Data Quine
Lesley Duff - software engineer and data analyst.
Code and data, made in Scotland. 🏴
#Scotland #RStats
https://www.dataquine.dev
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- Yeay!! I wrote a very opinionated list of tips for working with DuckDB in R! Hope others find it useful. github.com/eriksquires/...
- I’ve just published {typeR}, a small R package that lets you simulate live typing. It prints code To install: devtools::install_github("fgazzelloni/typeR") If you teach or demo R, I’d love your feedback on how it works for you. #rstats #rpackages
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- For years I thought that with any minimum amount of data complexity, a website needed a database backend. The last 2 years with @astro.build has been eye opening for me in how far you can go with a flat, static websites that don't need any form of database whatsoever.
- The scene outside any Irish funeral.
- Harvard University has a 9-course EdX online data science program that teaches R, with topics like dataviz and building machine learning models. You can “audit” any of the courses for free in any order (despite the displayed price, that's for a certificate). #RStats www.edx.org/certific...
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- For this week's #TidyTuesday, I visualized the themes of Charles Dickens's 'A Christmas Carol.' Used ggpage for a page-by-page layout of the novel with color-coded words. Code: github.com/gkaramanis/t... #RStats #dataviz
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- For months I've had a pesky message that shows up in my #RStats test logs and today I realized I can figure out exactly where it's coming from with testthat's location reporter Rscript -e 'devtools::test(reporter = "location")' 2>&1 | tee test.log
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- Merry December folks! Wanna know your most used and co-dependent geoms this past year?! I've built "Spotify Wrapped" for {ggplot2} that produces you an interactive story and analytical tools for your geom usage! #rstats Build your own report by following the docs: gpcds.com/ggplot2wrapp...
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- For day 20 of the #30DayMapChallenge the prompt was "water", so here's the OpenStreetMap non-analog version of day 9's map of Loch Lomond! #RStats #ggplot2 #DataViz
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- Have some free time this weekend? How about 2,500 hours? The recordings from posit::conf(2025) are now online! Learn about the innovations and insights from conf. We celebrated #RStats and #Python, with a focus on next-gen tools & #AI integration. See the info here: posit.co/blog/talks-a...
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- testthat 3.3.0 out now! This is a massive release with tons of improvements including better failure messages, new expectations, improved snapshotting, new vignettes, and much much more: tidyverse.org/blog/2025/11... Post includes some thoughts on developing an #rstats package with Claude Code.
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- Interested in using your data skills for public service locally? My 5-minute #PositConf2025 lightning talk aims to give you some ideas for inspiration! Now on YouTube: youtu.be/fSAoCcZD--Y?...
- The recording of my #rstats posit::conf talk ✨ practical {renv}✨ is available! 🎉 I created this talk for frustrated {renv} users 🫠 and potential {renv} users🤩 youtu.be/l01u7Ue9pIQ?... Even if {renv} isn't on your radar, you may still find this talk interesting if you are curious about🤔...
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- Join a webinar on 17 Nov to find out how you can boost efficiency & confidence with AI & access fully-funded project support. ‘Hands-on Data and AI support for SMEs’ provides practical, bespoke support for Scottish SMEs & social enterprises. Register: community.thedatalab.com/networks/eve...
- 📊 Official statistics must serve everyone, not just government. The RSS calls for a new partnership between producers & users, built on transparency, engagement & co-design. Read our new position paper calling for a better system: bit.ly/3LNwKwU #Statistics #PublicData
- purrr 1.2.0 out now — mostly removing long deprecated functions but a few small performance nad parallel processing improvements. Learn more at www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/11... #rstats
- Behavior-Driven Development in R Shiny: Setting Up Test Preconditions with Given Steps jakubsobolewski.com/blog/bdd-shiny-given #rstats #datascience
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- I'm writing a blog post on making high-quality reports with Quarto and Typst like the ones we recently made for the Johns Hopkins University International Vaccine Access Center. Anything in particular you want to know about how we make reports like these? #rstats
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- Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
- The 1.4 release of @duckdb.org supports using a DuckDB database to serve vector tiles! Of course, I had to try this out in R. Check it out: all 242,000 US Census block groups dynamically served as vector tiles from a DuckDB database, displayed on a MapLibre map from R in Positron.
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- Weird ggplot thing that got me this week with the update to 4.0 - it supports new ink and paper arguments (www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09... ) and they've changed how transparency works! If you a transparent bg, you can control it with theme_*() now #rstats
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