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We are absolutely thrilled to welcome Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz as a keynote speaker for the rainbowR conference!

To find out more about the conference, including how to submit a proposal, and to sign-up for updates, see conference.rainbowr.org
November 20, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue.

The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea.

From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt:
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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ggplot v4.0.0 is now out! 🎉

Join the release party on October 3rd with developer & maintainer @teunbrand.bsky.social and the ggplot2 extenders meetup to learn all about what's new and the change-making process!

📅 Friday, Oct 3rd
🕐 3pm Eastern
📋 Sign up: bit.ly/join-gg-extenders

#RStats
September 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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RAG has come to the tidyverse! Check out my step-by-step #InfoWorld tutorial on how to use the {ragnar} and {ellmer) #RStats 📦s to answer natural language questions about a document or Web page.
www.infoworld.com/article/4020...

#GenAI #LLMs
How to create your own RAG applications in R
See how to query documents using natural language, LLMs, and R—including dplyr-like filtering on metadata. Plus, learn how to use an LLM to extract structured data for text filtering.
www.infoworld.com
July 17, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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yeah dude!!! YEAHHH!!!!
Direct hit on the Sunset Fire in Hollywood. 🎯

Nice work, @lafd.bsky.social #LAFD c/o @nbcla.bsky.social 👨🏼‍🚒
January 9, 2025 at 5:22 AM