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Allison Horst
@allisonhorst.bsky.social
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DevRel @observablehq.com, previously teaching faculty (Environmental Data Science) at UC Santa Barbara. PhD, Environmental Science and Management. Data science | R | data visualization | education | art | www.allisonhorst.com
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Notebooks 2.0 is here! 📓🔮 Previewing today:
Notebook Kit, an open file format for notebooks with open-source tooling for generating static sites; and
Observable Desktop, a macOS desktop application for editing notebooks as local files, with a radical new approach to AI. observablehq.com/notebooks/2/
Observable Notebooks 2.0 Technology Preview | Observable
observablehq.com
This is so exciting to see! Congratulations and thank you to everyone who contributed 👏❤️
Happy first day of December! Hope you're skating through your R CMD checks 🤍❄️⛸️
Resspondamess through and through
A quick bag of tortilla chips.
OR IS IT observable_insight_prep <- c("Allison", "Tanya")?
A chance to partner with @allisonhorst.bsky.social?!

No brainer YES. She’s array of sunshine ☀️
These look so great 🤩 Makes me want to start a TidyTuesday Framework project!
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To celebrate this gem of a book by @statsteph.bsky.social, @ivelasq3.bsky.social and Rebecca Powell on complex survey data with #RStats and the #tidyverse, we are giving away one copy to a lucky winner. To enter, re-post this and follow me by Nov 24. Not affiliated with bsky.
lol nightmarish stuff 😂😱
I recently had the opportunity to interview Ben Welsh (Reuters news applications editor), during a very interesting time for data journalists. Check out the story below! 👇
We chatted with award-winning journalist and Reuters applications editor Ben Welsh about building back-end data pipelines for data journalism. Learn how he's cutting down the time data journalists spend writing code, to make time for more important work: https://buff.ly/4fJFIF8
Apricot mallow quick sketch
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I'm a climate scientist living in Texas who served as a lead author on the National Climate Assessment under the previous Trump administration. I witnessed first-hand its chilling impact on access to data, funding & publication of research, implementation of solutions, and scientists themselves. 🧵
Trump victory has sweeping climate change consequences
From the endorsement of climate denial to a brain drain of climate scientists, Trump's victory will bring major changes.
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lol I had *completely* forgotten about this version of evil recipes 😂. And yeah @ivelasq3.bsky.social & @kellybodwin.bsky.social I'm up for an R dangers hex 🖤
👻 Here's the ✨ new 2024 art, feat. community responses to the question "What's something in R that feels tempting, but is actually dangerous?"

I couldn't fit them all, so I've added a blank version 👇🧵 so you can make your own (could be a fun class activity 😉)

Happy Halloween, #rstats world! 🤡🎈
Aw this warms my heart 😍, so glad you two found each other there!
Little R horror monsters (2022). New R community inspired Halloween 2024 illustration coming up tomorrow 🎃🎈
I plead guilty, show mercy ✋
I'm having a ton of fun drawing it 👻 and YES, a real life pumpkin mashup??? 🎃🖤🧡!!