Data Scientist (with R): 21st October 2025

People Analytics: Resources, stories, and teachings from our community (posit​.co). Explores people analytics resources, Hangout insights, books, podcasts, and industry 사례 with Posit tools and community perspectives

Weekly digest: OA Week, Crossref DOIs and patient involvement in RWD (openpharma​.blog). OA Week focus on who owns knowledge; Crossref DOIs explained; Frontiers FAIR² and MetaGraph demo; COS strategy 2026–2028; Pfizer UK podcast on patient partnership in RWD

A Personal Message from an Open Source Contributor (pacha​.dev). Open source contributor chronicles delayed government benefits, financial strains, and reliance on community support to sustain R packages and Shiny tooling

The boy born on Tuesday: why a simple puzzle bothers me so much (kucharski​.substack​.com). Explores the Tuesday-boy puzzle, probability intuition, and how rare information shifts 'at least one' reasoning

Weekly recap (Oct 17, 2025) (blog​.stephenturner​.us). Bioconductor on GPUs, Quarto 1.8, Datapalooza 2025 agenda, tidyomics ecosystem, GenAI for data viz with R, polygenic scores in clinical use, AI/biotech policy discussions, and related research highlights

The UK’s Climate Is Warming — and Extremes Are Increasing (stevenponce​.netlify​.app). UK summers heat up; extreme heat, rainfall, and frost trends analyzed with LOESS and 95th percentile thresholds

clitable: a new R package to easily print pretty tables in the terminal (kforner​.netlify​.app). Karl Forner introduces clitable, an R package for colorful terminal tables, compatible with crayon and cli, with CRAN submission success and examples

gssrdoc Updates (kieranhealy​.org). gssr and gssrdoc updates; R packages for GSS data and codebook, pkgdown site, and new gss_doc data frame with list-columns

Futures: Interrupts, Crashes, and Retries (jottr​.org). Futures handles evaluation interrupts, crashes, and retries in the future package with automatic worker restarts and retry logic

Quarto Wizard 1.0.0: Democratising Quarto Extension Management (quarto​.org). Quarto Wizard 1.0.0 provides a GUI for installing and managing Quarto extensions and templates in VS Code and Positron

RPweave: Unified R + Python + LaTeX System (thierrymoudiki​.github​.io). RPweave unifies R, Python, and LaTeX for reproducible research using knitr, Reticulate, uv, and a Makefile-driven workflow

D3po 1.0.0 is here! (pacha​.dev). D3po 1.0.0 releases for R and Shiny templates, enabling interactive charts with D3 v7+ and exportable SVG/PNG

Compositional modeling of plant communities with Dirichlet regression (ecogambler​.netlify​.app). Dirichlet regression with Gaussian process smooths for plant-community composition across elevation and temperature using brms and Hilbert-space GP approximations

Inequality and homicide, within-country and between country (freerangestats​.info). Inequality and homicide modeled with mixed effects, AR(1); Gini vs homicide across and within countries using World Bank data

Cycles in Lynx Numbers (datawookie​.dev). Lynx cycle data, Elton and Nicholson, HBC records, Textract extraction, Table 4 vs Figure 7 plots

Tutorial Paper on Movement Tracking of Psychological Processes Using mousestrap (jmbh​.github​.io). Tutorial on movement tracking of psychological processes using mousestrap and the mousetrap R package for design, data processing, and analysis

Part2 of More data (> 150 files) on T. Moudiki’s situation: a riddle/puzzle (including R, Python, bash interfaces to the game – but everyone can play) (thierrymoudiki​.github​.io). R, Python, and Bash interfaces to a data puzzle about T. Moudiki, with password puzzle and conformal/predictive modeling references

Two New Preprints on Multilevel Hidden Markov Models (jmbh​.github​.io). Two preprints on multilevel hidden Markov models: a gentle intro with reproducible EMA tutorial and a simulation study evaluating software performance

postcard: An R Package for Marginal Effect Estimation with or without Prognostic Score Adjustment (arxiv:stat). Introduces postcard, an R package for marginal treatment-effect estimation with prognostic score adjustment and conservative power approximation. Useful for trial analysis and reproducible R workflows

Differentially Private Linear Regression and Synthetic Data Generation with Statistical Guarantees (arxiv:stat). Presents a Gaussian-DP bias-corrected linear regression estimator with valid CIs and a synthetic-data generation pipeline, aiding privacy-preserving inference and reproducible social-science analyses

Scalable Bayesian inference for high-dimensional mixed-type multivariate spatial data (arxiv:stat). Develops Bayesian modeling for high-dimensional mixed-type multivariate spatial data using Vecchia approximations for scalable inference. Benefits R users doing spatial Bayesian analysis with Stan-like workflows

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