Mike Thomas
mike-thomas.bsky.social
Mike Thomas
@mike-thomas.bsky.social
Chief Data Scientist @ Ketchbrook Analytics | Host of the RWeekly Highlights Podcast | #rstats #python #data
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R!sk 2026 is coming. Online event from R Consortium, Feb 18–19, 2026, for anyone using #rstats to model and manage risk.

CFP open now: talks, lightning talks, panels, tutorials due Dec 7, 2025.

Details + submission: rconsortium.github.io/Risk_website...

#risk #datascience
November 20, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Creating polished PDFs from Quarto can be challenging.

At @claritydatastudio.com, we now use Typst for high-quality, branded reports.

@joseph-barbier.bsky.social and I have created a detailed walkthrough to show you how we do it.

Learn more: buff.ly/hRuUEqR

#rstats
November 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Episode 213 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

🏎️ Algorithm racing @jonocarroll.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
📊 GenAI for data viz @nrennie.bsky.social
🏗️ Shiny apps with BDD @jakub-sobolewski.bsky.social

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & Sam Parmar 🙏

#RStats #DataBS
Issue 2025-W42 Highlights
Creating your own race to a programming finish line with a hidden gem in mirai, the lowdown on using Generative AI for data visualization with more than a…
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October 15, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Episode 212 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

🦆 Jumping in Ducklakes @novica.bsky.social
🎨 Slidecrafting book! @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social
🤖 Shiny side of LLMs @veerle.hypebright.nl

And a favorite segment returns 😅

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social 🙏

#RStats #databs
novica.bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Episode 211 of R-Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

🏗️ Parse & edit #markdown documents @ropensci.org
🤖 Vibe-coding a package @jonocarroll.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
🏫 R-Exams quality control @zeileis.org

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & Jon Carroll 🙏

#RStats #DataScience
Issue 2025-W39 Highlights
Fresh off an amazing experience at posit::conf(2025), the R Weekly Highlights podcast is back with episode 211! Eric and Mike share their experiences at…
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September 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Finally got around to converting my LaTeX-based Dev Container setup to Typst.

Docker image is huge (> 4GB) but it renders so fast 🥲

github.com/ketchbrookan...
GitHub - ketchbrookanalytics/quarto-pdf-dev: Development environment for Quarto PDF reports
Development environment for Quarto PDF reports. Contribute to ketchbrookanalytics/quarto-pdf-dev development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
September 2, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Episode 210 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

🎉 Positron officially arrives! @posit.co
🛠️ shinytesters @ashbaldry.bsky.social
🤔 Parameters in Shiny URL (Mauricio "Pachá" Vargas)

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & @colinfay.bsky.social 🙏

#RStats #DataScience
Issue 2025-W34 Highlights
In episode 210 of the R Weekly Highlights podcast: The Positron IDE has officially been released after two years of intense development, and we share what…
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August 22, 2025 at 11:11 AM
GitHub Outage == Free Vacation Day
August 12, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Episode 209 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

🏎️ Speed testing @kellybodwin.com
🪄 Testing Plumber APIs from R (Jakub Sobolewski)
📊 Recreating NY Times chart with ggplot2 (Spencer Schien)

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & @jonocarroll.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy 🙏

#RStats
Issue 2025-W31 Highlights
In episode 209 of R Weekly Highlights we learn ways you can pinpoint just what is slowing down your R code, a novel framing for testing your next plumber…
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August 2, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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So many people around the world discovered what Apache Airflow is, and not for the right reasons 😅
July 18, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Episode 207 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...
🛠️ Generating Quarto syntax (Danielle Navarro)
🤔 Behavior-Driven Development @jakub-sobolewski.bsky.social
🔍 Dive()ing into the Hunt @milesmcbain.bsky.social

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & @rbyryo.bsky.social 🙏

#RStats
Issue 2025-W28 Highlights
It's been far too long since our last episode of R Weekly Highlights, but we are finally back with episode 207! In this episode we learn about novel ways…
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July 12, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Episode 205 of the R Weekly Highlights Podcast is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

📜 Good Git History @maellesalmon.bsky.social (SLCRUG)
📦 dockViewR @davidgranjon.bsky.social (Cynkra)
🕵️ Mock them all (Murielle Delmotte - ThinkR)

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & Jon Calder 🙏

#RStats
Issue 2025-W21 Highlights
Have you wanted a chance to rewrite your own history? With Git, you certainly can! We learn that and other amazing tips to supercharge your version control…
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May 23, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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📦 I’m excited to share a new #rstats package I’ve been working on: {shinyfa} built to help folks working on large or unfamiliar #rshiny apps ✨

The package scans your app folders and extracts out details on render*(), reactive() and input$ to a dataframe!

📖 www.dalyanalytics.com/blog/shinyfa...
Introducing {shinyfa}: Analyze Large Shiny App Codebases Faster with This R Package | Daly Analytics
Discover {shinyfa}, a new R package designed to improve developer experience by analyzing and summarizing the structure of large Shiny applications. Perfect for consultants, teams, and contributors wo...
www.dalyanalytics.com
May 19, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Episode 204 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

🍳 recipes 1.3.0 @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social
📊 Chart challenge @nrennie.bsky.social
➗ Rotation modulo @jonocarroll.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
📦Top 40 pkgs Joe Rickert

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & @batoolmm.bsky.social 🙏
Issue 2025-W19 Highlights
Episode 204 of R Weekly Highlights is jam-packed with four highlights! We discuss the recent improvements to the recipes package in the tidymodels suite,…
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May 7, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Episode 203 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

🤔 Choosing a programming language @jperkel.bsky.social
✨ Shiny with Copilot (Piotr Pasza Storożenko) @appsilon.bsky.social
🏫 Journey to learning R (Bruno Ponne)

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & Sam Parmar 🙏

#RStats
Issue 2025-W18 Highlights
In this episode of R Weekly Highlights we hear from industry experts on how they choose a programming language for their projects, a big boost to the use…
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May 2, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Instant SQL is HERE
#INSTANTSQL
April 23, 2025 at 10:58 PM
You know you're in trouble when the Tableau Community forum's top answer to your question (on something that should be completely straightforward to do in any BI tool) begins with "Just make a small Python script with a cron job..."

#databs
April 15, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Episode 201 of R Weekly Highlights Podcast is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

🛠 Positron joys & pains @drmowinckels.io
🏫 Learning Tidyverse with AI @minecr.bsky.social
📈 Observable for R users @nrennie.bsky.social

h/t @mike_ketchbrook & @jonocarroll.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy 🙏

#rstats
Issue 2025-W15 Highlights
In this episode of R Weekly Highlights: We have a six-month follow-up perspective from an early Positron user, how the current landscape of AI tools…
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April 9, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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The latest #Rweekly issue is out!
Positron, Tidyverse + AI, Observable (another post by @nrennie.bsky.social in the newsletter highlights!)
#Rstats #reading
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April 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A “TRADE DEFICIT”—IT’S JUST CALLED “BUYING THINGS.” YOU DO NOT HAVE A TRADE DEFICIT WITH YOUR DENTIST JUST BECAUSE HE NEVER BUYS ANYTHING FROM YOU.
April 2, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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A podcasting achievement unlocked: Episode 200 of the R Weekly Highlights podcast is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

🛒 Text analysis & prediction with {mall} @camlivio.bsky.social @posit.co
📊 Guide to gradients @jamesgoldie.dev

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & Jon Calder 🙏

#RStats
Issue 2025-W14 Highlights
By some minor miracle (even on April Fools) the R Weekly Highlights podcast has made it to episode 200! We go "virtual" shopping for LLM-powered text…
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April 2, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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Episode 199 of the R Weekly Highlights Podcast is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

📑 Multilingual Quarto @ivelasq3.bsky.social
🐢 {ellmer} for science (seascapes models)
⚕️ 1854 Cholera Outbreak Map in R (Niamh Mimnagh)

h/t @mike_ketchbrook & @rbyryo.bsky.social 🙏

#RStats #DataScience
Issue 2025-W12 Highlights
Thriving in a multi-lingual data science lifestyle while authoring your next Quarto project, putting LLMs to the scientific test with parsing manuscripts,…
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March 19, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Introducing the DuckDB Local UI, the easiest way to explore local data files with DuckDB. Built in close partnership with @duckdb.org for the community.

duckdb -ui

Learn more:
duckdb.org/2025/03/12/d...
March 12, 2025 at 5:08 PM