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#rstats geospatial data analyst. GIS expert, of a sort. Sci-fi fan and would be writer. Black cat owner. Occasionally apocalyptical. Can't DM. WORDS ARE QUICK AND WORDS ARE VAIN, THE SINGLE SURE AND FINAL ANSWER MUST BE PAIN. -Dan Simmons, Olympos

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𝚖𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚊 𝚜𝚣𝚎𝚌𝚑𝚗𝚘 @mackaszechno.bsky.social · Feb 28

Слава Україні! 🇺🇦🇪🇺

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Stein Makes Games ➡️ #GodotFest @steinmakesgames.bsky.social · 1h

There's really only two file formats

Calvin and Hobbes comic. Dad explains there's only two types of file formats: .txt and .zip

#programming #software #softwareengineering

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Met4Cast @met4cast.net · 23m

Britons opening their curtains for the next 4 months.

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Mike O'Brien @obrien.page · 19h

The dream of AI and White Man Confidence™️ collide: Confidence to train a porn model; no knowledge of how computers work.

"...the man meant to back up his collection and create a base for training AI to make better 'robot pornography' but he uploaded it to the government computer by accident."

404 Media @404media.co · 20h

A man who works for the people overseeing America’s nuclear stockpile has lost his security clearance after he uploaded 187,000 pornographic images to a Department of Energy (DOE) network

🔗 www.404media.co/man-stores-a...

Man Stores AI-Generated Robot Porn on His Government Computer, Loses Access to Nuclear Secrets

A man who works for the people overseeing America’s nuclear stockpile has lost his security clearance after he uploaded 187,000 pornographic images to a Department of Energy (DOE) network.

www.404media.co

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Antoine Vernet @antoinevernet.bsky.social · 1h

This post by @andrew.heiss.phd about automatically generating markdown that contains code that needs to be run is super interesting. It will take me a bit of time to wrap my head around how to do this, but this should be very useful for teaching,

www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2024/11...

Guide to generating and rendering computational markdown content programmatically with Quarto | Andrew Heiss

Learn how to use knitr::knit() in inline chunks to correctly render auto-generated R and markdown content in Quarto documents

www.andrewheiss.com

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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social · 10h

📊 #dataviz
Nice post by Yan Holtz
⭐️ 6 iconic charts you must know!
"Just like some movies are classics everyone should know, these visualizations are must-see for anyone working with data."
prodigious-trailblazer-3628.kit.com/posts/6-icon...

⭐️ 6 iconic charts you must know!

prodigious-trailblazer-3628.kit.com

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Eric Book @erc-bk.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 14h

Didn't know that {skimr::skim} worked an arrow object. It's pretty cool, but it hits your RAM pretty hard. That's only a 70MB directory of parquet files, and my RAM usage went up by ~1.3GB. #rstats Code: https://ray.so/fCoXwso

NO2 pollution dataset. Schema of the dataset is shown and the descriptive output from skimr::skim.
library(arrow)

ds <- open_dataset("C:/Users/user/Documents/R/Data/no2/E1a")
schema(ds)
skimr::skim(ds)

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Emi Tanaka @emitanaka.org · 8h

This was supposed to be a quiet release, so I can refer to it in my upcoming talk, and I wasn't expecting many likes for this article. Thank you for your interest ☺️

A summary to come out when the paper is hopefully accepted 🤞

Emi Tanaka @emitanaka.org · 1d

I wrote a paper about "Examining the Interface Design of Tidyverse" 📝

TL;DR to follow in future 😊

arxiv.org/abs/2510.10382

Examining the Interface Design of Tidyverse

The tidyverse is a popular meta-package comprising several core R packages to aid in various data science tasks, including data import, manipulation and visualisation. Although functionalities offered...

arxiv.org

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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 12h

A themed chart for #TidyTuesday this week using data from the FAO on food security!

🌳 Voronoi treemap data wrangling with {WeightedTreemap}
🎨 Colours from {rcartocolor}
📊 Plotted with #ggplot2

#RStats #DataViz

Infographic showing a Voronoi treemap stylised to look like a dinner plate with images of cutlery beside it. Areas show the total protein supply for different countries, coloured by continent. Annotations highlight specific values i.e. China is largest, and Iceland largest per capita.

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Hemed @725hemeed.bsky.social · 18h

🗺️Map showing Uganda Land Cover – 2024
Made with QGIS & Blender using:
🏞️Landcover from EarthMap (ESRI 2024)
⛰️DEM from Divagis
#Uganda #EastAfrica #Africa #QGIS #Blender #b3d #data #Cartography #gischat #LandCover #map

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 20h

Trying out the {marquee} #rstats package for markdown-based formatting of ggplot elements and it's super neat marquee.r-lib.org

(code for plot here github.com/andrewheiss/...)

Plot showing the percent decrease in the number of polling places in a handful of US states after the 2013 Shelby County v. Holder SCOTUS ruling, with Arizona seeing a 22% decrease in voting locations. The title and subtitle use nicer typography and have keywords colored in reddish pink to match the plot

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UN Mappers @un-mappers.bsky.social · 1d

🎉 Our Mapper of the Month for October is Rubi Shrestha from Nepal🇳🇵

Rubi is our top mapper for the @fao.org #AgriculturalWaterways Project 4 - she completed 204 tasks & mapped 323 km of waterways.

Read her experience in our blog👉 tinyurl.com/MOTM1025

#UNMappers #OpenStreetMap #MapperoftheMonth

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𝚖𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚊 𝚜𝚣𝚎𝚌𝚑𝚗𝚘 @mackaszechno.bsky.social · 20h

Bring the noise! ..and good luck.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl1h...

Anthrax & Public Enemy - Bring The Noise (Official Video)

YouTube video by Anthrax

www.youtube.com

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Jakub Nowosad @jakubnowosad.com · 21h

🗺️ New blog post: introducing Spatial Data Visualization with tmap, a work-in-progress guide to thematic mapping in #RStats.

Learn about the book, its progress, and how to contribute: geocompx.org/post/2025/tm...

#DataViz #Mapping #tmap #geocompx

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coolbutuseless @coolbutuseless.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 1d

#rstats Dev Diary - Glitched 3D rendering of a signed distance field

This should be a stack of spheres. But it isn't. And I love it!!!!

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𝚖𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚊 𝚜𝚣𝚎𝚌𝚑𝚗𝚘 @mackaszechno.bsky.social · 1d

😂

a close up of a man 's face with his eyes closed

ALT: a close up of a man 's face with his eyes closed

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2000AD Randomizer @2000adrandom.bsky.social · 1d

Carlos Ezquerra

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Julia Silge @juliasilge.com · 1d

There is a new monthly release of #Positron available, and it delivers fresh new features for the Data Explorer! In this screencast, I walk through how to interactively explore a recent #TidyTuesday dataset on literary prizes 📚📖🏆 using some of the Data Explorer newness.

youtu.be/KOgQuWF0US4

Explore literary prizes with Positron’s Data Explorer

YouTube video by Julia Silge

youtu.be

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𝚖𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚊 𝚜𝚣𝚎𝚌𝚑𝚗𝚘 @mackaszechno.bsky.social · 1d

Easy to fold travel map? It'll never catch on...

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Soar @soaratlas.bsky.social · 1d

I'm a big FAN of this one... 🎎🎏
🗺️ Map: soaratlas.com/maps/japanes...

This 1878 Japanese print is shaped like a fan. Despite it's look, it's actually a travel guide! How cool is that?

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coolbutuseless @coolbutuseless.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 1d

#rstats Dev Diary - signed distance fields can be constructed from arbitrary user-supplied functions.

* specified using signed distance field
* marching cubes to convert to mesh
* render mesh in {rayrender}

A 3d rendering of an organic (ish) shape.

Function defining the signed distance field of this organic(ish) shape.

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𝚖𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚊 𝚜𝚣𝚎𝚌𝚑𝚗𝚘 @mackaszechno.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry.

𝚖𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚊 𝚜𝚣𝚎𝚌𝚑𝚗𝚘 @mackaszechno.bsky.social · 1d

I still say 'ambulum-bulum-bulum' when an ambulance speeds by twenty-five years later.

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𝚖𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚊 𝚜𝚣𝚎𝚌𝚑𝚗𝚘 @mackaszechno.bsky.social · 1d

Ermmm... right?

𝚖𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚊 𝚜𝚣𝚎𝚌𝚑𝚗𝚘 @mackaszechno.bsky.social · 1d

Maps make everything better 😆

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Mike O'Brien @obrien.page · 1d

Is the cure to (~male~) any loneliness looking at neat maps?

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