🌈 Big news! After the huge success of our conference we're doing it all again! 🎉 Want to help shape an amazing community event, gain experience, and meet brilliant people? We're recruiting volunteers for the 2027 conference organising committee. bit.ly/4vRGXKk #rstats #LGBTQinTech #OpenSource

Conference organising committee 2027

Following the success of our inaugural conference in 2026, rainbowR will run a conference again in 2027 and we're looking for people to help organise it. If you're interested in being on the conferenc...

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Best phrase I've heard at #AiInProduction2026 so far? "Prompt fondler" 😅 Thanks @mikeksmith.bsky.social

Sooo #rstats, I built a thing... Deploying R shiny to your own cloud server is still too hard in 2026. Lightbulb.is is my answer - connect to your digital ocean account, click to create a server, and point it at a shiny GitHub repo. That's it - spend the time you save making your customers happy!

As @thelabandfield.bsky.social noted, chatGPT learned some about gender from 4.0 to 5.5. 😅

Dr Alex Bond@thelabandfield.bsky.social · 2mo ago

How would you like your binary gender inferred during pride month? With ChatGPT? Coming right up. What a fucking joke. Happy Pride!

I'm pretty AI grumpy... but in a bid to try and become more AI open I'm at @jumpingrivers.com #aiinproduction2026 Hoping to hear real stories about #AI, honest struggles & thoughtful approaches. Come say hi if you want to nerd out or grab a @rainbowr.org or @nhsrcommunity.bsky.social sticker 👋

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📢 Contributor Office Hour (AMER) 📅 June 9, 09:00 - 10:00 PDT Join us online to - discuss how to get started contributing to R - get help/feedback on contributions you are working on - look at open bugs/work on translations together https://www.meetup.com/r-contributors/events/314877509

R Contributor Office Hour (AMER), Tue, Jun 9, 2026, 4:00 PM | Meetup

Join the online Office Hour to \\- discuss how to get started contributing to R \\- get help/feedback on contributions you are working on \\- look at open bugs/work on transl

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Learn all about PARQUET FILES 😍 on the #DSLab with us! TOMORROW, TUESDAY JUNE 2ND! WITH NIC CRANE! ( @niccrane.bsky.social) 12PM ET / 9AM PT REGISTER: pos.it/dslab #databs #rstats #pydata #CAPSLOCK

Oh no :( Guess I'm going to have to have to rethink my #rStats & #Quarto #strava backend :/ Any suggestions for alternative activity tracking website that plays nicely with Garmin? rhionthesea.netlify.app github.com/StatsRhian/p...

New post! Are you following @sketchplanations.bsky.social ? He is great at explaining complex ideas via text and images, and some of those complex ideas are statistical.

Last chance to register! See you there! 💜

rainbowR@rainbowr.org · 6mo ago

🌈 rainbowR is next week! ⏳ Registration closes this Sunday at 23:59 UTC. If you’re planning to join us, now’s the time to sign up 💜 🔗 pretix.eu/rainbowr/con... #RStats #LGBTQ #QueerInTech #DataScience

🌈 rainbowR is next week! ⏳ Registration closes this Sunday at 23:59 UTC. If you’re planning to join us, now’s the time to sign up 💜 🔗 pretix.eu/rainbowr/con... #RStats #LGBTQ #QueerInTech #DataScience

rainbowR Conference 2026

Feb. 25 – 26, 2026

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How its going... ☕💥 connect.strategyunitwm.nhs.uk/oh-no/ Happy Friday 🙃

Alongside @nrennie.bsky.social I’m running a (#TidyTuesday inspired) workshop on "Visualising the UK’s LGBTQ+ population" on February 25th 7pm–9pm UTC as part of the rainbowR conference!

rainbowR@rainbowr.org · 6mo ago

📣 registration for the rainbowR conference is now live 🎉 The conference is for anyone interested in R and/or analysing data to understand LGBTQ+ issues. The majority of speakers and workshop leaders are LGBTQ+, but you do not have to be LGBTQ+ to attend. pretix.eu/rainbowr/con... #RStats #LGBTQ

🚀 The RSS presents "Statistics for Every Body: Inclusive Data Communication" on Jan 28, 2026! 📊 Learn to make your data accessible for audiences with visual & auditory impairments with experts from BBC News, ONS & more. 🔗Event details: bit.ly/Stats4Every1 #StatsSky #DataVis #RStats #InclusiveStats

👇 rainbowR meet-up TODAY, it's not too late to sign up! 👇

rainbowR@rainbowr.org · 8mo ago

🌈 rainbowR meet-up: Wednesday Dec 17th, 4:30pm UTC 🌈 - connect with other LGBTQ+ people who code in #RStats 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ - ask questions about R 🙋 - tell us about an R package you like 📦 - show us something R-related you’ve been working on 💻 ➡️ Registration via rainbowr.org/meetups

AI could be hugely beneficial to the NHS, but only if it augments, not replaces, human judgement, and is deployed with strong governance and equity-aware data. Plus of course the challenges of workforce and infrastructure remain! A new piece by me. www.digitalhealth.net/2025/12/ai-i...

AI in the NHS: rewards, risks, and reality

The NHS must avoid AI's seductive overdiagnosis trap, writes Professor Christina Pagel, director of UCL’s clinical operational research unit

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🎉 Big news for the future of #RStats. The project "Enabling the next generation of R contributors" has received £500k over 2 years. - mentoring expert contributors - modernising infrastructure - improving governance - strengthen communication and outreach www.software.ac.uk/rsmf-round-1...

Shiny for R v1.12 is here with built-in OpenTelemetry support! 🎉 Trace sessions and reactive calculations in production with zero code changes. Just install {otel}/{otelsdk} and set your env vars. Learn more: shiny.posit.co/blog/posts/s... #RStats #RShiny #OpenTelemetry

Today is the last day to submit proposals to speak at the rainbowR conference 🌈 Deadline is midnight, Anywhere on Earth time. #RStats #QueerData

rainbowR@rainbowr.org · 8mo ago

Would you like to present at the inaugural rainbowR conference? If you're LGBTQ+, we'd love you to tell us 🦄💻 How you use R 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ How you work with LGBTQ+ data Call for submissions extended to December 8th. conference.rainbowr.org/abstracts #RStats #QueerData

Really enjoying #HACA2025! It brings the #publichealth & #socialcare community together and surfaces all the brilliant work happening quietly in the background. 💙 Bonus of an online conf: lunchtime sea swim 🌊 Join us tomorrow (free!) events.hubilo.com/health-and-c... #DataScience #DataAnalytics

We are absolutely thrilled to welcome Daphna Harel, @daphna.bsky.social, PI of the NYU Queer Data Lab, as a keynote speaker for the rainbowR conference! For more about the conference, including how to submit a proposal, and to sign-up for updates, see conference.rainbowr.org #RStats #QueerData

The statistical performance indicators data from the World Bank for 2024 has been released today, and I've been working on a little interactive explainer 📊 Check it out here: nrennie.rbind.io/statistical-... #DataViz #ggplot2

🎄 ANNOUNCEMENT: R Package Development Advent Calendar 2025! 🎄 Starting December 1st, I'm launching a 25-day journey through modern R package development. here's why you should follow along 🧵 #rstats #RPackageAdvent2025 #OpenSource

Would you like to present at the inaugural rainbowR conference? If you're LGBTQ+, we'd love you to tell us 🦄💻 How you use R 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ How you work with LGBTQ+ data Call for submissions extended to December 8th. conference.rainbowr.org/abstracts #RStats #QueerData

Abstracts – rainbowR conference

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One of the things that has been on my to do list for a very long time, is building a gallery of all of the charts I've made across #TidyTuesday, #30DayChartChallenge, #30DayMapChallenge, and other miscellaneous projects 📊 And it's finally here! Link: nrennie.rbind.io/viz-gallery/ #DataViz #RStats

Data Visualisation Gallery

Gallery of data visualisations created by Nicola Rennie.

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Call for abstracts for the first ever @rainbowr.org conference is still open! We're looking for talks that either 🦄 Showcase how our diverse community uses #RStats 🏳️‍🌈 Use LGBTQ+ data Get in your abstracts before December 1st. conference.rainbowr.org/abstracts.html #queerdata #PrideinSTEMDay

Abstracts – rainbowR conference

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Back from @nhsrcommunity.bsky.social conference with a very full brain + heart 💙🤓🐍 So good to swap ideas with people who care about #opendata, #reproducibility, and quality code. Very grateful for this community 💙

Free #RAP support for #NHS staff. Tomorrow at 10am. Come join the chat 🗨️ Links to register in the thread 🧵

The Strategy Unit@strategyunit.bsky.social · 9mo ago

It was great to see so many NHS data professionals at @nhsrcommunity.bsky.social 2025! There was lots of fantastic discussion about #RAP (Reproducible Analytical Pipelines) and our next #NHS RAP drop-in is this Wednesday 19th November 2025 from 10-11 AM.

It was great to see so many NHS data professionals at @nhsrcommunity.bsky.social 2025! There was lots of fantastic discussion about #RAP (Reproducible Analytical Pipelines) and our next #NHS RAP drop-in is this Wednesday 19th November 2025 from 10-11 AM.

If you've ever fought with {renv}, you *have* to go watch Shannon's talk from posit::conf. I had soooo many 💡 moments the first time I saw it!

Shannon Pileggi@pipinghotdata.com · 9mo ago

The recording of my #rstats posit::conf talk ✨ practical {renv}✨ is available! 🎉 I created this talk for frustrated {renv} users 🫠 and potential {renv} users🤩 youtu.be/l01u7Ue9pIQ?... Even if {renv} isn't on your radar, you may still find this talk interesting if you are curious about🤔...