Nicola Rennie

@nrennie.bsky.social

📊 #DataViz specialist. 💻 #RStats | #Python | #D3. 🎨 Generative artist. 🏃‍♀️ Runner. Website: https://nrennie.rbind.io/ She/her. Views my own.

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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

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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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?

A page of an old book titled “Blues” with a chart of different shades, naming each shade with an example of an animal, vegetable and mineral of that colour.Another page titled “Reds” with a chart various shades with an animal, vegetable and mineral for each.An old book page titled “Yellows” with a chart citing various shades of yellow with an animal, vegetable and mineral of each colour for reference.Another page titled “Greens” with a chart of various shades of green with an animal, vegetable and mineral of each shade.