Libby Heeren
@libbyheeren.bsky.social
Posit DS Hangout host & data educator. Data Weasel. Community Builder. Teaches R+Python.
🔉 Heeren == "hair-en" ✨
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/libbyheeren
DS Hangout: https://pos.it/dsh
🔉 Heeren == "hair-en" ✨
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/libbyheeren
DS Hangout: https://pos.it/dsh
Today on the #DSHangout, we got an anonymous Q about what being a working adult in '08-09 might have taught us about navigating today's gross job market. I thought it was a fantastic question to pose to the fellow olds in the #databs community here.
My biggest lesson: ask for AND ACCEPT help.
My biggest lesson: ask for AND ACCEPT help.
February 6, 2026 at 3:23 AM
Today on the #DSHangout, we got an anonymous Q about what being a working adult in '08-09 might have taught us about navigating today's gross job market. I thought it was a fantastic question to pose to the fellow olds in the #databs community here.
My biggest lesson: ask for AND ACCEPT help.
My biggest lesson: ask for AND ACCEPT help.
📆 Tues on DS Lab, @ivelasq3.bsky.social & I are gonna be showing how to GitHub collab in #Positron! If you're coming from RStudio, Positron's set-up is gonna be pretty different in some amazingly great ways.
If you're a GitHub-in-VSC pro, join & help us learn! pos.it/dslab
#databs #rstats #python
If you're a GitHub-in-VSC pro, join & help us learn! pos.it/dslab
#databs #rstats #python
February 6, 2026 at 3:20 AM
📆 Tues on DS Lab, @ivelasq3.bsky.social & I are gonna be showing how to GitHub collab in #Positron! If you're coming from RStudio, Positron's set-up is gonna be pretty different in some amazingly great ways.
If you're a GitHub-in-VSC pro, join & help us learn! pos.it/dslab
#databs #rstats #python
If you're a GitHub-in-VSC pro, join & help us learn! pos.it/dslab
#databs #rstats #python
I really dropped the ball on Admin Wednesday yesterday. Mostly because I spent part of it thinking it was Friday, which really sucked when I realized my mistake. Closing ~100 browser tabs on a Thursday just doesn't feel the same.
February 6, 2026 at 1:27 AM
I really dropped the ball on Admin Wednesday yesterday. Mostly because I spent part of it thinking it was Friday, which really sucked when I realized my mistake. Closing ~100 browser tabs on a Thursday just doesn't feel the same.
Do you all have a need to encrypt files you generate before sending? I’ve been working with honeycakefiles.com to protect files. Just seeing if there might be interest in an r package to use it to protect your files if I can get one put together (with permission of the company)?
#rstats
#rstats
Honeycake - Enterprise File Security. For Everyone.
honeycakefiles.com
February 5, 2026 at 9:47 PM
Is anyone else consistently at least 24-48 hours behind on emails? Please don't email me something you need me to see ASAP 😅🫠
February 5, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Is anyone else consistently at least 24-48 hours behind on emails? Please don't email me something you need me to see ASAP 😅🫠
Love how I can always count on @zach-nabavian.bsky.social to have a Mario Kart analogy in a data community meet-up chat 😂 Today it was DRAGON BOATS! (You had to be there, but dragon boating featured heavily in today's #DSHangout haha)
#databs
#databs
February 5, 2026 at 6:28 PM
Love how I can always count on @zach-nabavian.bsky.social to have a Mario Kart analogy in a data community meet-up chat 😂 Today it was DRAGON BOATS! (You had to be there, but dragon boating featured heavily in today's #DSHangout haha)
#databs
#databs
Secret club meets tmrw. Stay late after the Hangout. (Bring your Qs abt submitting talks for posit::conf(2026)! @rachaeldempsey.bsky.social and I will spill the beans. I mean, we'll help. Probably!
Seriously, though, see you tomorrow 😂 conf talks can be transformative!!
#databs #rstats #python
Seriously, though, see you tomorrow 😂 conf talks can be transformative!!
#databs #rstats #python
February 5, 2026 at 1:45 AM
Secret club meets tmrw. Stay late after the Hangout. (Bring your Qs abt submitting talks for posit::conf(2026)! @rachaeldempsey.bsky.social and I will spill the beans. I mean, we'll help. Probably!
Seriously, though, see you tomorrow 😂 conf talks can be transformative!!
#databs #rstats #python
Seriously, though, see you tomorrow 😂 conf talks can be transformative!!
#databs #rstats #python
Is the difference between hitting cmd + to zoom in #Positron once and hitting it twice too big of a step? You can zoom in fractions! Try "window.zoomLevel": 1.7, for screen sharing on a hi res screen, with "editor.fontSize": 13
Or play around and see what works best for you! #rstats #databs #pydata
Or play around and see what works best for you! #rstats #databs #pydata
Yes! I learned this from @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social:
In settings.json, add
"window.zoomLevel": 1,
"editor.fontSize": 12,
(Of course, make the zoom and font whatever you want! And you can do decimals. 1.2-1.4 are great for screen sharing for me) Zoomlevel steps of one unit are pretty big! 20%?
In settings.json, add
"window.zoomLevel": 1,
"editor.fontSize": 12,
(Of course, make the zoom and font whatever you want! And you can do decimals. 1.2-1.4 are great for screen sharing for me) Zoomlevel steps of one unit are pretty big! 20%?
February 4, 2026 at 3:52 PM
My tombstone is gonna say "She was a real handful" but I'm really thankful for all the people who love me just the way I am, even when I'm a chaos gremlin, a data weasel, a conversational steamroller, etc. #databs
February 4, 2026 at 5:53 AM
My tombstone is gonna say "She was a real handful" but I'm really thankful for all the people who love me just the way I am, even when I'm a chaos gremlin, a data weasel, a conversational steamroller, etc. #databs
Happy Groundhog Day!
Fun fact: my husband grew up in the little IL town where the movie was (mostly) filmed. It was 1992. The snow was fake & filming went through the summer, so all those scenes where they're wearing jackets got hot 😂 He even got to be a skateboarding extra but his scene was cut!
Fun fact: my husband grew up in the little IL town where the movie was (mostly) filmed. It was 1992. The snow was fake & filming went through the summer, so all those scenes where they're wearing jackets got hot 😂 He even got to be a skateboarding extra but his scene was cut!
February 2, 2026 at 8:44 PM
Happy Groundhog Day!
Fun fact: my husband grew up in the little IL town where the movie was (mostly) filmed. It was 1992. The snow was fake & filming went through the summer, so all those scenes where they're wearing jackets got hot 😂 He even got to be a skateboarding extra but his scene was cut!
Fun fact: my husband grew up in the little IL town where the movie was (mostly) filmed. It was 1992. The snow was fake & filming went through the summer, so all those scenes where they're wearing jackets got hot 😂 He even got to be a skateboarding extra but his scene was cut!
Tomorrow's #DSLab is gonna be interesting because I've never used AI to help write analysis code, or do any analysis at all! Super curious what this will look like and excited for you to meet @sara-altman.bsky.social if you haven't yet! She's part of the AI team here at #Posit!
#rstats #databs
#rstats #databs
Join us on Tuesday at the Data Science Lab 🧪 We are joined by @sara-altman.bsky.social, who will show us how to explore and analyze data using AI assistants in #RStats or #Python!
Feb 3 @ 12 pm ET: pos.it/dslab
Feb 3 @ 12 pm ET: pos.it/dslab
February 2, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Tomorrow's #DSLab is gonna be interesting because I've never used AI to help write analysis code, or do any analysis at all! Super curious what this will look like and excited for you to meet @sara-altman.bsky.social if you haven't yet! She's part of the AI team here at #Posit!
#rstats #databs
#rstats #databs
Block those calendars, #rstats & #databs!! If you missed Data Science Trivia at Virtual Day last year, here's your second chance to get in on it 🥳 @damiepak.bsky.social and I will be leading a short trivia session (with prizes!) followed by a quick social where we can all make some friendsssss 🥰
📣 registration for the rainbowR conference is now live 🎉
The conference is for anyone interested in R and/or analysing data to understand LGBTQ+ issues. The majority of speakers and workshop leaders are LGBTQ+, but you do not have to be LGBTQ+ to attend.
pretix.eu/rainbowr/con...
#RStats #LGBTQ
The conference is for anyone interested in R and/or analysing data to understand LGBTQ+ issues. The majority of speakers and workshop leaders are LGBTQ+, but you do not have to be LGBTQ+ to attend.
pretix.eu/rainbowr/con...
#RStats #LGBTQ
rainbowR Conference 2026
Feb. 25 – 26, 2026
pretix.eu
February 2, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Block those calendars, #rstats & #databs!! If you missed Data Science Trivia at Virtual Day last year, here's your second chance to get in on it 🥳 @damiepak.bsky.social and I will be leading a short trivia session (with prizes!) followed by a quick social where we can all make some friendsssss 🥰
I freaking love voice messages. If you're my friend and you're not a voice message person, I'm so sorry about all the friend podcasts I regularly send you 😂 When they get particularly long and rambly, I just end them with, "like and subscribe!" to cut the awkward tension of realizing I'm 5 mins in 😎
February 2, 2026 at 3:06 AM
I freaking love voice messages. If you're my friend and you're not a voice message person, I'm so sorry about all the friend podcasts I regularly send you 😂 When they get particularly long and rambly, I just end them with, "like and subscribe!" to cut the awkward tension of realizing I'm 5 mins in 😎
Dear #databs, #rstats, and #pydata: Jon and I aren't saying you should submit a hilarious #TidyTuesday dataset for @hadley.nz to analyze, but we're not NOT saying that 😌 Time is ticking
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 4:02 AM
Dear #databs, #rstats, and #pydata: Jon and I aren't saying you should submit a hilarious #TidyTuesday dataset for @hadley.nz to analyze, but we're not NOT saying that 😌 Time is ticking
I'm excited to inform you:
@hadley.nz to join the #DSLab Feb 17, live-coding a #TidyTuesday analysis. Snoop the tools he uses & ask Qs in the chat! 👀
I regret to inform you:
I've challenged him to only speak in Gen-Z slang for the entire Lab & he's accepted 🙊 pos.it/dslab ⬅️👏🏻
#rstats #databs
@hadley.nz to join the #DSLab Feb 17, live-coding a #TidyTuesday analysis. Snoop the tools he uses & ask Qs in the chat! 👀
I regret to inform you:
I've challenged him to only speak in Gen-Z slang for the entire Lab & he's accepted 🙊 pos.it/dslab ⬅️👏🏻
#rstats #databs
January 30, 2026 at 11:12 PM
I'm excited to inform you:
@hadley.nz to join the #DSLab Feb 17, live-coding a #TidyTuesday analysis. Snoop the tools he uses & ask Qs in the chat! 👀
I regret to inform you:
I've challenged him to only speak in Gen-Z slang for the entire Lab & he's accepted 🙊 pos.it/dslab ⬅️👏🏻
#rstats #databs
@hadley.nz to join the #DSLab Feb 17, live-coding a #TidyTuesday analysis. Snoop the tools he uses & ask Qs in the chat! 👀
I regret to inform you:
I've challenged him to only speak in Gen-Z slang for the entire Lab & he's accepted 🙊 pos.it/dslab ⬅️👏🏻
#rstats #databs
Loving all the #TidyTuesday shares this week!! Just sad that all my corporate finance and corporate accounting classes didn't prepare me to easily understand the data 🤣
This week’s #TidyTuesday dives into Brazilian company data 🗺️
🎻Below is a violin plot showing how share capital varies by legal structure
🔗 Code: github.com/C-Monaghan/t...
#RStats #dataviz #ggplot2
🎻Below is a violin plot showing how share capital varies by legal structure
🔗 Code: github.com/C-Monaghan/t...
#RStats #dataviz #ggplot2
January 29, 2026 at 6:29 PM
Loving all the #TidyTuesday shares this week!! Just sad that all my corporate finance and corporate accounting classes didn't prepare me to easily understand the data 🤣
Made a quick video showing:
- what the git integration in #Positron looks like
- what running a Shiny app locally in Positron looks like
- how easy it is to push an update to a live Shiny app hosted on Posit Connect Cloud (I'm just using the free version here!) #rstats #databs
youtu.be/-HDW3eHPt5w
- what the git integration in #Positron looks like
- what running a Shiny app locally in Positron looks like
- how easy it is to push an update to a live Shiny app hosted on Posit Connect Cloud (I'm just using the free version here!) #rstats #databs
youtu.be/-HDW3eHPt5w
Updating a Shiny app hosted on Posit Connect Cloud using Positron
YouTube video by Libby Heeren
youtu.be
January 29, 2026 at 2:44 AM
Made a quick video showing:
- what the git integration in #Positron looks like
- what running a Shiny app locally in Positron looks like
- how easy it is to push an update to a live Shiny app hosted on Posit Connect Cloud (I'm just using the free version here!) #rstats #databs
youtu.be/-HDW3eHPt5w
- what the git integration in #Positron looks like
- what running a Shiny app locally in Positron looks like
- how easy it is to push an update to a live Shiny app hosted on Posit Connect Cloud (I'm just using the free version here!) #rstats #databs
youtu.be/-HDW3eHPt5w
ADMIN DAY! Tabs = closed, software = updated, emails = being done, compliance training = barf!
A day with no meetings is like the only way this happens. TAKE AN ADMIN DAY! Next, editing / publishing DS Hangout & DS Lab videos 🎥📹📽️
Love that all my "video" emoji options are old tech ❤️
A day with no meetings is like the only way this happens. TAKE AN ADMIN DAY! Next, editing / publishing DS Hangout & DS Lab videos 🎥📹📽️
Love that all my "video" emoji options are old tech ❤️
January 28, 2026 at 8:40 PM
ADMIN DAY! Tabs = closed, software = updated, emails = being done, compliance training = barf!
A day with no meetings is like the only way this happens. TAKE AN ADMIN DAY! Next, editing / publishing DS Hangout & DS Lab videos 🎥📹📽️
Love that all my "video" emoji options are old tech ❤️
A day with no meetings is like the only way this happens. TAKE AN ADMIN DAY! Next, editing / publishing DS Hangout & DS Lab videos 🎥📹📽️
Love that all my "video" emoji options are old tech ❤️
If you stay to the end of this episode with the amazing @emilyriederer.bsky.social, you'll get to hear something really cooooool!
Also, listen for this lesson: watch people code whenever you can ❤️
overcast.fm/+ABQHd_PtRq4
Also, listen for this lesson: watch people code whenever you can ❤️
overcast.fm/+ABQHd_PtRq4
Emily Riederer: Column selectors, data quality, and learning in public — The Test Set by Posit
Emily Riederer writes Python with an R accent, and we’re all comfortable with it. In this episode, Emily reflects on her journey through R, Python, and SQL — from lessons learned in averaging default ...
overcast.fm
January 28, 2026 at 3:48 AM
If you stay to the end of this episode with the amazing @emilyriederer.bsky.social, you'll get to hear something really cooooool!
Also, listen for this lesson: watch people code whenever you can ❤️
overcast.fm/+ABQHd_PtRq4
Also, listen for this lesson: watch people code whenever you can ❤️
overcast.fm/+ABQHd_PtRq4
Thanks for letting me get back in teacher mode as I live-coded my way through the DS Lab today 🥰 It was sooo much fun & I just hope y'all had fun, too, & learned loads about both {ellmer} and {mall}! I freaking love this unscripted time to paircode with virtual #databs buds each week pos.it/dslab
January 27, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Thanks for letting me get back in teacher mode as I live-coded my way through the DS Lab today 🥰 It was sooo much fun & I just hope y'all had fun, too, & learned loads about both {ellmer} and {mall}! I freaking love this unscripted time to paircode with virtual #databs buds each week pos.it/dslab
Chaos code the random fun idea.
We can get so caught up in reproducibility that we forget some code is art. Don't let anyone trick you into believing that your creations aren't worth anything unless they're productionizable. There's still joy in creating with abandon, in fever-dream-coding #databs
We can get so caught up in reproducibility that we forget some code is art. Don't let anyone trick you into believing that your creations aren't worth anything unless they're productionizable. There's still joy in creating with abandon, in fever-dream-coding #databs
January 27, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Chaos code the random fun idea.
We can get so caught up in reproducibility that we forget some code is art. Don't let anyone trick you into believing that your creations aren't worth anything unless they're productionizable. There's still joy in creating with abandon, in fever-dream-coding #databs
We can get so caught up in reproducibility that we forget some code is art. Don't let anyone trick you into believing that your creations aren't worth anything unless they're productionizable. There's still joy in creating with abandon, in fever-dream-coding #databs
Emily is the GOAT!!
The thing I admire about @emilyriederer.bsky.social is that she takes tacit knowledge about so many aspects of data science, statistics, and data engineering and makes it explicit.
Really great podcast with her on the test set!
overcast.fm/+ABQHd_PtRq4
#dataBS
Really great podcast with her on the test set!
overcast.fm/+ABQHd_PtRq4
#dataBS
Emily Riederer: Column selectors, data quality, and learning in public — The Test Set by Posit
Emily Riederer writes Python with an R accent, and we’re all comfortable with it. In this episode, Emily reflects on her journey through R, Python, and SQL — from lessons learned in averaging default ...
overcast.fm
January 27, 2026 at 7:02 AM
Emily is the GOAT!!
I'll be sharing R code and @theotheredgar.bsky.social will be sharing Python code, so come get a glimpse of both! (Finally found Edgar on bluesky 😂)
Tuesday (tomorrow) Jan 27th @ 12 PM ET, Edgar Ruiz will join us on the Data Science Lab where we will live code our way through a tour of the {mall} R package (which means we'll touch on {ellmer} too!). Register at pos.it/dslab
Come see how {mall} works & hang out w/ pals!
#databs #rstats #python
Come see how {mall} works & hang out w/ pals!
#databs #rstats #python
Data Science Lab
pos.it
January 26, 2026 at 6:29 PM
I'll be sharing R code and @theotheredgar.bsky.social will be sharing Python code, so come get a glimpse of both! (Finally found Edgar on bluesky 😂)
Tuesday (tomorrow) Jan 27th @ 12 PM ET, Edgar Ruiz will join us on the Data Science Lab where we will live code our way through a tour of the {mall} R package (which means we'll touch on {ellmer} too!). Register at pos.it/dslab
Come see how {mall} works & hang out w/ pals!
#databs #rstats #python
Come see how {mall} works & hang out w/ pals!
#databs #rstats #python
Data Science Lab
pos.it
January 26, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Tuesday (tomorrow) Jan 27th @ 12 PM ET, Edgar Ruiz will join us on the Data Science Lab where we will live code our way through a tour of the {mall} R package (which means we'll touch on {ellmer} too!). Register at pos.it/dslab
Come see how {mall} works & hang out w/ pals!
#databs #rstats #python
Come see how {mall} works & hang out w/ pals!
#databs #rstats #python
I'm getting a 3D printer 🏗️ Got any resources & advice? Except for which one to get because that bell has been rung 😂
In another life, I was a CAD drafter (site plans, redlines, assessment floor plans) - are those (rusty) skills gonna come in handy with 3D printing? Any #databs 3D printing folks? 🤔
In another life, I was a CAD drafter (site plans, redlines, assessment floor plans) - are those (rusty) skills gonna come in handy with 3D printing? Any #databs 3D printing folks? 🤔
January 26, 2026 at 5:13 AM
I'm getting a 3D printer 🏗️ Got any resources & advice? Except for which one to get because that bell has been rung 😂
In another life, I was a CAD drafter (site plans, redlines, assessment floor plans) - are those (rusty) skills gonna come in handy with 3D printing? Any #databs 3D printing folks? 🤔
In another life, I was a CAD drafter (site plans, redlines, assessment floor plans) - are those (rusty) skills gonna come in handy with 3D printing? Any #databs 3D printing folks? 🤔