data scientist / engineer of sorts at @voltrondata. odds, ends, #rstats, 🐍
Chicago, IL
Joined June 2008
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I’d happily pay a bit more in taxes to fund more quality content like this thread. Funny, educational, cute…let’s fund the NPR of social media
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Introducing Apache Arrow ADBC: a database access standard for Apache Arrow.
arrow.apache.org/blog/2023/0…
someday R will consistently programmatically output JSON the way I intend without a battle
but someday is not today
Edward @alistaire@fosstodon.org retweeted
So it turns out "any sufficiently large if statement is indistinguishable from AI" wasn't a shitpost after all arxiv.org/abs/2210.05189
Edward @alistaire@fosstodon.org retweeted
Many brave engineers have tried but none have succeeded… building the perfect abstraction on top of Kubernetes and Docker for data scientists… “this abstraction shall never expose the underlying layers”, these brave teams proclaimed
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A PSA since it seems like not everyone is aware-- there is a 2nd booster shot (so 4th shot total), this one is specifically for omnicron, and it is generally available + free.
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Simplify database connectivity for both clients and vendors with our new blog post on the benefits of @ApacheArrow ADBC and Flight SQL. Learn how - voltrondata.com/news/simplif…
Edward @alistaire@fosstodon.org retweeted
One of the newest features in the latest @ApacheArrow #rstats release (v 9.0.0, published 2022-08-10) is the `show_exec_plan()` function - similar to dbplyr's `explain()` or `show_query()`.
Here's a short blog post explaining some of the concepts! 🏹
thisisnic.github.io/2022/08/…
Edward @alistaire@fosstodon.org retweeted
{arrow} @ApacheArrow #rstats 🏹📦 9.0.0 is on CRAN! A 🧵 on what's in this release, covering the last 3 months of work. As always, see arrow.apache.org/docs/r/news… for the full details.
It’s been a joy to meet so many Twitter friends and GitHub heroes at #RStudioConf2022; to the many I missed, next time!
Edward @alistaire@fosstodon.org retweeted
In the interest of avoiding widespread panic we’re not moving away from hexagons for package stickers. posit isn’t a package so it gets a different shape #rstudioconf
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Come join me tomorrow on the #rstudioconf2022 Discord for a cozy AMA on the couch 🍵🛋️
I'm down to chat about:
🔓#OpenSource
🎓data science edu
💸careers
PLUS:
🏹@ApacheArrow
🚀@VoltronData
⤵️ #rmarkdown
🍀@quarto_pub
BONUS:
🏋️fitness
🧴skincare
🇮🇹Italian food
🐧penguins
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Edward @alistaire@fosstodon.org retweeted
Hello #rstats folks! My team is hiring! Please read the job description & apply if interested. DM me if you have questions—and if you're headed to #rstudioconf2022, come talk to me about the role (I'll post what I'm wearing each day to help locate me).
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