Mike Thomas
mike-thomas.bsky.social
Mike Thomas
@mike-thomas.bsky.social
Chief Data Scientist @ Ketchbrook Analytics | Host of the RWeekly Highlights Podcast | #rstats #python #data
Can’t wait for this! 😁
Coming up in two weeks! Risk 2026 - Michael Thomas
Chief Data Scientist, Ketchbrook Analytics, will present on "Fully Reproducible Model Validation Reports Using Docker, R, Quarto, {renv} and {targets}"

Register! rconsortium.github.io/Risk_website...

@mike-thomas.bsky.social #rstats #risk #docker
February 5, 2026 at 10:16 PM
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"LLMs [only] do a great job at interpreting plots that _don't_ contradict their expectations—it's sort of antithetical to the spirit of science." - @mike-thomas.bsky.social. Thanks for the coverage, yall!

More on @sara-altman.bsky.social and I's bluffbench eval: posit.co/blog/llm-plo...
January 28, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Reposted by Mike Thomas
Episode 219 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

📊 LLM Plot Interpretations @sara-altman.bsky.social @simonpcouch.com
🌎 Soil flux @phytobio.me & John Zobitz
🏎 futurize @henrikbengtsson.bsky.social

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social @jonathankitt.bsky.social 🙏

#rstats #databs
Issue 2026-W05 Highlights
The way LLMs can be a little stubborn when interpreting data visualizations, bringing new meaning to digging for your data and learning along the way, and…
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January 28, 2026 at 12:12 PM
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Episode 218 of the R Weekly Highlights Podcast is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

🤖 Semi-automating 200 PRs @davisvaughan.bsky.social
📈 Accessible Line Charts @nrennie.bsky.social

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & Jon Calder 🙏

#RStats #databs
Issue 2026-W04 Highlights
The inside story of how Claude Code with the proper scope provided a massive boost to drafting hundreds of pull requests, and debunking the myth on…
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January 23, 2026 at 12:12 PM
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A new year of R Weekly Highlights begins with episode 217! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

🤝 Polyglot to pluralism @emilyriederer.bsky.social
📚 RAG knowledge store setup @jumpingrivers.com
📦 tinyshinyserver (Lars Bernhardsson)

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social 🙏

#rstats #databs
Issue 2026-W03 Highlights
It's a new year of R Weekly Highlights! In this episode we learn of the positive intellectual diversity impacting R and Python communities, a great…
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January 14, 2026 at 11:45 AM
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Announcing Risk 2026 (Feb 18–19) - 2-day, 100% online

For anyone using R to measure, report, or mitigate risk (finance, insurance, healthcare, climate, cybersecurity, supply chain, etc.).

Keynote: JD Long, author of R Cookbook. Tickets $25/$50/$70.

rconsortium.github.io/Risk_website

#rstats
January 13, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
YouTube video by Federal Reserve
www.youtube.com
January 12, 2026 at 12:35 AM
Pushed a bug fix to {migrate} for all of the risk analytics folks out there 🚀
Updates on CRAN: Bessel (0.7-0), BGmisc (1.5.2), collapse (2.1.6), earth (5.3.5), epidict (0.2.0), GitStats (2.3.9), hdrcde (3.5.0), migrate (0.5.1), moocore (0.2.0), NMdata (0.2.3)
January 12, 2026 at 4:57 AM
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Excited to see this post by Heather Turner with more details on their recent RSMF grant for enabling future contributions to R.

I'd encourage #rstats folks to give it a read: there are some much-needed modernisation ideas in here.

blog.r-project.org/2025/12/17/r...
RSMF: Enabling the Next Generation of Contributors to R - The R Blog
blog.r-project.org
December 22, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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mutagen was started six (!!) years ago, and has taken a little while to get rolling. I admit I haven't contributed much beyond the hex 😅 we truly appreciate the highlight, @batoolmm.bsky.social, @mike-thomas.bsky.social, and @rpodcast.bsky.social!

Check it out here: github.com/gvelasq/muta...
December 17, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Reposted by Mike Thomas
A milestone for #rstats: FDA expands accepted eCTD file formats for R packages, based on joint work between industry, FDA, and the R Consortium Submissions WG. Details: r-consortium.org/posts/expand...

#fda #regulatory #clinicaltrials
December 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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The R Consortium is excited to announce James “JD” Long as keynote speaker for R!sk 2026, our new online event on using R for risk. Join us Feb 18–19, 2026!

It's not just for insurance—if you use R in climate, healthcare, lots more...

Details: r-consortium.org/posts/r-cons...

#rstats #risk
December 4, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Episode 214 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

🕵️ {mini007} multi-agents (Mohamed El Fodil Ihaddaden)
🏎️ Jarl @etiennebacher.bsky.social
🎨 {rbranding} (Willy Ray & Andrew Pulsipher)

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social 🙏

#RStats #databs
Issue 2025-W48 Highlights
Prepare to deploy multiple LLM-powered agents for your next (secret) missions with mini007, a new contender to the high-performance linter tools with…
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November 26, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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R!sk 2026 is coming. Online event from R Consortium, Feb 18–19, 2026, for anyone using #rstats to model and manage risk.

CFP open now: talks, lightning talks, panels, tutorials due Dec 7, 2025.

Details + submission: rconsortium.github.io/Risk_website...

#risk #datascience
November 20, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Creating polished PDFs from Quarto can be challenging.

At @claritydatastudio.com, we now use Typst for high-quality, branded reports.

@joseph-barbier.bsky.social and I have created a detailed walkthrough to show you how we do it.

Learn more: buff.ly/hRuUEqR

#rstats
November 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Momma, I made it 🙏

www.youtube.com/watch?v=frxq...
Building Multilingual Data Science Teams (Michael Thomas, Ketchbrook Analytics) | posit::conf(2025)
YouTube video by Posit PBC
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November 7, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Episode 213 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

🏎️ Algorithm racing @jonocarroll.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
📊 GenAI for data viz @nrennie.bsky.social
🏗️ Shiny apps with BDD @jakub-sobolewski.bsky.social

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & Sam Parmar 🙏

#RStats #DataBS
Issue 2025-W42 Highlights
Creating your own race to a programming finish line with a hidden gem in mirai, the lowdown on using Generative AI for data visualization with more than a…
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October 15, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Episode 212 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

🦆 Jumping in Ducklakes @novica.bsky.social
🎨 Slidecrafting book! @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social
🤖 Shiny side of LLMs @veerle.hypebright.nl

And a favorite segment returns 😅

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social 🙏

#RStats #databs
novica.bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Reposted by Mike Thomas
Episode 211 of R-Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

🏗️ Parse & edit #markdown documents @ropensci.org
🤖 Vibe-coding a package @jonocarroll.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
🏫 R-Exams quality control @zeileis.org

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & Jon Carroll 🙏

#RStats #DataScience
Issue 2025-W39 Highlights
Fresh off an amazing experience at posit::conf(2025), the R Weekly Highlights podcast is back with episode 211! Eric and Mike share their experiences at…
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September 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Finally got around to converting my LaTeX-based Dev Container setup to Typst.

Docker image is huge (> 4GB) but it renders so fast 🥲

github.com/ketchbrookan...
GitHub - ketchbrookanalytics/quarto-pdf-dev: Development environment for Quarto PDF reports
Development environment for Quarto PDF reports. Contribute to ketchbrookanalytics/quarto-pdf-dev development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
September 2, 2025 at 8:18 PM