senior software engineer @netflix | ex @rstudio #tidyverse | ex @bioconductor | interests #rstats #nba 👨👩👧👧 🐕 | He/him jimhester@mastodon.cloud
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4 Jan 2021
cpp11: welding #rstats and C at #satRdayColumbus
Find out why we wrote cpp11 and how it improves your package's semantics, safety, unicode support, and ALTREP compatibility
📹 video: youtu.be/_kq0N0FNIjA?t=4
📽slides: speakerdeck.com/jimhester/cp…
📦 package: cpp11.r-lib.org/
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27 Sep 2024
Today marks the 10 year anniversary of my first lintr commit (github.com/r-lib/lintr/commi…)
Hard to believe it was 10 years ago
Apparently originally I called it styleR, long before the current styler package came into being 😄
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27 Sep 2024
And on Oct. 17th is really starting looking more like the package like it is today. Including using the AST (Abstract Syntax tree) to define linters rather than just relying on regular expressions.
github.com/r-lib/lintr/commi…
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27 Sep 2024
Lintr has since had 98! 🤯 contributors, and @michael_chirico and @patilindrajeets are currently driving most of the development 🙏
It was truly a success and I hope it has helped the #rstats community in the last 10 years.
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Jim Hester retweeted
12 Oct 2023
dev rel circa September 2000
there's an entire generation of devs who have never seen Steve Ballmer sweating through his dress shirt during a Microsoft keynote screaming "developers".
let's fix that. also if you've seen it here's the full video with context.
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Jim Hester retweeted
26 Sep 2023
📣 We're hiring two tenure-track Assistant Professors! Some things I love about @WakeForest's Department of Statistical Sciences:
⚖️ teacher-scholar model, rewarding balance of research & teaching
🥂 🆕department with opportunities to lead & shape the direction
🤗 the people!
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Super-succinct post on how easy it is to query a remote file (without downloading the whole thing!) using parquet and DuckDB with #rstats
r.iresmi.net/posts/2023/fast…
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Jim Hester retweeted
24 Aug 2023
The Cleveland R User Group is excited to announce our next meetup on Sep 27th, hosted by @progressive
Keith Woolner (@kwvorp), Principal Data Scientist for the @CleGuardians, will present how their R&D department uses #rstats for sabermetrics
meetup.com/cleveland-user-gr…
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9 Aug 2023
Started my career working in David’s lab, would definitely recommend it to those in the genomics space!
9 Aug 2023
I am looking for postbac or postdoctoral researchers! Anyone interested in applying whole genome sequencing, dual RNA-seq, scRNA-seq and/or spatial transcriptomics to study host/pathogen interactions during malaria infections?
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Jim Hester retweeted
9 Aug 2023
I am looking for postbac or postdoctoral researchers! Anyone interested in applying whole genome sequencing, dual RNA-seq, scRNA-seq and/or spatial transcriptomics to study host/pathogen interactions during malaria infections?
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25 Jul 2023
It is surprising there doesn’t seem to be a dplyr polars backend.
The rust API seems very much aligned with dplyr’s, but github.com/pola-rs/r-polars instead is using an R6 style syntax
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21 Jul 2023
.@quarto_pub having a good story for publishing to google docs / google slides would be a killer feature for us.
Output to docx and then import into google docs works, but it is clunky, still somewhat manual, and there isn't a clear way to update an existing document.
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19 Jul 2023
lintr 3.1.0 is now on CRAN!
There are tons of changes, too many to list here, but please read the release notes (github.com/r-lib/lintr/relea…) for details.
Huge thanks to @michael_chirico, @patilindrajeets, and all of the many other contributors for all of their hard work🙏
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Jim Hester retweeted
17 Jul 2023
🚨 Job Alert 🚨
My team is looking for backend engineers to join our team in Productivity Engineering at Netflix! jobs.netflix.com/jobs/285371…
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Jim Hester retweeted
20 Jun 2023
🫤 Unfortunately, I was affected by last week's layoffs at @posit_pbc along with a handful of other talented colleagues.
🖤 I’m bummed, but so grateful for the 5½ yrs w/ my incredible team.
🔍 Taking some time to recoup, but will be on the hunt for new opportunities soon!
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Jim Hester retweeted
13 Jan 2023
I’m looking for a senior data science position!
👩🔬 I’ve built and run A/B testing platforms
💻 I am experienced in modeling in R & Python
📚 I have coauthored a book on DS careers (datascicareer.com)
Remote or Hybrid (SLC based). Please reach out if you want to chat!
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Jim Hester retweeted
11 Jan 2023
Amazing replies to this tweet on adding curvy arrows to your #Rstats plots! Here are four resources folks shared:
➡️ @MattCowgill: github.com/MattCowgill/ggann…
➡️ @rappa753: x.com/rappa753/status/161295…
➡️ @CedScherer: cedricscherer.com/2019/05/17…
➡️ @cararthompson: cararthompson.com/talks/user…
10 Jan 2023
The incredible graphic folks over at @FiveThirtyEight (e.g., @ryanabest, @elena___mejia, & @humeralodhi) often add little curvy arrows to their graphs, which I understand is usually done in Illustrator or JavaScript. Does anyone know how to do something like this in #Rstats?
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Jim Hester retweeted
10 Jan 2023
The MRAN site will be retired on July 1. This will affect R users who use the daily CRAN snapshot archive hosted there (e.g. via the checkpoint package). More info: blog.revolutionanalytics.com… #rstats
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Jim Hester retweeted
22 Dec 2022
Have the courage to double down on your convictions.
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