If you missed the webinar, I've posted my talk notes at hadley.quarto.pub/upcoming-featu… — read to get quick a overview of the bigger improvements coming to the tidyverse over the next few months

Years of job experience is one of the WORST predictors of future performance for new hires. Asking for X years of experience (without measures of how someone actually performed) doesn’t tell you anything. Updated paper on what works & doesn’t in hiring: psycnet.apa.org/buy/2022-17327…

Today it's ten years since Wikidata had launched, October 29, 2012. A few memories. 1/

THIS. IS. AMAZING! #RStats

Just finished the meetup at R-Ladies Abuja about GitHub Actions! What a great time and honor. Thanks, Bilikisu W. Olatunji for the invitation and for everyone that participated! The materials and slides are here: beatrizmilz.github.io/2022-gha-rladi… #rladies R-Ladies Global

Trying to understand Bayesian analysis in R. 😪 Any resources to get me started? #Rstats #DataScience #bayesian #AcademicTwitter

"Geocomputation with R’s guide to reproducible spatial data analysis" Slides: jakubnowosad.com/ogh2022 Video: doi.org/10.5446/59404 It introduces geocomp with R and highlights some important reproducibility methods and tools. Exercises included. #rstats #rspatial OpenGeoHub Foundation

This weekend I built =GPT3(), a way to run GPT-3 prompts in Google Sheets. It's incredible how tasks that are hard or impossible to do w/ regular formulas become trivial. For example: sanitize data, write thank you cards, summarize product reviews, categorize feedback...

Number of UK jobs with "Research Software Engineer" (as that exact phrase) in the title on jobs.ac.uk since 2014. #RSEng

CAN I ASK ALL UCU MEMBERS TO RT THIS THREAD It covers potential strike action, strategy, negotiations and next steps. We have not taken our foot off the pedal. #ucuRISING

We've just released from Nomic AI a new map for exploring 6+ million AI-generated images and the prompts used to created them, collected by KREA AI. atlas.nomic.ai/map/809ef16a-5… The most exciting thing for me here is how this changes full-text search: here's why (thread).

If you work with highly sensitive data, how do you work with #rstats and GitHub in a way that keeps that data off of GitHub?

#bbcqt Good to see Caroline Lucas banging the drum for electoral reform on BBC Question Time. She’s right, we need to #GetPRDone

The best way to ensure good code is to have a good organization. This paper from Microsoft looking at 50M lines of code found that organizational factors were far more powerful in explaining the number of bugs than any technical aspect of the project. microsoft.com/en-us/research…

Two strategies that have helped me use {gt} tables in Quarto documents: 1️⃣ as_raw_html() This ensures that table styling isn't overwritten by Quarto 2️⃣ Overwrite knit_print() Automatically apply as_raw_html() to any chunk that prints a {gt} table. #rstats #QuartoPub

Finally having a proper bash with computational pipeline / workflow management tools. Loving it for reproducibility, efficiency + project visualisation 🎉

Naomi Waltham-Smith (@auralflaneur) has been awarded a BA/Leverhulme Research Grant for her project on ”Listening, Democracy, and Nationalism: Unheard Echoes in the Archives of Recent French Philosophy.” #listening #democracy #nationalism The British Academy The Leverhulme Trust

Do folks have web scraping examples where rvest doesn't work because the site uses javascript to dynamically load data? Working on an experiment... #rstats

Adrian Harwood was recently appointed as our Head of Research Software Engineering. He has spent the last few months looking at how to take the RSE team to the next level in order to meet the growing needs of the research community here at the University. research-it.manchester.ac.uk/news/2022/10/2…