common and unique categorical encoding methods. Bookmarked! 🔖 #rstats #machinelearning #stats #datascience
tylerburleigh.com/blog/2023/09...
tylerburleigh.com/blog/2023/09...
Trained a model for 52 minutes but finished with the infamous warning: "All models failed." Granted, running 'show_notes(.last.tune.result)' gave me a new one... "Unique notes: std::bad_alloc" 👀 Any thoughts?
Using tidymodels w/ aorsf. Def works on my smaller data. #rstats docs.ropensci.org/aorsf/
Using tidymodels w/ aorsf. Def works on my smaller data. #rstats docs.ropensci.org/aorsf/
Accelerated Oblique Random Forests
Fit, interpret, and compute predictions with oblique random forests. Includes support for partial dependence, variable importance, passing customized functions for variable importance and identificati...
docs.ropensci.org
October 31, 2024 at 3:09 AM
Trained a model for 52 minutes but finished with the infamous warning: "All models failed." Granted, running 'show_notes(.last.tune.result)' gave me a new one... "Unique notes: std::bad_alloc" 👀 Any thoughts?
Using tidymodels w/ aorsf. Def works on my smaller data. #rstats docs.ropensci.org/aorsf/
Using tidymodels w/ aorsf. Def works on my smaller data. #rstats docs.ropensci.org/aorsf/
It's not easy to know how & where to speed up your tidymodels training jobs or squeeze out extra performance. @simonpcouch.com has a new book under development, "Efficient Machine Learning with R," and I'm excited to see where this thing goes! #rstats #tidymodels #ML
Some news: I've just open-sourced the draft of a book I'm working on about how #rstats tidymodels users can make their code run faster without sacrificing predictive performance!
www.simonpcouch.com/blog/2024-10...
www.simonpcouch.com/blog/2024-10...
October 29, 2024 at 4:30 PM
It's not easy to know how & where to speed up your tidymodels training jobs or squeeze out extra performance. @simonpcouch.com has a new book under development, "Efficient Machine Learning with R," and I'm excited to see where this thing goes! #rstats #tidymodels #ML
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I always wanted a complete #RStats guide for complex survey data with the #tidyverse, and now it’s here! Huge thanks to @statsteph.bsky.social & RJP ❤️
"Exploring Complex Survey Data Analysis Using R"
Free online: tidy-survey-r.github.io/tidy-survey-...
Preorder: www.routledge.com/Exploring-Co...
"Exploring Complex Survey Data Analysis Using R"
Free online: tidy-survey-r.github.io/tidy-survey-...
Preorder: www.routledge.com/Exploring-Co...
October 29, 2024 at 2:15 PM
I always wanted a complete #RStats guide for complex survey data with the #tidyverse, and now it’s here! Huge thanks to @statsteph.bsky.social & RJP ❤️
"Exploring Complex Survey Data Analysis Using R"
Free online: tidy-survey-r.github.io/tidy-survey-...
Preorder: www.routledge.com/Exploring-Co...
"Exploring Complex Survey Data Analysis Using R"
Free online: tidy-survey-r.github.io/tidy-survey-...
Preorder: www.routledge.com/Exploring-Co...
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Maybe! I've been using it full time for all my own stuff for a couple months and it's been really nice (still using RStudio for teaching tho) - see here for extensions and stuff I'm using: www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2024/07...
Fun with Positron | Andrew Heiss
Combine the best of RStudio and Visual Studio Code in Posit’s new Positron IDE
www.andrewheiss.com
October 28, 2024 at 6:03 PM
Maybe! I've been using it full time for all my own stuff for a couple months and it's been really nice (still using RStudio for teaching tho) - see here for extensions and stuff I'm using: www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2024/07...
Can #Quarto be used on #Databricks as an alt Databricks notebooks? From an interoperability perspective (and using git for more than just cloning a repo *into* Databricks), I think this would be great. CC @posit.co 🙏👾👀 #rstats #python
PS: @cmastication.bsky.social Any Bluesky hashtag consensus? 😅
PS: @cmastication.bsky.social Any Bluesky hashtag consensus? 😅
October 28, 2024 at 8:03 PM
Can #Quarto be used on #Databricks as an alt Databricks notebooks? From an interoperability perspective (and using git for more than just cloning a repo *into* Databricks), I think this would be great. CC @posit.co 🙏👾👀 #rstats #python
PS: @cmastication.bsky.social Any Bluesky hashtag consensus? 😅
PS: @cmastication.bsky.social Any Bluesky hashtag consensus? 😅