Rebecca Barter
rlbarter.bsky.social
Rebecca Barter
@rlbarter.bsky.social
Data Scientist and Educator with a PhD in Statistics. I like exploring messy data and explaining things.

Blog | www.rebeccabarter.com
Co-author of Veridical Data Science | www.vdsbook.com
Author of The R Workshop | www.r-workshop.org
I've turned my intro to R workshop into a free open-access book: The R Workshop 🌟 Perfect for R beginners, with more chapters coming soon! Check it out: www.r-workshop.org

Prefer live instruction? Join my 2-day virtual workshop Jan 15-16 via Instats. Details: instats.org/seminar/intr...

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January 6, 2025 at 5:51 PM
In case you missed my "Python for R Users" seminar last month, registration for the recorded on-demand version is now open for you to explore at your own pace 🚀

Info and registration: instats.org/seminar/pyth...
Python for R Users - On-Demand
This Instats seminar on Python for R Users taught by Rebecca Barter will help you take your research to the next level. Sign up today!
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December 5, 2024 at 5:04 PM
I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you want to look at all columns of a tibble (which has the somewhat annoying habit of only showing you as many columns as you have space for), just pipe it into print(width = Inf):

df |> print(width = Inf)

#rstats
December 2, 2024 at 5:38 PM
Only one week to go until my full-day "Python for R Users" workshop!

This workshop is designed for R users interested in learning Python and expanding their coding toolkit. Join me to learn Python from an R-friendly perspective!

Click here to register: instats.org/seminar/pyth...
Python for R Users - Live-streaming:
This Instats seminar on Python for R Users taught by Rebecca Barter will help you take your research to the next level. Sign up today!
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November 7, 2024 at 5:37 PM
Reposted by Rebecca Barter
If you're teaching R, or statistics, and you want your students to get more practice of data wrangling with "messy" data, you can use the {messy} package to turn the clean data you currently use for examples into more realistic looking data!

#RStats #StatsEd
Came across this fun #rstats package from @nrennie.bsky.social that turns clean datasets into messy ones. github.com/nrennie/messy
November 5, 2024 at 3:34 PM
Reposted by Rebecca Barter
Making things "pretty" has never been where I find the most joy in data work. So, I'm super excited about @posit.co 's {brand.yml} framework for adding unified styling across Quarto, Shiny, and more at minimal effort 🤩

posit-dev.github.io/brand-yml/

Site also featuring best at-a-glance roadmap
October 31, 2024 at 1:25 PM
Reposted by Rebecca Barter
A few things I've been working on lately:

elmer, elmer.tidyverse.org, is a new package to make it easier to work with LLMs (hosted and local) from #rstats. It includes helps for structured data extraction and tool calling, and an easy way to upload a plot. Joint work with Joe Cheng.
October 29, 2024 at 10:13 PM
Reposted by Rebecca Barter
Some news: I've just open-sourced the draft of a book I'm working on about how #rstats tidymodels users can make their code run faster without sacrificing predictive performance!

www.simonpcouch.com/blog/2024-10...
October 29, 2024 at 3:43 PM
Reposted by Rebecca Barter
y'all probably know i ❤️labelled data. the dev version of {ggplot2} has a new feature that automatically applies variable labels when plotting 😍✨ thank you @teunbrand.bsky.social!!! 🙏 #rstats
October 29, 2024 at 12:59 PM
Reposted by Rebecca Barter
Check out the new `pastum` extension for Positron (and VS Code I guess)—it's {datapasta} for Positron! It works with both R (base R, tibble, and data.frame) and Python (pandas and polars) github.com/atsyplenkov/... #rstats #python
October 28, 2024 at 3:18 PM
Hello world 👋

(This is how you're supposed to start with any new programming language/social media platform, right?)
October 28, 2024 at 3:22 PM