New post with @joshuamarie: Bayesian Neural Networks in {tidymodels} with {kindling} 🔥
BNNs learn weight distributions instead of fixed values — giving uncertainty estimates alongside predictions, all within a standard {tidymodels} workflow.
👉 https://statsandr.com/blog/bayesian-neural-networks-in-tidymodels-with-kindling/
✨ Introduction to tidymodels
🗓 March 27, 2026 | ⏰ 9:30–11:00 AM (PHT)
🎤 Emil Hvitfeldt | 💻 Zoom (link after RSVP)
🔗 Register: https://www.meetup.com/r-nvsu/events/313596851/
🚀 New blog post live!
Together with @joshuamarie, we explore how to do more with neural networks in R using {kindling}, a higher-level interface to {torch} that makes building, training & tuning deep learning models smoother (and tidymodels-friendly)
👉 https://statsandr.com/blog/you-can-do-more-for-neural-networks-in-r-with-kindling/
rOpenSci will be participating in @latinr_conf!
Here is the key data for your participation:
🎙️ Keynotes
- Heather Turner: Lowering Barriers to Contributing to R.
- Stephanie Zimmer: Transforming a team to open-source first.
- TRACE-LAC Team. Lo invisible del código abierto: Lecciones desde el proyecto TRACE-LAC / Epiverso para conectar el desarrollo de software con la salud pública
🎓 Tutorials by rOpenSci members:
📌 ¡Miércoles, Git! Manejo de errores en Git y no morir en el intento — @maelle , @yabellini. Registration: https://www.eventbrite.cl/e/miercoles-git-manejo-de-errores-en-git-y-no-morir-en-el-intento-tickets-1937068908249
📌 Introducción a #Tidymodels — Francisco Cardozo & Edgar Ruiz. Registration: https://www.eventbrite.cl/e/introducion-a-tidymodels-tickets-1962543491413
📌 Automatización de workflows en R y Python con #targets y #Snakemake — Diana García. Registration: https://www.eventbrite.cl/e/automatizacion-de-workflows-en-r-y-python-con-targets-y-snakemake-tickets-1936131664929
📌 ¿Qué historia vas a contar hoy Herramientas para una comunicación eficaz — Alejandra Bellini. Registration: https://www.eventbrite.cl/e/que-historia-vas-a-contar-hoy-herramientas-para-una-comunicacion-eficaz-tickets-1891497192019
📌 Coding with #AI in RStudio — Juan Cruz Rodríguez & @LuisDVerde. Registration: https://www.eventbrite.cl/e/coding-with-ai-in-rstudio-tickets-1962817615325
List with all tutorials here: https://latinr.org/en/
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🤖 Introducción a Tidymodels
Aprendé a usar el ecosistema tidymodels para crear y evaluar modelos de ML en #RStats
Con Francisco Cardozo y Edgar Ruiz
📅 1 Dic, 18:00–20:00 UTC-3 – Online
💵 Estudiantes USD 5 · Académicos USD 10 · Industria USD 15
🔗 https://www.eventbrite.com.ar/e/1962543491413
. The large context window (1M tokens) and the ability to set the temperature to 0, meaning NO CREATIVITY, make this LLM a very good tool for RAG when communicating with your own materials. For example, I recently had a small question about the applicability of a ridge regression model that I trained in #RStats using the #tidymodels framework some years ago.
Check out our Modeling & ML with #RStats workshops at posit::conf!
🔢 Intro to ML w/ tidymodels with @simonpcouch
🏗️ Feature Engineering & Tuning with @topepo and @emilhvitfeldt
↔️ Causal Inference with @malcolmbarrett and @lucystats
Register for workshops + the full posit::conf(2025) experience: https://posit.co/conference/
📅 Sept 16–18 | Atlanta
Stats and R
Orville Hombrebueno 
todd ellis
rOpenSci
Yani Bellini Saibene
Brian Repko
Steven P. Sanderson II, MPH
Anatoly Tsyplenkov
Posit