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Russell Shean
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Independent freelance consultant |
data scientist | data engineer | software developer

#rstats #python #pydata #bash #databs #azure python tools for #powerbi

DMs about freelance projects, collaborations, or just to chat welcome 😁
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rshean.bsky.social
Do you use #PowerBI but wish you could automate the tedious repetitive bits?

I'm excited to share a python package I'm working on to create Power BI dashboards, add data sets and visual features such as charts, maps, slicers and text using python functions. #fabric #Dataviz
dariia.bsky.social Dariia Mykhailyshyna @dariia.bsky.social · May 9
❗️Our next workshop will be on May 22nd, 6 pm CEST, on Power Bpy: python package for automating and accelerating Power BI dashboard development by
@rshean.bsky.social!
Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine!
Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S
Please share!
#AcademicSky #EconSky #Python
May 19, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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cascadiarconf.bsky.social
🚨 Registration is OPEN for Cascadia R Conf 2025!

Join us June 20–21 in Portland for workshops, talks, and our keynote from David Keyes: “25 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do with R” 🧠✨

Full agenda + tickets: cascadiarconf.com
#rstats #datascience
CascadiaRConf
Cascadia R Conference is an R conference serving the Pacific Northwest region (Alaska/British Columbia/Washington/Oregon/California).
cascadiarconf.com
April 23, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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aman.bh
Made a little something to help students quickly convert between wide and long data for my (no-code) viz class. Helpful for when Datawrapper or Rawgraphs insist on a particular format for certain chart types. Built with #svelte and #rstats using webR!

pivotteer.netlify.app
March 30, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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ekoski1.bsky.social
while it's on a personal phone, in a chat window or wherever. This matters to you only if your information is of interest to nation state actors. For many people this isn't a concern. People protesting their government do have such concerns and must take additional precautions (see eff.org) 3/
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Defending your rights in the digital world
eff.org
March 26, 2025 at 5:52 AM
rshean.bsky.social
Excited (and a little nervous!) to share that I'll be giving a talk for @dariia.bsky.social's Workshops for Ukraine series about a #python package I'm working on to create #PowerBI dashboards with python instead of Power BI Desktop. #databs #pydata #dataviz #datavis

sites.google.com/view/dariia-...
Screenshot of the talk announcement. To read the text, please visit the following link: https://sites.google.com/view/dariia-mykhailyshyna/main/r-workshops-for-ukraine#h.sj6g2dwadp0k
March 22, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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nhsrcommunity.bsky.social
☕ Coffee and Coding ☕

Do you have an interesting piece of code/work to showcase, an opportunity for collaboration or a code dilemma you would like help with?

We would love to hear from you at Coffee and Coding – join the NHS-R Community Slack for more info (postcard.nhsrcommunity.com)!

#rstats
NHS-R Community
postcard.nhsrcommunity.com
March 18, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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coatless.bsky.social
You absolutely CAN make #Python use 1-based indexing! Your nightmares are now reality (for list, tuple, & str)! 😈

The code does exactly this by wrapping collections with a clever OneBasedIndex class that automatically adjusts indices behind the scenes.

💻: colab.research.google.com/github/coatl...
A screenshot that displays code that overrides Python's built-in types (list, tuple, and str) with custom implementations that use a class called OneBasedIndex. The code includes examples of how these one-based collections work - creating and accessing elements starting from index 1 instead of the default 0. Examples demonstrate: Creating a list and accessing its first element with index 1 Modifying elements using one-based indexing Working with tuples using one-based indexing Accessing string characters starting from index 1 A screenshot of code that shows the implementation of the OneBasedIndex class itself in Python. This wrapper class handles the conversion between one-based indexing (used by the user) and zero-based indexing (used internally by Python). It includes methods for: Getting items with 1-based indices Setting items with 1-based indices Handling special cases like slices Forwarding standard Python collection methods Implementing list-specific methods like append, extend, insert, and pop Implementing tuple-specific methods like count and index
March 12, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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yoshemitzu.bsky.social
This is a great primer on Audrey Tang and pluralism. YouTube link to the doc is downthread.
radxchange.bsky.social RadicalxChange Foundation @radxchange.bsky.social · Mar 10
Good Enough Ancestor is out now! Learn the story of Audrey Tang ( @audreyt.org ) as she reflects on democracy in Taiwan and around the globe. www.combinationsmag.com/good-enough-...
Close-up photo of a Taiwanese woman's face with long, dark, straight hair holding three lit incense sticks.
March 11, 2025 at 3:39 AM
rshean.bsky.social
喜歡用 #python 嗎？ 2025年9月6-7日在 #台灣
嗎？

#PyCon #Taiwan 2025大會已經開放投稿到4月5日為止 🐍🥳🙆

你在等蛇麼呢？ 現在就可以去這裡投: reurl.cc/M6Qnnm

不知道地點還沒有決定還是我沒有找到而已😅， 但更多資訊在:

Twitter: x.com/PyConTW?t=HM...

官方網站: tw.pycon.org/2025/zh-hant

Don't read Chinese? 😆 I'll post an English version soon too!
#pycontw2025 #pycontw
March 7, 2025 at 11:00 PM
rshean.bsky.social
One my weirder memories from travelling in China was visiting Tiananmen square. Inside dozens of men dressed like tourists were standing alone just watching ppl.

It took me a while to realize that despite being near the forbidden city and houhai, plainclothes police outnumbered actual tourists

1/
March 7, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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macloo.bsky.social
What language(s) would you use for different data journalism tasks? Four expert data journalists answer - #NICAR25 - (1/2)
Analyzing a small dataset: Tazbia: Python in a google colab notebook Kai: Excel or Google Sheets Carla: Google Sheets or Excel Nael: GSheets / TS and SDA library Analyzing a huge dataset: Tazbia: Python using a Jupyter notebook with a database or Neo4J Kai: Python + Pandas library Carla: Jupyter notebook using pandas library Nael: TS with SDA library Creating simple charts: Tazbia: Datawrapper/ Tableau/Flourish Kai: Flourish, infogram, datawrapper etc Carla: Datawrapper or Illustrator Nael: Datawrapper / TS with SDA and Plot Creating interactive data visualizations: Tazbia: d3.js on the observable platform Kai: Really depends* Carla: Javascript with D3, set up in Node Nael: TS with Svelte, D3 and ThreeJS
March 6, 2025 at 10:32 PM
rshean.bsky.social
Anyone else just hear back that their #cste abstract was accepted for the 2025 Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists conference in Grand Rapids?

I just had 3 #informatics abstracts accepted! 😁

#PublicHealth #episky #epidemiology #DataModernization
The Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) is pleased to invite you to present at the 2025 CSTE Annual Conference. All sessions will be presented live, in-person in Grand Rapids, Michigan during the conference dates of June 8-12, 2025. Your abstract 22107 - Just Double Click on This to Automatically to Set up an R Environment: How to Use Batch Scripts to Make It Easier for Colleagues to Start Using Your R Projects was selected by the Planning Committee for a Breakout presentation in the session titled Surveillance and Informatics I - Future-Ready Data: Empowering Public Health with Modernization Tools and Technologies. The Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) is pleased to invite you to present at the 2025 CSTE Annual Conference. All sessions will be presented live, in-person in Grand Rapids, Michigan during the conference dates of June 8-12, 2025. Your abstract 22102 - Build Dashboards like a Boss: How to Version Control Power BI Dashboards was selected by the Planning Committee for a Breakout presentation in the session titled Surveillance and Informatics I - Turning Numbers into Stories: The Art and Impact of Data Visualization. The Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) is pleased to invite you to present at the 2025 CSTE Annual Conference. All sessions will be presented live, in-person in Grand Rapids, Michigan during the conference dates of June 8-12, 2025. Your abstract 22104 - Cloudy with a Chance of Automation: A Case for Developing Standard Cloud Tools for Epidemiology and Public Health was selected by the Planning Committee for a Breakout presentation in the session titled Surveillance & Informatics I - Data 2.0: Exploring the Hot Topics Shaping Data Modernization.
March 6, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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posit.co
Closeread Prize winners are here! 🏆

Want to create engaging, scroll-based stories with your data? See stunning scrollytelling examples made with Quarto: posit.co/blog/closere...

Learn more about Closeread and its power to create dynamic narratives. Congrats winners! #Quarto #RStats #Python
February 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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garchanjo.com
You can bypass DeepSeek AI's censorship by requesting responses in ASCII code instead of plain text.

I've tested various inputs and observed numerous instances of answer post-processing.
February 21, 2025 at 3:46 PM
rshean.bsky.social
In grad school when we we're all learning #rstats I tried to get a thing called barR started where we'd all go to a bar and work on R projects together. Halfway across the world and a few years later I finally found the perfect venue 😄
R bar the perfect place for bar R R bar: Tucson's best alley bar for learning R
February 23, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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rmkubinec.bsky.social
🚨 Blog post 🚨

What business does a political scientist have analyzing NASA asteroid impacts?

We have #rstats tools in social science that can help prevent panic due to fluctuating measurement noise in NASA 💥🌍 estimates.

Includes forecasts of 🎇 on 🌎👇

Link: www.robertkubinec.com/post/nasa_be...
February 20, 2025 at 6:10 PM
rshean.bsky.social
I discovered an awesome pre built github action to deploy an #rshiny app to shinyapps.io

github.com/DeeNA95/shin...
Which is a fork of this:
github.com/BDSI-Utwente...

#rstats #rspatial
shinyapps.io
shinyapps.io
shinyapps.io
February 19, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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pp0196.bsky.social
It is safe to say one should always assume you can find R anywhere because somebody said why not r4pi.org 😂

look at another recent example here
stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-...
R for the Raspberry Pi
r4pi.org
February 18, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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tangandhara.bsky.social
#30DayMapChallenge - day 25 - heat

In the heat of battle M23 rebels (and by extension Rwandan military) have, over the past year, largely been attacking civilians and state forces in Nord-Kivu, according to @acleddata.bsky.social data.

#rstats #dataviz
The plots show the main instances of political violence in eastern DR Congo that involves the Rwandan backed M23 rebels between Jan 2024 - early Feb 2025. The three main types of violence involve M23 attacks targeting either Congolese civilians; a collection of rebel groups allied with the government that are known as EPLC or Wazalendo; or the Congolese military.
February 16, 2025 at 12:29 AM
rshean.bsky.social
I discovered adding #JavaScript to #quarto headers and now instead of actually learning quarto parameters😆 I'm using JS to change page titles, remove elements & change CSS.

The #python script in the picture runs on #GitHub actions, modifies the repo readme, appends JS & copies it to a website. /1
This python script is executed by Github actions. It takes the repo's readme, switches the language in code highlighting blocks and appends JavaScript to: 1. Add a page title other than "index" 2. Change an image size and it's CSS float property 3. Remove quarto figure captions Could this be done with CSS or quarto parameters? Probably! 😅 I like this though because it's a good chance to practice using JavaScript and because I can see immediately what the script will do by running the js code in the console on the rendered webpage instead of needing to rerender the website first to see what a quarto parameter will do. This script runs after the quarto and bootstrap js scripts and the CSS style sheets so I don't have to worry about a change getting overwritten by something else 😁 Why reappend the JavaScript each time and not just create a qmd file? I want to both edit the readme.md file directly without creating a readme.qmd file first and update the webpage to include all changes to the readme file automatically.
February 13, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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user-conf.bsky.social
UseR! 2025 Call for Proposals is now open! We invite R users and developers from around our region and the world to submit abstracts for useR! 2025.
Deadline: Monday 3rd March 2025

useR! will be held from August 8th to 10th at Duke University in Durham, NC, USA.

user2025.r-project.org/call
#RStats
Call for Submissions – useR! 2025
user2025.r-project.org
February 3, 2025 at 7:01 PM
rshean.bsky.social
For Windows
This assumes no admin rights, if you have admin rights there are more options: superuser.com/a/1026940

1. Find your #Rstats executable
2. Create a new folder
3. Inside folder add a batch script to launch R with --no-save arg
4. Add folder to path

gist: gist.github.com/Russell-Shea...
FIRST HALF Here are some commands you can run in command prompt to 1. create a new folder called "my_custom_bin" 2. create a batch script inside "my_custom_bin" with the following: @echo off "C:/Program Files/R/R-4.4.2/bin/r.exe" --no-save These commands could be run individually in a command prompt window or as a batch script. These steps could also be done manually. Code is available as gist in link above. SECOND HALF Here are some commands you can run in command prompt to 1. create a new powershell script 2. execute the powershell script to add "my_custom_bin" to the path These commands should be run after the commands in the first screenshot. They could be run individually in a command prompt window or combined with the first screenshot as a batch script. The powershell script could also be run directly in powershell..... You can add to the path manually by going to "edit environmental variables for your account" in control panel, then edit "Path" under user variables and then add the full path to "my_custom_bin" After you're finished setting all this up, any time you type "R" in a terminal, windows will search the path, find the R.bat file in "my_custom_bin" and execute the batch script. The batch script will launch R with the --no-save option enabled. This may not work if R is already on your path?
January 30, 2025 at 12:09 AM
rshean.bsky.social
Ha! I figured out how to disable the "save workspace image ?" prompt when exiting #Rstats from a terminal

Here's how I did it (in Ubuntu; I'm going to solve windows cmd tomorrow at work)

Details in alt text!
credit to this blog that I shamelessly copied from: www.r-bloggers.com/2009/03/r-ti...
To open and edit the bash profile file with nano, enter this command in a terminal: nano ~/.bashrc Add this to the file: alias R='R --no-save' To save (Ctrl + O is what ^O means) Ctrl + O To exit nano Ctrl + X Restart the terminal for the change to take effect. The option in the alt text assumes that R is already on your path as "R". The option in the image/blog link is probably safer because it checks the bin for R, but it's also waaay more typing :D .
January 29, 2025 at 5:46 AM