.'s April blog threw some cold water on my enthusiasm for Quarto. #rstudioconf2022 has convinced me to migrate some R Markdown to Quarto. Better error messages and autocomplete in YAML headers will 100% benefit my students.
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I love to communicate uncertainty at . I am so excited to start using library(ggdist) with my data visualizations: mjskay.github.io/ggdist/ #rstudioconf2022
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Check out this #JSM2022 session I'm chairing on #DataPrivacy and #PublicPolicy, featuring (), Ellen Galantucci (), Joshua Snoke (), & Felipe Barrientos ()!
Sponsored by GSS, , & .
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Pickup truck paradox: the bigger the truck/truck bed the less likely the truck bed is to be in use.
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Can't wait to arrive at #rstudioconf tonight. I hope to meet some twitter people in person. Please don't hesitate to reach out!
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It's a great idea.
Would prefer if the medallion gave owners the annual right to buy a permit for the current price and if a tax of say 10% was applied to every medallion transaction. There needs to be some annual revenue gained from all of the urban space committed to parking
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This is an excellent proposal. I'm jealous that @mattyglesias came up with the idea of converting parking passes to taxi medallions - it caps street parking and flips residents' stance toward parking demand 180°. twitter.com/mattyglesias/s…
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This was wrong.
We should aim for shade networks like we aim for bike networks.* Most of the bike networks are pretty sad.
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American cities should get serious about shade infrastructure. There should be shade networks like there are bike networks.
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End: my understanding is that in addition to shade/limiting the urban heat island effect, trees/grass can ease pressure on sewer systems during big rain events, which can increase with climate change.
So this can save some $$$ too.
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I actually think downtown DC (L street, K street, etc on the left), should cover all of its sidewalks with something like what's on the right.
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American cities should get serious about shade infrastructure. There should be shade networks like there are bike networks.
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Is there an American city that wouldn't benefit from doubling its number of trees?
For all of the rhetoric about climate change, urban areas appear to have done very little to mitigate the effects of climate change.
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New Ford F-450 Comes With Shotgun In Case Truck Doesn’t Kill Pedestrian On Impact bit.ly/3aVa6AJ
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While we hope to see you in person at #rstudioconf, we want to include as many of you as possible. We invite you to join us virtually!
📺 We will livestream talks on the conference site.
📆 Get ready! Start adding to your calendar.
See the schedule here: rstudio.com/conference/
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5, again: After two years of pandemicky weirdness, it's possible that remote work is getting better as a general purpose technology while working from home is getting worse as a consistent experience, for a lot of ppl.
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Simultaneously true things:
1. Remote work is generally great for owning your time, cutting commutes
2. Revealed preferences show many people cherish WFH
3. Polls show a minority of every age group wants to WFH full-time
4. Young workers are most eager to add back some inperson
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Can't wait to speak at ::conf(2022) in National Harbor, MD next week. I'm presenting on an R package the is developing for generating synthetic administrative data.
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Inflation.
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There are so many good job openings right now, you'd be foolish not to check them out. Opportunities in research, ops, dataviz, webdev, and more. urban.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/Urban-Careers
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Had an excellent time teaching Intro to Data Viz with R for the Alaska chapter of !
Every ASA chapter is great...but some ASA chapters have better scenery than others...
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Am I missing something or is this being unclear on the whole saving the planet concept? At Palisades parade
Metro is such a disaster.
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Metro is such a disaster.
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Tables and Figures have to be in text instead of at the end of paper.
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if you could make one amendment to the constitution what would it be?
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Starting a Python project in 2022 is easy - just use the arrokuda cookiecutter and execute the cresselia script inside it but dont forget to install graveler before you do or lillipup will fail when it tries to access your nuzleaf config
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Reckless drivers killing pedestrians is a problem that disproportionately impacts low-income neighborhoods — we shouldn't accept the view that lax enforcement is somehow progressive.
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In a lot of jurisdictions this is a tough call to make because loss of driver's license can be so devastating.
But DC is a city with an extensive transit system and we should have very little tolerance for moving violations.
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Quarto chunk options look like little YAML headers. This seems clear and powerful. Can't wait to learn more.
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#quartotip 1: Use the layout-ncol chunk option to organize output in columns, e.g. layout-ncol: 2 for two tables side-by-side.
Read more: mine-cetinkaya-rundel.github.io/quarto-tip-a-d
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The Juul ban is a big L for Team Pigouvian Tax.
Wanted: transportation policy that acknowledges the awfulness of this status quo.
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. is crushing it at the Atlantic. Here's a good chaser about why blanket student loan debt has dubious goals and why it remains popular:
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/
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Great article about the real villains of America's urban housing crisis. It also defines gentrification, which too many articles/papers/arguments fail to do.
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/
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It's a little old but this post does a good job of summarizing the overlapping challenges facing the US right now because of bad behavior. I think everyone can feel what these numbers show.
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Amtrak stop spending billions of dollars on projects whose benefits are purely aesthetic challenge
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Ped Observations: No New Washington Union Station, Please
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Also, "rolling kitchen" is a much better name than "food truck".
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Bathrooms takes:
1. Port-urinals make sense.
2. Paid bathrooms are awesome. I saw clean bathrooms for 75 cents at a huge food festival. Very un-American but highly underrated.
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