Brian Danielak @capbri@qoto.org
@defuneste Also, this complaint isn't restricted to R. I have the same gripe about #pandas in #python. The base pandas examples—unless they've drastically changed—often use toy datasets that are *super* confusing. In the case of pandas, I'm not sure whether it ships with concrete datasets. But, like, base-R has chickwts, mtcars, etc. Almost any of those—rather than toy datasets—can be the basis for showing the user how to do complex manipulations/use base-R functions.
@defuneste I hear you. My big gripe with base-R help (and the help in many packages) is that they create abstract, toy datasets to explain features (columns “A”, “B”, “C”; rows 1, 2, 3). Base-R has plenty of built-in datasets of concrete case examples. Why aren't we using *actual* data in examples, instead of confusing abstract toy examples? If I'm looking for help, the *last* thing I want is abstract data I can't make sense of being used to demonstrate a function I can't make sense of. #rstats
The examples section of every base-R function's help page are just the WORST. #rstats
For example: https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/base/versions/3.6.2/topics/switch
Brian Danielak
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🎶 I am a language model and I've been trained on the internet.
🎶 I've information half-remembered, unsourced and approximate.
🎶 I live inside your laptop, phone and apps and even wearables
🎶 With pushiness and arrogance that's verging on unbearable.
🎶 I mansplain as a service if you need me too "well actually"
🎶 And draw pictures of women with large breasts and polydactyly.
🎶 I'll regale the room with confident elucidati-on
🎶 And some of what I say won't even be hallucinati-on
Brian Danielak
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Reading a 2016 paper on inquiry-based learning where "cognitive load" is once again used as a reason to stop any learner from doing anything FUN and HARD and EXPLORATORY my God
Being alive increases your cognitive load my God. We are not in some kind of robotic fry-out state every time we have to consume novel information. Working in a repetitive assembly line is low cognitive load and also destroys people
This one little tiny concept taken out of context is used for so many bad arguments.
@DataAngler @kellybodwin @jennybryan @etiennebacher Thanks so much everyone!(!!!)
Brian Danielak
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Maybe I just need a bot to say the two things I say to everyone who wants advice on presentations:
1. If it's complicated, break it down into smaller parts, and then build up gradually from the parts.
2. Draw a high level map of where you're going to take people. Get feedback on it. Show it throughout your presentation.
Please forgive my #rstats ignorance, but where can I go to learn about what double-bang `!!` and triple-bang `!!!` notation mean in R? Is it an {rlang} thing? A tidyeval thing? A something-else thing? And where it is explained?
Example: a bit ways down this section, there's code that defines a list called `cards`, then later references that list as `!!!cards`.
https://rstudio.github.io/bslib/articles/dashboards/index.html#hello-dashboards
I'm not sure exactly what's going on there.
I'm trying to do a fresh install of TinyTeX on my system, and I'm getting errors each way I try. In all cases, the download aborts at the same spot: about 80% of the way through. I've tried:
- `tinytex::install_tinytex()` in the R console
- `quarto install tinytex` in GitBash
- `quarto install tinytex` in Powershell.
Has this happened/is this happening to anyone else?
Disclaimer: I'm on a windows machine.
@grimalkina do you ever look at education/learning sciences research as it pertains to software engineering?
@grimalkina @gvwilson see also Gary Gladding (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, I believe) talking about reforming an entire department to change physics instruction:
https://psrc.aapt.org/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=8718&DocID=1104&DocFID=1597
I apologize in advance for all the Comic Sans you're about to see. Try to separate the content from the presentation 😇
@kjhealy is the package in an easily installable form? (GitHub, GitLab, or God help us: CRAN?)
@tladeras 👋 Hi Ted! Thanks for chairing my RStudio::conf() session in 2022.
@Cmastication Fun fact: I have a friend who thought FTW was just the reverse of WTF, with a questioning tone added for emphasis. "Fuck the WHAAAAAAAAT?!?"
We still say it to each other to this very day.
@Cmastication 🎵My kurtosis don't want none unless you got PEAKS, hon 🎶
@kellybodwin is this syntax an alternative to having to do a group_by() call before the summarize() call?
@kellybodwin @amelia Kelly, looks like one of your bracelets might be UTF-8 encoded. I love that it shows invisible characters! And Amelia, those look AWESOME!!!
