Unlock the full potential of #Quarto with a treasure trove of extensions for formats, shortcodes, filters, and more! Visit https://m.canouil.dev/quarto-extensions/ today and elevate your projects to the next level.
PS: submit your own extension via a simple pull request 😉
Streamline Your #Quarto Projects with Quarto Wizard! 🧙♂️🪄✨
Easily manage your Quarto projects with this Visual Studio Code extension. Browse, select, and install Quarto extensions seamlessly from the Quarto Extensions listing repository. Enhance your development experience.
https://github.com/mcanouil/quarto-wizard
Web of Science can't handle innovation 🤷♂️ https://rossmounce.co.uk/2024/11/18/web-of-science-cant-handle-innovation/
So I read Jeffrey Brainard’s piece in Science magazine on Clarivate’s decision to punish eLife for innovating – by stripping eLife of a proprietary Journal Impact Factor™ number, that Clarivate itself awards (sidenote: to be clear, personally see no value in Journal Impact Factors as they are statistically illiterate, irreproducible, and easily gameable, amongst many […]
"In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention."
Herbert Simon, polymath (economics, computer science, political science), 1971
#Shiny #RStats: Winston Chang unveiled Shiny Assistant this week!
In-browser GenAI for designing & implementing custom Shiny apps
Play around with it for free using Posit's API key (note: they can see your queries) at:
https://gallery.shinyapps.io/assistant/
Thoughts:
1. Outperforms no-code tools like Tableau for app/dashboard creation
2. Full codebase & system prompt available online - ready for immediate integration
3. Powered by Claude 3.5 Sonnet (Anthropic), not ChatGPT!
New pre-release book on Applied Bayesian Regression by Paul Bürkner, the author of {brms} #rstats package:
https://paulbuerkner.com/software/brms-book/
Looking forward to the official 2025 release.