Howard Baik
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Howard Baik
@howardbaik.bsky.social
· Sep 25
New #rstats blog post: Deep Dive into ellmer: Part 3.
I explore the source code behind ellmer's structured data functionality:
www.howardbaik.com/posts/deep-d...
Thanks to @hadley.nz, @grrrck.xyz, @atheriel.bsky.social, others for 🐘ellmer🐘!
I explore the source code behind ellmer's structured data functionality:
www.howardbaik.com/posts/deep-d...
Thanks to @hadley.nz, @grrrck.xyz, @atheriel.bsky.social, others for 🐘ellmer🐘!
New #rstats blog post: Deep Dive into ellmer: Part 3.
I explore the source code behind ellmer's structured data functionality:
www.howardbaik.com/posts/deep-d...
Thanks to @hadley.nz, @grrrck.xyz, @atheriel.bsky.social, others for 🐘ellmer🐘!
I explore the source code behind ellmer's structured data functionality:
www.howardbaik.com/posts/deep-d...
Thanks to @hadley.nz, @grrrck.xyz, @atheriel.bsky.social, others for 🐘ellmer🐘!
September 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
New #rstats blog post: Deep Dive into ellmer: Part 3.
I explore the source code behind ellmer's structured data functionality:
www.howardbaik.com/posts/deep-d...
Thanks to @hadley.nz, @grrrck.xyz, @atheriel.bsky.social, others for 🐘ellmer🐘!
I explore the source code behind ellmer's structured data functionality:
www.howardbaik.com/posts/deep-d...
Thanks to @hadley.nz, @grrrck.xyz, @atheriel.bsky.social, others for 🐘ellmer🐘!
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Thank you for attending the #PositConf2025 Shiny session and all of your great questions! I'm excited to see the @opentelemetry.io integrations improve over time 🎉
🗣️: Observability at scale: Monitoring Shiny Applications with OpenTelemetry
🐙: github.com/schloerke/pr...
#RStats #RShiny
🗣️: Observability at scale: Monitoring Shiny Applications with OpenTelemetry
🐙: github.com/schloerke/pr...
#RStats #RShiny
September 17, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Thank you for attending the #PositConf2025 Shiny session and all of your great questions! I'm excited to see the @opentelemetry.io integrations improve over time 🎉
🗣️: Observability at scale: Monitoring Shiny Applications with OpenTelemetry
🐙: github.com/schloerke/pr...
#RStats #RShiny
🗣️: Observability at scale: Monitoring Shiny Applications with OpenTelemetry
🐙: github.com/schloerke/pr...
#RStats #RShiny
New #rstats blog post: Deep Dive into ellmer: Part 2.
I explore the source code behind ellmer's tool calling functionality:
www.howardbaik.com/posts/deep-d...
Thanks to @hadley.nz, @grrrck.xyz, @atheriel.bsky.social, others for 🐘ellmer🐘!
I explore the source code behind ellmer's tool calling functionality:
www.howardbaik.com/posts/deep-d...
Thanks to @hadley.nz, @grrrck.xyz, @atheriel.bsky.social, others for 🐘ellmer🐘!
September 16, 2025 at 3:22 PM
New #rstats blog post: Deep Dive into ellmer: Part 2.
I explore the source code behind ellmer's tool calling functionality:
www.howardbaik.com/posts/deep-d...
Thanks to @hadley.nz, @grrrck.xyz, @atheriel.bsky.social, others for 🐘ellmer🐘!
I explore the source code behind ellmer's tool calling functionality:
www.howardbaik.com/posts/deep-d...
Thanks to @hadley.nz, @grrrck.xyz, @atheriel.bsky.social, others for 🐘ellmer🐘!
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I'm hoping you'll join our session on Strengthening the R Ecosystem at posit::conf(2025) on the Thursday morning!
Find out about the hottest new thing in the tidyverse: "purrrfectly parallel, purrrfectly distributed" (yes, it's something about cats).
#rstats #tidyverse #PositConf2025
pos.it/conf
Find out about the hottest new thing in the tidyverse: "purrrfectly parallel, purrrfectly distributed" (yes, it's something about cats).
#rstats #tidyverse #PositConf2025
pos.it/conf
September 11, 2025 at 10:53 AM
I'm hoping you'll join our session on Strengthening the R Ecosystem at posit::conf(2025) on the Thursday morning!
Find out about the hottest new thing in the tidyverse: "purrrfectly parallel, purrrfectly distributed" (yes, it's something about cats).
#rstats #tidyverse #PositConf2025
pos.it/conf
Find out about the hottest new thing in the tidyverse: "purrrfectly parallel, purrrfectly distributed" (yes, it's something about cats).
#rstats #tidyverse #PositConf2025
pos.it/conf
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More #rstats + OpenTelemetry news: @schloerke.com finally got all of the async issues in {ellmer} and {shiny} sorted out and tracing now works!
Here's what combining {shiny} + {ellmer} + {httr2} + {mirai} + {otel} looks like today.
(All credit for the screenshots to @schloerke.com.)
Here's what combining {shiny} + {ellmer} + {httr2} + {mirai} + {otel} looks like today.
(All credit for the screenshots to @schloerke.com.)
September 10, 2025 at 7:07 PM
More #rstats + OpenTelemetry news: @schloerke.com finally got all of the async issues in {ellmer} and {shiny} sorted out and tracing now works!
Here's what combining {shiny} + {ellmer} + {httr2} + {mirai} + {otel} looks like today.
(All credit for the screenshots to @schloerke.com.)
Here's what combining {shiny} + {ellmer} + {httr2} + {mirai} + {otel} looks like today.
(All credit for the screenshots to @schloerke.com.)
Reposted by Howard Baik
{otel} + #rstats is becoming a crazy partnership.
This project has driven me to use/write {promises} in ways that makes my 🧠 ache 😅. The reward is worth it!
See you at #PositConf2025 where I'll talk about this in more detail
This project has driven me to use/write {promises} in ways that makes my 🧠 ache 😅. The reward is worth it!
See you at #PositConf2025 where I'll talk about this in more detail
More #rstats + OpenTelemetry news: @schloerke.com finally got all of the async issues in {ellmer} and {shiny} sorted out and tracing now works!
Here's what combining {shiny} + {ellmer} + {httr2} + {mirai} + {otel} looks like today.
(All credit for the screenshots to @schloerke.com.)
Here's what combining {shiny} + {ellmer} + {httr2} + {mirai} + {otel} looks like today.
(All credit for the screenshots to @schloerke.com.)
September 10, 2025 at 7:13 PM
{otel} + #rstats is becoming a crazy partnership.
This project has driven me to use/write {promises} in ways that makes my 🧠 ache 😅. The reward is worth it!
See you at #PositConf2025 where I'll talk about this in more detail
This project has driven me to use/write {promises} in ways that makes my 🧠 ache 😅. The reward is worth it!
See you at #PositConf2025 where I'll talk about this in more detail
Reposted by Howard Baik
I was loving Claude Code... until I tried it with #rstats. Constant errors, wouldn't use the tidyverse even when asked, "optimized" functions were slower.
Frustrated, I started a session just to teach R to Claude and summarize what it learned into a CLAUDE.md file gist.github.com/sj-io/3828d6...
Frustrated, I started a session just to teach R to Claude and summarize what it learned into a CLAUDE.md file gist.github.com/sj-io/3828d6...
Claude R Tidyverse Expert
Claude R Tidyverse Expert. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
gist.github.com
August 21, 2025 at 10:18 AM
I was loving Claude Code... until I tried it with #rstats. Constant errors, wouldn't use the tidyverse even when asked, "optimized" functions were slower.
Frustrated, I started a session just to teach R to Claude and summarize what it learned into a CLAUDE.md file gist.github.com/sj-io/3828d6...
Frustrated, I started a session just to teach R to Claude and summarize what it learned into a CLAUDE.md file gist.github.com/sj-io/3828d6...
Reposted by Howard Baik
Excited to share my newest quarto revealjs plugin: imagemover
Easily reposition and resize images directly in your quarto revealjs slides for a much smoother slidecrafting experience
github.com/EmilHvitfeld...
#quarto
Easily reposition and resize images directly in your quarto revealjs slides for a much smoother slidecrafting experience
github.com/EmilHvitfeld...
#quarto
August 13, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Excited to share my newest quarto revealjs plugin: imagemover
Easily reposition and resize images directly in your quarto revealjs slides for a much smoother slidecrafting experience
github.com/EmilHvitfeld...
#quarto
Easily reposition and resize images directly in your quarto revealjs slides for a much smoother slidecrafting experience
github.com/EmilHvitfeld...
#quarto
Reposted by Howard Baik
August 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Reposted by Howard Baik
Code with Claude 👇🏼
This looks like a great playlist. Anthropic released its developer conference. The conference included a variety of talks, keynotes, and tutorials focusing on Anthropic API, tools, MCP, prompt engineering, and vibe coding.
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
#ai
This looks like a great playlist. Anthropic released its developer conference. The conference included a variety of talks, keynotes, and tutorials focusing on Anthropic API, tools, MCP, prompt engineering, and vibe coding.
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
#ai
August 4, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Code with Claude 👇🏼
This looks like a great playlist. Anthropic released its developer conference. The conference included a variety of talks, keynotes, and tutorials focusing on Anthropic API, tools, MCP, prompt engineering, and vibe coding.
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
#ai
This looks like a great playlist. Anthropic released its developer conference. The conference included a variety of talks, keynotes, and tutorials focusing on Anthropic API, tools, MCP, prompt engineering, and vibe coding.
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
#ai
New #rstats blog post: Deep Dive into ellmer: Part 1.
I explore the source code behind ellmer's starter workflow - creating a new Chat object and calling the $chat() method.
www.howardbaik.com/posts/deep-d...
Thanks to @hadley.nz , @grrrck.xyz, @atheriel.bsky.social, and others for 🐘 ellmer 🐘 !
I explore the source code behind ellmer's starter workflow - creating a new Chat object and calling the $chat() method.
www.howardbaik.com/posts/deep-d...
Thanks to @hadley.nz , @grrrck.xyz, @atheriel.bsky.social, and others for 🐘 ellmer 🐘 !
August 4, 2025 at 1:26 PM
New #rstats blog post: Deep Dive into ellmer: Part 1.
I explore the source code behind ellmer's starter workflow - creating a new Chat object and calling the $chat() method.
www.howardbaik.com/posts/deep-d...
Thanks to @hadley.nz , @grrrck.xyz, @atheriel.bsky.social, and others for 🐘 ellmer 🐘 !
I explore the source code behind ellmer's starter workflow - creating a new Chat object and calling the $chat() method.
www.howardbaik.com/posts/deep-d...
Thanks to @hadley.nz , @grrrck.xyz, @atheriel.bsky.social, and others for 🐘 ellmer 🐘 !
Reposted by Howard Baik
🐘 ellmer 🐘 makes it easy and fun to use LLMs from #rstats, and 0.3.0 is out now. Read about the new streamlined chat() function, improvements to tool specifications, and more at www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/07....
ellmer 0.3.0
The newest version of ellmer introduces a simpler `chat()` interface that can works with any provider, a bunch of improvements to tool calling, and a handful of smaller quality of life improvements.
www.tidyverse.org
July 25, 2025 at 1:25 PM
🐘 ellmer 🐘 makes it easy and fun to use LLMs from #rstats, and 0.3.0 is out now. Read about the new streamlined chat() function, improvements to tool specifications, and more at www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/07....
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New blog post! @posit.co Positron doesn't use Rproj files tofor #rstats projects—instead you open folders in the IDE directly. Opening folders can be a little tricky though. This shortcut lets you right click on a folder in macOS Finder to open a it in Positron! www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/07...
July 22, 2025 at 1:25 PM
New blog post! @posit.co Positron doesn't use Rproj files tofor #rstats projects—instead you open folders in the IDE directly. Opening folders can be a little tricky though. This shortcut lets you right click on a folder in macOS Finder to open a it in Positron! www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/07...
Reposted by Howard Baik
Thanks to everyone who responded to my question about what folks should know about using LLMs to generate #rstats: I've summarised the feedback with a few of my thoughts at gist.github.com/hadley/77d42...
llms-for-R.md
GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
gist.github.com
July 11, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Thanks to everyone who responded to my question about what folks should know about using LLMs to generate #rstats: I've summarised the feedback with a few of my thoughts at gist.github.com/hadley/77d42...
Reposted by Howard Baik
Putting myself out there a bit. Honest request from an open-source developer:
Can I please ask you to encourage people you know to stop with the "any updates on this?" discussion post? Every post like that genuinely makes me die inside a little bit.
I'll try to explain in this thread. 1/
Can I please ask you to encourage people you know to stop with the "any updates on this?" discussion post? Every post like that genuinely makes me die inside a little bit.
I'll try to explain in this thread. 1/
June 20, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Putting myself out there a bit. Honest request from an open-source developer:
Can I please ask you to encourage people you know to stop with the "any updates on this?" discussion post? Every post like that genuinely makes me die inside a little bit.
I'll try to explain in this thread. 1/
Can I please ask you to encourage people you know to stop with the "any updates on this?" discussion post? Every post like that genuinely makes me die inside a little bit.
I'll try to explain in this thread. 1/
Reposted by Howard Baik
Chapter 8: Geographic Data I/O 📂🌍💾
Covers how to read and write spatial data in various formats, access open geoportals, and work with geographic web services in R. Includes tips on metadata and exporting maps.
🔗 https://r.geocompx.org/read-write
#rstats #rspatial #geocompx
Covers how to read and write spatial data in various formats, access open geoportals, and work with geographic web services in R. Includes tips on metadata and exporting maps.
🔗 https://r.geocompx.org/read-write
#rstats #rspatial #geocompx
June 15, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Chapter 8: Geographic Data I/O 📂🌍💾
Covers how to read and write spatial data in various formats, access open geoportals, and work with geographic web services in R. Includes tips on metadata and exporting maps.
🔗 https://r.geocompx.org/read-write
#rstats #rspatial #geocompx
Covers how to read and write spatial data in various formats, access open geoportals, and work with geographic web services in R. Includes tips on metadata and exporting maps.
🔗 https://r.geocompx.org/read-write
#rstats #rspatial #geocompx
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Here's the full workshop handout plus annotated slides from "Building software on top of Large Language Models", a three hour tutorial I presented yesterday at PyCon US #PyConUS simonwillison.net/2025/May/15/...
Building software on top of Large Language Models
I presented a three hour workshop at PyCon US yesterday titled Building software on top of Large Language Models. The goal of the workshop was to give participants everything they …
simonwillison.net
May 15, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Here's the full workshop handout plus annotated slides from "Building software on top of Large Language Models", a three hour tutorial I presented yesterday at PyCon US #PyConUS simonwillison.net/2025/May/15/...
Reposted by Howard Baik
🚀 New blog post by Tim Appelhans: State of the (open source) web map – Part I: The base(map)
A thoughtful dive into the open source web mapping tools. Recommended.
Read here: https://tim-salabim.codeberg.page/sotwm/sotwm.html
#webmapping #opensourcegis #maplibre #gischat
A thoughtful dive into the open source web mapping tools. Recommended.
Read here: https://tim-salabim.codeberg.page/sotwm/sotwm.html
#webmapping #opensourcegis #maplibre #gischat
May 7, 2025 at 2:06 PM
🚀 New blog post by Tim Appelhans: State of the (open source) web map – Part I: The base(map)
A thoughtful dive into the open source web mapping tools. Recommended.
Read here: https://tim-salabim.codeberg.page/sotwm/sotwm.html
#webmapping #opensourcegis #maplibre #gischat
A thoughtful dive into the open source web mapping tools. Recommended.
Read here: https://tim-salabim.codeberg.page/sotwm/sotwm.html
#webmapping #opensourcegis #maplibre #gischat
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The following workshop by Sheetal Borar, Chuxin Liu, PhD, and Shefali Shrivastava from the PyData Global conference dives into the foundation of transformer models. This includes building a transformer model from scratch using Python and numpy 🚀.
📽️: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWxD...
#python #ai
📽️: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWxD...
#python #ai
Borar, Liu, & Shrivastava - Build Your Own Transformer | PyData Global 2024
YouTube video by PyData
www.youtube.com
April 28, 2025 at 12:58 PM
The following workshop by Sheetal Borar, Chuxin Liu, PhD, and Shefali Shrivastava from the PyData Global conference dives into the foundation of transformer models. This includes building a transformer model from scratch using Python and numpy 🚀.
📽️: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWxD...
#python #ai
📽️: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWxD...
#python #ai
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On June 13, we will have a workshop on Using LLMs by @hadley.nz
More info: bit.ly/4jmEAJW
Please share!
#RStats #EconSky #AcademicSky
More info: bit.ly/4jmEAJW
Please share!
#RStats #EconSky #AcademicSky
April 19, 2025 at 8:45 AM
On June 13, we will have a workshop on Using LLMs by @hadley.nz
More info: bit.ly/4jmEAJW
Please share!
#RStats #EconSky #AcademicSky
More info: bit.ly/4jmEAJW
Please share!
#RStats #EconSky #AcademicSky
#rstats Can someone explain the meaning of these prefixes in commit messages? "docs" is clear enough, but what do "feat", "chore", and "fledge" mean?
This is from a screenshot of commit messages in the {duckplyr} repo.
This is from a screenshot of commit messages in the {duckplyr} repo.
April 16, 2025 at 4:38 PM
#rstats Can someone explain the meaning of these prefixes in commit messages? "docs" is clear enough, but what do "feat", "chore", and "fledge" mean?
This is from a screenshot of commit messages in the {duckplyr} repo.
This is from a screenshot of commit messages in the {duckplyr} repo.
Reposted by Howard Baik
@emilyriederer.bsky.social nails it on her blog on #shiny modules
Excited to do some deep dives on shiny modules this weekend
emilyriederer.netlify.app/post/shiny-m...
Excited to do some deep dives on shiny modules this weekend
emilyriederer.netlify.app/post/shiny-m...
A beginner’s guide to Shiny modules | Emily Riederer
Don’t believe the documentation! Shiny modules aren’t just for advanced users; they might just be a great entry point for development
emilyriederer.netlify.app
March 2, 2025 at 1:13 AM
@emilyriederer.bsky.social nails it on her blog on #shiny modules
Excited to do some deep dives on shiny modules this weekend
emilyriederer.netlify.app/post/shiny-m...
Excited to do some deep dives on shiny modules this weekend
emilyriederer.netlify.app/post/shiny-m...
New Blog Post: My Notes on "How Tracking Data is Used in Football and What are the Future Challenges", a presentation by @spearman.bsky.social , Laurie Shaw, Javier Fernandez, Suds Gopaladesika, and David Sumpter:
www.howardbaik.com/posts/how-tr...
www.howardbaik.com/posts/how-tr...
How Tracking Data is Used in Football and What are the Future Challenges – Howard Baik
Notes I took watching Youtube video embedded below.
www.howardbaik.com
January 21, 2025 at 8:08 AM
New Blog Post: My Notes on "How Tracking Data is Used in Football and What are the Future Challenges", a presentation by @spearman.bsky.social , Laurie Shaw, Javier Fernandez, Suds Gopaladesika, and David Sumpter:
www.howardbaik.com/posts/how-tr...
www.howardbaik.com/posts/how-tr...