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In celebration of all pie charts my avatar is the #Coronation Quiche I made for celebrating the […]

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Thankfully temporary but I must have caught the CRAN website on a config change or something...back now but for the record I might need blood pressure medication if I see this again 😅

#cran #rstats
This site can't be reached cran.r-project,.org refused to connect. Try: * Checking the connection * Checking the proxy and the firewall ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED
November 4, 2025 at 1:03 PM
scottish.datasci.social.ap.brid.gy
Plumbing update 🪠
New part arrived, I've installed it 🧑‍🔧 And...no leaks....so far...will maybe just leave that bucket 🪣 under the sink until the beta testing is over 😅

#plumbing
A plastic plumbing part, a new sink waste and overflow. To the bottom there is a round part with a new metal screw in the middle.
June 13, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Been working on pipelines today... not the digital kind 🤣 Leak under the kitchen sink. From a forensic analysis of the parts I think the head of the screw in the sink waste has corroded away meaning this top part no longer connects to the second part […]

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Photo of a plumbing part a used waste and overflow from a kitchen sink. In the middle of the dark plastic part there's supposed to be the head of a screw but it is missing and the remaining metal looks like it be rusty or corroded.
June 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
scottish.datasci.social.ap.brid.gy
Doctor Who and the Data Analysis of Death...

OK, OK, series "The Ambassadors of Death".

#doctorwho #dataanalysis
1970 Doctor Who episode where he's looking at printed computer output on a table with assistants either side of him. He says "Yes . there's no pattern to it at all"
May 25, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Feeling my age.
Pawel Rucki used a John Travolta meme on a slide for looking for Shiny examples in documentation...and I was the only person to use the laugh emoji. 😊

#shinyconf2025 #johntravolta #documentation
April 10, 2025 at 1:13 PM
scottish.datasci.social.ap.brid.gy
"Reciprocal Tariff Calculations"

https://ustr.gov/issue-areas/reciprocal-tariff-calculations

#tariffs
The formula used to calculate USA trade tariffs. Full details at the URLin the post
April 5, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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When you start out trying to learn how to make a hexagon grid then wonder

"What if Scotland was made from honeycomb" 🍯 😋

#ggplot2 #sf #rstats
Map of Scotland where Scotland is broken into yellow hexagons like honeycomb.
March 24, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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I'm becoming extinct...or at least babies with my name in Scotland are.
Babies named Lesley or Leslie in Scotland 1974 to 2024 None since 2016. Suggest Save Our Lesleys campaign
March 21, 2025 at 1:34 AM
scottish.datasci.social.ap.brid.gy
On the left the Met Office chart of the Storm that killed over 20 people in Scotland in January 1968. On the right Storm Eowyn 08:50 24 Jan 2025.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Scotland_storm

#weather #storm #stormeowyn
January 24, 2025 at 8:55 AM
scottish.datasci.social.ap.brid.gy
Power incidents in #ireland via ESB Networks
#StormÉowyn

https://powercheck.esbnetworks.ie/
Map of Republic of Ireland with circles showing reports of local power problems widespread across the country
January 24, 2025 at 4:33 AM