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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com ยท Jan 5
Happy 2026! ๐ŸŽ†

My resolution: put @dslc.io on a sustainable footing.

Iโ€™m launching a Patreon to cover costs (Zoom, hosting, etc). If you love #TidyTuesday, our Slack help, or our book clubs, please consider helping us keep the lights on!

patreon.com/DSLC

#RStats #DataBS
Data Science Learning Community | Patreon
Tools to learn data science, e.g. weekly TidyTues.day dataset
patreon.com
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Sounds like a plan!
February 10, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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I'd love to feature this dataset if you submit it to tidytues.day! @nrennie.bsky.social has done several before and could help, I'm sure! That is assuming we haven't already used it!
tidytuesday/README.md at main ยท rfordatascience/tidytuesday
Official repo for the #tidytuesday project. Contribute to rfordatascience/tidytuesday development by creating an account on GitHub.
tidytues.day
February 10, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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Step 1: Finish my sweep through {tibblify} (tibblify.wrangle.zone) then get it back on CRAN.
Step 2: Finish current {stbl} (stbl.wrangle.zone) updates, potentially merging some functionality with {tibblify}.
Step 3: Update {nectar} (nectar.api2r.org) best practices + help from updates above.
Stabilize Function Arguments
A set of consistent, opinionated functions to quickly check function arguments, coerce them to the desired configuration, or deliver informative error messages when that is not possible.
stbl.wrangle.zone
February 10, 2026 at 12:45 PM
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I'm glad you found the video(s) useful! I hope to get back to beekeeper.api2r.org and friends soon. I'm not sure it would help you (I couldn't find an openapi or swagger file for flixpatrol), but the goal is to make this as easy as it can be!
Rapidly Scaffold API Client Packages
Automatically generate R package skeletons from application programming interfaces (APIs) that follow the OpenAPI Specification (OAS). The skeletons implement best practices to streamline package deve...
beekeeper.api2r.org
February 10, 2026 at 12:45 PM
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Curator: @chendaniely.bsky.social
February 9, 2026 at 2:19 PM
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@dslc.io welcomes you to week 6 of #TidyTuesday! We're exploring This week we're getting ready for the 2026 Winter Olympics!!

๐Ÿ“ https://tidytues.day/2026/2026-02-10
๐Ÿ—ž๏ธ https://www.olympics.com/en/milano-cortina-2026/schedule

#RStats #PyData #JuliaLang #DataViz #tidyverse #r4ds
Logo for the #TidyTuesday Project. The words TidyTuesday, A weekly data project from the Data Science Learning Community (dslc.io) overlaying a black paint splash. TidyTuesday is a weekly social data project. All are welcome to participate! Please remember to share the code used to generate your results! TidyTuesday is organized by the Data Science Learning Community. Join our Slack for free online help with R and other data-related topics, or to participate in a data-related book club! How to Participate Data is posted to social media every Monday morning. Follow the instructions in the new post for how to download the data. Explore the data, watching out for interesting relationships. We would like to emphasize that you should not draw conclusions about causation in the data. Create a visualization, a model, a shiny app, or some other piece of data-science-related output, using R or another programming language. Share your output and the code used to generate it on social media with the #TidyTuesday hashtag. A table of event counts by day. Each row is a sport, each column represents a date. The body of the table counts the number of events for each sport on a given day.
February 9, 2026 at 2:19 PM
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rpodcast.bsky.social
Episode 220 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

๐ŸŽ™๏ธ @emilyriederer.bsky.social on Test Set @posit.co
๐Ÿ’ช Git for data workflows @fgazzelloni.bsky.social @rladiesrome.bsky.social
๐Ÿ—๏ธ libdplyr @mrchypark.bsky.social

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & Jon Carroll ๐Ÿ™

#RStats #databs
Issue 2026-W06 Highlights
A prominent leader at the intersection of data science and data engineering across multiple languages shares her insights, how a recent Git workshopโ€ฆ
serve.podhome.fm
February 4, 2026 at 12:19 PM
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drmowinckels.io
Stop playing "diagnostics ping-pong" with your users ๐Ÿ“

Wrote about why every R package wrapping external tools needs a sitrep() function โ€” with real examples from meetupr and freesurfer.

#RStats

https://drmo.site/F5gVjR
A close-up view of a computer monitor in a dimly lit room, showing a terminal console. The terminal displays the output of an R function called meetupr_sitrep(). The report shows green checkmarks for "Active Authentication" and "Cached Token," and a blue information icon for package settings. At the bottom, a red "X" marks a failed "API Connectivity Test," illustrating a diagnostic situation report in action. In the foreground, a coffee mug and a personโ€™s hand on a keyboard are visible but slightly out of focus.
February 3, 2026 at 10:10 AM
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posit.co
Good news: The posit::conf(2026) Call for Talks has been extended to Friday, February 20!
Join us in Houston to share your work with the R & Python community.
๐ŸŽค Speakers receive: Professional coaching, free conference pass, travel assistance
Submit your 20-min talk proposal: pos.it/conf-talk-2026
February 2, 2026 at 4:52 PM
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Curator: @nrennie.bsky.social
February 2, 2026 at 2:08 PM
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@dslc.io welcomes you to week 5 of #TidyTuesday! We're exploring Edible Plants Database!

๐Ÿ“‚ https://tidytues.day/2026/2026-02-03
๐Ÿ“ฐ https://www.dundee.ac.uk/projects/grow-observatory

#RStats #PyData #JuliaLang #DataViz #tidyverse #r4ds
Logo for the #TidyTuesday Project. The words TidyTuesday, A weekly data project from the Data Science Learning Community (dslc.io) overlaying a black paint splash. TidyTuesday is a weekly social data project. All are welcome to participate! Please remember to share the code used to generate your results! TidyTuesday is organized by the Data Science Learning Community. Join our Slack for free online help with R and other data-related topics, or to participate in a data-related book club! How to Participate Data is posted to social media every Monday morning. Follow the instructions in the new post for how to download the data. Explore the data, watching out for interesting relationships. We would like to emphasize that you should not draw conclusions about causation in the data. Create a visualization, a model, a shiny app, or some other piece of data-science-related output, using R or another programming language. Share your output and the code used to generate it on social media with the #TidyTuesday hashtag. Minimalist map of Europe showing nine locations taking part in GROW projects, including locations in Scotland, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Austria, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Hungary, and Greece.
February 2, 2026 at 2:08 PM
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nrennie.bsky.social
I'm really enjoying seeing people's different takes on some of the #TidyTuesday datasets used in my book!
drjohnrussell.com John Russell @drjohnrussell.com ยท 8d
Inspired working through @nrennie.bsky.social's book (Chapter 4 tomorrow at @dslc.io!), so I went back to the original dataset for another perspective #TidyTuesday #rstats

This shows the change in Bee Colonies over a 5 year sample, where increases and decreases were both observed
February 1, 2026 at 8:24 PM
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I added an issue for this dataset here: github.com/rfordatascie...

Thanks!
February 1, 2026 at 2:22 PM
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I haven't pushed this update to CRAN yet, but tidytuesdayR curation officially works in positron on dev now, and I accepted a python submission last week, so EVERYONE can participate in this effort to mess with @hadleywickham
January 31, 2026 at 3:55 AM
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Will it be that week's dataset? If so there's still time for someone to submit something hilarious!
January 31, 2026 at 2:58 AM
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rpodcast.bsky.social
Episode 219 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

๐Ÿ“Š LLM Plot Interpretations @sara-altman.bsky.social @simonpcouch.com
๐ŸŒŽ Soil flux @phytobio.me & John Zobitz
๐ŸŽ futurize @henrikbengtsson.bsky.social

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social @jonathankitt.bsky.social ๐Ÿ™

#rstats #databs
Issue 2026-W05 Highlights
The way LLMs can be a little stubborn when interpreting data visualizations, bringing new meaning to digging for your data and learning along the way, andโ€ฆ
serve.podhome.fm
January 28, 2026 at 12:12 PM
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coatless.bsky.social
webRios is live. #rstats on your iPhone and iPad.

I showed native R compilation on #iOS last week. Shipping it is another story (thanks, GPL). This version uses #webR 's #WebAssembly build instead. Different tradeoffs, but this one clears App Review.

apps.apple.com/us/app/webri...
Promotional image for webRios showing the app icon and an iPhone displaying the R console. The console shows example R commands with syntax highlighting: basic arithmetic (1 + 1), a print statement saying 'Hello from iOS!', a warning message in orange reading 'Uh-oh, I'm in the Apple-verse?', an error message in red with the HAL 9000 quote 'I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.', and a plot command.
January 27, 2026 at 2:42 AM
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c-monaghan.bsky.social
A little late to the party this week, but this #TidyTuesday explores NASAโ€™s Astronomy Picture of the Day ๐Ÿ›ฐ๏ธ

While APOD is best known for its stunning images, videos actually make up a small (but interesting!) share of the daily posts.

๐Ÿ”— Code: github.com/C-Monaghan/t...

#RStats #dataviz #ggplot2
January 26, 2026 at 11:25 AM
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@dslc.io welcomes you to week 4 of #TidyTuesday! We're exploring Brazilian Companies!

๐Ÿ“ https://tidytues.day/2026/2026-01-27
๐Ÿ—ž๏ธ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_Brazilian_companies

#RStats #PyData #JuliaLang #DataViz #tidyverse #r4ds
Logo for the #TidyTuesday Project. The words TidyTuesday, A weekly data project from the Data Science Learning Community (dslc.io) overlaying a black paint splash. TidyTuesday is a weekly social data project. All are welcome to participate! Please remember to share the code used to generate your results! TidyTuesday is organized by the Data Science Learning Community. Join our Slack for free online help with R and other data-related topics, or to participate in a data-related book club! How to Participate Data is posted to social media every Monday morning. Follow the instructions in the new post for how to download the data. Explore the data, watching out for interesting relationships. We would like to emphasize that you should not draw conclusions about causation in the data. Create a visualization, a model, a shiny app, or some other piece of data-science-related output, using R or another programming language. Share your output and the code used to generate it on social media with the #TidyTuesday hashtag. A panel exploring a set of companies and their participation in the Brazilian capital stock.
January 26, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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frodsan.bsky.social
Oooh love this. Easiest way to parallelise anything in #rstats. Just add futurize() to your favourite function call

www.jottr.org/2026/01/22/f...

Thanks @henrikbengtsson.bsky.social HT @rstats.blaze.email
Examples of how to use the new futurize package
January 23, 2026 at 9:04 AM
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rpodcast.bsky.social
Episode 218 of the R Weekly Highlights Podcast is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

๐Ÿค– Semi-automating 200 PRs @davisvaughan.bsky.social
๐Ÿ“ˆ Accessible Line Charts @nrennie.bsky.social

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & Jon Calder ๐Ÿ™

#RStats #databs
Issue 2026-W04 Highlights
The inside story of how Claude Code with the proper scope provided a massive boost to drafting hundreds of pull requests, and debunking the myth onโ€ฆ
serve.podhome.fm
January 23, 2026 at 12:12 PM
jonthegeek.com
As far as I can see, {tinyshinyserver} is a bunch of code wrapping `shiny::runApp()`, `rmarkdown::run()`, and `quarto::quarto_serve()`. Maybe there's more to it, but it sounded like your experiments mostly didn't work, so I'm not sure it really does anything other than obfuscate some calls.
January 23, 2026 at 1:56 PM
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To be clear: I don't think there's NO room for AI in package dev. I just think it's good to be particularly skeptical of AI-generated code. I can *claim* to do all kinds of things in a package, but the package isn't noteworthy unless it actually *does* those thing.
January 23, 2026 at 1:56 PM
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joshpersi.bsky.social
Come learn about deep learning with us! The Data Science Learning Community just started reading the free third edition of Deep Learning with Python. Meetings are Tuesday at 3 pm CST.

DSLC: dslc.io
Book: deeplearningwithpython.io

#rstats #pydata
Deep Learning with Python, Third Edition
Deep Learning with Python is written for anyone who wishes to explore deep learning from scratch. This new edition adds comprehensive coverage of generative AI and modern deep learning frameworks. It ...
deeplearningwithpython.io
January 21, 2026 at 11:15 PM
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nrennie.bsky.social
Did you know that you can edit a #ggplot2 chart after it's been created without having to rewrite the original #RStats code?

Let's say we've made a scatter plot with this code...
R code to create default ggplot2 scatter plot of mpg against wt with mtcars data
January 21, 2026 at 2:18 PM