François Michonneau

📢 𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗕𝗟𝗢𝗚 𝗣𝗢𝗦𝗧! Election Nominees for the 2027 Board of Directors. Check out the latest from The Carpentries. Read more:

📦 Introducing shinyreact for R & Python Write your UI natively in React. Shrink your Shiny server to data-only logic. Agent Skills write the React for you. ✨ opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-09... This is the start! Tell us what you build and what breaks. #RStats #Python #Shiny #React

⏰ Could you be our next Carpentries Board Director? We are inviting community members to self-nominate for up to 4 community-elected Board seats. We are looking for expertise in tech, financial sustainability, partnerships, and global contexts. Nominations close on 9 Oct 2026 (AoE)

quarto-hub is really coming together, y'all! I'm so excited to share some of this with you at conf next week. Check out our upcoming collaborative wysiwyg editor working on a fully-styled Quarto 2 page:

Virtual workshop registration for posit::conf(2026) closes tonight at midnight. A three-hour hands-on intro to Positron, Posit's new AI-ready code editor for R and Python. Three time slots, no installation required. $99 add-on to the virtual pass. posit.co/conference

📣 Want to help shape the future of The Carpentries? Community members can now self-nominate for up to 4 community-elected seats on the Board of Directors. 🗓️ Nominations close on 9 October 2026 (AoE). 👉 carpentries.org/blog/2026/09...

The R Consortium is now accepting submissions for the second 2026 technical grant cycle. We fund projects that strengthen R’s technical and social infrastructure! Applications close Oct 1, 2026 Submit your proposal: r-consortium.org/posts/r-cons... #rstats #opensource #grants

Can't get to Houston? The posit::conf(2026) virtual pass streams every keynote and session Sept 15 - 16, plus talk tracks on the 14th. New this year: live captioning in FR, DE, IT, PT, ES. From $99, free needs-based tickets available. conf.posit.co

📣 Interested in helping shape the future of The Carpentries? Join us next week to explore what it means to serve on the Board of Directors, why community voices matter in governance, and how board service is an impactful way to contribute to The Carpentries' mission. Details for sessions below.

Interested in giving Positron a try? 🚀 We just launched a free, self-paced learning path covering: 🔹 UI navigation 🔹 Working with data 🔹 Running & managing code 👉 Start here: academy.posit.co/path/introdu... #DataScience #Positron #RStats #Python

Kick-off posit::conf with me. I'm teaching a virtual workshop about Positron on September 14 at 8am UTC. conf.posit.co/2026/sessions/

The latest release of #Positron went out last week, and I am so pleased to share what's in it! 🥳 Some big features we've been working on for a while (the editor for `.ipynb` notebooks, the Packages pane, Posit Assistant) all came out of preview this month: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-07...

The latest release of Positron leverages `uv` to make getting started with Python as easy as a single click 👾 I wrote up a lil blog post on the places Positron elevates `uv` to help with Python workflows. You can read it here: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-07...

Good news for Europe: posit::conf's virtual pass now includes auto-subtitles in French, Spanish, Portuguese, German & Italian 🎉 Plus a virtual workshop on 9/14, multiple time slots, and recordings within hours — easy to catch afternoon US sessions next morning. Join us virtually!

Do you love maps? Of course you do! With the latest release of #ggsql we now support spatial plotting directly from your database. As a cherry on top, the release also provides powerful in-layer aggregation. Read all about it on the blog

Organizing a community data science event or workshop? Posit wants to help! If you need event funding, awesome swag, social media signal boosts, or guest speakers/mentors, please reach out. Learn more: opensource.posit.co/about/commun...

Thread of several new things from @carpentries.carpentries.org this week, all related to genAI. 1. We have launched a bonus module to Instructor Training, GenAI in Workshops. carpentries.org/blog/2026/06...

Free full workshop video now available. Garrett Grolemund shows how to use AI + R with health data in Positron, including Quarto reports, dashboards, Shiny apps, and QueryChat. r-consortium.org/webinars/use... #rstats @posit.co

If you want to learn more Positron, we have some free live training session coming up, including one tomorrow June 4th. In about 90 minutes you'll get to try out the AI features that make data science faster. Register on the new Posit Academy site: academy.posit.co/positron-ai-...

Learn all about PARQUET FILES 😍 on the #DSLab with us! TOMORROW, TUESDAY JUNE 2ND! WITH NIC CRANE! ( @niccrane.bsky.social) 12PM ET / 9AM PT REGISTER: pos.it/dslab #databs #rstats #pydata #CAPSLOCK

🛠️ The Carpentries is hosting a new series of GenAI + Teaching Discussions, bringing educators together to share their experiences. The first call will take place on Thursday 18 June. Find out more and register at www.software.ac.uk/news/genai-t...

Posit Academy is live. Free courses, hands-on labs, and guided Apprenticeships built for Posit tools. A path for every kind of learner. 👉 academy.posit.co #RStats #PositAcademy

R/Medicine 2026 covers R being used across the full health data workflow - from clinical data entry and REDCap pipelines to reproducible reporting, large-scale analysis, and AI-assisted tools. Register today! rconsortium.github.io/RMedicine_we... #rstats #clinicaltrials #healthdata #datascience

We are thrilled to announce that Positron Server is now available for academic use via JupyterHub! This gives students a robust #RStats & #Python data science IDE without needing a local install or new infrastructure. Learn more: positron.posit.co/blog/posts/2...

And another Quarto announcement; I've alluded to it before, but we're making it "official". We've started work on Quarto 2. The blog post has an overview: quarto.org/docs/blog/po... We'll share more in future blog posts, but here's what you can expect from the Quarto 2 dev effort: (1/)

New post: Zut, Git ! Porting {saperlipopette} to the terminal with Claude masalmon.eu/2026/02/27/z...

The future of #DataScience is at #positconf 2026. Check out our keynote lineup: Wes McKinney: Future of high-performance computing Christine Zhang: Data storytelling at NY Times Emily Riederer: Scaling open-source at Capital One Sara Altman & Simon Couch: AI-driven workflows Register: pos.it/conf

🚨New paper + software Folks I want to introduce #evolved —our R package for teaching evolutionary biology through inquiry-based learning. For undergrad + grad courses. 🧬💻 Paper link: doi.org/10.21105/jos... #RStats #Evolution #STEMEducation #activelearning

📣 registration for the rainbowR conference is now live 🎉 The conference is for anyone interested in R and/or analysing data to understand LGBTQ+ issues. The majority of speakers and workshop leaders are LGBTQ+, but you do not have to be LGBTQ+ to attend. pretix.eu/rainbowr/con... #RStats #LGBTQ

In this week's newsletter, @simonpcouch.com and I share some interesting tidbits from Claude's constitution, an estimate of the electricity use of coding agents, and an update on our plot interpretation work.

The Advent of SQL has started 🎄 This year it's hosted by "Database School" and requires signing up: databaseschool.com/series/adven... I'll be solving the challenges using #DuckDB and my solutions for the first two days are up on my website: francoismichonneau.net/2025/12/adve...

Did you know there are two contests happening right now? ✨ 📊 Table Contest: use any #RStats or #Python package. 📈 Plotnine Contest: use the Plotnine #Python package. Show off your skills, share your work, and earn some well-deserved open-source cred! Learn more: posit.co/blog/announc...

📣We're hosting a rainbowR conference, to connect and promote LGBTQ+ people in the #RStats community and to showcase examples of working with LGBTQ+ data 🌈🎉 To help us plan, if you'd be interested in attending or speaking, please fill in this very short form (1-2 mins) docs.google.com/forms/d/1Tx0...

At @okfn.bsky.social we are looking for a short-term R Developer. The work is exciting and important, advancing a humanitarian mission! Apply or share with others!

tidyverse blog: Breaking down language barriers in data science nanonext is a messaging and concurrency toolkit, connecting R to polyglot data science pipelines involving modules written in Python, Rust, Go and C++ etc. www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09... #RStats #tidyverse

I’ve been working on an update to the #quarto R package for weeks. I hope it improves your #rstats workflow with Quarto. Lots of new helpers and tooling beyond the usual CLI wrappers. I believe some functions will be really useful! Looking forward to your feedback! github.com/quarto-dev/q...

🎉 Big news! After 5+ years of consulting work under the R for the Rest of Us name, I'm launching Clarity Data Studio. The name confusion was real – people thought we only did courses, not knowing about our consulting work building reports, websites, and more.

orbital is such a cool idea — convert your tidymodels or (now) scikit learn model predictions to SQL so you can run them in the database

📢 We're looking for more curators for the second half of 2025! Want to share your voice or know someone who should? 📝 Sign up to curate: rladies.org/form/rocur-s... 📖 Learn what curating involves: guide.rladies.org/rocur/guide/ 💌 Nominate someone you admire: rladies.org/form/rocur-n...

🔊Applications to join as a Carpentries Maintainer close tomorrow, 11 April at midnight (anywhere on Earth). This is a great opportunity to join a supportive and experienced community, and to get involved in maintaining and improving The Carpentries’ official lessons: carpentries.org/blog/2025/04...

The recommendations of the Lesson Setup Instructions Task Force were published today. carpentries.org/blog/2025/03... The task force was established to modernise the instructions we ask learners to follow to prepare for a @carpentries.carpentries.org workshop. Thread about its recommendations [1/19]

🚨 Final Call for Proposals: Deadline Today! 🚨 📢 Attention R users and developers—today, Monday 10th March 2025, is the last chance to submit your proposals for useR! 2025. Don’t miss this incredible opportunity to share your expertise and insights with the global R community. 🌍✨ #Rstats

odbc 1.6.0 is now on #rstats CRAN! Includes a new helper for Redshift, a hex sticker (finally!), and many QOL improvements for Databricks, Snowflake, MSSQL, etc. Read more: odbc.r-dbi.org/news/index.h...

🚀 Become a Sponsor of useR! 2025 🚀 UseR! 2025 are seeking sponsors to join us in making this year’s conference unforgettable! 📩 Reach out at useR2025@duke.edu to find the perfect package for you! 🔗 Check out more details here: user2025.r-project.org #Rstats #opensource #datascience

Scaling Up With R and Arrow by Nic Crane, Jonathan Keane and Neal Richardson #RStats https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/packages.html#scaling-up-with-r-and-arrow

Which of these features would you like us to implement first in the nanoparquet R package? See options below. #RStats #parquet nanoparquet.r-lib.org

I’m hiring for a Senior Data Scientist / Data Developer role at EvE Bio, a non-profit! It requires substantial #rstats experience, including #Shiny. It’s a hybrid role located in Durham, NC. If you are interested and qualified, please apply or reach out to me w Qs. jobs.lever.co/convergentre...