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Weekly Recap (April 24, 2026): ggsql, web to markdown, Claude Code pricing, GPT-5.5, AIxBio hackathon ideas, flu vaccine, NIH, Qwen, AI literacy, biosecurity, research security.

Weekly Recap (April 24, 2026)

Cool question and interesting #OpenData datasets for #DataBS 👇

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New blog post: Adding Alt Text in Quarto with Claude Code. Emil Hvitfeldt @[email protected] published a Claude Code skill giving you a new slash command to create alt text for digital accessibility for all of your figures in your Quarto documents. doi.org/10.59350/ej0... #Rstats

Adding Alt Text in Quarto with...

typstable: Better Typst Tables cran.r-project.org/web/packages... #Rstats #databs

brief shout out to FOSS and Kaggle in this Thomas Dinsmore memoir #rstats #databs open.substack.com/pub/thomaswd...

Is AutoML Dead?

Exciting update for #Jupyter and Notebook centric users in #Positron ! posit.co/blog/announc... #PositronIDE #PyData #DataBS

Announcing the Positron Notebo...

Schedule Released: 2026 Applied Machine Learning Conference appliedml.us/2026/schedule/

Schedule | Applied Machine Lea...

“The companies three to five years from now that are going to be the most successful are those companies that doubled down on entry level hiring in this environment,” LaMoreaux said. www.cio.com/article/4134... #databs

IBM looks beyond short-term AI...

Weekly Recap (March 6, 2026): Biology essays, fast bio bounty, PDF accessibility in Quarto, Claude Skills for R, sex lives of neanderthals and humans, Ginkgo cloud lab, Applied Machine Learning Conference, AI in Science #Rstats doi.org/10.59350/2n1... 🧬💻🧪

Weekly Recap (March 6, 2026)

New entries in my running log of AI's transformation of work. #databs open.substack.com/pub/thetreel...

AI's transformation of work

March's tabular playground #rstats #databs #tidytuesday www.kaggle.com/code/jimgrum...

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Beloved Customers

Tickets for the 2026 Applied Machine Learning Conference are now on sale! These will sell out fast. April 17-18, Charlottesville VA appliedml.us/2026/register/. Early bird pricing through March 20, starting at only $75

Conference registration for the 2026 Applied Machine Learning Conference is now open! The conference will take place on April 17–18 in Charlottesville, Virginia — now just 7 weeks away. appliedml.us/2026/register/

Conference Registration | Appl...

Just found reviewer from @[email protected]: Human-scale LLM code review, as if a member of the tidyverse team were there with you to workshop your code for reproducibility, readability, and resilience. Note it's still very experimental. #Rstats github.com/simonpcouch/...

Oh dear, I forgot to post the link. #DataBS check this out: #MCP Server for a great number of #OpenData Portals, based on CKAN 👇 github.com/ondata/ckan-...

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GitHub - ondata/ckan-mcp-serve...

R Weekly 2026-W09 Git commits, Pick a License, and How to choose the best LLM using R and vitals rweekly.org/2026-W09.html #Rstats #databs

Anyone else ever do this? Open up the most powerful data science integrated development environment ever created to do some simple arithmetic?

This month's tabular playground #rstats #databs #tidytuesday www.kaggle.com/code/jimgrum...

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Last chance to submit a talk for the 2026 Applied Machine Learning Conference! appliedml.us/2026/cfp/ Deadline: Feb 22! ⏳ #rstats #pydata #databs

Call for Proposals | Applied M...

Shown here as "R Programming Tidyverse" #databs #rstats Community cluster

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Pick a License, Not Any License doi.org/10.59350/98n... #Rstats #databs

Friendly reminder: the 2026 Applied Machine Learning Conference is still accepting abstracts for talks and workshops. Visit the call for proposals page for details! I hope to see you here in Charlottesville this April!

Call for Proposals | Applied M...

Over the moon to announce that @[email protected] will be the keynote speaker for the Applied Machine Learning Conference here in Charlottesville this spring! news.cvilleds.org/p/2026-amlc-... #databs

2026 AMLC Keynote Speaker Anno...

Government friends, submit talks, enough to enable a government track for a day or half day. It means a lot when we can sit and chat and exchange ideas with fellow govys for more than 20 minutes. And you, yep you who are doubting yourself, submit one please! #RStats #PyData #DataBS #PositConf

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Any bird/data peeps here want to do the Spring 2026 - Evening Bi-weekly cohort with me? #rstats #databs #pydata

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Great Q from @smachlis.bsky.social in @posit.co hangout: "How can I see token usage in Positron Assistant?" For providers that track tokens, we display in Chat and Positron Assistant icon on the right of the Status Bar. Image from pending 2025.11.0 release #RStats #Pydata #DataBS #Positron

In the latest Complex Machinery: Past crashes and other events from history tell me how the world might look after genAI falls apart.

Come for the hot takes. Stay for the movie references and effects pedals.

#dataBS #aisky

https://newsletter.complex-machinery.com/archive/047-whats-left-after-it-all-falls-apart/

Which is the best form to provide table Data to a #LLM? Markdown, CSV, plain Text, others? I have a table with few numbers but more text. The task is about interpreting the text. #DataBS do your magic.

OK!! #DataBS conf starts at 10am EDT and I'm gonna be busy hosting, SO, things to know:

Chat is on discord, NOT zoom: bit.ly/databs-chat

Last min registration:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_CwjwzI9xRayOerpk1pbCfA

Official Schedule: databsconf.com/schedule/

#DataBS Conf 2025 preshow! We have two talks that we couldn't fit into the schedule but the speakers pre-recorded their talk for us to share before the main event next week!

Both are really good and give me lots of excitement about what we'll see next week.

https://ti.to/databsconf/databs-conf <-- free tickets

#data

Good morning from London, #DataBS / #DataSky -- a question for the hive mind please 🙏 When would it be appropriate for an organisation to pay for Snowflake, BigQuery as well as Databricks?