Oscar Baruffa
@oscarbaruffa.com
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Oscar Baruffa
@oscarbaruffa.com
· Oct 29
It’s been almost one week since I made the RStats Starter Pack. The response was very positive, and we are all following each other much more closer now 🥳.
I have added more people to it, so give it another look and follow more great #RStats friends!
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I have added more people to it, so give it another look and follow more great #RStats friends!
go.bsky.app/Ki7PjpS
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Ive rewatched Starship Troopers after having last seen it as a teen. It holds up pretty well and the CGI is quite impressive. I wonder if they remastered it something, I can't believe CGI was so good in 1997
January 10, 2026 at 12:01 PM
Ive rewatched Starship Troopers after having last seen it as a teen. It holds up pretty well and the CGI is quite impressive. I wonder if they remastered it something, I can't believe CGI was so good in 1997
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Testing bluesky post from the {bskyr} package! Nothing to see here 😎
December 16, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Testing bluesky post from the {bskyr} package! Nothing to see here 😎
Millennial tombstone inscription:
Unsubscribed.
Unsubscribed.
December 14, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Millennial tombstone inscription:
Unsubscribed.
Unsubscribed.
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Despite the 1990’s advertisement assuring me I would not do this; I did, indeed, download a car.
December 11, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Despite the 1990’s advertisement assuring me I would not do this; I did, indeed, download a car.
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Possibly major update needed for your @bigbookofr , bookdown.org announced is going to stop
bookdown: Authoring Books and Technical Documents with R Markdown
The platform bookdown.org is provided by RStudio for authors to publish books online for free. The bookdown package is an open-source R package that facilitates writing books and long-form articles/re...
bookdown.org
December 6, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Possibly major update needed for your @bigbookofr , bookdown.org announced is going to stop
Off the top of my head, not really. Most have their own domains
December 7, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Off the top of my head, not really. Most have their own domains
Ah interesting! Big Book of R was converted to a quarto doc about 2 years ago, luckily!
December 6, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Ah interesting! Big Book of R was converted to a quarto doc about 2 years ago, luckily!
I think part of LLM chatbots' appeal (especially in their native apps) is that you get information in a clean text format, with no other distractions
December 6, 2025 at 9:15 AM
I think part of LLM chatbots' appeal (especially in their native apps) is that you get information in a clean text format, with no other distractions
I had the chance to flex some old Excel skills and I must say I've still got it
December 5, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I had the chance to flex some old Excel skills and I must say I've still got it
thanks! I'm updating it
October 11, 2025 at 9:57 AM
thanks! I'm updating it
Few things give me greater joy than when I can fix an appliance. Bonus points if it's quick and easy
September 7, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Few things give me greater joy than when I can fix an appliance. Bonus points if it's quick and easy
Gorgeous!
I have been experimenting with different ways of visualizing the curvature of meandering rivers. Plotting curvature in the context of the meanders themselves helps QC-ing the curvature data ⚒️🧪
August 9, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Gorgeous!
Maybe I'm late to the party but I've realised that when people say AI now they mean any kind of tech
August 8, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Maybe I'm late to the party but I've realised that when people say AI now they mean any kind of tech
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This is probably part of why everyone on bluesky is 38 years old: 38 year olds are basically the only people who consider it totally normal to flee a sinking ship and then just casually resume the conversation on the tropical island they end up on.
They've outlived dozens of ships.
They've outlived dozens of ships.
June 20, 2024 at 4:00 AM
This is probably part of why everyone on bluesky is 38 years old: 38 year olds are basically the only people who consider it totally normal to flee a sinking ship and then just casually resume the conversation on the tropical island they end up on.
They've outlived dozens of ships.
They've outlived dozens of ships.
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Holy moley today's featured Wikimedia Commons picture of the day (vertical panorama of the Milky Way) is breathtaking commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:03...
July 30, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Holy moley today's featured Wikimedia Commons picture of the day (vertical panorama of the Milky Way) is breathtaking commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:03...
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There's been some discussion about many analytics tools counting pageviews without actual visitors. This happens when Chromium-based browsers, WordPress, etc., pre-render a page (for quicker loading) before an actual click has occurred.
The visitor may or may not click & visit the page, but...
The visitor may or may not click & visit the page, but...
July 25, 2025 at 10:41 AM
There's been some discussion about many analytics tools counting pageviews without actual visitors. This happens when Chromium-based browsers, WordPress, etc., pre-render a page (for quicker loading) before an actual click has occurred.
The visitor may or may not click & visit the page, but...
The visitor may or may not click & visit the page, but...
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🎉 Big news! After 5+ years of consulting work under the R for the Rest of Us name, I'm launching Clarity Data Studio.
The name confusion was real – people thought we only did courses, not knowing about our consulting work building reports, websites, and more.
The name confusion was real – people thought we only did courses, not knowing about our consulting work building reports, websites, and more.
July 22, 2025 at 12:54 PM
🎉 Big news! After 5+ years of consulting work under the R for the Rest of Us name, I'm launching Clarity Data Studio.
The name confusion was real – people thought we only did courses, not knowing about our consulting work building reports, websites, and more.
The name confusion was real – people thought we only did courses, not knowing about our consulting work building reports, websites, and more.
All my resource management games were a precursor to my professional life 🤓
July 21, 2025 at 7:26 AM
All my resource management games were a precursor to my professional life 🤓
I've just discovered Good Old Games (GOG). My wishlist...
July 21, 2025 at 7:24 AM
I've just discovered Good Old Games (GOG). My wishlist...
I've been thinking lately that Excel is actually way ahead of its time, even today 😅. It gets abused because it's actually way too powerful
the excel spreadsheet would almost certainly be legible to humans across the recorded history of the species, from a sumarian scribe to whatever techno organic collective that emerges as our evolutionary successor
This is the truest thing I have ever seen. You cannot imagine how much the Romans would have lost their minds for excel. They literally already started writing our historical chronicles in synchronized columns *by hand*
July 21, 2025 at 5:21 AM
I've been thinking lately that Excel is actually way ahead of its time, even today 😅. It gets abused because it's actually way too powerful
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the excel spreadsheet would almost certainly be legible to humans across the recorded history of the species, from a sumarian scribe to whatever techno organic collective that emerges as our evolutionary successor
This is the truest thing I have ever seen. You cannot imagine how much the Romans would have lost their minds for excel. They literally already started writing our historical chronicles in synchronized columns *by hand*
July 21, 2025 at 12:19 AM
the excel spreadsheet would almost certainly be legible to humans across the recorded history of the species, from a sumarian scribe to whatever techno organic collective that emerges as our evolutionary successor
I loved this book, and wrote a short review of anyone's keen to find out a bit more about it oscarbaruffa.com/kill/
Kill it with Fire: Book review & notes - Oscar Baruffa
Modernizing systems is hard work 26 July 2023 I highly recommend Kill it with Fire by Marianne Bellotti for data professionals building or inheriting a system. It’s just over 200 pages long and took m...
oscarbaruffa.com
July 19, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I loved this book, and wrote a short review of anyone's keen to find out a bit more about it oscarbaruffa.com/kill/