James Goldie
Data engineer @ countercurrent.ai, former #climatehealth 🌡️ + #datajournalism 🗺️
Building, coding and storytelling with #rstats, #js and #swift for fun and for good 😊
- Reposted by James GoldieAnyone familiar with time series animation in QGIS? I have a series of GeoTIFFs with valid (I think) timestamps in the metadata that aren’t recognized as timestamps. And the QGIS tool to automatically assign timestamps thinks a month is always 30 days. 🤷♂️ So I’m at something of a loss.
- Reposted by James GoldieTry it out with Quarto 1.9.18 pre-release ;)
- Very keen to play with the newly merged Typst book support in @quarto.org! Thanks, Quarto team! prerelease.quarto.org/docs/books/
- Reposted by James GoldieWe are organising a conference! visualisingclimate.com
- Join us in Bologna, Italy, 4–6 Nov 2026 for Visualising Climate — the first global conference fully dedicated to climate data visualization and its power to transform public understanding of a changing planet. Come see the data. visualisingclimate.org #VisualisingClimate2026 #DataVis #ClimateCrisis
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- Reposted by James GoldieInstagram link to the heatwave and climate change discussion by Dr. Adam Morgan on ABC News tonight www.instagram.com/reel/DT-Cb6t...
- Reposted by James GoldieThe highest temperature ever recorded in Victoria is 48.8°C at Hopetoun on 7 Feb 2009. The forecast for Tuesday at Ouyen Victoria is 49°C.
- Reposted by James GoldieSome serious heat in the northern and eastern suburbs of Melbourne tomorrow. Temperatures up to 45C as close to the CBD as Preston. Not sure i have seen a forecast for 42C at Ferny Creek - ontop of the Dandenongs - ever before You can check your location's forcast via www.bom.gov.au/australia/me...
- Reposted by James GoldieIn this post I break down the process of how I post-processed my #ggplot charts 📊 to look like they were embroidered into cloth. If you liked this effect, try it out on your own charts as well! Please let me know if something isn't clear. #rstats aman.bh/blog/2025/cr...
- Rhea and I have been tracking our @nytimes.com word games (Wordle, Connections and the Mini) for the past two years. I decided to analyze our 4,200 gameplays with #rstats to determine a winner and made some festively embroidered charts with ggplot. Have a read. #dataviz aman.bh/blog/2025/tw...
- Reposted by James GoldieRhea and I have been tracking our @nytimes.com word games (Wordle, Connections and the Mini) for the past two years. I decided to analyze our 4,200 gameplays with #rstats to determine a winner and made some festively embroidered charts with ggplot. Have a read. #dataviz aman.bh/blog/2025/tw...
- Reposted by James GoldieQuarto friends! I need your help: We are implementing a new QMD parser in Quarto. It will be super nice. But it's a big change, and we want to minimize the impact. 1. Can you share a link to your Quarto project at github.com/quarto-dev/q... 2. repost this and let your Quarto friends know too?
- This Calibri story is wild when you consider the US Government designed and open sourced a far better looking sans serif font, Public Sans (public-sans.digital.gov) www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
- (Stepping away to fork Public Sans while I can)
- Reposted by James GoldieSvelte...in Quarto!?! This extension by @jamesgoldie.dev looks wonderful! quarto-svelte.jamesgoldie.dev
- Reposted by James GoldieIf you missed my talk but still want some tips for writing good code for scientists, my slides are here: daxkellie.quarto.pub/a-guide-to-w... All the links and references are there too in case you want to see more! 😀🧪🌏 #ESA2025 #rstats #quartopub
- Reposted by James Goldiedev.to/aws-builders... Building serverless apps on AWS typically involves using DynamoDB for a database as it's truly serverless. It is somewhat difficult to start with and the interface isn't super easy to navigate. The recent multi-attribute composite key support is a big win for us. (1️⃣/4️⃣) 🧵
- Reposted by James GoldieSevere Tropical #CycloneFina - now category 3 - over Van Diemen Gulf, north east of Darwin. www.bom.gov.au/warning/trop...
- Reposted by James GoldieAustralian #databs #datascience jobs 👀
- Join the ARDC team! Research Data Specialist (AI/ML) 📍 #Sydney Close 26 Nov 🔗 ow.ly/EZwi50Xrrwo Engagements Team Manager 📍#Sydney Close 26 Nov 🔗 ow.ly/oHwh50Xrrwm Cloud Infrastructure and Services Architect 📍#Melbourne Close 1 Dec 🔗 ow.ly/FkxB50Xrrwk #jobalert
- Anyone know of a better solution for Google Chat on the desktop than the web app? The web app is really rough around the edges. Would love to sideload the iOS app, even though I'd lose the Google Meet integration.
- Reposted by James GoldieEveryone is talking about AI and ignoring the biggest technological innovation of our time: the Bureau of Meteorology finally setting up SSL
- Real excited that @vscode.dev can do OS notifications when Tasks finish now. I've been wanting this one for years — plenty of #rstats devs who want to be able to minimise their code editor while a chunky analysis runs!
- Yeeeeees. It even reports run time without any extra config! #rstats
- Looking forward to this making its way downstream to @posit.co's Positron in the near future!
- Reposted by James GoldieMy weekly newsletter is out! This week’s agenda: 🔹 Open Source of the Week - The quarto-svelte project 🔹 New learning resources - 🔹 Book of the week - R for Economic Research (second edition) by J. Renato Leripio ramikrispin.substack.com/p/issue-56-r... #rstats #ai #machinelearning #quartopub
- Reposted by James GoldieTotally forgot that @jamesgoldie.dev is working on integrating Svelte and Quarto / R! github.com/jimjam-slam/...
- My weekly newsletter is out! This week’s agenda: 🔹 Open Source of the Week - The quarto-svelte project 🔹 New learning resources - 🔹 Book of the week - R for Economic Research (second edition) by J. Renato Leripio ramikrispin.substack.com/p/issue-56-r... #rstats #ai #machinelearning #quartopub
- There’s a special place in hell for Matter appliance manufacturers who put the pairing code in the box and not on the device itself (or, better yet, both)
- There’s so much packed into plumber2, it looks rad as hell. Serving parameterised Quarto reports off an API endpoint with a single tag… so cool!
- I am super hyped to finally share the first release of plumber2 with all of you. This has been the center of my attention for a big part of 2025 and I hope you'll find it a worthy update to the venerable plumber package. The blog post will tell you more #rstats
- Reposted by James Goldie🚨#datavis Job alert 🚨 Fancy working with us in London as a researcher using @observablehq.com Plot for accessible #datavis? To support people with language disability in the use of data visualization for everyday decision making. www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/jobs/a...
- Reposted by James GoldieDay 2 of WOMBAT is ✨ single stream talks ✨, you'll be hearing from speakers like: @nrennie.bsky.social, @jamesgoldie.dev, @jenrichmondphd.bsky.social, @cynthiahqy.bsky.social and @harriet-mason.bsky.social and more! See all speakers: wombat2025.numbat.space/program/work... Hope to see you there!
- Reposted by James GoldieCome along to OceaniaR in Canberra! Why? Because we'll talk about fun things you can do with #rstats all day, and work on fun projects. It's an inclusive space, with a great mix of those newer to R, as well as experienced users, too! Some examples from last year:
- Register today for your spot in the 2025 OceaniaR Hackathon in Canberra This event is a great opportunity to learn and participate in a range of projects around data analysis, statistics, data science and R programming. Register here: statsocaus.github.io/oceaniar-hac... #rstats #datascience
- Reposted by James GoldieI'm happy to report the most important transition works perfectly simple-vt-demos.jakearchibald.com/batman-trans...
- Reposted by James GoldieMake errors more accessible and better with #rstats package {more} by @milesmcbain.bsky.social - inspired by rustc's detailed error explanations! This idea feels so good. github.com/milesmcbain/...
- Reposted by James GoldieTHANK you so much for all your likes and shares this week. It has been super fun! I would love to connect with people who doing cool things in data, PLEASE follow me at @jenrichmondphd.bsky.social Check out my website jenrichmond.github.io and Linkedin www.linkedin.com/in/jenrichmo...
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View full threadReposted by James GoldieSigning off by saying that I am looking for a NEW job!! 📊 I get genuinely excited about data and creating #rstats visualizations that tell stories 🤯 I'm really good at taking complex technical stuff and making it click for people 💪 I love spotting gaps and creating things to fill them
- Registration for @wombat.numbat.space is open — come along and let’s talk about scrollytelling and telling stories with data!
- Making effective scrollytelling visualisations is hard, but @jamesgoldie.dev 's Closeread makes it so much easier. Come learn about Closeread's design decisions and what's coming next for this great tool. wombat2025.numbat.space/program/work... #RStats #Python #BusinessAnalytics #DataViz
- Reposted by James GoldieOK @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social you are a day ahead of yourself. Things that make #rstats feel magic is my rocur theme for TOMORROW. But this is definitely magic: drag and drop to move and resize images in revealjs slides- you are a wizard!!
- Reposted by James GoldieRegister today for your spot in the 2025 OceaniaR Hackathon in Canberra This event is a great opportunity to learn and participate in a range of projects around data analysis, statistics, data science and R programming. Register here: statsocaus.github.io/oceaniar-hac... #rstats #datascience
- Reposted by James GoldieHi folks 👋 Come to WOMBAT 2025, my favourite conference! Day 1: affordable tutorials Day 2: single-stream talks Max 100 ppl: actually meet and interact with everyone And (!!) I'll be running a half-day intro to R packages, aimed at new/intermediate #rstats users. wombat2025.numbat.space
- If you want to organise your own personal code collection or contribute to the broader #RStats ecosystem, you can write your R package!📦️ Nick Tierney will show how to use essential tools that make creating a package a breeze. Read more and register here: wombat2025.numbat.space/program/tuto...
- Reposted by James Goldie100% agree + #RStats WebR works in Notebooks 2.0 & Desktop! I went into some detail abt Notebooks & Desktop this past week: dailydrop.hrbrmstr.dev/2025/07/31/d...
- I've been playing with the new Observable Notebooks 2.0 over the past days and I'm amazed. While still a preview I think it's already a serious alternative to R or Jupyter notebooks. Love that it works locally now and that notebooks are just HTML files with vanilla JS observablehq.com/notebook-kit/
- Reposted by James GoldieIt's been a while since I last shared my starter pack If you're a stats/data person in or from the Pacific region (not just Australia or Aotearoa) and would like to be included, please let me know! #statssky #episky #databs #rstats #python
- Re-sharing my starter pack so I can update my pinned post If you're a statistician, data scientist, or someone doing statsy or data sciencey things in Australia or Aotearoa (New Zealand) and want to be on the list, just let me know! go.bsky.app/3wERdAoat://did:plc:kk6ztlsaka6mdlpursuwd4yt/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3l7tpsmbvct23
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