See the #rstats Shiny app many are calling the best #bobsburgers Shiny app ever. Give it a spin! H/T @sponce1.bsky.social bobsburgersR package for inspiration! viztoy.shinyapps.io/bobs_burger/

Another #rstats package I am excited to use. NYC has a strong commitment to open data and I am hopeful this makes it even easier to access. statsandr.com/blog/nycopen...

nycOpenData: A unified R interface to NYC Open Data APIs

Discover nycOpenData, an R package offering tidy, reproducible access to NYC Open Data APIs for teaching, research, and civic data analysis.

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Very excited to try this,https://www.jottr.org/2026/01/22/futurize-0.1.0/

New year update of my wfmu.playlistanalyzer.net. Wherein you will find minutes of diverting amusement! Now with: Spins= 3,686,922 Songs= 1,070,901 Artists= 526,464 Shows= 108,549 DJs= 474 Earliest= 1982-04-02 @dianekamikaze.bsky.social! Latest= 2026-01-05 Days= 10,261 @wfmu.bsky.social #WFMU

@amigabill.bsky.social Hi, Bill. I'm hoping your vast network might be able to help me to extract what's on this Ricoh 500mb MO drive cart. It was in my A2000 with a GVP SCSI controller. Powers up but I've been unsuccessful in recognizing the disk. I'd be happy to find a recovery service. THX!

Does anyone have an opinion on whether Claude is better at vibe coding in #Python than #Rstats? My assumption would be Python because of a larger training set but I can't speak with any authority on the subject.

Let's view the #NJ flooding on a map. Sooo many #Rstats #ggplot2 graphic elements in this plot and moving from mapping coordinate system to cartesian and back again. Crazy. Code here: gist.github.com/apsteinmetz/...

I continue to explore visualizing flooding with #rstats, #ggplot with stream gage data from the USGS. Here are the USGS stream gage data for the flooding in NJ on 7/14. You'll note that "Bound Brook in Middelsex" is the station downstream from Plainfield, where the worst flooding occured.

The USGS monitors rivers and streams in near-real time. The gage closest to #CampMystic on the #GuadalupeRiver "pinned the meter" around 5AM, July 4 and stopped reporting. Some perspective visualizations using #Rstats. Claude helped with the USGS API. Code here: gist.github.com/apsteinmetz/...

Project Gutenberg is a fantastic resource but I've been frustrated by the absence of an original publication date. The metadata on the site shows the date it was posted to PG. #tidytuesday was a great excuse to "fix" this. A few lines with the #rstats gutenbergr package and presto!

@eddelbuettel.com I just did a linux (mint) install, again, so I'll thank you, again, for the fantastic r2u #rstats repo and the very clear setup instructions on github!

Lake Erie is pretty frosty now. A couple #ggplot2 extensions illustrate the context. The first plot duplicates what's at the NOAA using gghighlight. The second is fun with ggridges! #rstats

Combining two of my favorite things. #rstats and oysters. My latest blog post is a project to predict New York Harbor water quality using data from Billionoysterproject.org and #tidymodels. outsiderdata.netlify.app/posts/2024-1...

Predicting Water Quality in New York Harbor – Outsider Data Science

Using Tidymodels and data from the Billion Oyster Project

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So many great #rstats database engines. Data.table, Arrow, duckDB and polars. There are #tidyverse wrappers for all of them, but should you use them? Some surprising answers here. outsiderdata.netlify.app/posts/2024-0...