Kelly Bodwin

On Sunday, November 15th, we are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the first release of data.table!!! 🥳 👩‍💻 This remote event features talks from data.table superstars, tutorials for all levels, and prize giveaways! 🎟️ Get your tickets here:

"Thou shalt get only as creative with names as thine own skill with regular expressions." I'm really bad at naming files and really good at regular expressions, so everything is fine right @jennybryan.bsky.social ? 😆

Not @healthandstats.bsky.social finally demystifying what a "skill" is in the last talk of #positconf2026, after it's been mentioned in 1000 times in the last 2 days, and I kept nodding and smiling like "oh yes I definitely know what that is". 😅

"I love ggplot2, so I was suddenly overcome with an urge to procrastiplot instead of working on my thesis." - @cynthiahqy.bsky.social 😆😆😆 relatable

Style choices = trust Styling in Quarto = actually pretty easy Heck yeah. shelbylevel.org/talks/stylin... (Shelby Level at #positconf2026)

From @mcmullarkey.bsky.social at #positconf2026: {blendtutor} for popping up R/python exercises with AI-driven feedback! Love the hyper minimal YAML structure to create simple exercises.

This talk by @tigertang.bsky.social is my favorite of #positconf2026 so far, and is going in my "instant classics" pile: tigertang.org/posit_2026/ It's a super clear, actionable framework for how learning happens and how AI can be used to help not hinder. ✨

Warm fuzzies listening to @rpodcast.bsky.social pitch R-Weekly to the #positconf2026 audience. 🥰 Eric's positive impact on the community, via his consistent dedication to the blog and highlights podcast, is immeasurable.

Every time @simonpcouch.com makes a great point in his #positconf2026 Keynote, his earring sparkles extra brightly in the stage lights. 🌟

Browse and search positconf::(2026) posts on Bluesky in this Shiny app tracking the hashtags #positconf2026 #positconf26 and #positconf apps.machlis.com/shiny/positc... Written in R, code similar to what's there is on GitHub at github.com/smach/bluesk...

Every year throughout the year I say "let's meet up at conf!" to people. I mean it 100% sincerely but I am terrible at keeping track of things. If you'll be at #positconf2026 and want to make sure we hang out in meatspace at some point, shoot me a message? 🙏 Can't wait to see my Rfriends!!! 🤩

Important #positconf2026 preparations underway.

Things making me giggle in my work right now: - A debugging practice package using data about beetles - An activity to practice jacknife resampling using name count data about the name "jack" - Teaching about unnesting datasets using data on bird nests #rstats

On the one hand, the red card was a terrible call. On the other hand, reversing an unappealable call is terrible for FIFA’s credibility. On the third hand, FIFA never had any credibility, so whatever.

While this poem doesn't fully resonate with me today, it's beautifully written, and a good reminder to try to think about the people and ideals worth fighting for, not just on the ones we are fighting against.

Pilgrimage. #rstats

With the No. 4 pick the PWHL entry draft, San Jose got its star. Laila Edwards, the first Black woman to play for the USWNT and the NCAA leading scorer from a year ago, fell to fourth on Wednesday and gave San Jose its face of the franchise | @mercurynews.com www.mercurynews.com/2026/06/17/s...

I feel like students saying "Thank you" when they hand in their exam is the same as Wesley saying "As you wish", except opposite message. The politeness is nevertheless appreciated. 😆

This is how to get started with #tidyplots 🚀 https://tidyplots.org/getstarted #rstats #dataviz #phd

Last week my Data Sci students were asking us profs to assign them places on the "looks like a cinnamon roll/can kill you" chart. This week, in an attempt to overturn her non-cinnamon-roll designation, a student baked us homemade cinnamon rolls. Bribe accepted. 🥰

Pretty dang rad way for us to kick off Spring Quarter!!! Thanks, @hadley.nz , for making the trek to SLO and giving a wonderful talk and thoughtful answers to our questions! 🥰 And thanks to the @calpolyslo.bsky.social Noyce School of Applied Computing for sponsoring this great event!

Hey #rstats fam, what non-evil hex sticker printer are we using these days? I've tried a few alternatives to "that other one" (🐴) in the past but haven't liked them because: - I want die cut, not sheets. - I want pointy hexagons not roundy ones.

Hitting that end-of-quarter point where I just wanna final_grades <- runif(n = 87, min = 70, max = 100)

Back in the top 10, baby! Eat your heart out, "#rstats is dying" thinkpieces. 😜 www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

I love all of this take. Also "frustration tolerance" is a wonderful turn of phrase, and it sounds less intimidating than the one we often use in Education, "productive struggle".

%notin% is coming to Base R! Heck to the yes. We are truly blessed on this day, thank you R Core. 🤩 #rstats

#quarto blog + RSS question: Is there a way to exclude a post from the automatic RSS feed? (Specifically, I want to occasionally put non-R content on my blog but I don't want it to spam to the people who follow for R only...) Gracias in advance hivemind! 🙏

We gave our Data Science students a project to identify which photos were taken by me vs by my co-teacher, based on a provided training set. Instead of refining their model, they are reverse image searching to identify the locations, and matching this to what they know about our recent travels. 😆😆😆

HOW DID I MISS THIS???? This new #tidyverse package ate and left no crumbs: hadley.github.io/genzplyr/

the lesson of zohran mamdani walloping one of the most racist campaigns in modern us history on the largest turnout since 1969 is that democrats need to move to the right

Despite all the uncertainty right now in American Higher Ed, our department is hiring! jobs.calpoly.edu/en-us/job/55... Happy to answer any questions you have - it's a wonderful place to work. 🥰 (Note: this is a tenure-track TEACHING position, not a good fit for research-only goals.)

Another week, another magical #rstats gift from Emil. 🥰

One final heartwarming moment from #positconf2025: dropping my students off at Tidy Dev Day! 😍 Three talented #rstats programmers coming your way, #tidyverse! Now back to reality - thanks for another beautiful week of learnings and Rfriends. 🏴‍☠️💙

Best slide caption of the conference. @kjhealy.co is a font of sass ans I am HERE for it. 😅

"Sometimes the data doesn't follow the trend and you see a failure pattern. Of course, we mean a failure of the world. Our theory has not failed, because our theory includes the possibility of failure patterns." - @kjhealy.co at #positconf2025 😆😆😆

Could this {uv} solution recommended by @juliasilge.com be the answer to the personal hell that is "Import Error: no module named 'numpy'" ? #positconf2025

I feel seen listening to @grrrck.xyz talking about making his own Beamer theme in grad school. RIP Kelly's Personal Beamer theme (2015-2017), killed by discovering RMarkdown. 🪦