James Goldie

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Data engineer @ countercurrent.ai, former #climatehealth ๐ŸŒก๏ธ + #datajournalism ๐Ÿ—บ๏ธ

Building, coding and storytelling with #rstats, #js and #swift for fun and for good โค๏ธ He/him

githubhttps://github.com/jimjam-slam
webhttps://jamesgoldie.dev
Absolutely blown away that my colleagues and I at CounterCurrent, along with the folks at Rainstick, are the first Aussie winners of AWS + IRCAI's Compute for Climate Fellowship. I'm super excited about the work we're doing ๐Ÿฅณ https://countercurrent.ai/news/2025-07-10-ircai-aws/
CounterCurrent

With cutting-edge AI forecasts, your vessels can harness ocean currents to save fuel and cut emissions.

CounterCurrent

Very proud of, and sad for, our friends at @thecarpentries for turning down a $1.5M #NSF grant rather than abandon their values. The (illegal) demands that they abandon DEI work were fundamentally at odds with their mission, and they made a hard and principled choice.

Click through for ways you can support them, financially or otherwise.

https://carpentries.org/blog/2025/06/announcing-withdrawal-of-nsf-pose-proposal/

Announcing Withdrawal of NSF Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems Proposal

In September 2024, The Carpentries submitted a proposal to the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE) Program. This project would position The Carpentries as a leading open source ecosystem and further solidify our independence as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organisation. Developing a proposal of this magnitude (1.5 million USD) involved a significant amount of preparation, from conceptualisation of the idea to navigating the complex submission process. It was the first time The Carpentries did it on our own, with our Associate Director, Erin Becker, leading as principal investigator.

The Carpentries

Sverto is now quarto-svelte!

But that's not all โ€” there's a new release of quarto-svelte, with Svelte 5 support! The release is packed with bug fixes and is easier to use than ever! #Svelte + #QuartoPub = ๐Ÿคฏ

https://github.com/jimjam-slam/quarto-svelte

GitHub - jimjam-slam/quarto-svelte: Formerly Sverto. Add Svelte components to your Quarto documents

Formerly Sverto. Add Svelte components to your Quarto documents - jimjam-slam/quarto-svelte

GitHub
Testing out iPadOS 26 and Iโ€™m seriously considering switching on extra contrast. The glass is pretty but really adds a lot of detail that feels like it increases cognitive load ๐Ÿ˜ฎโ€๐Ÿ’จ
#3081 - PhD Timeline
Pleeeeeaaaaase
(or, hey, whatever language you like to use)
Tired: learn to download data through APIs in #rstats
Wired: learn to animate WLED strips using their API in #rstats

Can you believe it? A major podcasting achievement has been unlocked with episode 200 of the @rstats @rweekly Highlights podcast! https://serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/r-weekly-highlights/200

๐Ÿ›’ Text analysis and prediction with LLMs: {mall} does it all (Camila Livio) @Posit
๐Ÿ“Š The guide to gradients in R and ggplot2 @jimjamslam

Plus great listener feedback from @maurolepore and our usual mix of aha moments and perhaps a few lame jokes ๐Ÿ˜…

h/t @mike_thomas & @jonmcalder ๐Ÿ™

#RStats #DataScience #V4V

Issue 2025-W14 Highlights

By some minor miracle (even on April Fools) the R Weekly Highlights podcast has made it to episode 200! We go "virtual" shopping for LLM-powered textโ€ฆ

R Weekly Highlights
Do folks have favourite Office alternatives to recommend? I'm without an Office sub at the moment (and honestly would love to ditch it generally anyway). Of course there's G Suite, but something local is always nice. Gave LibreOffice a go and did not love it tbh. Any others out there? I was eyeing up Only Office but haven't heard much about it.