#positconf2025 — Public Fediverse posts

Interested in using your data skills for public service locally? My 5-minute #PositConf2025 lightning talk aims to give you some ideas for inspiration! Now on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/fSAoCcZD--Y?si=Y2MLNtmjKqJ1yz_1

Don't know where to start with all these #PositConf2025 videos? There's a chatbot you can query to find sessions that might interest you. (Then search for those sessions in the YouTube playlist.)
https://posit-ai-posit-conf-agenda-chat.share.connect.posit.cloud/
#RStats #Python #PositronIDE #QuartoPub https://masto.machlis.com/@smach/115510276625740131

The talk by @andrew and Gabe Osterhout on "Election Night Results with R and Quarto" that inspired my #RStats code is now on YouTube! Well worth a watch if you're interested in posting ANY frequently updated data online at scale:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCloM4GcfVY&list=PL9HYL-VRX0oTixlfDPCS5RW_F1pccERRe&index=19
#QuartoPub #Positconf2025

My election night R code worked last night! 🎉! It was inspired by @andrew & Gabe Osterhout's #PositConf2025 talk about the Idaho's election website built with R, Quarto & the {targets} #RStats 📦

My results page: https://www.district2framingham.com/posts/2025-11-04-2025-framingham-election-results/

Their repo: https://github.com/andrewheiss/election-desk

This is also the first time I used the {mapgl} #RStats 📦 by Kyle Walker for a major project.

@Lluis_Revilla
@andrew did a presentation at #Positconf2025 on updating a Quarto website with election data for the state of Idaho using the {targets} #RStats 📦. That may be a more robust workflow than you need, but it got me interested in targets for Quarto! You may want to look at his sample code? https://github.com/andrewheiss/election-desk

Does it make sense to travel to a professional conference after you've retired? I decided to find out! How it went at the #Positconf2025 data science event in Atlanta last week:
https://nextchapter.machlis.com/posts/2025-09-28-does-traveling-to-a-professional-conference-make-sense-if-you-re-retired/

#NextChapter #Retirement

A day after my #positconf2025 presentation, I learned that my newest @rstats package {shinystate} arrived on CRAN!

Learn how {shinystate} supercharges the default bookmarkable state capability, complete with an example app running **in your browser** in this blog post: https://shinydevseries.com/blog/2025-09-24-shinystate-cran/

This package has been over 7 years in the making, but the journey has been well worth the effort!

Plus, even a couple of brilliant robot designers Dr. Light and Dr. Wily like the package too 🤖

#Rstats

@JessTheUnstill my first reaction to hearing that Houston is site for posit::conf(2026) - announced at #positconf2025

New to me: the {mirai} #RStats 📦 for elegant async parallel computing in R.
https://mirai.r-lib.org
@shikokuchuo 's #Positconf2025 slides:
https://shikokuchuo-posit2025.share.connect.posit.cloud/#/title-slide

was someone collecting links to presentations for #positconf2025 ?

You can search and filter all Bluesky posts with the hashtags #Positconf2025, #Positconf25 and/or #Positconf in my Shiny app:
https://apps.machlis.com/shiny/positconf2025/

posit::conf(2025) is @Posit 's data science conference that took place in Atlanta & virtually last week, with a focus on #RStats & #Python

(I didn't do this for Mastodon posts because I've encountered objections here in the past when doing similar aggregation of Mastodon content)

You can use the Positron data explorer on csv and parquet files without first loading them into an #RStats or Python data frame! Just click on the file name in the explorer.
(Learned at #Positconf2025 )
Soon, filtering/sorting data in the data explorer will generate R code for that view.

Fresh off an amazing #positconf2025, episode 211 of the @rstats @rweekly Highlights Podcast is out! https://serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/r-weekly-highlights/211

🏗️ Parse & edit markdown documents programmatically @rOpenSci @maelle @cderv @zkamvar
🤖 Vibe-coding a new package to learn Japanese @jonocarroll
🏫 Quality control scanned exam documents with R-Exams @zeileis

We are proudly listed on the Podcast Index! Find us at https://podcastindex.org/podcast/1062040

h/t @mike_thomas & @jonocarroll 🙏

#RStats #DataScience #V4V

This was only shared on the #positconf2025 Discord, but Mila the floppy pup was also accepted for pawsit conf 2025

Two crazy dudes that did: ✅ R Dev Day at #RSEcon2025 ✅ tidyverse Dev Day at #positconf2025 a week later My patches and PRs need more work but @shikokuchuo.net got so much done 💪

OK #PositConf2025 -- I acquired most of the stickers I heard were available; here's my final score! (Thanks for the assists @ivelasq3 ({dtplyr}!!!) @kellybodwin and @emilhvitfeldt ). I'll be re-distributing many of these to my students as leaderboard prizes 👩‍🎓👨‍🎓 #rstats

@kjhealy Really enjoyed your keynote at #PositConf2025. It was great to see a talk on the social production of knowledge at data science conference.

Posit::conf(2026) will be in Houston, Sept. 14-16
- announced now at #Positconf2025

#Positconf2026 #Positconf #RStats

“Formatted spreadsheets are like the fossil fuel of the data community. They’ll be around for awhile” - Luis D. Verde Arregoitia at #Positconf2025

It was such a pleasure to speak today at #PositConf2025 about how BADLY 😱 it went when I tried to learn Python ~10 years ago, and how tooling in the ecosystem has changed (gotten better!) in the intervening decade.

You can check out my slides at:
https://juliasilge.github.io/get-unstuck-with-python/

The {ragnar} #RStats 📦 has a new function to inspect a data store: ragnar_store_atlas() , which visualizes the store, @t_kalinowski tells #Positconf2025

What makes developers feel more threatened by AI? If orgs think you need to be brilliant to succeed, and there’s a lot of public negative measurement of people’s perceived skills. - @grimalkina at #Positconf2025
Feel less threatened? Learning is valued.

You want to see people sometimes get worse before they get better: That’s when people are learning, @grimalkina tells #PositConf2025
If people feel they don’t have the freedom to do that, and instead feel they always need to demonstrate top performance, it’s a problem.