Jack Kennedy 🐀 @_jcken@social.cleverlibre.org

“We trained weasels to count how many customers came into the store” - reasonable; unproblematic; probably a thing you could do.

“We trained weasels to screen resumes of people applying to jobs” - probably a bad idea, especially if the weasels are racist or sexist (the weasels are both racist and sexist).

“We trained weasels to drive a two-ton vehicle on busy city streets” - terrible idea; someone is almost certainly going to die.

My wife says that any time someone proposes doing anything with an ML model, you should replace “AI” in the proposal with “trained weasels” and if it still sounds like a good idea you can go ahead with it.

Our first #DataScience career profile is up @rwdatasci. #DataScientists - if you want to share your career story (so far), do get in touch.

https://realworlddatascience.net/careers/career-profiles/posts/03/28/tamanna-haque.html

It is time for #TidyTuesday somewhere.

Code: https://github.com/mvbloois/tidytuesday

#dataviz #rstats

⏰ | #TidyTuesday

Local time of most countries is ahead of solar time (especially in the northern hemisphere). Countries behind the sun are mostly around the equator.

🔗to #Rstats code at https://github.com/BjnNowak/TidyTuesday/blob/main/SC_TimeZone.R

{ggsound} first prototype

ggplot(mtcars) +
geom_point(aes(mpg, wt)) +
theme_sound_basic()

#RStats #soundon

What's good practice these days for testing #rstats packages before submitting to CRAN? R-hub and Winbuilder are great but don't always run successfully and aren't reproducing some errors reported by CRAN.

A reminder that this is happening today! 🎨 🎨 🎨

Join me and R-Ladies Cambridge to talk about colour palettes in #RStats!

Register: https://www.meetup.com/rladies-cambridge/events/291905265/

#RLadies

If you use #RStats in your research, making sure your research is reproducible is really important 💡💡💡

These slides from Etienne Bacher about good practices to improve reproducibility will be very useful!

https://www.good-practices.etiennebacher.com/#/title-slide

It's time for #TidyTuesday again! Thanks to @jmcastagnetto for sharing the data this week from the Programming Language DataBase 💻💻

I plotted the lifespan of the top 10 languages for 3 different ways of writing comments!

Code: https://github.com/nrennie/tidytuesday/tree/main/2023/2023-03-21

#RStats #R4DS #DataViz

#MapPromptMonday inspired by Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures album cover

Maps show that the population is more concentrated in the capital, Paris, in France than in other countries

#RStats code : https://github.com/BjnNowak/TidyTuesday/blob/main/SC_Joyplot.R

📢 The March North East #DataScience meetup is here! 📢

Tomorrow (March 16th) we'll be welcoming Rebecca Bristow (Oliver Wyman) and Giacamo Bergami (Newcastle University) to the Catalyst, and look forward to a whirlwind tour of ggplot2 workshop from Keith Newman!

https://meetup.com/newcastle-upon-tyne-data-science-meetup/events/291615728/

#RStats