“I’m saving them from JavaScript, they can learn HTML” -
Joe’s initial vision of Shiny was users writing HTML, but managed to convince him otherwise (thank you!) #RStudioConf2022
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Nic Crane
@nic_crane
R developer, educator, & general enthusiast. Committer on Apache Arrow. Passionate about dev experience.
They/she. Come say hi at #rstudioconf2022 
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#rstatsthisisnic.github.ioJoined June 2011
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Excellent talk by on joining open source - rather than focusing on the technical side (which is well documented elsewhere), she covered the questions she had about where to contribute, what the social dynamics were like, learning norms, & more #RStudioConf2022
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Excellent talk by on how the censored package provides a consistent interface for survival analysis and eliminates some manual steps from these workflow 😍 #rstudioconf2022
censored.tidymodels.org/articles/examp
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. “#rstats is not a language based on the purity of philosophy, R is a language to get shit done” #rstudioconf2022
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. sharing that they design tidymodels to make it hard to do the wrong thing, protecting you from making silent but bad choices. Like says, they want you to be able to focus on the scientific and statistical questions #rstudioconf2022
Varianceexplained.org/r/sliced-ml/
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I took 's R art workshop #rstudioconf and made things!
Keep a look out for when she releases the full content. Game changer for learning about #rtistry
#RStats #dataviz
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One of my favorite parts of #rstats conferences is how friendly and welcoming they are, and that’s prioritized from the top - kicks #rstudioconf2022 off reminding folks of the “pac-man rule” when standing in groups - leave room for someone else to join!
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Tomorrow @ 12:30 pm EDT joins Pulling the Thread! He’ll answer your questions about how pairing tools like , #TensorRT & cuml w/ + Numba kernels can generate end to end AI workflows. No registration required! bit.ly/3B4mmtr
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Dear Twitter,
I am once again asking for your favorite documentation sites – any oldie but goodies? Any new kids on the block worth sharing?
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Dear Twitter,
Does anyone have any favorite documentation sites that you genuinely liked using? I would love to see some all 
examples, especially for non-high-technical users, and ones that you like as a reader (not an author 
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Less than a week to go til rstudio::conf(2022) in Washington D.C.! I'll be giving a talk on open source contribution/maintenance on Wed 27th July. More information here: rstudio.com/conference/
#rstudioconf2022
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Please always start your open source presentation by stating what problem, exactly, you’re solving. I’ve been walked through examples, documentation, output illustrations, and GitHub repos and still don’t know what problem the tool is really solving.
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I think one of the most anti-authoritarian influences in my life has been using & contributing to open source software. It’s hard to overstate the power of watching amazing things built under emergent decentralized systems without top down strong leadership.
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We are searching for C++ developers to work full time developing and maintaining in our Labs team — 100% remote, competitive pay and benefits:
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In what will surely go down as one of the most significant technical achievements in transport geo, my first-ever pull request to implement the exp() function in arrow-R was just accepted on GitHub 🤣🤓🤣 Neg exp impedance/accessibility for >-than-RAM od matrices incoming 💪😎
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Shiny + Arrow: A match made in high-performance-web-app heaven.
explains how and why {arrow} + {dplyr} + .parquet gives flat files memory-saving benefits, reducing Shiny app load time by valuable seconds (or more!).
Read more:
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And at a more general level, if you're an user who is interested in getting involved with the project but not sure where to start, check out this talk by my colleague, Alenka Frim, on the New Contributor's Guide 😁
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Interested in getting involved in contributing to the #rstats 📦? Here's my talk from The Data Thread conference about different ways of getting involved!
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Join me at the #TheDataThread where I’ll be presenting on "Outrageously efficient
exploratory data analysis with and dplyr".
Slides via : jthomasmock.github.io/arrow-dplyr/
Learn more: thedatathread.com.
#RStats
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Yesterday I had the opportunity to teach a "Larger-Than-Memory Data Workflows with Apache Arrow" tutorial at #useR2022 with my wonderful colleagues and . If you're curious, there's also a written tutorial and slide deck online! 😁
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After a week in which I half lost my mind stuck in an apartment with covid, getting back into running for the first time in over a year just feels magical. strava.app.link/VdTBVGBoZqb
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Question for my #rstats folks who have contributed to open source: how many years had you been using open source libraries for before you made your first contribution?
- 0-1 years14.1%
- 2-3 years32.4%
- 4-5 years26.8%
- 6+ years26.8%
71 votesFinal results
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Want to learn more about Apache Arrow in R?
& explain the latest and greatest from the multi-language data processing tool.
#rstatsnyc | #rstats
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The welcomes you to week 23 of #TidyTuesday! We're exploring ’ Pride Corporate Accountability Project!
📁 bit.ly/tidyreadme
🗞 bit.ly/3tkC7rn
#r4ds #tidyverse #rstats #dataviz
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.'s CTO & Co-founder, & Engineering Manager, will be showing off Apache Arrow and all of the new features!
Join us either in-person or virtually June 9-10➡ rstats.ai/nyr
#rstatsnyc | #rstats
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Just over two weeks til The Data Thread - free online conference about the things happening in the ecosystem on June 23rd 🎉 thedatathread.com
I will be talking about ways of contributing the Arrow #rstats package 😁
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Just updated my Awesome Arrow repo which collates resources useful for learning about the #rstats implementation of
- feel free to submit a PR if there's anything else that would be a good addition!
github.com/thisisnic/awes
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A wild blog post appears!
This one is a deep dive into data objects in . With the help of the #rstats {arrow} package, I talk about arrays, chunked arrays, record batches, tables, and datasets. It's all here, lovely people! Enjoy! ❤️
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Taking a break from prototyping #rstats + #gischat + + to write about the motivations for using Arrow in Geospatial and how it can make geospatial computing faster for everybody! dewey.dunnington.ca/post/2022/buil
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So, "Everything Everywhere All at Once" just became my favourite movie ever 😁 Amazing on so many levels!
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Spotted this fantastic piece of Squid Game / Manchester themed graffiti out of the window of today's coworking location 😍
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One day I'll learn to switch off the bit of my brain that tries to force me to work my hours between 9 and 5 at a desk on one place, even though that's not where or when I'm most productive or happy! 😬 Like FFS, my job is super flexible but I am the worst boss of me. Any tips?
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📣Exciting announcement! 🎉 This October 4th-5th, we're hosting our in-person Shiny in Production conference! ✨ For more details, take a look at our blog post, or visit the conference website ✨ #rstats
Blog: jumpingrivers.com/blog/shiny-in-
Website:
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We're excited to announce that the 8.0.0 {arrow} 📦 of for #rstats is on CRAN 💘🎉. A 🧵 with some highlights:
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I'm excited to write in detail about this in the coming weeks, but the teaser version is that #rstats geoarrow 🌏⏩ will (1) make the arrow 📦 "just work" with spatial data and (2) make working with big files faster/multi-file datasets possible!
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Skipping the coworking spaces this morning & working from Manchester Central Library. The reading room is gorgeous but the acoustic effects mean that every whisper is reflected off the dome, and feels a bit like you're having auditory hallucinations. Good fun, though super weird!
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Today showed me this GitHub Action you can use to SSH onto your GHA workflow, and honestly, I feel like a toddler who's been given access to a chainsaw! 😉
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This weekend I moved to Manchester temporarily, where I'll be for the next month to see if I fancy properly moving there longer term. Would love to make some more connections in the city, so if any #rstats folks in the area fancy a coffee (or beer!) some time, give me a shout!
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Ibis 3.0.0 brings some incredible new features including the ability to mix SQL with Ibis expressions and ibis compatibility with a backend.
Read about the most important changes in our latest blogpost ibis-project.org/docs/3.0.2/blo
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