A very quick pictogram for #TidyTuesday this week where we're looking at The Cappuccino Index ☕ #RStats #DataViz #ggplot2
Nicola Rennie
@nrennie.bsky.social
📊 #DataViz specialist. 💻 #RStats | #Python | #D3. 🎨 Generative artist. 🏃♀️ Runner. Website: https://nrennie.rbind.io/ She/her. Views my own.
Recently in my Intro to R workshop, I had a brief section on error messages, debugging, and how to solve your own problems. An attendee asked why LLMs were at the bottom of the list — here's a few thoughts on why benharrap.com/post/2026-09...
Limited Learning Mode: Why LLMs are my last resort – Ben Harrap
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I made a Svelte component wrapper around Rough.js for creating graphics with a hand-drawn, sketchy appearance 😄
Kicking off the YSS pre-conference is Rachel Hilliam! @statsyss.bsky.social @rssannualconf.bsky.social @rss-teach.bsky.social
If you're at @royalstatsoc.bsky.social conference this week, come along on Tuesday morning at 9am for #TidyTuesday live! A workshop to help you develop your programming skills, ability to work with data, and be part of a wonderful data community! 📊 #RStats @rssannualconf.bsky.social
Very cool VSCode extension from @mikelydeamore.bsky.social which looks excellent for collaboratively editing Quarto documents! github.com/MikeLydeamor... #Quarto #QuartoPub #RStats
GitHub - MikeLydeamore/collab-comments: Adds the ability to have collaborative comments on anything in VSCode / Positron
Adds the ability to have collaborative comments on anything in VSCode / Positron - MikeLydeamore/collab-comments
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Early example of the open public data principle, from a report produced in 1990 by @royalstatsoc.bsky.social's Working Party on Official Statistics in the UK academic.oup.com/jrsssa/artic... #opendata #deepcuts
You can use this UN-approved Equal Earth projection right now in #rstats #gis #databs
The United Nations General Assembly voted to adopt a new world map that reflects countries’ true relative sizes, after African nations urged the UN to right a centuries-old wrong.
Calling all short statistics course providers attending @royalstatsoc.bsky.social conference! We invite all short course providers attending conference to join us on Tue 8 September at 1:50pm for a discussion on the accreditation framework for short statistics courses. Seeing you there! #StatsEd
It passed! Mercator be gone! Congratulations Tom, Bojan, and Bernie 👏👏👏 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
UN votes to adopt new world map that shows Africa’s true scale
Togo-sponsored resolution called to phase out traditional map that depicts continent as similar size to Greenland
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This week's #TidyTuesday data is all about castles 🏰 I focused on Scottish castles and created an interactive explorer map! 🗺️ antique styling with compass 💬 tooltips with images to view castles 🔼 different shapes for icons All made entirely in #RStats #ggplot2 #DataViz
This week's #TidyTuesday data is all about castles 🏰 I focused on Scottish castles and created an interactive explorer map! 🗺️ antique styling with compass 💬 tooltips with images to view castles 🔼 different shapes for icons All made entirely in #RStats #ggplot2 #DataViz
New post: we need to be deleting more code. vickiboykis.com/2026/09/01/b...
Bad code is kudzu
Delete your features
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For more than a year, we’ve been quietly building an all-new Observable. Today, that new Observable is live on observablehq.com. Read Mike @ocks.org’s announcement: observablehq.com/@observableh...
Episode 239 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/... 🎨 Creativity matters @nrennie.bsky.social 🏎️ {futurize} Transpilers @henrikbengtsson.bsky.social 🪄 Tricky parts of async magic @albertrapp.bsky.social A solo episode, but "the" MCP gave a boost 🤖 #rstats #databs
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For your next website… Skip the CMS Define structure and layout in code with Svelte Let clients edit text, images, and videos directly on the page — easily and safely, without breaking your design This is Editable — launching in preview today Install now: editable.website
New Zealand in 60 sketches 🎨 Many of us (myself included) take hundreds of photos and never look at them again. So I wanted to create something slightly different as a reminder of my recent travels! #AoNZ #Art #Travel #Watercolor
New Zealand in 60 sketches 🎨 Many of us (myself included) take hundreds of photos and never look at them again. So I wanted to create something slightly different as a reminder of my recent travels! #AoNZ #Art #Travel #Watercolor
It's time for this week's #TidyTuesday which is looking at country music lyrics 🎶 I decided to explore which colours are mentioned in song lyrics 🎨 with a chart styled as an audio equalizer display 📊 #DataViz #RStats #ggplot2
This week on What's New in R: ✅ Nicola Rennie introduces {ggchord2} ✅ A package that lets you play Doom in R ✅ Kylie Ainslie’s The Warehouse for easy discovery of R packages Read the issue: https://rfortherestofus.com/2026/08/whats-new-in-r-august-24-2026 #rstats
🎉New tool for RevealJS slide theming🎉 You can play with: - background colours - base font size - colour and typeface for text and code - aspect ratio It displays contrast info, to help keep things accessible, and outputs the corresponding scss! benharrap.com/tools/quarto... #rstats #Quarto
Did you know UK govt has published a call for evidence on charging for public sector data, w/examples like bus timetables and environment data? Well, here's a thing on how that will make a lot of things a bit worse and increase costs of providing public services peterkwells.com/2026/08/21/c...
Charging for public sector data is likely to cost us more than it raises
The UK government has published a call for evidence called “The marginal cost restriction on public sector data re-use”. It proposes making it easier for the public sector to charge people for public ...
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New Quarto extension: interactive Git exercises that run entirely in the browser. A real repo, real git commands, live diagrams of staging and history, a checklist that ticks itself off. Authored in Markdown and YAML, nothing to install. Demo: ryjohnson09.github.io/quarto-git-s...
I just came back from summer vacation, and would like to announce a tiny new R package I developed recently: {lt} yihui.org/en/2026/07/l...
The lt Package: Lightweight HTML Tables for R (and Beyond) - Yihui Xie | 谢益辉
Recently I have released a new package on CRAN: lt, short for lightweight tables (or less than). Its origin story is a small moment of shock. About two years ago a project required gt, so I ran &helli...
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This beautiful dictionary of colours found in nature dates back to more than a century before Pantone. 🎨 Werner's Nomenclature of Colour was an indispensable resource for Charles Darwin, helping him describe new species. We love these natural colours - which page do you like best?
svebcomponents is a toolkit for building boilerplate-free, type-safe, server-renderable web components with Svelte. for now it's still in beta, so please play around with it and let me know what you think! svebcomponents.dev
svebcomponents
Build typed, publishable, server-renderable web components with Svelte.
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Pie charts aren't that bad. Controversial statement? Maybe. It's just one of the "rules" of #DataViz we'll be debating in our RSS conference session next month 📊 Featuring @rjbeecham.bsky.social, @broadpeter.bsky.social, @lottiemorecharlie.bsky.social, and Hortense Quazza as panellists! Details 👇