Twenty years ago Russ ran his Perl scripts by double-clicking them, and edited the source every time the input file changed. Learning the command line fixed that. His post on why the CLI is still worth your time as a data scientist: www.jumpingrivers.com/blog/command... #DataScience #RStats #Pyth

Curious about Positron and Posit Assistant? Join Kia Mack on 13 August for live demos comparing Positron with RStudio and testing the assistant on everyday data science tasks. 🕐 1:15pm UK time 💻 Free and online Register: jumpingrivers.typeform.com/to/UmdyNbAs #RStats #Python #Posit

We’re hiring for four roles. Newcastle based, with remote working available: • Data Scientist • Senior Data Scientist • DevOps Engineer • Engineer Data: jumping-rivers.welcomekit.co/departments/... Engineering: jumping-rivers.welcomekit.co/departments/... #DataScience #DevOps #Hiring

We donated to the North East Autism Society this year, a share of the profits from AI in Production, our AI conference in Newcastle. Thank you to everyone who came to AIP. Learn more at: ai-in-production.jumpingrivers.com #Newcastle #Community

Each year we offer a small number of pro bono projects to charities, nonprofits and community organisations. Discovery, Posit or {shiny} health checks, training, dashboards. Starting from scratch or building on what you have, we'd like to hear from you. www.jumpingrivers.com/pro-bono/ #RStats

How do you know whether the R packages your team relies on are safe to use? Litmus runs eight checks, turns the results into a risk score and flags packages that may need further review. See how it works: www.jumpingrivers.com/litmus/ #RStats #OpenSource

We're hiring two data scientists in Newcastle, R or Python, solid stats, dashboards with Shiny or Dash. Senior Data Scientist: jumping-rivers.welcomekit.co/jobs/senior-... Data scientist: jumping-rivers.welcomekit.co/jobs/data-sc... #DataScience #RStats #Hiring

Free webinar: A First Look at Positron and Posit Assistant. Live demos comparing Positron to RStudio, and putting Posit Assistant to work on everyday data science tasks. An honest look at what they can do. 📅 13 Aug, 1:15pm UK Register: jumpingrivers.typeform.com/to/UmdyNbAs

Our public training schedule is open for booking: 🔹 27 July: Introduction to Python 🔹 7 Sept: Reporting with Quarto 🔹 14 Sept: Introduction to R 🔹 21 Sept: Data Wrangling in the Tidyverse 🔹 28 Sept: Programming with R Six-hour online courses. Book: www.jumpingrivers.com/training/pub... #RStats

We're hiring a DevOps Engineer, Newcastle or fully remote. Deploying and maintaining Posit products for clients across AWS, Azure, GCP and on-prem, with Terraform and CI/CD behind it. 2+ years, full-time. Details and how to apply: jumping-rivers.welcomekit.co/jobs/devops-... #DevOps #Hiring

Thank you to our speakers Cheyne Ravenscroft, Maciej Misiura & Rob Geada, and to everyone who came to July's North East Data Scientists meetup last week. We hope to see you at the next one: 15 October. To give a talk, email neds@jumpingrivers.com www.meetup.com/newcastle-up...

AI in Production 2026 Day 2 talks are now on YouTube. A full day of practitioners on running machine learning in production. Watch: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Registration for 2027 is also open (10–11 June, Newcastle): ai-in-production.jumpingrivers.com/

Click a button, nothing happens for a second or two, and the app feels broken, even when the browser is working away in the background. That's one of five pre-flight checks in Tim Brock's new post on shipping dashboards that hold up. Check it out: www.jumpingrivers.com/blog/five-pr...

Five pre-flight checks for your dashboard

Using a sample flight-departures dashboard, we walk through five things that are easy to miss before launch: responsive layout, touchscreen support, accessibility, and both real and perceived performance.

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Tonight: North East Data Scientists meetup 🍕 Red Hat's Maciej Misiura & Rob Geada on open source AI guardrails. Sage's Cheyne Ravenscroft on AI agents handing tasks to each other. Pizza from 6PM 📍 TusPark, Newcastle www.meetup.com/newcastle-up... #NEDS #DataScience

July Meetup, Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 6:00 PM | Meetup

Welcome to our July meetup! Pizza and soft drinks will be provided on a first-come-first-served basis from 6pm as usual. We have two excellent talks to look forward to. Ful

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Thank you to everyone who joined the Leeds Data Science Meetup this week, and to Shubhangi Goyal for a great session on Context Driven AI Agents, covering context engineering, agent memory, and a live Microsoft Foundry demo. #DataScience #AIAgents

What does it take to build AI agents that reason, remember, and act, not just respond to a single prompt? Tonight's Leeds Data Science Meetup explores this with Shubhangi Goyal, Data & AI Lead. Enablis, Leeds. From 6:00 PM. RSVP here: www.meetup.com/leeds-data-s...

We're hiring an Engineer! Newcastle Upon Tyne, or full remote. You'll deploy and look after data science software (Posit) across AWS, Azure and GCP. Ideally 2+ years in DevOps or infrastructure. Apply: jumping-rivers.welcomekit.co/jobs/enginee... #Hiring #DevOps

We have managed Posit platforms since 2018, so your team doesn't have to. Connect, Workbench and Package Manager, set up properly, kept secure, patched and fully supported. More time on analysis, less on server maintenance. Talk to us: hello@jumpingrivers.com

AI/data meetups next week, come say hi 👋 📍 Leeds Data Sci Meetup, Tue 14 July, Enablis, Leeds www.meetup.com/leeds-data-s... 📍 NE Data Scientists, Thu 16 July, TusPark, Newcastle www.meetup.com/newcastle-up...

What happens to your dashboard after launch? We build dashboards, ML models and the training to run them, then keep them working once they're live. Bespoke builds, custom visualisations, training built around your stack. www.jumpingrivers.com/services/dat...

📊 July meetup: multi-agent AI workflows & open source guardrails for LLMs. North East Data Scientists, Thu 16 July, 6–8pm, TusPark Newcastle. Two talks from Sage & Red Hat. All welcome! 🔗 RSVP: www.meetup.com/newcastle-up... #DataScience #AI #Newcastle

July Meetup, Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 6:00 PM | Meetup

Welcome to our July meetup! Pizza and soft drinks will be provided on a first-come-first-served basis from 6pm as usual. We have two excellent talks to look forward to. Ful

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Leeds Data Science July meetup: Tue 14 July, 6-8pm. Shubhangi Goyal on Context driven AI Agents: how they're built, how they use dynamic context, and the pitfalls of deploying them. New venue: Enablis, 1 York Place, LS1 2DR. Free. www.meetup.com/leeds-data-s...

2026 is moving fast for statistical computing in pharma: joint FDA/EMA AI principles, expanded R submission formats, Dataset-JSON replacing legacy XPT. The shift to validated R and Python is happening. The hard part is compliance. That's why we built Coadun. Learn more at: coadun.net

Shiny apps don't come with an audit trail. No record of package versions, no log of user actions. In regulated environments, that gap is a liability. The litmusverse fixes it. Learn more at: jumpingrivers.com/litmus #RStats #Shiny #DataScience #RValidation

Our first ever AI in Production conference has been and gone. Here's what stood out. Full recap: www.jumpingrivers.com/blog/2026-ai...

We built Diffify so you'd never have to manually trawl through package changelogs again. Compare any two versions of an R or Python package and see exactly what changed. Try it out: diffify.com

Two meetups this July! 🗓 Leeds, Tue 14 Jul: context-driven AI agents 🔗 meetup.com/leeds-data-science-meetup/events/314872413 🗓 Newcastle, Thu 16 Jul: open source guardrails for LLMs 🔗 meetup.com/newcastle-upon-tyne-data-science-meetup/events/314875488 See you there!

Last few spots left on our Intro to R (6–7 Jul) and Data Wrangling in the Tidyverse (8–9 Jul) courses. Plus 7 more courses running throughout July. Register today on our website: jumpingrivers.com/training/public

We helped Public Health Scotland scale their Posit infrastructure on Azure, giving 400 data scientists a reliable platform built around how they work. Full case study: jumpingrivers.com/case-studies/public-health-scotland-posit-deployment/

Every year, we take on a handful of projects at no cost. Charities, nonprofits, community orgs — if you're doing important work with data, we'd like to help. Apply: jumpingrivers.com/pro-bono/