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January 27, 2025

A few good data-related reads from my log this week:

  • Nicola Rennie, Learning Julia with #TidyTuesday and Tidier.jl. I’m interested in expanding my programming breadth. Tidier is a Julia package that implements many of the verbs found in R’s tidyverse, and looks to make for a highly usable starting point for doing some practical things with the language.

  • You can just hack on ATProto, by Vicki Boykis. Geeze, everything Vicki posts is so good. I love this writeup of a project experimenting with the Bluesky API and firehose feed.

  • Experimenting with Positron? I’m using it for just about everything these days, and this is a good primer on how projects in Positron work, contrasted with Rproj-based projects in RStudio.