politics aside, it's pretty amazing to find high quality data visualizations for free on the Wikipedia page for the recent NYC mayoral election. and using a clever ternary plot to represent the breakdown of votes for three candidates in one color

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Ne...

woah, when did RStudio gain this functionality that when you wait for autocomplete to finish, it'll show you a preview of that data object that it is suggesting in the autocomplete?? #RStats

i made a gif of how the cherry blossoms at the brooklyn botanical garden are doing. the past couple of days have been exciting!

dang, didn't realize how long it's been since i've updated my conda version. twenty plus versions seems like a lot 😂

since moving into more industry data science, i hear terms like "first-party data" etc and have always wondered what each means and maybe how you might use them.

so i did some research and put them on the Wikipedia page for data.

hope it's useful for others

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data#Da...

interesting talk from just last year laying out some evidence for the claim that Python is the second best language for everything.

and a side note, i really like this quote from the talk: "A programming language is only as useful as the ecosystem surround it."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkuG...

really cool ggplot2-related package to extend the guides, like annotating the axes with some interpretation or nesting axes categories

teunbrand.github.io/legendry/

I love how Wikipedia casually has this great infographic from the list of Christmas films page

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

going through some of my olds tweets and found this meme i made when i was applying to jobs as a stronger R programmer than a Python programmer. still hilarious

just remembered this scales R package function that quickly makes your large dollar amounts into human friendly units, and it takes care of those changing units from say millions to billions #RStats

scales::label_dollar(scale_cut = cut_short_scale()

reference: scales.r-lib.org/reference/la...