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Veerle van Son
@veerlevanson.bsky.social
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Data scientist by day, couch potato by night
I ❤️ data
👩‍💻 #rstats | #rladies
📊 #dataviz | #ggplot
💌 #postcrossing | #snailmail
🏠 #DenBosch, NL
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Veerle van Son @veerlevanson.bsky.social · Nov 25
Hello World!
I'm so excited to see so many familiar #rstats names ❤️ Happy to see we're regrouping here on #bluesky.

Turns out, the real #rstats twitter was the friends we made along the way 🤩
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jtullock.bsky.social
No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?
Screen grab from Dropbox saying Emojis in file names are finally here!
November 12, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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mirandakeeling.com
My handwriting in blue pen on lined paper. The writing says: ‘Sometimes I’d love to see people’s posts in their original handwriting.’ My writing is not joined up. It is a little bit curly, but (I think), quite easy to read.
November 8, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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weare.rladies.org
This week’s #RLadies curator is @cwick.co.nz!
Curator Charlotte Wickham, Developer Educator at at Posit PBC. They spend most of their time using and writing about Quarto, but R remains their go-to language for creating examples, managing repositories and files, and exploring and visualizing data whenever the opportunity arises.
October 20, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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sjvn.bsky.social
My favorite new initialism: AI;DR I'll be using this a lot from here on out.
October 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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nasibov.me
I want to see more countries’ dark mode flags.
October 7, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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ddgutierrez.bsky.social
The data never “speaks for itself.” It reflects your choices:
— What to measure
— What to clean
— What to ignore
Good analysis isn’t neutral. It’s aware of its own filters.

#DataScience #MachineLearning #AI #RStats
October 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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nparmalee.bsky.social
Today is a day to walk away from the code and let it think about what it has done.
October 2, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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theregister.com
Is GitHub a social network that endangers children? Australia wants to know
Is GitHub a social network that endangers children? Australia wants to know
As ban on under-16s using some sites looms, cyber-safety regulator sends Microsoft’s code locker a letter Australia’s eSafety Commissioner has written to GitHub to ask it to consider if it’s a social network that endangers children.…
dlvr.it
September 25, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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emilymyers.bsky.social
The best way for a photo to catch my attention is if it looks like data.

Fig. 1. Bar plot displaying amount of storage per filing cabinet.
(Filing cabinets lined up in a row at the side of the road.)
September 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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ataustin.bsky.social
RIP to anyone named Al (lowercase L) in these trying times
#AI
September 17, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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libbyheeren.bsky.social
I need you to know that your contribution, your voice, your perspective, your way of explaining something, YOUR whatever, is valuable.

Just because "it's been done before" doesn't mean you shouldn't do it. Nothing is new, everything's been done! But not by you. Yet.

#databs #rststs #python
September 14, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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erwanrivault.com
Launch day 🚀

We’ve just released @chartlecc.bsky.social - a daily chart game!

Your job is to guess which country is represented by the red line in today's chart. You get 5 tries, no other clues!

Play today, come back tomorrow for a different chart with new data and share with your chart friends 📈
Chartle - A daily chart game
Guess the country in red by analysing today's chart
chartle.cc
September 12, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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infobeautiful.bsky.social
Lord of the Rings characters: screen time vs mentions in the book.

The further from the dotted line, the further off trend.

By reddit user austinw-8 www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau...
A scatterplot depicts major characters from Lord of the Rings plotted by number of mentions in the books (x axis) and screen time in the films (y axis). A trendline reveals that Arwen, Theoden, Legolas & Aragon are over-represented in the movies. While Sam, Gimli, Denethor and others are under-represented.
September 11, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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cherylkeller.bsky.social
I found a whole box of save icons!
Photo of a box filled with 3.5” floppy disks
September 9, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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rladiesmelb.bsky.social
✨ Transform your ggplot2 plots into interactive stories! Join our workshop, Plot Twist: Bringing Your ggplot2 Visuals to Life with ggplotly, and make your data clickable and unforgettable.
🔗 Sign up: www.meetup.com/rladies-melb...
📅 18 Sept
🕒 5:30-7:30pm (includes networking & food)
📍 DiUS
Plot Twist: Bringing Your ggplot2 Visuals to Life with ggplotly, Thu, Sep 18, 2025, 5:30 PM | Meetup
Transform your static R plots into interactive, engaging visual stories! In this hands-on workshop, we’ll take pre-organised ggplot2 code and show you how to enhance it wit
www.meetup.com
September 1, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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nikitagill.bsky.social
I have dated far too many humourless, tedious people to also put up with them in my replies on social media. And by far too many I mean 2 people. That is enough. My quota is complete for the rest of my life.
August 31, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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weare.rladies.org
This week’s #RLadies curator is @morgana-kinlan.bsky.social 🎉
Curator Morgana Kinlan, Sr. Strategic Analyst at DeepSeas, LLC. They say, “I'm currently working on improving my visualization skills in R, and also working with language models”.
August 24, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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rosemarymosco.com
An oldie about trying to text your friends about birds. I can't remember if I ever shared this here.
A comic called "birds I have seen according to autocorrect". The art shows six birds with a chat message under each one that displays the autocorrected name. The Great Potoo, a speckled bird that resembles a branch, is autocorrected to Great potion. Dunlin, a shorebird with a downturned bill, is Dunkin'. Garganey, a colorful duck, is Gargantuan. Brambling, a small brownish songbird, is Bra bling. Pomarine Jaeger, a fierce sharp-winged seabird, is Pomading Jaegermeister. Sora, a little rail with a lemon yellow bill, is Soda.
August 21, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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ddgutierrez.bsky.social
Most data problems are people problems in disguise: unclear definitions, conflicting goals, or lack of domain context. Before debugging your model, make sure everyone agrees on what “success” looks like.

#AI #DataScience #MachineLearning #RStats
August 20, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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infobeautiful.bsky.social
www.instagram.com/the.world.in...

by Instagram user: @the.world.in.maps
A map of Europe color-coded to indicate which side of each country is perceived as being the wealthiest. Colors represent: North (red), South (light blue), East (green), and West (yellow). The map shows a general trend of wealth being perceived as concentrated in the West for many European countries.
August 19, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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hannahrecht.bsky.social
onion font!!! onion font!!!!!!!! pudding.cool/2025/08/onio...
Text saying "point below" where each letter is written out of a sliced onion
August 12, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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jperkel.bsky.social
Many have sworn off spreadsheets, others swear by them. Some swear profusely when they’re forced to use them. New @nature.com, six questions to make the most of your spreadsheets in science. 🧪 Feat @yabellini.bsky.social @cghlewis.bsky.social & more #datasci www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Six questions to ask before jumping into a spreadsheet
Spreadsheet software can be frustrating, but adopting some helpful habits can improve its effectiveness.
www.nature.com
August 11, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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infobeautiful.bsky.social
All things must pass... except perhaps Reddit.

(by @chartrdaily)
This image presents a series of line graphs showing the Google Search Volume for various social media platforms from 2004 to 2024. Each graph represents a different platform, including Myspace, Friendster, Flickr, Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, Vine, YouTube, Snapchat, LinkedIn, BeReal, Instagram, TikTok, Reddit, WhatsApp, and Pinterest. The graphs illustrate the rise and fall in search interest for each platform over time, highlighting the cyclical nature of social media trends.
August 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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astrokatie.com
"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people
August 9, 2025 at 11:07 PM