Roland Schmidt
@zoowalk.bsky.social
Dad. PhD Comp Pol @CEU alumnus. Im Garten. #rstats https://werk.statt.codes/
Oh no... A friend of mine got to know Glen while doing his year abroad in IRL & eventually organized a tour for the Frames in Austria in the early 00s. My parents had a VW bus then & so I became their tour driver for about two weeks. Fond memories. A great musician & person with a big heart. RIP.
If you belong to the peculiar, yet very relatable intersection of people working in R and on the Austrian legal system, I might have something for you. New #rstats package: release 0.1.0 of {risAT}, a wrapper to access the API of the Austrian Legal Information System (RIS). 🧵 1/4
Presumably, after the end of Audicracy, just selling himself to the highest BYDder.
Katalin Halmai@eublogo.bsky.social · 3w ago🚗 BREAKING: Do you remember Péter Szijjártó, Hungary’s ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs? He is leaving the Parliament for BYD. It feels less like a career change and more like the final chapter of a very successful marketing campaign. But a bit surprising that he didn’t sign with Gazprom instead.
🎉 We've just moved @ropensci.org on Bluesky to a fully independent account! We were previously bridged from our Mastodon account via Bridgy Fed. Same community, same content, fresh start. Give us a follow if you haven't already! 🦋 #RStats
I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room +
Nachtrag zum Erneuerbaren-Ausbau-(Beschleunigungs)gesetz: Wurde ja mit den Stimmen aller Parteien außer der FPÖ in der 3. Lesung angenommen. Das ist akutell die häufigste Konstellation mit der Gesetze in der 3. Lesung verabschiedet werden. werk.statt.codes/posts/2026-0... 1/2
The ruinous 20th century ethnic cleansing in parts of Central Europe was driven by ethnic-cleansing entrepreneurs. Thugs inflicting street violence were just one instrument in their self-advancement schemes.
Juraj Medzihorsky@medzihorsky.bsky.social · 4mo agoI suspect that also in today's Western societies, there are would-be ethnic-cleansing entrepreneurs, quietly thinking through the angles should their neighbors be deprived of citizenship or residence. Pondering which assets would become available or which business and career opportunities open. /n
For those working on the Austrian Parliament - latest release of #rstats ParlAT pkg contains improved `get_item_details()` function; 'votes' parameter returns vote results for the relevant items ('Verhandlungsgegenstände) in the third readings in the National Council. Still evolving, but sfsg. 1/2
Very happy (and exhausted), and also very happy for @arseblog.com @tim-stillman.bsky.social and @gunnerblog.bsky.social... Thanks for the ride... #arsenal
🇭🇺🎶 For the first time in Hungarian history, 'The forest is green / Pădure vergyé', the Hungarian Roma community's anthem — which gained that status after a 1993 civil rights protest — was played in parliament, at Prime Minister Péter Magyar's suggestion. Many MPs were in tears, and so was I.
“1940: The Invention of Western and Eastern Europe”, one is tempted to quip tongue in cheek.
Fidesz-KDNP is on track to ~28% of the seats with ~30% of the electorate. That's a larger electorate share than in 2014. Then, they got 67% of the seats with 28% of the electorate. Thanks to lower turnout and their electoral engineering. Now that very engineering has hit them hard. “Loop closed.”
trying to do a NYT-style swing map but the swings are too mad
Hungary's population pyramids on four elections years: 1990 - the 1st free and fair 2010 - Fidesz's return to power 2022 - the previous 2026 - today's Per the UN WPP '24 estimates. NB not all adult inhabitants can vote, and some Hungarian citizen live abroad and are thus not in the pyramids.
💥Orbán’s intelligence agencies have been secretly using Webloc — a mass surveillance tool that tracks hundreds of millions of people via smartphone advertising data — making Hungary the first confirmed EU country to deploy it, in likely violation of GDPR.
Orbán’s Spying Kit Revealed: Israeli Surveillance Tool Combined with Hungarian Technology - VSquare.org
Intelligence agencies of Viktor Orbán's government have been secretly using Webloc — a mass surveillance tool that tracks hundreds of millions of people via smartphone advertising data — making Hungary the first confirmed EU country to deploy it, in likely violation of GDPR. Moreover, our investigation confirms the existence of "homegrown" OSINT and spyware tools.
vsquare.org
✍️ “The vote on April 12 is Hungary’s best chance in 16 years to choose democracy over autocracy. It may not come again,” our researchers Balint Magyar and Balint Madlovics write in their op-ed in @foreignaffairs.com. 🇭🇺🗳️ Read it now: 👉 cutt.ly/etFh64Cc
This IS the droid you're looking for. webRoid v1.0.0: R on Android. Console, editor, plots, packages, 9 themes. No server required. Tested extensively on emulators. Your actual device? The Force is strong, but no promises. play.google.com/store/apps/d... #rstats #webR #Android #WebAssembly
Opening for a tenure track position in statistical computing: wirtschaftsuniversitaet-wien-portal.rexx-systems.com/Assistant-Pr... As dept chair, R Core member Kurt Hornik invites applications from people who could make substantial contributions to #RStats, including base R. Deadline Mar 18!
Job opportunity Assistant Professor, tenure track, qualification agreement at Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien Jobportal
others in Wien
wirtschaftsuniversitaet-wien-portal.rexx-systems.com
Here's the documentary that 1.1 million Hungarians have watched over the past week, documenting the damage that Viktor Orban's regime has done to health, education and public transportation in Hungary with English subtitles: youtu.be/9NQEcLIiOpM?...
A CSAPDA (THE TRAP) - Az Orbán-korszak elvesztett lehetőségeinek története
YouTube video by Direkt36
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UseR! 2026 – Warsaw 🇵🇱✨ CFP is now open! Submit abstracts for talks, lightning talks, posters, tutorials, and panels. 🗓 Deadline: Sun 8 Mar 2026 📅 Conference: 7–9 July 🎓 Tutorial Day: 6 July 🔗 user2026.r-project.org/call/ #rstats #warsaw #datascience
Happy to release the initial version of ParlAT, an #rstats package wrapping the API of the Austrian Parliament @parlament.gv.at . If you are a researcher, student, journalist, simply someone interested in the AT Parliament, ParlAT hopefully comes as a helpful tool. werkstattcodes.github.io/ParlAT/
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Vincent Arel-Bundock@vincentab.bsky.social · 6mo agoYou can now use LLMs to learn about any chapter of my 𝑀𝑜𝑑𝑒𝑙 𝑡𝑜 𝑀𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 book, or any function in the `marginaleffects` package for R or Python. Check out the cool demo video below (sound on). Install here: github.com/vincentarelb... #marginaleffects #RStats #pydata
Where do parents find the time to parent? Less sleep, work and screens. Amazing chart feat. in @alphaville.ft.com Further Reading. homeeconomics.substack.com/p/where-do-p...
Next release of #rstats package usethis will include an (experimental) function to setup projects using Claude code: use_claude_code. Interesting to see how ai tools will form part/play together with the tidyverse & co. usethis.r-lib.org/dev/referenc...
Just read these 2 blog posts on AI and software development & data science. Both resonated with me quite strongly. Many thanks to the authors. "My First Look at Claude Code" by @stephenturner.us blog.stephenturner.us/p/claude-cod... The post is on much more than #Claude. and... #rstats
Happy holidays! 🎄 I snuck in a {btw} release just before CRAN went on vacation for the year. {btw} is an #RStats package full of tools for LLMs, including a new tool for running R code. Here's a quick demo using `btw_app()` to create a quick festive ggplot2 from holiday movie titles. Cheers! 🧑🎄
