Emily Riederer

Ok, this is just an absolute homerun of a BigQuery error message. Speaks to all of our favorite debugging technique: Have you considered seeing if by magic running the **exact** same thing again works better the next time? And it did! 66/

I spent a half hour trying to figure out the right way to formulate a paragraph for my book's introduction and when it finally clicked into place, I literally clapped my hands and said "that's it!" out loud. That's the kind of pure nerdy excitement that AI steals from us.

... the answer is to not use platforms like Insta, and bring communities to social media built on open protocols, such as atproto or ActivityPub, where the account holder has way more control.

One more thought on the whole "people going back to X" thing. I'm obviously quite biased, but I really think that atproto (which powers Bluesky and others) is about building a better internet in so many ways. But that requires people to use it. The answer to that is to build something better...

Running a GCP job for which I clearly did not provision enough RAM and somehow filled with the same manager guilt of when you realize someone on your team is too stretched I’m sorry, computer. I did not enable you with the necessary tools to succeed here

I'm speaking at the NYC Statistical Computing Meetup about @grantwitness.org: how we use modern #rstats stack to produce trustworthy, reproducible, rapid data that powers activism, litigation, and journalism. Join us in-person @ NYU or online. Mon, Oct 19 at 7PM! www.meetup.com/nyhackr/even... 🧪

In an icebreaker a few weeks ago, our team was sharing pet peeves and an early-20s said API 429 errors. Not API errors but specifically status code 429 (too many requests) and I'm still thinking about it If that somehow isn't a metaphor for early 20s exuberance.. your 30s are all 500s

Sometimes during the day I make a note on my PostIt note to-do list that is just to remind me to add something to my running Google Doc to-do list. This is either very organized or very chaotic and I’m not even sure which anymore

The eternal question in data is "what is the denominator" and man does Gemini make silly choices. Asked how common an injury is, one might assume I meant *in people* but am given two rates: - % of injury among all hamstring injuries - % of injury among those who have half of the injury 🤷‍♀️

This but for all ideas. Shocking how many can fit in a 300-char post (or a pumpkin!) if you put your mind to the key idea.

In all seriousness I wish every professor on here would post their reading lists each semester

Apparently I talk about knowing “what good looks like” too much because I started to say this today and my team finished my sentence 😳 That said, so glad to have “grown up” when #rstats was all about talking about tacit knowledge and workflows and the joy of setting things up nicely

Bluesky, the app for books

Had so much fun chatting with @lucystats.bsky.social and @sarahlotspeich.bsky.social about gnarly real world data wrangling — from elections to EHRs and beyond! Show link below! Meanwhile, I’m live-posting of my latest civic data eng sidequests here bsky.app/profile/emil...

Yes, I would judge you for bringing iced coffee to an interview. But only because diluting previously hot brewed coffee with ice cubes is definitionally weak. Bring cold brew to show me you understand good things take time and are worth upfront investment. That’s a builder mindset

There's something really beautiful about canonical mathematical models or analytical frameworks (L-V in diffeq, epi study designs, etc.) Just a testament the extent to which all our x-discipline problems are the same at some level of abstraction and the power of taxonomizing / naming them

Never going to look at NYT election data the same was again after hearing @christinezhang.bsky.social ‘s awesome @posit.co ::conf keynote! She discussed all the diff viz they considered to capture the plethora of sources of uncertainty in polling data (Also the needle and election night plots!)

Every year -- this is like the advent calendar of election day to me. Behold both democracy in action and a beautiful feat in data wrangling / harmonization

Life advice but also good talk advice. The number of time I get stuck puzzling over, "I want to communicate xyz but what I'm saying isn't coming across" and the answer is "Well, just say xyz" is... a lot

"It's not this it's..." I'm a monster. Make it stop!

Accidentally said “and that difference matters” unironically during talk prep and now I hate myself 🙊 Claudish is coming for us all

Inspired by this blog post, I was testing out how different LLMs perform `polars` tasks Gemini (Colab - I'm cheap what can I say) did NOT just convert to `pandas` to do a quantile instead of using a window function?! pola.rs/posts/llm-po...

I AM SO EXCITED FOR POSIT CONF