For years, open source communities relied on visible friction: people got stuck, asked questions in public, and became part of a community.
AI is changing that.
What happens when newcomers are no longer visible—and neither side knows the other is there?
blog.stdlib.io/ai-and-the-i...
New blog post! Learn how to use #rstats to load & clean & play with all the location history data Google keeps about you and look at neat plots and tables about our 5,000-mile summer road trip along the way https://www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2023/07/03/using-google-location-history-with-r-roadtrip/
I'm alive *AND* I wrote a blog post?! Unheard of!
Much 💖 to @abbycabs.dev, and @grafana.bsky.social's David Allen and Amanda Wagner whose FOSDEM talk's were a huge source of inspo!
Alright, I'll bite: here's a feed that will collect all rstats posts on bluesky in one convenient spot:
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:nnvf4hwrvrixzogemf23ntcp/feed/rstats-latest
No promises about longevity, uptime, reliability, etc!
https://bsky.app/profile/apreshill.com/post/3jx24zs67ek27
🥰 Let LittleMissData give you some data❣️ feels…
💌 “My Love Letter to Data” https://www.littlemissdata.com/blog/data-love-letter
I know hashtags aren't a thing here (I think), but putting out the #rstats signal just in case so you don't miss this opportunity to learn from one of my faves 👇
https://fedifinder.glitch.me/ now finds your Twitter contacts on Bluesky as well.
Currently quite basic by checking for bsky.app or bsky.social links. I started with DNS TXT lookups, which worked great until I tested it with thousands of accounts which triggered the DDoS protection.
I swear this isn't a @tanyashapiro.bsky.social stan account, but if you like dataviz, R, Drag Race…cool things, this convo about her adventures w/ Observable is a great read:
Data consultant from the R world uses JavaScript to “bring viz to life”
https://observablehq.com/blog/r-to-javascript-shapiro
I haven't used ChatGPT to code much…BUT this 5-min video w/ Matt Dancho is a nice lil' case study/crash course:
🦾 “How to R code faster with ChatGPT”
https://www.business-science.io/code-tools/2023/04/30/chatgpt-prompt-osmdata.html
For years, open source communities relied on visible friction: people got stuck, asked questions in public, and became part of a community.
AI is changing that.
What happens when newcomers are no longer visible—and neither side knows the other is there?
blog.stdlib.io/ai-and-the-i...
Data viz workshop later today at 12pm ET/6pm CET
I’m partnering with Workshops for Ukraine 🇺🇦 to talk about elevating tables with R reactable. We’ll cover a lot of my favorite table styling tricks!
Still time to register. For more details on how to sign-up or donate: https://bit.ly/3wBeY4S
How AI is absorbing the visible friction that open-source communities have always relied on to see—and welcome—newcomers.
