OK so I'm getting into TEA. Not like gossip, actual tea. Throw your recommendations! Tonight was an organic honeybush at 205F steeping for 7 mins. Waiting for my Japanese Gaiwan to arrive for some whole leaf tea and repeated infusions. Let's get LITTY! #tea #teaceremony #japanesetea

Coming down from the #PositConf2026 high hosted by @posit.co! Great couple of days with awesome people and a reminder that AI still depends on humans. My takeaway: talk to the humans first, and build with integrity. Nothing beats the big hair 80s pic tho. #datascience #rstats

@tcash21.bsky.social did you see your headshot???

@tanyashapiro.bsky.social and @jadeynryan.bsky.social on meeting users where they’re at when building Quarto templates to shiny apps. #positconf2026 #datascience

Write shit down: data-dict Look at how shit changed: data-diff Lightweight YAML spec, very similar to semantic layer in Snowflake. #positconf2026

“Coding has irrevocably changed due to AI” AND “You shouldn’t torture the data until it confesses to something” 🔥 @hadley.nz #datascience #rstats #positconf2026

"If you don't talk to people, AI is a great way to automate misunderstanding" - @tcash21.bsky.social A theme across talks: building natural language tools exposes ambiguities that can otherwise hide Aligning on definitions + standardizing processes matters more now than ever #positconf2026

Big crowd for #positconf2026 keynote here in Houston. So excited to be here with my data people 💪💙 #rstats #datascience

@posit.co Shinyapps.io is down help! Not seeing anything on outage pages. Client found it before all of us.

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Rebuilding ClinicalTrials.gov with AI: A Natural Language Interface Powered by LLMs - TCB Analytics

ClinicalTrials.gov contains one of the most important public biomedical datasets in the world. And yet… using it well still requires: Knowing the API Understanding filter syntax Manually constructing ...

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JD Vance was fed by the government as a child, and now he wants to pull that ladder up behind him.

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

I just tried doing a distinct count on a column after filtering by date in Excel on a Mac and holy hell are you guys OK?? 💀 #rstats #ExcelisTrash

Love my chatgpt morale boost coding assistant:

📣 Come work @openscapes.bsky.social ! We're looking for a NASA Openscapes Team Member to improve access & use of NASA suborbital data thru reproducible notebook clinics. Apply by October 26, 2025. Start December 2025. Details including pay rate: openscapes.org/connect#work... Please share!

Make sure to cancel Disney+/Hulu/ESPN, I went full YouTubeTV.

Was helping a client today with a 500 million row dataset. It took about 42 GB as a CSV & 7 GB as a parquet file. We needed a count of rows per ID. We tried Arrow but gave up after staring at the console for a few minutes. Switched to @duckdb.org & got an answer in less than a second.

Prepping for my first fantasy football draft of the season 🏈 #shiny #rstats #fantasyfootball #dataanalytics

This is batshit insane. Don't like the data? "YOU'RE FIRED!" Imagine if we all ran our companies this way. www.bbc.com/news/live/cp...

Trump orders firing of statistics chief after weak jobs report and data revisions - live updates

The Bureau of Labour Statistics reported earlier on Friday that the US had added 73,000 jobs in July, far lower than expected.

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Prepping for Fantasy Football 2025! Can't believe football is almost back. #rstats 🏈

At R/Medicine 2025, TCB's @tcash21.bsky.social shared how we streamlined patient support tracking for a rare disease pharma using #RStats, #Shiny, and Smartsheet. Check out a recap and watch the talk here: tcbanalytics.com/2025/07/02/r...

R/Medicine Talk Recap: Automating Patient Inquiry Tracking in Pharma with Shiny - TCB Analytics

Last month, TCB’s Tanya Cashorali gave a talk at R/Medicine 2025, covering a recent project where we automated patient inquiry tracking with R, Shiny and Smartsheet for a pharmaceutical company. Here’...

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You can see in the beginning of June when I took a different approach to my MLB bets! Line shopping, EV+ calculations, kelly criterion, poisson distribution, and created my own score for pitchers/batters over/under Ks, hits, ER, bases, etc. #datascience #sabermetrics

Of course there are two pitchers named Luis Castillo on the Seattle Mariners... def doesn't mess up my analysis at all because I'm definitely not joining on names & teams (don't have bbrefid in the other data set). #data #sabermetrics

Solar panels + a battery backup here in FL was one of the best decisions I've ever made! Not only do we barely have an electric bill (even with heating a pool, air conditioning, etc.) we also have the peace of mind of having power in the event of a hurricane-induced power outage. #ggplot2 #rstats

Pleasantly surprised at Venice, FL! The crowd and energy levels were awesome, seeing older folks coming out to protest warmed my cold heart. #NoKings 👑 And it’s great to be called “young” 🤣

The #rmedicine conference has an awesome lineup! Be sure to check out all of the talks including mine on tracking patient medication inquiries with Shiny. You’ll learn a bit about specialty pharma logistics and how we moved away from email and excel #rstats rconsortium.github.io/RMedicine_we...

Thought I was almost done with the Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 story line only to find out I’m not even halfway through and there’s a whole other map region!?!?! #gaming #kcd2

This is what happens when you try to fuck with @harvard.edu : www.nytimes.com/interactive/... #ComeAtMeBro #IntellectualsVsIdiots #EducationMatters

Read Harvard’s Lawsuit Against Trump

Harvard University sued the Trump administration after it moved to block international students from enrolling.

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This reminds me of my shirt that says “all the wrong people have imposter syndrome”.

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