New blog post: Adding Alt Text in Quarto with Claude Code. Emil Hvitfeldt @[email protected] published a Claude Code skill giving you a new slash command to create alt text for digital accessibility for all of your figures in your Quarto documents. doi.org/10.59350/ej0... #Rstats

Adding Alt Text in Quarto with...
Adding Alt Text in Quarto with Claude Code

Emil Hvitfeldt published a Claude Code skill giving you a new slash command to create alt text for digital accessibility for all of your figures in your Quarto document.

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typstable: Better Typst Tables cran.r-project.org/web/packages... #Rstats #databs
Schedule Released: 2026 Applied Machine Learning Conference appliedml.us/2026/schedule/

Schedule | Applied Machine Lea...
Schedule | Applied Machine Learning Conference

A two-day conference bringing together data scientists, AI engineers, and ML practitioners in Charlottesville, VA. April 17-18, 2026.

β€œThe companies three to five years from now that are going to be the most successful are those companies that doubled down on entry level hiring in this environment,” LaMoreaux said. www.cio.com/article/4134... #databs

IBM looks beyond short-term AI...
IBM looks beyond short-term AI gains, tripling entry-level hiring

The tech giant argues that increasing entry-level hiring is the only way to avoid a hollowed-out talent pipeline five years from now.

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Weekly Recap (March 6, 2026): Biology essays, fast bio bounty, PDF accessibility in Quarto, Claude Skills for R, sex lives of neanderthals and humans, Ginkgo cloud lab, Applied Machine Learning Conference, AI in Science #Rstats doi.org/10.59350/2n1... πŸ§¬πŸ’»πŸ§ͺ

Weekly Recap (March 6, 2026)
Weekly Recap (March 6, 2026)

Biology essays, fast bio bounty, PDF accessibility in Quarto, Claude Skills for R, sex lives of neanderthals and humans, Ginkgo cloud lab, Applied Machine Learning Conference, AI in Science

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New entries in my running log of AI's transformation of work. #databs open.substack.com/pub/thetreel...

AI's transformation of work
AI's transformation of work

A running log of AI doing the work humans do. Concrete examples, not predictions.

The Treeline
Tickets for the 2026 Applied Machine Learning Conference are now on sale! These will sell out fast. April 17-18, Charlottesville VA appliedml.us/2026/register/. Early bird pricing through March 20, starting at only $75
Conference registration for the 2026 Applied Machine Learning Conference is now open! The conference will take place on April 17–18 in Charlottesville, Virginia β€” now just 7 weeks away. appliedml.us/2026/register/

Conference Registration | Appl...
Conference Registration | Applied Machine Learning Conference

A two-day conference bringing together data scientists, AI engineers, and ML practitioners in Charlottesville, VA. April 17-18, 2026.

Just found reviewer from @[email protected]: Human-scale LLM code review, as if a member of the tidyverse team were there with you to workshop your code for reproducibility, readability, and resilience. Note it's still very experimental. #Rstats github.com/simonpcouch/...
Woah, look at this MCP server for querying CKAN data portals. CKAN is everywhere in the #opendata world so this is a big deal 🀩. github.com/ondata/ckan... #databs

GitHub - ondata/ckan-mcp-serve...
GitHub - ondata/ckan-mcp-server: MCP server for querying CKAN open data portals (package search, DataStore SQL, organizations, groups, tags)

MCP server for querying CKAN open data portals (package search, DataStore SQL, organizations, groups, tags) - ondata/ckan-mcp-server

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