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Amol Borkar
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Data Scientist 📈
Analytics, Python, #rstats, ML, Forumla 1.
Blog: borkar.substack.com
Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/amolborkar27
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Want to easily use LLMs from R? ellmer 0.2.0 provides:

• Batch & parallel processing
• A universal parameter interface
• Cost tracking
• Support for Mistral, Hugging Face, & Portkey

And much more! Read all about it at: www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/05... #rstats
ellmer 0.2.0
ellmer 0.2.0 lands with a swag of upgrades: Garrick Aden‑Buie joins the team, we make a couple of breaking changes, and add serious scale with `parallel_chat()` and `batch_chat()`. A new `params()` ...
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June 3, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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eugenevinitsky.bsky.social
A lot of debugging is just having a good guess of what the likeliest mistake is
June 1, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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New day, new blog. This week I talk about why Functional programming matters and how to adopt it.

#rstats #python

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Why You Should Care About Functional Programming (Even in 2025)
A History Lesson and Practical Introduction to Core Tenets of Functional Programming
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May 29, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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hannes.muehleisen.org
It's a big day for us - we are finally launching #DuckLake, a new Lakehouse format! bsky.app/profile/duck...
duckdb.org DuckDB @duckdb.org · May 27
Today we're launching DuckLake, an integrated data lake and catalog format powered by SQL. DuckLake unlocks next-generation data warehousing where compute is local, consistency central, and storage scales till infinity. ⁠ducklake is an open standard and we implemented it in the "ducklake" extension.
May 27, 2025 at 1:13 PM
amolborkar.bsky.social
For the first #tidytuesday post wanted to share this benchmark of data.frame vs data.table across common ops on datasets up to 10M rows.

Full #rstats breakdown here 👉 open.substack.com/pub/borkar/p...
May 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM
amolborkar.bsky.social
Love seeing elements from functional languages show up in unlikely places. This will save us writing 5 CTEs before the actual query.
mmullins.coginiti.co Matthew Mullins @mmullins.coginiti.co · May 13
Snowflake is adding a SQL pipe operator

You can use the new pipe operator (->>) to chain SQL statements together. In the chain of SQL statements, the results of one statement can serve as the input to another statement.

#databs #dontloveit
Preview — 9.13 Release Notes | Snowflake Documentation
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May 26, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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ccanonne.github.io
Folks—I think I've lost the plot
An empty plot (the frame is there, but no plot is inside)
May 26, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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didierbrassard.bsky.social
Great tips to improve your R coding experience
amolborkar.bsky.social Amol Borkar @amolborkar.bsky.social · May 22
In this week's #rstats blog, I talk about small #R workflow changes that compound into massive productivity gains.

Link: open.substack.com/pub/borkar/p...
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May 23, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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In this week's #rstats blog, I talk about small #R workflow changes that compound into massive productivity gains.

Link: open.substack.com/pub/borkar/p...
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May 22, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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📊 #TidyTuesday – 2025 W18 | NSF Grant Terminations under the Trump Administration
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🔗: stevenponce.netlify.app/data_visuali...
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#rstats | #r4ds | #dataviz | #ggplot2
Scatter plot showing analysis of 1,041 terminated NSF grants totaling $613.26M, representing 1293.5 years of lost research time. The visualization is divided into four quadrants showing different grant clusters: Early-stage Mega Grants (51 grants, 66% complete, 547 days left), Early-stage High-value Grants (382 grants, 81% complete, 236 days left), Late-stage High-value Grants (353 grants, 32% complete, 865 days left), and Late-stage Mid-value Grants (255 grants, 86% complete, 192 days left). Each cluster is represented in a different color (orange, teal, purple, and pink), with point size indicating days remaining. The y-axis shows the funding amount on a logarithmic scale, and the x-axis shows the percentage of grants completed.
May 4, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Love this!
simonpcouch.com Simon P. Couch @simonpcouch.com · May 2
stacks 1.1.0 is now on #rstats CRAN!

stacks implements model ensembling for the tidymodels framework. This release introduces support for parallelism with the futureverse as part of our push to modernize tidymodels' parallelism support.

github.com/tidymodels/s...
Release stacks 1.1.0 · tidymodels/stacks
Model stack and data stack print methods no longer raise conditions to print to the console (#228). Added missing commas and addressed formatting issues throughout the vignettes and articles. Bac...
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May 2, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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this week in #rstats ✨
- Positron tips & tricks 🖥️ @albertrapp.bsky.social
- DuckDB+R=🔥 @amolborkar.bsky.social @duckdb.org
- Comparing spatial ML in R 🗺️ @jakubnowosad.com
- Why R & Python are friends 🤝

this and more below! 🏃

#news #data #python

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This week in R (2025-05-01)
Deep dive into R-Python interoperability; getting the most out of Positron IDE; spatial ML in R comparisons; evidence supporting DuckDB & R usage, and more!
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May 2, 2025 at 10:01 AM
amolborkar.bsky.social
My post getting liked by the creator of DuckDB wasn't on my Thursday bingo :)

Checkout the blog here: tinyurl.com/RwithDuckDB

#rstats #duckdb #analytics
May 1, 2025 at 10:46 PM
amolborkar.bsky.social
This weeks blog is up. I talk about how @duckdb.org gels really well with #rstats and why you might wanna give it a try.

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Supercharge your R workflows with DuckDB
Speed up your data wrangling in R without rewriting your codebase. DuckDB lets you keep using dplyr-style syntax while handling large datasets effortlessly.
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May 1, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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user-conf.bsky.social
@hadley.nz Wickham is a developer and teacher whose impact on the R ecosystem is immense. He is Chief scientist at @posit.co where he leads the Tidyverse team. His keynote "I wrote this talk with an LLM" explores how AI can help rather than replace data scientists.

Register: user2024.r-project.org
Headshot of Hadley Wickham chief scientist at POSIT, keynote speaker for useR! 2025, features a white background, useR! logo, and text about his talk.
April 22, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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christenrexing.bsky.social
Happy Saturday!
A drawing of a crow in a dress stirring a pot. Caption: I don’t need a recipe for disaster. I usually just eyeball it.
April 26, 2025 at 11:32 AM
amolborkar.bsky.social
Am I the only one who’s not able to open any hashtags right now? I’m on iOS app.
April 26, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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#python #rstats #analytics
Unlocking Zen: How R's data analysis ecosystem outshines Python
In this article, I highlight some pain-points when working with Python & Pandas and how R's ecosystem proves to be a great alternative.
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April 26, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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How R's data analysis ecosystem shines against Python.
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#rstats #python #analytics
Unlocking Zen: How R's data analysis ecosystem outshines Python
In this article, I highlight some pain-points when working with Python & Pandas and how R's ecosystem proves to be a great alternative.
borkar.substack.com
April 26, 2025 at 3:34 AM