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Mike Bostock @ocks.org · Jul 29

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

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Allison Horst @allisonhorst.bsky.social · Jul 7

- My intro course on data wrangling & analysis in JS: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
- Intro course on data visualization w/ Observable Plot: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Course: Introduction to data wrangling and analysis in JavaScript with Allison Horst - YouTube

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Allison Horst @allisonhorst.bsky.social · Jul 7

I do! Here are some I made specifically with #rstats folks in mind:

- Data wrangling w/ Arquero: observablehq.com/@observableh...
- Observable Plot from ggplot2: observablehq.com/@observableh...
- Data wrangling in R, Python, JS, + SQL: observablehq.com/@observableh...

Wrangling data in JavaScript with Arquero: a primer for R users

Quick compare: tidyverse & Arquero side-by-side If you're familiar with wrangling data using tidyverse functions in R, the Arquero library by Jeffrey Heer provides similar verbs for essential cleaning...

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Allison Horst @allisonhorst.bsky.social · Feb 24

This is so exciting to see! Congratulations and thank you to everyone who contributed 👏❤️

Allison Horst @allisonhorst.bsky.social · Dec 1

Happy first day of December! Hope you're skating through your R CMD checks 🤍❄️⛸️

A cute round monster, smiling while skating on a frozen pond in a winter snowscape with frosty pine trees. The skate tracks reveal what developers hope for in package checks: "0 warnings, 0 errors, 0 notes."

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Allison Horst @allisonhorst.bsky.social · Nov 29

also holidays

Cartoon split screen, on the left a demoralized zombified data scientist fails to write code at 5pm Friday, needing a serious break. On the right, they've woken up and look totally refreshed and happy at 6am on Saturday, the scene now looking delightful.

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Allison Horst @allisonhorst.bsky.social · Nov 28

Grateful for all you #dataviz & #databs turkeys.

A cartoon turkey looks on in frustration at a sunburst chart, drawn and colored to look like a flared turkey tail.

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Allison Horst @allisonhorst.bsky.social · Nov 27

Resspondamess through and through

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Allison Horst @allisonhorst.bsky.social · Nov 27

A quick bag of tortilla chips.

Digital sketch of a bag of Mission tortilla chips.

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Allison Horst @allisonhorst.bsky.social · Nov 25

OR IS IT observable_insight_prep <- c("Allison", "Tanya")?

Tanya Shapiro @tanyashapiro.bsky.social · Nov 25

A chance to partner with @allisonhorst.bsky.social?!

No brainer YES. She’s array of sunshine ☀️

Snapshot of a Google Meeting invite titled “const observableInsightPrep = [‘Allison’, ‘Tanya’]”

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Allison Horst @allisonhorst.bsky.social · Nov 25

These look so great 🤩 Makes me want to start a TidyTuesday Framework project!

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Lara @laracrc.bsky.social · Nov 21

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.

Book cover of the book 'Exploring complex survey data analysis using R', showing a light blue background with a hand-drawn map showing mountains, houses, roads and the sea.

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Allison Horst @allisonhorst.bsky.social · Nov 20

lol nightmarish stuff 😂😱

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Allison Horst @allisonhorst.bsky.social · Nov 12

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! 👇

Observable @observablehq.com · Nov 12

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

Allison Horst @allisonhorst.bsky.social · Nov 11

Apricot mallow quick sketch

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Allison Horst @allisonhorst.bsky.social · Nov 9

love that place!

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · Nov 6

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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Allison Horst @allisonhorst.bsky.social · Nov 2

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 🖤

Allison Horst @allisonhorst.bsky.social · Oct 31

Blank version:

Allison Horst @allisonhorst.bsky.social · Oct 31

👻 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! 🤡🎈

An illustration recreating the It movie poster, where a monster version of Pennywise peers out of a storm drain holding red balloons and hex stickers, enticing a little monster in a yellow raincoat who looks on. On the balloons are written different things to be cautious about in R / stats. On the raincoat are different hex stickers (for janitor, naniar, usethis, dplyr, renv...).

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Allison Horst @allisonhorst.bsky.social · Oct 30

Aw this warms my heart 😍, so glad you two found each other there!

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Allison Horst @allisonhorst.bsky.social · Oct 30

Little R horror monsters (2022). New R community inspired Halloween 2024 illustration coming up tomorrow 🎃🎈

Small fuzzy R monsters in costume as famous villains from horror movies. Left to right: Chucky (wearing a wig, rainbow shirt and overalls, with stitches on its face), the girl from The Ring (black long hair over face), Hannibal Lecter (masked with bars in front of mouth), and Jason (iconic hockey mask). On the wall behind them are different menacing tools (butcher knives, saws, scythe) with scary things on them, e.g. "Can't automatically merge," "screenshot error message," "no such file or directory", "$ operator is invalid for atomic vectors."

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Allison Horst @allisonhorst.bsky.social · Oct 30

I plead guilty, show mercy ✋

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Allison Horst @allisonhorst.bsky.social · Oct 30

I'm having a ton of fun drawing it 👻 and YES, a real life pumpkin mashup??? 🎃🖤🧡!!