Dr. U

My preteen nephews want to learn programming with guided instructions. Please share any resources for teaching this age group. I am looking for #Python or #RStats resources for making mini games/other projects that teach programming concepts. #programming

@AlSweigart@mastodon.social Beautiful site! Can you tell what web framework is used to make it?

Would you be interested in completing one or more courses/books in the upcoming #transportation science learning community in 2026? Add anything else you'd like to read with others. #RStats

What are your favorite free/paid resources for web app development with react? My only experience is with developing shiny apps in #RStats. #programming

Hey folks who work/study in any field of transportation, would you be interested in an online community that hosts book clubs, help channels, contests, etc.? What would you like to see in it? #RStats #transportation

Quarto fenced divs, custom layout, and SCSS can make pretty nice websites.

Website: https://quarto-bighead.netlify.app/
Source: https://github.com/durraniu/quarto_bighead

#RStats #Quarto

Does anyone have an example of deploying a shiny app with shinyproxy on google compute engine? #RStats

My R+AI Conf talk is now available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/828KuEORQdg?si=_XdvWTAFUBN18M63

I talked about my R package {brandthis} that helps you getting started with theming your quarto outputs and shiny apps by quickly generating brand.yml files and color palettes for R and Python plots

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The slides for my R+AI conference talk are available here: https://dru.quarto.pub/brandthis/#/title-slide
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createBranding app is now available with the {brandthis} R package: https://github.com/durraniu/brandthis

Use LLM to generate brand.yml -> Review and iterate on results -> Create color palettes for plots

Credit goes to the brand.yml app in {bslib}.

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{brandthis} is ready to install. Try it and let me know if anything breaks: https://github.com/durraniu/brandthis

Here's an example site that uses the generated _brand.yml and color palettes: https://dru.quarto.pub/brandthis-demo/
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TIL that brand.yml works for closeread outputs! #RStats

@haraldkliems@fosstodon.org Such a cool project! Thanks for sharing the source and your thoughts in a blog post. Very useful.