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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 9h

Despite all the uncertainty right now in American Higher Ed, our department is hiring!

jobs.calpoly.edu/en-us/job/55...

Happy to answer any questions you have - it's a wonderful place to work. 🥰

(Note: this is a tenure-track TEACHING position, not a good fit for research-only goals.)

Cal Poly - Details - Tenure Track Position - Statistics

jobs.calpoly.edu

Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 11d

Team dot checking in!

a stick figure is throwing confetti with the words `` more dots '' behind him .

ALT: a stick figure is throwing confetti with the words `` more dots '' behind him .

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Reposted by Kelly Bodwin

@ratlimit @ratlimit.bsky.social · 15d

This is the single most overrated image on the internet. Pisses me off how every time I see it, it has thousands of Likes.

Airplane diagram with red dots marking where planes are shot

Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 20d

Stoppppp you are giving me trauma flashbacks!!! 😆

Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 20d

"The astute reader will notice that the following will only work on a tabset with 2 tabs. Making this fragment work for multiple tabs is left as an exercise for the reader."

Channelling your inner Rudin there I see... 😆

Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 20d

Another week, another magical #rstats gift from Emil.
🥰

Emil Hvitfeldt @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · 20d

I'm exited to announce a new resource about making slides with quarto and revealjs. This book is the combination of all the work I have done in this area, reordered and polished up

There isn't a lot of new information yet, but this format allows me to add more easily

slidecrafting-book.com
#quarto

Screenshot of first page of slidecrafting-book.com website

Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 25d

One final heartwarming moment from #positconf2025: dropping my students off at Tidy Dev Day! 😍

Three talented #rstats programmers coming your way, #tidyverse!

Now back to reality - thanks for another beautiful week of learnings and Rfriends.
🏴‍☠️💙

Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 26d

Best slide caption of the conference.

@kjhealy.co is a font of sass ans I am HERE for it. 😅

A slide of the famous "Napoleon's armies" visualization, with the caption "I am legally required to show you this."

Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 26d

"Sometimes the data doesn't follow the trend and you see a failure pattern. Of course, we mean a failure of the world. Our theory has not failed, because our theory includes the possibility of failure patterns."

- @kjhealy.co at #positconf2025

😆😆😆

Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 26d

I don't think I'll ever touch Beamer or raw .tex files again, to be honest. Even in mathier courses, I prefer using Quarto, which plays nice with LaTeX equations. 😊

Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 26d

Could this {uv} solution recommended by @juliasilge.com be the answer to the personal hell that is "Import Error: no module named 'numpy'" ?

#positconf2025

Managing Python environments
• First tool that really caught my attention was pyenv
• I am now all in on uv
uv venv
uv pip install -r requirements.txt
uck-with-py thee/
posit

Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 26d

I feel seen listening to @grrrck.xyz talking about making his own Beamer theme in grad school.

RIP Kelly's Personal Beamer theme (2015-2017), killed by discovering RMarkdown. 🪦

Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 26d

Okay @pipinghotdata.com you win, I will give {renv} another go. 👍

Will I also read the documentation? Maybe! 😝

Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 26d

Shannon: "So then we push the only button we know how to push: renv::restore()"

Good Morning GIF

ALT: Good Morning GIF

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 26d

7 minutes in and we have passed the point where I always just give up and delete the lockfile and move on with my life. 😅

Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 26d

Shannon's slides are always so unbelievably clear and helpful!!!

github.com/shannonpileg...

I'm having "Ohhhhh that's what that means" moments every 10 seconds here.
#positconf2025

Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 26d

"This talk is for potential {renv} users and frustrated {renv} users." - @pipinghotdata.com

It me. I am all ears. 👂

Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 26d

Certainly true, it's just another nice EDA screening tool to go with the others.

I do think some beginners might find "pop it in the bot and see what it flags" more accessible than "pop it in [package/function]".

Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 26d

Very true!!! There's no replacement for data science skills and knowing how to follow up on something!

But I still like the extra layer of "Hey, anything weird I should check out?" that the bot supplies.

Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 26d

(Actual animals were really there, I promise, just in a dark room sleeping so we couldn't get a good picture!)

Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 26d

We took the @rdatatable.bsky.social hex stickers to see their real-life mascots!

If you're at #positconf2025, come by the #rdatatable Birds of a Feather at lunch today to chat about the future of the package and get some swag!

🦭💛🖤

Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 27d

Good point!

Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 27d

I loved the "Hmmmmmm" in the crowd when @jcheng5.bsky.social showed this data quality problem uncovered by the #positron Databot tool.

No human caught this during the Tidy Tuesday for the data.

I've been skeptical of AI for data analysis, but this is an extremely compelling use case. 🫣

A slide showing that some rows of data have been systematically shifted left, leaving a missing data column and incorrect column alignment.

Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 27d

" @hadley.nz is made mostly of code and polite enthusiasm."

= most accurate descriptor ever written by a language model. 😆

On the other hand, I'm not convinced @jcheng5.bsky.social truly has "teeth made of reactive inputs" ... 🦷

#positconf2025

Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 27d

.... BUT maybe the beauty of these kind of AI tools is that we can isolate those skills!

Maybe if we don't need students to figure out steps *and* execute them, we can emphasize the data viz decisons more?

🤔