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Silvia Canelón
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Data scientist @ UPenn
Independent data journalist
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Silvia Canelón @silviacanelon.com · 22d
My first byline! I made #DataViz for an accountability piece by @emilykrizzo.bsky.social @kensingtonvoice.bsky.social abt a #Philly program that targets & arrests pple living outside who use drugs in Kensington. Emily collected data for 87 pple bc the City won't share results w the public #ddj
New Kensington ‘fast-track court’ lands most with warrants, back into the cycle of addiction and homelessness
Kensington Voice collected and verified data on 87 people who were arrested during the first months of the program and tracked their journeys through the court. Most ended up with Wellness Court…
www.kensingtonvoice.com
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yabellini.bsky.social
🤖 Introducción a #Tidymodels
Aprendé a usar tidymodels para crear y evaluar modelos de #MachineLearning en #RStats
Con Francisco Cardozo y Edgar Ruiz

📅 1 Dic, 18:00–20:00 UTC-3 – Online
💵 Estudiantes USD 5 · Académicos USD 10 · Industria USD 15
🔗 www.eventbrite.com.ar/e/1962543491...

#LatinR2025
Tutorial online en castellano. Introduccion a Tidymodels. Francisco Cardozo y Edgard Ruiz. Lunes 1 de Diciembre a las 18:00 UTC-3.
November 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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mattcarroll54.bsky.social
Renting as An International: Three tips to protect your rights in Boston as a renter gobserver.net/6264/campusc... @Gobserver_nu #china #india #boston @AlumniNU @Northeastern @NUjournalism
Renting as An International
It has been three months since Boston introduced a long-awaited reform to its rental system: tenants no longer need to pay their fee unless they specifically hire a broker. But what international stud...
gobserver.net
November 11, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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annehelen.bsky.social
My old pal Pete Coviello — one of the best writers and thinkers I've ever known — wrote the piece of the moment

lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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mozilla.org
Imagination is resistance, @ruha9.bsky.social reminds us that, " we need to reject the gospel that says technology is inevitable, that the train has left the station... In an error of automated bullshit, it’s time to become bullshit detectors,"
#MozFest
November 8, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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rladiesrome.bsky.social
🎨 Recording now live!
Developing Your #DataVisualisation Skills in #ggplot2 with @nrennie.bsky.social
Watch the creative process exploring the #TidyTuesday cats dataset 🐈
📚 Materials & links:
🔗 nrennie.rbind.io/talks/rladies-rome-ggplot2

#RLadies #ggplot2 #TidyTuesday @fgazzelloni.bsky.social
Developing your data visualisation skills in ggplot2 – Nicola Rennie
We’ll be working through the process of developing a visualisation in ggplot2. Some knowledge of the tidyverse will be helpful, but all of the code in this session will be explained and available…
nrennie.rbind.io
November 8, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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jasonkoebler.bsky.social
New: The FBI filed a subpoena trying to unmask the person or people behind archive.is / archive.today, which have been running anonymously for 13 yrs. Site was widely used by GamerGate, and then to bypass paywalls but has become kind of core archiving infrastructure

www.404media.co/fbi-tries-to...
FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site
The FBI has subpoenaed the domain registrar of archive.today, demanding information about the owner.
www.404media.co
November 6, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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thetransfemininereview.com
After hundreds of hours of reading and research, my 2025 Starter Guide to transfeminine literature is finally live!

No matter your experience level, there's a book for you! 🏳️‍⚧️📚 #transbooks

The list covers a vast range of genres. There are 78 handcrafted recs on this list, and I've read all but two.
Start Here (2025 Edition)
Are you questioning your gender and searching for fiction that’ll help you figure out what a transition might look like? Are you a trans woman or a femmeby who’s never seen herself on the tradition…
thetransfemininereview.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:11 AM
silviacanelon.com
My first byline! I made #DataViz for an accountability piece by @emilykrizzo.bsky.social @kensingtonvoice.bsky.social abt a #Philly program that targets & arrests pple living outside who use drugs in Kensington. Emily collected data for 87 pple bc the City won't share results w the public #ddj
New Kensington ‘fast-track court’ lands most with warrants, back into the cycle of addiction and homelessness
Kensington Voice collected and verified data on 87 people who were arrested during the first months of the program and tracked their journeys through the court. Most ended up with Wellness Court…
www.kensingtonvoice.com
October 22, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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peoplestechproject.bsky.social
Packed hearing, dodged questions. At the first-ever City Council hearing on Philly gov’s use of AI and surveillance, City Councilmembers asked powerful, basic questions to open up the city’s black box of technology, and were disappointed by the city’s lack of answers.
October 20, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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techwontsave.us
Meta and Google want to free you from screens — by putting one in front of your eyes at all times.

This week @hypervisible.blacksky.app joins @parismarx.com to discuss the anti-social world they’re trying to create through mass adoption of smart glasses.

Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/298_...
October 16, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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cscheid.net
Quarto friends! I need your help:

We are implementing a new QMD parser in Quarto. It will be super nice. But it's a big change, and we want to minimize the impact.

1. Can you share a link to your Quarto project at github.com/quarto-dev/q...
2. repost this and let your Quarto friends know too?
Epic: are we production yet · Issue #63 · quarto-dev/quarto-markdown
We need to check against many large sites to get a good sense for the impact of this new syntax in practice. autogenerated qmd quartodoc-generated sites (tbd meet with @machow) sites quarto.org Shi...
github.com
October 16, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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clarenceokoh.bsky.social
Interested in learning how folks protect Black & Brown youth from Big Tech & AI-powered surveillance, discipline, censorship & criminalization? #School2PrisonPipeline2.0
Do you want to see how we can envision liberated futures with young people? Then follow @noticecoalition.bsky.social
January 24, 2025 at 6:51 PM
silviacanelon.com
Excellent op-ed in the @inquirer.com by Devren Washington @peoplestack.bsky.social and @clarenceokoh.bsky.social

For the #Philly folks, check the post for info on how to attend the hearing! 👇🏽

bsky.app/profile/peop...
peoplestechproject.bsky.social People's Tech @peoplestechproject.bsky.social · Oct 13
📰 Catch us in the Inquirer, and at City Council's first ever AI hearing on Wednesday.

Read up: www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm... & RSVP: www.phillytechjustice.org/hearing
October 14, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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chanda.blacksky.app
I don't even know what to say about @aaron.bsky.team announcing that actually they feed all images posted on Bsky into an AI that just a year ago they told everyone they had banned from using Bsky images
October 7, 2025 at 8:20 PM
silviacanelon.com
After seeing this post I went looking and found an entire subreddit with examples of AI generated craft patterns for knitting, crocheting, cross-stitch, you name it: www.reddit.com/r/CraftedByAI/
October 1, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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andrew.heiss.phd
WHOA I just discovered the kbd shortcode in #QuartoPub, which automatically creates an OS-specific element, You can specify different OSes and it'll show them in an HTML title element, or expand them in print formats - documentation here: quarto.org/docs/authori...
--- title: "Magical `kbd` shortcode" format: html: default typst: default --- Press {{< kbd mac=Command-Shift-K win=Ctrl-Shift-K linux=Ctrl-Shift-K >}} to render the document; use {{< kbd mac=Command-Shift-P win=Ctrl-Shift-P linux=Ctrl-Shift-P >}} to open the Command Palette in Positron Magical kbd shortcode Press ⌘⇧K to render the document; use ⌘⇧P to open the Command Palette in Positron (with a title element showing all the other OS-specific shortcuts) Typst PDF with Magical kbd shortcode Press Command-Shift-K (mac), Ctrl-Shift-K (linux), Ctrl-Shift-K (windows) to render the document; use Command-Shift-P (mac), Ctrl-Shift-P (linux), Ctrl-Shift-P (windows) to open the Command Palette in Positron
October 1, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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emilymbender.bsky.social
Ever get the sense that AI boosters seem to take all the wrong lessons from speculative fiction?

Join us for the next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 live stream, in which @alexhanna.bsky.social & I get to dig into all of that with @reveleth.com‬

Mon, Sept 29, noon Pacific
twitch.tv/dair_institute
Twitch
Twitch is the world
twitch.tv
September 26, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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weare.rladies.org
A little bit of self-promotion, I @ivelasq3.bsky.social will be giving a talk on Positron for RStudio Users!

Hoping to share some perspectives, extensions, and other tips in case you're interested in exploring Positron.

Sign up here: www.meetup.com/rladies-gabo...
September 25, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social
I'm exited to announce a new resource about making slides with quarto and revealjs. This book is the combination of all the work I have done in this area, reordered and polished up

There isn't a lot of new information yet, but this format allows me to add more easily

slidecrafting-book.com
#quarto
Screenshot of first page of slidecrafting-book.com website
September 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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rainbowr.org
🌈 rainbowR meet-up tomorrow: Wednesday Sept 24th, 4pm UTC 🌈

- connect with other LGBTQ+ people who code in #RStats 🏳️‍🌈
- ask questions about R 🙋
- tell us about an R package you like 📦
- show us something R-related you’ve been working on 💻

Registration via rainbowr.org/meetups
Flyer for rainbowR meet-up. Bright rainbow striped background, inside a dark navy box with bright text in rainbow colours: rainbowR zoom meet-up: Wednesday Sept 24th, 4 pm UTC. Sign up via rainbowR.org/meetups
September 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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rainbowr.org
📣We're hosting a rainbowR conference, to connect and promote LGBTQ+ people in the #RStats community and to showcase examples of working with LGBTQ+ data 🌈🎉 To help us plan, if you'd be interested in attending or speaking, please fill in this very short form (1-2 mins) docs.google.com/forms/d/1Tx0...
Interested in a rainbowR Conference?
rainbowR (https://rainbowr.org) is hosting a virtual conference (tentative date: February 26, 2026). The aim of the conference is to connect and promote LGBTQ+ people in the R community, and to showca...
docs.google.com
September 22, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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lewispants.bsky.social
Journalism has a long and strong tradition of resisting authoritarianism and racial terror. In 2019 I made a podcast about that history, connecting it to the present day. Perhaps you will find it useful? push.fm/fl/vfsw
The View from Somewhere by Lewis Wallace | Listen on Apple Podcasts, Amazon, Deezer | PUSH.fm
View Lewis Wallace's Podcast Link. Listen to The View from Somewhere on Apple Podcasts, Amazon, Deezer now.
push.fm
April 2, 2025 at 6:27 PM
silviacanelon.com
Help @muckrock.com and the @transjournalists.org meet their #FOIA fundraising goal! Donations up to $100 are matched 💰
givebutter.com/MPTg3M
#DDJ #DataJournalism
MuckRock x TJA FOIAthon
By Muckrock Foundation Incorporated
givebutter.com
September 23, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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weare.rladies.org
In the terminal, ajkl;gawgor;iqeg;iJLkqen. wl;R aw;oeiga 4648664 arjarwgj;llj;ja fadgfgajkljl; wlj;sdjk;lfas
September 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
silviacanelon.com
Too real! 😂 Specially whenever I come across #RStats or #Python installation issues:

“If it’s not there, it might be in library/library/library/llibrary/liiiiiibrarrrary/llllliiiiibrary/hidden/hidden/hiding/you can’t find me/hidden/nope/never/hahahahereiam.file”
September 23, 2025 at 4:43 PM