Daniel Weiand
send2dan.bsky.social
Daniel Weiand
@send2dan.bsky.social
#NHS consultant medical microbiologist, Newcastle upon Tyne | #Rstats enthusiast | cyclist (gravel/road/commuting) | NHS-R https://bsky.app/profile/nhsrcommunity.bsky.social
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While I had been using rainbow parentheses for a while, I only recently found out about rainbow indentation thanks to @ijlyttle.bsky.social and @3mmarand.bsky.social 🌈 #rstats
September 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Want to win the 2025 Table Contest? Get inspired by @bamattre.bsky.social's interactive table, which turns the Board Game Geek database into a practical tool ✨

His entry: bamattre.github.io/boardgames/

Submit your table using any #RStats or #Python package!

Details: github.com/rich-iannone...
September 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Why law firms want to recruit more data scientists - on.ft.com/3loWXkf via @FT

There's a huge amount of overlap here with what's happening in medicine and the NHS.

As in legal practice, much of Medicine is document-based -- and "words are data points", as highlighted here
on.ft.com
September 20, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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🚨 GRADY IS BACK 🚨
Advent of Code is starting soon!
#AdventofCode
December 1, 2024 at 12:40 AM
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This was my tenth(!) year building 25 days of puzzles for #AdventOfCode. You can solve them all for free! Most people write code to solve them, but you can solve them however you like. I hope they help people become better programmers. 🌟

The first puzzle comes out in two hours: adventofcode.com
Advent of Code 2024
adventofcode.com
December 1, 2024 at 2:57 AM
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Glowing! Probably ugly #rstats code, but I did Day 1 of this year’s #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/1

Will try to keep up.
Day 1 - Advent of Code 2024
adventofcode.com
December 1, 2024 at 8:15 PM
adventofcode.com/2024/day/1

#Rstats

Advent of code 2024- my first time joining in.

Really like the way it's presented almost in old fashioned RPG video game style from the 90s
Day 1 - Advent of Code 2024
adventofcode.com
December 1, 2024 at 9:29 PM
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The learning curve is steep in #RStats but the payoffs do come: "I now spend well over 90% of my work time thinking about and programming in R... as I built better tools...it becomes even easier to build new tools... and I have many techniques on-hand (in-brain) for solving new problems."
Where do you find time for all that stuff that you are doing, that is what I and all R people I know are asking themselves. And more seriously, I wonder about the co-evolution of rlang, dplyr and tidyr, what was driving what.
December 1, 2024 at 9:09 PM
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We have our brand.yml page on the Posit Gallery posit-dev.github.io/brand-yml/in...!

All our colours can be used for NHS England.

Thanks to @send2dan.bsky.social for the issue on the Posit GitHub and @grrrck.xyz for all your help with getting this to a successful Pull Request.
#RStats #Python
Inspiration – brand.yml
Unified branding with a simple YAML file
posit-dev.github.io
November 27, 2024 at 4:42 PM
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📚 Spatial Statistics for #datascience w/ #rstats

Chapter 1: Spatial Data Types
🔹 Areal: aggregated number of events (disease counts)
🔹 Geostatistical: observations at known locations (air pollution)
🔹 Point patterns: event locations (fires, trees)

Examples 👉 www.paulamoraga.com/book-spatial...
November 23, 2024 at 4:59 PM
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𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚢𝚝𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 0.6.1 for #Rstats is out!

It's an ultra simple, super flexible, and 0-dependency package to draw beautiful tables in HTML, LaTeX, Typst, Word, PDF, and PNG.

And for those who ❤️ documentation, 𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚢𝚝𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 ships with a billion pages of tutorials:

vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/
November 21, 2024 at 2:38 PM
They say shy bairns get nought.

Happy to say Posit are working on an NHS themed _brand.yml, which should be very helpful when creating NHS themed Quarto outputs:

github.com/posit-dev/br...

Further general info here:

github.com/posit-dev/br...

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

🙏

#Rstats #NHS
NHS brand · Issue #53 · posit-dev/brand-yml
For the UK it would be helpful to publish branding for the National Health Service (NHS) - The UK's largest employer after all
github.com
November 22, 2024 at 9:13 PM
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At #NHSRPySoc and thinking for the quadrillionth time that a sane NHS would make sure that data scientists have somewhere to deploy their projects so they can show them to interested parties.

Tiny investment, massive benefit
November 21, 2024 at 12:04 PM
Happy to attend the #NHSRPySoc 2024 conference in Birmingham at the ICC
November 21, 2024 at 9:54 AM
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For #rstats folks, sharing this post from @cararthompson.bsky.social on the power of {scales}
(a ggplot2 dependency you probably already have)
to format more readable numbers (in tables, plots, etc.)
www.cararthompson.com/posts/2024-0...
Building Stories With Data - Formatting numbers for easy readability in R
Sometimes you want a raw number. Other times, you want a number that you can instantly verbalise. This post explores an easy solution for getting from “1234567890” to “1,234.6M” without installing any...
www.cararthompson.com
November 16, 2024 at 8:26 AM
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Have you ever thought to yourself… how can I make my #rstats plot UGLIER? Well, look no further, cuz it’s good plot-bad plot time! My students made plots that will make you want to laugh, cry, and throw your computer out the window. Which one do you think is the worst? 🧵🧪
November 11, 2024 at 7:47 PM
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October 31, 2024 at 6:00 PM
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Happy Halloween—my posit::conf(2024) talk has been uploaded! Watch to see how I easily migrated my website to Quarto using some neat Quarto features and a little help from AI!

#RStats #QuartoPub #PositConf #Quarto

youtu.be/U8_Dc_ru8fg?...
Quarto, AI, and the Art of Getting Your Life Back - posit conf 2024
YouTube video by Posit PBC
youtu.be
October 31, 2024 at 7:54 PM
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The #rstats community has re-assembled on this platform. I am crying! It's beautiful to watch 😍
a group of people are hugging in a living room .
Alt: A group of men and women converging for a group hug.
media.tenor.com
October 28, 2024 at 10:42 PM
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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
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I have more than 600 followers. The #rstats and #stats community grew very fast this last week on this place. I also see that a lot of people are sharing great content. Things look promising in here.
October 28, 2024 at 5:15 AM
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You don't have to follow everyone on the list; you can pick and choose, but if you do want them all, there is a nice "Follow All" button
October 25, 2024 at 8:36 PM
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Great to have Bsky #rstats gaining critical mass. Hopefully we can get it like the heady days of 2010s-2022 Twitter #rstats, where it seemed I was learning new things & following interesting new people every day. These starter packs are great...when you see one, repost & follow people in them.
It’s been almost one week since I made the RStats Starter Pack. The response was very positive, and we are all following each other much more closer now 🥳.

I have added more people to it, so give it another look and follow more great #RStats friends!

go.bsky.app/Ki7PjpS
October 26, 2024 at 6:59 AM
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We’re thrilled to share that @hadleywickham.bsky.social has been honored with the 2025 ASA Statistical Computing and Graphics Award by the American Statistical Association.

This award highlights Hadley’s contributions, particularly his development of #RStats tools.

Congratulations, Hadley!
October 23, 2024 at 2:25 PM
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It’s been almost one week since I made the RStats Starter Pack. The response was very positive, and we are all following each other much more closer now 🥳.

I have added more people to it, so give it another look and follow more great #RStats friends!

go.bsky.app/Ki7PjpS
October 25, 2024 at 8:05 PM