Notices by Gwmngilfen (gwmngilfen@fosstodon.org), page 10

OK, so PlumbeR is a really nice tool for building REST APIs in :rstats:. Props to the guy who tipped me off about it at EdinbR last night.

https://www.rplumber.io

Currently building an API to log the geofencing updates from @nextcloud's Phonetrack app. Blog post to follow...

#rstats #rest #gps #crowdsourcing

@HerraBRE nice! Also I noticed the autogenerated letter avatars weren't working, so I fixed that :)

@gzt OK, I had to search for that.... They look cool though, share a few when you're done ;)

Another great night at EdinbR :rstats: users group, with talks on the #tidyverse and the highlights from the #rstudio conference last month. As ever, I learned a lot, have a list of about 6 things to check out tomorrow, and had some great chat. Now for a calm train ride home...

#rstats #community

@zhenech I only do that when the person in CC needs to know, e.g. when bills are being sorted that they're paying for, etc.

If I'm reporting on people, I'll use BCC :D

*Superb* rant about reproducibility and exporting data from commercial data visualisation platforms here...

https://rud.is/b/2019/02/20/i-just-wanted-the-data-turning-tableau-tidyverse-tears-into-smiles-with-base-r-an-encoding-detective-story/

Also, love the blog tagline - "In God we trust. All others must bring data" :+1:

#rstats #tableau #datascience

Just wrote my first #TidyTuesday blog post!

https://emeraldreverie.org/blog/2019/02/19/phds-by-field-and-year/

This week it was US PhDs awarded by category, a pretty simple dataset, so I thought it was time I dived in and started writing! Here's my favourite graph from the post - it's a look at how the number of PhDs awarded to a given specialization varies across the field it belongs to. Some fields are tightly grouped, others have huge variance. I was pretty happy with my use of geom_jitter on this, so comments welcome :P

#rstats

@ctrlaltchaos @HerraBRE *meh not men, sigh.

Don't type while doing other things, the autocorrect beast will eat you...

@HerraBRE flip a coin. If you're tempted to go for two out of three, you already knew what you wanted to do ;)

@ctrlaltchaos @HerraBRE wait, those messages are for trust level promotions. Badges don't get a mail. Doh.

So yeah, trust levels work, badges are men ;)

@ctrlaltchaos @piggo @HerraBRE Discourse is written by the same people as SO. Jeff Atwood has a blog somewhere on how Discourse solves the *opposite* problem to SO, where chatter is actively discouraged in favour of answering the question cleanly.

@ctrlaltchaos @HerraBRE Discourse does actually limit your permissions until you gain trust levels, it's a clever system...

But that's actually separate to the badge system, which I can take or leave, personally. But the number of users who replied "thanks!" to the automated messages that *seem* to come from me (the admin) suggests people do like them.

For the record, badges can be disabled per-category, but unless you think they're doing actual harm, I'd leave it.

@diego well that's going to save me writing something basic in Shiny or Sinatra....