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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Successful code is copied via conventional human social learning, @grimalkina tells #Positconf2025 . Coding solutions are improved by the group, via both ‘tweaks’ and ‘leaps’. Most leaps fail, she notes, but the wins are big advancement. All are part of the same process!

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.

Successful teams have: A learning culture (learning being celebrated), sense of agency, (belief that when you do something, a result will happen and not be blocked) self-efficacy (positive belief in yourself) & motivation, and sense of belonging, @grimalkina tells #Positconf2025

Successful code is copied via conventional human social learning, @grimalkina tells #Positconf2025 . Coding solutions are improved by the group, via both ‘tweaks’ and ‘leaps’. Most leaps fail, she notes, but the wins are big advancement. All are part of the same process!

For those interested in the AI Positron Assistant, which is being talked about a lot at #Positconf2025 , you do have to enable it. Instructions from @Posit : https://positron.posit.co/assistant.html

Slides for my #Positconf2025 lightning talk on ideas for using your data skills to help your local community:
https://github.com/smach/positconf_2025