Jon HarmonWe begin with James Wade and coworkers talking about how Dow uses @Posit tools #PositConf2024 #RStats #PyData 🧵2/17
My goal this year: recruit 18 more people to submit full #TidyTuesday datasets using our new process outlined at https://github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/blob/master/data%2Fcurated%2Ftemplate%2Finstructions.md
Contact me here or in person if you're interested in giving a try! #PositConf2024 #RStats #PyData 🧵 3/17
Contact me here or in person if you're interested in giving a try! #PositConf2024 #RStats #PyData 🧵 3/17
Per tradition, now @hadleywickham is introducing the conference, including the new conf::contest #PositConf2024 #RStats #PyData 🧵4/17
Remember the Pac-Man* rule! Leave a space when you're chatting between talks for someone else to join! #PositConf2024 #RStats #PyData 🧵 5/17
* Pac-Man was a video game in the 70s and 80s. It was simple but extraordinarily popular. The main character was a circle with a wedge-shaped mouth that opened and closed constantly as you moved him around a maze, fleeing (but sometimes eating) ghosts. It had a Saturday morning cartoon and a breakfast cereal. I don't know if the non-olds know that.
Remember that @Posit is a #PBC (public benefit corporation). They want to bring open-source, code-first tools to the enterprise. So they have a mix of free open-source tools and paid enterprise tools. #PositConf2024 #RStats #PyData 🧵 6/17
Posit enterprise tools:
🔗 Connectb(share things)
👷 Workbench (build things)
📦 Package Manager (bring open source into walled garden)
🧑🎓 Academy (learn data science)
☁️ Cloud (openly share stuff)
#PositConf2024 #RStats #PyData 🧵7/17
🔗 Connectb(share things)
👷 Workbench (build things)
📦 Package Manager (bring open source into walled garden)
🧑🎓 Academy (learn data science)
☁️ Cloud (openly share stuff)
#PositConf2024 #RStats #PyData 🧵7/17
Charlotte Wickham is talking about #Quarto
I was skeptical ("isn't it just #rmarkdown rebranded for python users?") but it has really grown on me. Quarto dashboards via card layouts look really easy, I should play with those more. #PositConf2024 #RStats #PyData 🧵 8/17
I was skeptical ("isn't it just #rmarkdown rebranded for python users?") but it has really grown on me. Quarto dashboards via card layouts look really easy, I should play with those more. #PositConf2024 #RStats #PyData 🧵 8/17
@Posit puts out an annual report at https://posit.co/about/pbc-report/
That hadn't been updated in a while the last time I looked, glad to see it's updated! And they did it in #quarto with #typst, the language available in quarto for better #PDF formatting (meant to be easier than #LaTeX) #PositConf2024 #RStats #PyDataPin 🧵 9/17
That hadn't been updated in a while the last time I looked, glad to see it's updated! And they did it in #quarto with #typst, the language available in quarto for better #PDF formatting (meant to be easier than #LaTeX) #PositConf2024 #RStats #PyDataPin 🧵 9/17
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Now we have @gws with updates on #webR (#RStats for WebAssembly, allowing you to run R entirely in the browser). #PositConf2024 #RStats #PyData 🧵 10/17
#ShinyLive: See https://shinylive.io/r/examples
Also Joe Cheng's talk from #PositConf2023! https://youtu.be/j1M6YyU2ZX8?si=npxOJKxGfpqcfhi7
#PositConf2024 #RStats #PyData 🧵 11/17
Also Joe Cheng's talk from #PositConf2023! https://youtu.be/j1M6YyU2ZX8?si=npxOJKxGfpqcfhi7
#PositConf2024 #RStats #PyData 🧵 11/17
The #QuartoLive extension lets you plug interactive (editable) #RStats code directly into your Quarto documents. And you can easily build exercises into your docs, too! #PositConf2024 #RStats #PyData 🧵 12/17
#Quarto docs are built to resize nicely on small screens, in part because a lot of students work on their phones. As do live tooters! #PositConf2024 #RStats #PyData 🧵 13/17
#QuartoLive is live! https://github.com/r-wasm/quarto-live
You can also make gradable exercises with feedback! #PositConf2024 #RStats #PyData 🧵 14/17
You can also make gradable exercises with feedback! #PositConf2024 #RStats #PyData 🧵 14/17
Now James Blair is talking to us about @Posit's partnerships with #databricks and #snowflake. 🧵 15/17
(if you use these vendors, it's a lot easier now than it used to be. There's less "oh cool!" in this section so I'm catching up on things outside the thread) #PositConf2024 #RStats #PyData 🧵 16/17
@hadleywickham is back to explain why they DIDN'T talk about #positron in this keynote. There's a track for that up next! Sadly I think I'll be in the pharma track, so I'll have to watch vids! #PositConf2024 #RStats #PyData 🧵 17/17
Kelly Bodwin@jonthegeek I guess this is a "if you can't beat 'em, join'em moment for me" as far as students coding on phones. 😅
Ben Bolker@jonthegeek My first reaction to this was "aren't we just reinventing notebooks here?", but I see that's not quite the case. (AFAICT environments in code chunks are mostly independent unless you go out of your way to build in reactive content ... ?) I may not have the need, or the patience, to use this stuff, but it does seem cool. (What does webr do/enforce about system security? Seems like @hrbrmstr says this is covered: https://mastodon.social/@hrbrmstr/110655198309666957 )
@bbolker WebAssembly sessions are sandboxed, which can actually make some things tricky... But that's often a trade off for security.
hrbrmstr 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦@bbolker I can't see or reply to fosstodon posts. Is this quarto-live? the jupyterLite WebR kernel?
@bbolker @jonthegeek ah. k. thx!
it's def "another notebook” but it's also def more geared towards being able to create execution environments that do not need servers (so more instructors can take advantage of it).
The WASM sandbox is pretty good, so it’s also much safer than having a server/container.
Romain Lesur 🇫🇷 🇬🇧@jonthegeek Because of its license, Positron should also be considered as an enterprise tool.
Jadey Ryan 
@jonthegeek I’ve got a couple datasets that could be fun!
@jadeynryan excellent! I'll bug you about it post conf! Feel free to give it a try before then. The instructions are definitely beta, so let me know what you find confusing! #TidyTuesday #RStats #PositConf2024
Jo Hardin@jonthegeek thank you for keeping the datasets coming. I code with my students using them *every* week. #tidytuesday