Amol Borkar
@amolborkar.bsky.social
Data Scientist 📈 Analytics, Python, #rstats, ML, Forumla 1. Blog: borkar.substack.com Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/amolborkar27
Want to easily use LLMs from R? ellmer 0.2.0 provides: • Batch & parallel processing • A universal parameter interface • Cost tracking • Support for Mistral, Hugging Face, & Portkey And much more! Read all about it at: www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/05... #rstats
ellmer 0.2.0
ellmer 0.2.0 lands with a swag of upgrades: Garrick Aden‑Buie joins the team, we make a couple of breaking changes, and add serious scale with `parallel_chat()` and `batch_chat()`. A new `params()` ...
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A lot of debugging is just having a good guess of what the likeliest mistake is
New day, new blog. This week I talk about why Functional programming matters and how to adopt it. #rstats #python open.substack.com/pub/borkar/p...
Why You Should Care About Functional Programming (Even in 2025)
A History Lesson and Practical Introduction to Core Tenets of Functional Programming
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It's a big day for us - we are finally launching #DuckLake, a new Lakehouse format! bsky.app/profile/duck...
DuckDB@duckdb.org · last yr.Today we're launching DuckLake, an integrated data lake and catalog format powered by SQL. DuckLake unlocks next-generation data warehousing where compute is local, consistency central, and storage scales till infinity. ducklake is an open standard and we implemented it in the "ducklake" extension.
For the first #tidytuesday post wanted to share this benchmark of data.frame vs data.table across common ops on datasets up to 10M rows. Full #rstats breakdown here 👉 open.substack.com/pub/borkar/p...
Love seeing elements from functional languages show up in unlikely places. This will save us writing 5 CTEs before the actual query.
Matthew Mullins@mmullins.coginiti.co · last yr.Snowflake is adding a SQL pipe operator You can use the new pipe operator (->>) to chain SQL statements together. In the chain of SQL statements, the results of one statement can serve as the input to another statement. #databs #dontloveit
In this week's #rstats blog, I talk about small #R workflow changes that compound into massive productivity gains. Link: open.substack.com/pub/borkar/p...
📊 #TidyTuesday – 2025 W18 | NSF Grant Terminations under the Trump Administration . 🔗: stevenponce.netlify.app/data_visuali... . #rstats | #r4ds | #dataviz | #ggplot2
Love this!
Simon P. Couch@simonpcouch.com · last yr.stacks 1.1.0 is now on #rstats CRAN! stacks implements model ensembling for the tidymodels framework. This release introduces support for parallelism with the futureverse as part of our push to modernize tidymodels' parallelism support. github.com/tidymodels/s...
this week in #rstats ✨ - Positron tips & tricks 🖥️ @albertrapp.bsky.social - DuckDB+R=🔥 @amolborkar.bsky.social @duckdb.org - Comparing spatial ML in R 🗺️ @jakubnowosad.com - Why R & Python are friends 🤝 this and more below! 🏃 #news #data #python www.linkedin.com/pulse/week-r...
This week in R (2025-05-01)
Deep dive into R-Python interoperability; getting the most out of Positron IDE; spatial ML in R comparisons; evidence supporting DuckDB & R usage, and more!
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My post getting liked by the creator of DuckDB wasn't on my Thursday bingo :) Checkout the blog here: tinyurl.com/RwithDuckDB #rstats #duckdb #analytics
This weeks blog is up. I talk about how @duckdb.org gels really well with #rstats and why you might wanna give it a try. open.substack.com/pub/borkar/p...
Supercharge your R workflows with DuckDB
Speed up your data wrangling in R without rewriting your codebase. DuckDB lets you keep using dplyr-style syntax while handling large datasets effortlessly.
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@hadley.nz Wickham is a developer and teacher whose impact on the R ecosystem is immense. He is Chief scientist at @posit.co where he leads the Tidyverse team. His keynote "I wrote this talk with an LLM" explores how AI can help rather than replace data scientists. Register: user2024.r-project.org
Am I the only one who’s not able to open any hashtags right now? I’m on iOS app.
How R's data analysis ecosystem shines against Python. borkar.substack.com/p/unlocking-... #rstats #python #analytics
Unlocking Zen: How R's data analysis ecosystem outshines Python
In this article, I highlight some pain-points when working with Python & Pandas and how R's ecosystem proves to be a great alternative.
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