Irene Steves

The latest in my #rstats / #sql adventures: ✨Using SQL in RStudio✨ Featuring SQL RMarkdown chunks, query previews in RStudio, and my first make-my-own cartoon irene.rbind.io/post/using-sql…

@EmilyRiederer I end up using pyspark for datasets I could probably manage in pandas just bc it feels more similar to the tidyverse. Trying polars has been on my to-do for a while...I guess 2024 could be the year! 😁

Chosen for: - Similarity in API design and "feel" (e.g. love how polars nudges same functional paradigm as dplyr) - Independently accepted, successful, well-maintained, pythonic projects IMHO latter is important versus direct package clones that have less adoption 🧵3/3

Any #rstats-ers have learning python in their 2024 resolutions? Learning a new language, it's hard to abandon the workflow you know and love. In my last post of 2023, I recommend some of the latest python pkgs/versions with similar ergonomics 🧵1/n emilyriederer.com/post/py-rgo/

@KimIversenShow @shaig Look, there was a 23andme data breach specifically targeting those of Jewish and Chinese descent some months ago. Clearly there is genetic data on this. twitter.com/mattjay/status…

Yes, but can Jews today truly trace their ancestry back to Ancient Jews? Israel has banned genetic testing like 23 and Me, why is that? Because the truth is the Ancient Jews are now Catholic Italians, Muslim Turks, Arabs and even Palestinians. Jews who immigrated from middle eastern countries are likely descendants, but those who immigrated in from Europe are likely converts.

How did I, an Israeli-American, talk to my mostly Jewish and Muslim lab in New York about what's going on? (1/8)

10 days of writing in one tweet: I am sad and angry and appalled. Revenge is not a strategy. A child is a child is a child. Freedom and dignity for all. Release the civilian hostages now. Let the aid in. Stop and think. Without a vision for a shared future, this does not end.

If you want to stand with and for Palestinians, you need to put your body between any thug and Jewish individuals they want to harm or harass. You need to shut down and push back against any antisemitic bullshit. Jewish people are not the enemy. So many are our staunchest allies

Israel has the right to defend itself. We must make sure they have what they need to protect their people today and always.   At the same time, Prime Minister Netanyahu and I have discussed how Israel must operate by the laws of war. That means protecting civilians in combat as best as they can.   We can’t ignore the humanity of innocent Palestinians who only want to live in peace. That’s why I secured an agreement for the first shipment of humanitarian assistance for Palestinian civilians in Gaza.   And we cannot give up on a two-state solution.

@IsraelinUSA there are claims that the following message is fake. Can you confirm/deny? The Israeli Embassy in Washington DC is looking for English-speaking Israelis...write an email to embassy4@washington.mfa.gov.il

Of course Twitter has the audacity to tell me *I* turned off 2FA when really they just want me to pay for it 🙄

What fun to come back to RStudio after a long while and discover new features like this! 🎨

I love when some new AI text model comes out and everyone is putting up crazy screenshots like “This weighted string generator is so terrifying, it will overthrow the world order” and then it spits out something like, “Random forests are common throughout Northern Europe.”

What is the craziest thing you've built or seen in SQL? Mine is probably the single select statement with 22 joins... I've also written SQL that writes dynamic SQL to do pivoting, which is also pretty gnarly.

@AFredston Invite friends over for shakshuka 🤤

@allison_horst @brycem @observablehq Congrats to you both!! 🎉

@brycem @observablehq Thank you, Bryce! Exciting changes for both of us - looking forward to hearing about your work! 💚

Friends, some big news: I am beyond excited to share that I’ve joined the amazing team at @ObservableHQ as a Data Scientist Advocate!

@vanessaing Lol I guess that's a compliment?

Data science cannot be fully automated. No amount of parameter tuning, benchmarking, automation, model comparison, automated feature engineering, etc., can automatically figure out what data column location_123_old contains and whether it should be a feature or not.

@MilesMcBain We've done PySpark for heavier data computation and then R for reporting/analysis of outputs (usually dumped to a DB or S3). We tried sparklyr/SparkR early on but it was smoother with PySpark (bigger online community, immediate access to new features, etc)

@malco_barrett @rstudio Congrats! 👏🙌🎉

@AlexSlavenko @BenCScheele @MarcelCardillo @macroevoeco Woot! Congrats 🎉

Excited to announce I've started a post-doc with @BenCScheele @MarcelCardillo Lindell Bromham and Xia Hua from @macroevoeco!

Psych folks who know #rstats but are intimidated by SQL databases (i.e., industry work)--you already know the core concepts. Let me help you translate. 🧵 1. The "database" is analogue to your R environment. It can store many tables. (1/n)

Optimist: The glass is ½ full. Pessimist: The glass is ½ empty. Excel: The glass is January 2nd.