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Written by Sam Van Horne, Ph.D. on 2025-01-28 at 18:08

For those in the district today who want to mobilize to protest the halting of federal funding for research:

https://www.mobilize.us/climateactioncampaign/event/751758/?force_banner=true&share_context=event_details&share_medium=copy_link

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Written by Sam Van Horne, Ph.D. on 2025-01-24 at 13:50

Does anyone who uses a standing desk have an anti-fatigue map they recommend? #standingdesk

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Written by Sam Van Horne, Ph.D. on 2025-01-23 at 15:07

If you are calling the your members of Congress about the disastrous ceasing of all communications from federal agencies, including the possible stopping of all council review sessions and awards of extramural funding from NIH, you can use data from this to talk about the economic impact of NIH funding in your state.

https://www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/UMR-NIHs-Role-in-Sustaining-the-US-Economy-2024-Update.pdf

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Written by Sam Van Horne, Ph.D. on 2025-01-14 at 13:42

Went to my city council meeting to speak against an ordinance that would criminalize unhoused people camping on city property and enable law enforcement to fine them and dispose of their belongings. I was the only citizen there to speak and I did my best. The measure did not pass. The city solicitor--who wanted it to pass!--commented to me that I had changed some councillors' minds.

So if you think your voice won't matter in your local politics, go and speak up! I

[#]homelessness

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Written by Sam Van Horne, Ph.D. on 2025-01-10 at 11:49

I'm searching for a touring bike and I could not remember if it was Burley, Surly, or Hurley

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Written by Sam Van Horne, Ph.D. on 2025-01-08 at 17:47

For #python users:

SASpy indicates Java is needed for certain processes that call SAS 9.4 on your machine, and I'm wondering if OpenJDK can suffice as I don't run regular Java. I plan to use the {sasquatch} #rstats package, which uses SASpy to send commands to SAS.

https://sassoftware.github.io/saspy/configuration

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Written by Sam Van Horne, Ph.D. on 2024-12-12 at 14:03

Someone posted a tip on how to render a #quarto output file to a custom directory in #rstats. quarto::quarto_render() will not let you change the output directory, but I thought someone wrote a helper function for this. Help?

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Written by Sam Van Horne, Ph.D. on 2024-12-10 at 11:29

I bricked my Garmin Edge in the rain, not thinking to get it covered in time. I was thinking about getting a different one. #biking #cycling

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Written by Sam Van Horne, Ph.D. on 2024-12-06 at 03:14

Like there's no one around when you solve an advent of code, you can't just stop your spouse and say, see how I managed to initialize this loop with regex and nest another one when they want you to take out the trash

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Written by Sam Van Horne, Ph.D. on 2024-12-06 at 03:05

I just completed "Mull It Over" - Day 3 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/2024/day/3 #rstats ftw

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Written by Sam Van Horne, Ph.D. on 2024-12-05 at 23:04

[#]Quarto: An #rstats Play in One Chunk

Console: You may not render this .qmd file you rendered just a day ago.

Me: …

Console: There’s a special character in the filename.

Me: but there isn’t any

Console: not gonna happen

Exuent.

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Written by Sam Van Horne, Ph.D. on 2024-12-01 at 19:21

Day 1 of #adventofcode is done and there's daylight outside. #rstats

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Written by Sam Van Horne, Ph.D. on 2024-11-22 at 12:19

The media are like: well the markets are responding well to fascism, dude.

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Written by Sam Van Horne, Ph.D. on 2024-11-15 at 22:39

Nothing passes the time like diving into an Access database of IPEDS data

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Written by Sam Van Horne, Ph.D. on 2024-11-10 at 01:12

Catching up on day 5 of #30DayMapChallenge with a quick #stats map of the Appalachian Trail. I hope to hike it some day.

Code: https://github.com/bardolater/30DayMapChallenge/blob/main/2024/05_Route.r

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Written by Sam Van Horne, Ph.D. on 2024-11-07 at 20:35

Maybe I now need to look into a #Linux machine other than my dusty raspberry pi

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Written by Sam Van Horne, Ph.D. on 2024-11-07 at 13:34

Day 4 of #30DayMapChallenge: Hex Map

This is a simple map of median household income in the USA from the 2022 American Community Survey. No going to a website to download something--I pull in the Census data directly with the {tigris} 📦 in #rstats. (I had to find a shapefile online for the base map, however...) #dataviz

Code: https://github.com/bardolater/30DayMapChallenge/blob/main/2024/04_Hex.r

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Written by Sam Van Horne, Ph.D. on 2024-11-04 at 23:03

For day 3 of #30DayMapChallenge, I used data within the {tigris} package about statistical areas of native peoples. Polygons are perhaps the easiest type of shape...

Code: https://github.com/bardolater/30DayMapChallenge/blob/main/2024/03_Polygons.R

[#]rstats #dataviz

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Written by Sam Van Horne, Ph.D. on 2024-11-04 at 11:50

For day 2 of #30DayMapChallenge, my spouse forbade me from making a map in #rstats of crashes on highways, so looked around for something new and shapefiles of Canadian rail lines. (However, there were fewer shapefiles than provinces and territories...) I am a big fan of packages like {usmap} that simplify map making, so I was happy to discover {canadianmaps}.

Code: https://github.com/bardolater/30DayMapChallenge/blob/main/2024/02_Lines.r

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Written by Sam Van Horne, Ph.D. on 2024-11-01 at 11:46

For day 1 of #30DayMapChallenge, I made a map about ospreys with data from Feederwatch, a program for counting birds in November-April. Ospreys are abundant in North America, but they winter in the southern U.S. states (and farther south).

[#]rstats #dataviz

Code: https://github.com/bardolater/30DayMapChallenge/blob/main/2024/01_Points.r

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