Jeremy Allen
@jeremy-data.bsky.social
I help @posit.co deliver the best R and Python data science solutions to the public sector in the US and elsewhere. Fan of cats coffee whiskey tea photography philosophy Atlanta - personal account. https://18chains.com/
some soothing slow-motion leaf fall in a deciduous forest, aka, my backyard, yesterday. I'd love to shoot an hour of this, but I am away from home from for a couple of days. Hopefully, there will be more leaves when I get back. youtu.be/uzmvSETWqjw?...
Relax in a Downpour of Falling Leaves
YouTube video by Jeremy Allen
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November 10, 2025 at 2:49 PM
some soothing slow-motion leaf fall in a deciduous forest, aka, my backyard, yesterday. I'd love to shoot an hour of this, but I am away from home from for a couple of days. Hopefully, there will be more leaves when I get back. youtu.be/uzmvSETWqjw?...
Reposted by Jeremy Allen
This edition of @sara-altman.bsky.social and I's AI Newsletter is a @posit.co heavy one! Support for new model providers in Positron Assistant, an experimental coding agent for RStudio, a conference on #rstats + AI this week, and more. :)
posit.co/blog/2025-11...
posit.co/blog/2025-11...
2025-11-07 AI Newsletter - Posit
Anthropic tested whether LLMs can introspect, Posit added support for AWS Bedrock and custom providers in Positron Assistant, and OpenAI finalized its for-profit shift toward a $1T IPO.
posit.co
November 10, 2025 at 2:36 PM
This edition of @sara-altman.bsky.social and I's AI Newsletter is a @posit.co heavy one! Support for new model providers in Positron Assistant, an experimental coding agent for RStudio, a conference on #rstats + AI this week, and more. :)
posit.co/blog/2025-11...
posit.co/blog/2025-11...
This dead tree is home to owls, squirrels, and raccoons. But not all at the same time. Tonight it was for the raccoons. Beautiful light and super cute sleepy guy. This was a fun video to shoot. youtu.be/hjHgj3fHG8M?...
Raccoon Sleepy Time
YouTube video by Jeremy Allen
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 12:12 AM
This dead tree is home to owls, squirrels, and raccoons. But not all at the same time. Tonight it was for the raccoons. Beautiful light and super cute sleepy guy. This was a fun video to shoot. youtu.be/hjHgj3fHG8M?...
View off the deck. It doesn’t get much better. Owls, hawks, woodpeckers, herons, kingfishers, a host of local and migrating song birds, deer, coyotes, raccoons, squirrels, and chipmunks. All in this view. And some noisy neighbors banging on stuff.
November 8, 2025 at 7:56 PM
View off the deck. It doesn’t get much better. Owls, hawks, woodpeckers, herons, kingfishers, a host of local and migrating song birds, deer, coyotes, raccoons, squirrels, and chipmunks. All in this view. And some noisy neighbors banging on stuff.
I don’t want to come back inside
November 4, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I don’t want to come back inside
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I really enjoy tool building. A use case that comes up a lot in my world is dynamic doc gen.
Sharing an example of how you can leverage the powers of Shiny + R markdown to create something bespoke to your needs.
Use case below to generate contract docs ✨
Sharing an example of how you can leverage the powers of Shiny + R markdown to create something bespoke to your needs.
Use case below to generate contract docs ✨
October 29, 2025 at 11:08 PM
I really enjoy tool building. A use case that comes up a lot in my world is dynamic doc gen.
Sharing an example of how you can leverage the powers of Shiny + R markdown to create something bespoke to your needs.
Use case below to generate contract docs ✨
Sharing an example of how you can leverage the powers of Shiny + R markdown to create something bespoke to your needs.
Use case below to generate contract docs ✨
In which use cases does #RStats excel for you compared to other languages?
If you've done it other ways and speak from experience, even better.
If you've done it other ways and speak from experience, even better.
October 30, 2025 at 12:12 AM
In which use cases does #RStats excel for you compared to other languages?
If you've done it other ways and speak from experience, even better.
If you've done it other ways and speak from experience, even better.
Reposted by Jeremy Allen
GitHub Copilot powering Positron Assistant Chat mode is huge for my job!
We have Posit Connect and our only LLM is GitHub Copilot.
The only way to get copilot to edit and run code directly on the posit connect server was to remote-ssh from VSCode.
All I need to do convince IT to enable positron.
We have Posit Connect and our only LLM is GitHub Copilot.
The only way to get copilot to edit and run code directly on the posit connect server was to remote-ssh from VSCode.
All I need to do convince IT to enable positron.
🗞️ New edition of the Posit AI Newsletter is up on the Posit blog!
Curated by @sara-altman.bsky.social and @simonpcouch.com, the newsletter keeps you up to date:
Claude Haiku 4.5
GitHub Copilot support in Positron Assistant
AI water and energy use
📬 Read the newsletter: posit.co/blog/2025-10...
Curated by @sara-altman.bsky.social and @simonpcouch.com, the newsletter keeps you up to date:
Claude Haiku 4.5
GitHub Copilot support in Positron Assistant
AI water and energy use
📬 Read the newsletter: posit.co/blog/2025-10...
2025-10-24 AI Newsletter - Posit
Anthropic introduces the cost-effective Claude Haiku 4.5 and the new "Skills" feature, while the broader AI discussion shifts to the growing impact of data center electricity consumption.
posit.co
October 25, 2025 at 5:12 AM
GitHub Copilot powering Positron Assistant Chat mode is huge for my job!
We have Posit Connect and our only LLM is GitHub Copilot.
The only way to get copilot to edit and run code directly on the posit connect server was to remote-ssh from VSCode.
All I need to do convince IT to enable positron.
We have Posit Connect and our only LLM is GitHub Copilot.
The only way to get copilot to edit and run code directly on the posit connect server was to remote-ssh from VSCode.
All I need to do convince IT to enable positron.
Imagine. Humane healthcare. No appointments. Many only need and want a quick visit, and that’s faster without an appointment. Medicaid is preferred not avoided. Care can start in less time than sorting out private insurance. Staff from the community. www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/...
No Appointments, No Nurses, No Private Insurance Needed
Many health facilities try to avoid Medicaid. A Colorado clinic prefers it.
www.theatlantic.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Imagine. Humane healthcare. No appointments. Many only need and want a quick visit, and that’s faster without an appointment. Medicaid is preferred not avoided. Care can start in less time than sorting out private insurance. Staff from the community. www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/...
Reposted by Jeremy Allen
🎉 The magic is real: Quarto Wizard 1.0.0 is LIVE!
Wave goodbye to complexity, pure enchantment awaits:
🪄 Magical extension browsing (250+ spells available)
✨ One-click wizardry
🔮 VS Code & Positron enchantment
quarto.org/docs/blog/po...
#DataScience #Quarto #QuartoPub #VSCode #PositronIDE
Wave goodbye to complexity, pure enchantment awaits:
🪄 Magical extension browsing (250+ spells available)
✨ One-click wizardry
🔮 VS Code & Positron enchantment
quarto.org/docs/blog/po...
#DataScience #Quarto #QuartoPub #VSCode #PositronIDE
Quarto Wizard 1.0.0: Democratising Quarto Extension Management – Quarto
Introducing a game-changing extension for VS Code and Positron that transforms Quarto extensions management with an intuitive GUI for extensions and templates.
quarto.org
October 20, 2025 at 4:41 PM
🎉 The magic is real: Quarto Wizard 1.0.0 is LIVE!
Wave goodbye to complexity, pure enchantment awaits:
🪄 Magical extension browsing (250+ spells available)
✨ One-click wizardry
🔮 VS Code & Positron enchantment
quarto.org/docs/blog/po...
#DataScience #Quarto #QuartoPub #VSCode #PositronIDE
Wave goodbye to complexity, pure enchantment awaits:
🪄 Magical extension browsing (250+ spells available)
✨ One-click wizardry
🔮 VS Code & Positron enchantment
quarto.org/docs/blog/po...
#DataScience #Quarto #QuartoPub #VSCode #PositronIDE
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Next week! I am giving a webinar on "Automating Repetitive Reports with Quarto" as part of the 2025 MAPOR Fall Webinar Series!
Save serious time and eliminate errors by letting Quarto do the heavy lifting 🏋️
I would love to see you there 💚💛💙
www.mapor.org/2025-mapor-f...
Save serious time and eliminate errors by letting Quarto do the heavy lifting 🏋️
I would love to see you there 💚💛💙
www.mapor.org/2025-mapor-f...
October 17, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Next week! I am giving a webinar on "Automating Repetitive Reports with Quarto" as part of the 2025 MAPOR Fall Webinar Series!
Save serious time and eliminate errors by letting Quarto do the heavy lifting 🏋️
I would love to see you there 💚💛💙
www.mapor.org/2025-mapor-f...
Save serious time and eliminate errors by letting Quarto do the heavy lifting 🏋️
I would love to see you there 💚💛💙
www.mapor.org/2025-mapor-f...
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HEY. You should come to the Hangout tomorrow. We usually have Data Science and Analytics folks on, and this time we have a VP of Engineering, and omg do I enjoy the perspective he brings to everything.
October 15, 2025 at 10:54 PM
HEY. You should come to the Hangout tomorrow. We usually have Data Science and Analytics folks on, and this time we have a VP of Engineering, and omg do I enjoy the perspective he brings to everything.
Reposted by Jeremy Allen
#BLS announced this morning that the September 2025 Consumer Price Index (CPI) will be released at 8:30AM on Friday, Oct 24. No other releases will be scheduled until the federal government shutdown is over.
www.bls.gov/bls/092025-c...
www.bls.gov/bls/092025-c...
September 2025 CPI Release Rescheduled
September 2025 CPI Release Rescheduled
www.bls.gov
October 10, 2025 at 4:22 PM
#BLS announced this morning that the September 2025 Consumer Price Index (CPI) will be released at 8:30AM on Friday, Oct 24. No other releases will be scheduled until the federal government shutdown is over.
www.bls.gov/bls/092025-c...
www.bls.gov/bls/092025-c...
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I was loving Claude Code... until I tried it with #rstats. Constant errors, wouldn't use the tidyverse even when asked, "optimized" functions were slower.
Frustrated, I started a session just to teach R to Claude and summarize what it learned into a CLAUDE.md file gist.github.com/sj-io/3828d6...
Frustrated, I started a session just to teach R to Claude and summarize what it learned into a CLAUDE.md file gist.github.com/sj-io/3828d6...
Claude R Tidyverse Expert
Claude R Tidyverse Expert. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
gist.github.com
August 21, 2025 at 10:18 AM
I was loving Claude Code... until I tried it with #rstats. Constant errors, wouldn't use the tidyverse even when asked, "optimized" functions were slower.
Frustrated, I started a session just to teach R to Claude and summarize what it learned into a CLAUDE.md file gist.github.com/sj-io/3828d6...
Frustrated, I started a session just to teach R to Claude and summarize what it learned into a CLAUDE.md file gist.github.com/sj-io/3828d6...
Reposted by Jeremy Allen
Excited to watch the webinar on "Modular, interoperable, and extensible topological data analysis in R" next week by Jason Cory Brunson and Aymeric Stamm
r-consortium.org/webinars/mod...
#tidymodels
r-consortium.org/webinars/mod...
#tidymodels
Modular, interoperable, and extensible topological data analysis in R – R Consortium
r-consortium.org
October 3, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Excited to watch the webinar on "Modular, interoperable, and extensible topological data analysis in R" next week by Jason Cory Brunson and Aymeric Stamm
r-consortium.org/webinars/mod...
#tidymodels
r-consortium.org/webinars/mod...
#tidymodels
do you even spelling bee?
![bee <- function(max_vowels = 2) {
vowels <- c("a", "e", "i", "o", "u")
seven <- sample(letters, 7, replace = FALSE)
num_vowels <- length(intersect(seven, vowels))
while (num_vowels == 0 || num_vowels > max_vowels) {
seven <- sample(letters, 7, replace = FALSE)
num_vowels <- length(intersect(seven, vowels))
}
pattern <- "\n\n %s\n%s %s\n %s\n%s %s\n %s\n\n"
cat(sprintf(pattern, seven[1], seven[2], seven[3], seven[4],
seven[5], seven[6], seven[7]))
}
bee()](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yktvw5fpe6j4rqy4vio7l3w3/bafkreihwvf2iiecuqqdkmmknvuh3dgvhb3ibcukqatubvjwstegyug3l54@jpeg)
October 2, 2025 at 12:06 AM
do you even spelling bee?
I like Claude Code for this kind of thing. I doubt I would have found and fixed 151 data cleaning issues in 13 minutes.
![⏺ Task(Analyze case name patterns)
⎿ Done (15 tool uses · 48.9k tokens · 12m 58s)
⏺ I've completed a comprehensive analysis of case names across all three CSV files (8,707 total cases). Here's what I found:
Key Findings
151 unique issues identified across these categories:
Major Issues:
1. United States typos (22 cases): "United State", "United Staes", "United Sates", "United Statse", etc.
2. State name typos (55 cases): Virgina, Tennesse, Georiga, Conneticut, Illnois, Minneosta, Pennsylvannia, etc.
3. Concatenated "of[State]" (16 cases): "ofMassachusetts", "ofVirginia", "ofPennsylvania"
4. "American" instead of "America" (4 cases): "United States of American"
5. "vs" instead of "v." (13 cases): Mostly Oregon and North Carolina
6. Whitespace issues (23 cases): Leading/trailing spaces
7. Multiple consecutive spaces (4 cases)
8. Placeholder values (13 cases): "Unknown", "Data not available", "W"
Your Current Code Coverage:
✅ Already handles: Some "United States" typos, "Ofmassachusetts", Tennessee variations❌ Missing: Most state typos,
whitespace issues, "vs" patterns, "United States of American", placeholders
I've provided a complete updated cleaning code block that fixes all 151 issues. The code is ordered properly (whitespace →
concatenation → spelling → separators → standardization) and includes all the fixes your current code has plus the new ones
needed for the two additional datasets.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yktvw5fpe6j4rqy4vio7l3w3/bafkreidct4memo7q2ntv3bjifokuzyyhkuawna4nv7ockcmn7mfmykeuzu@jpeg)
October 1, 2025 at 3:47 AM
I like Claude Code for this kind of thing. I doubt I would have found and fixed 151 data cleaning issues in 13 minutes.
Something I jokingly said at work, but dang if it isn't actually true:
"Everyone needs an emotional support R script."
You know, those R scripts in your project where you test your freak code before you're confident it works?
#RStats
"Everyone needs an emotional support R script."
You know, those R scripts in your project where you test your freak code before you're confident it works?
#RStats
September 29, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Something I jokingly said at work, but dang if it isn't actually true:
"Everyone needs an emotional support R script."
You know, those R scripts in your project where you test your freak code before you're confident it works?
#RStats
"Everyone needs an emotional support R script."
You know, those R scripts in your project where you test your freak code before you're confident it works?
#RStats
Not just NASA, but also parts of NOAA including the National Weather Service. Classifying them as intelligence agencies strips their employees of collective bargaining rights.
September 27, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Not just NASA, but also parts of NOAA including the National Weather Service. Classifying them as intelligence agencies strips their employees of collective bargaining rights.
As a toddler I yearned to spend my brightest years parsing date strings
September 27, 2025 at 6:30 PM
As a toddler I yearned to spend my brightest years parsing date strings
New living room at home.
jk
Antique store
jk
Antique store
September 27, 2025 at 3:28 PM
New living room at home.
jk
Antique store
jk
Antique store
Data tables were different in 1870. This is the Dpt of Agriculture’s 1870 report.
September 27, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Data tables were different in 1870. This is the Dpt of Agriculture’s 1870 report.
i see magma in the spelling bee today and think "oh a viridis color palette" before I think "oh molten rock"
September 27, 2025 at 12:40 AM
i see magma in the spelling bee today and think "oh a viridis color palette" before I think "oh molten rock"
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Here's a new GAO report on the federal statistical system's need to modernize and adapt to a rapidly changing data landscape--based on a forum GAO held in 2024 with experts and stakeholders.
#econsky
www.gao.gov/products/gao...
#econsky
www.gao.gov/products/gao...
www.gao.gov
September 24, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Here's a new GAO report on the federal statistical system's need to modernize and adapt to a rapidly changing data landscape--based on a forum GAO held in 2024 with experts and stakeholders.
#econsky
www.gao.gov/products/gao...
#econsky
www.gao.gov/products/gao...