zelle @zelle@qoto.org

We're thrilled to announce the second edition of R for Data Science is out!

The second edition is a major reworking of the first edition, with new material added, unuseful material removed, and updated code and text.

• Read it for free online: https://r4ds.hadley.nz/
• Buy a copy from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1492097403?&tag=hadlwick-20
• Read more about the new edition in the blog post from new co-author Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel: https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2023/07/r4ds-2e/

#RStats

"NSFW" stands for "Not Suitable For Work". It's generally used to tag things that are pornographic, but is also used for things that are violent.

Some confusions we had abt this tag were:
- If you're a sex worker or burlesque performer, or any other job that involves sexual explicitness, couldn't information about that content be **suitable** for work?
- Why is that tag even focusing on the workplace, anyway? What abt at a coffee shop, or any public space? What's the relationship to home use?

NEXT ethics-relevant thing I'm excited about @huggingface is we've created a "Not-For-All-Eyes" tag that can be used to tag Datasets, Models, and Spaces (demos). It's similar to "NSFW", but different.

What's the diff? 🧵

Ghibli Fest 2023 | Spirited Away: Live on Stage

It's a year of celebrating animation master Hayao Miyazaki with the first-ever nationwide retrospective of his Studio Ghibli works.

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Tickets are on sale now for #Ghibli Fest 2023!
https://gkids.com/films/spirited-away-live-on-stage/
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Presented by GKIDS Films.

#ghibli #studioghibli #スタジオジブリ #anime #trailer #spiritedaway #liveonstage #gkidsfilms #ghiblifest #hayaomiyazaki

As some of you who know me may know, I lead a project to document Philippine historical markers in #Wikidata and #WikimediaCommons.

So as my simple way of celebrating #InternationalWomensDay, let's have a look at several historical markers dedicated to the amazing Filipino women from various fields that have made their mark in history. 🧵

#IWD2023 #PHHistory 🇵🇭

Wanted to re-up that my book Six Centuries of Type & Printing remains available! Hot-metal typeset, letterpress printed in London, bound in Germany. I explain the history of printing from before Gutenberg through the present, with all the major events in between. Order at https://glog.glennf.com/tiny-type-museum-time-capsule-and-more/six-centuries-letterpress #letterpress #printing #printinghistory #gifts #typophile #typography #gutenberg

Happy Caturday!!

Beautiful fanart by ひとみん on pixiv, showing all cats in Studio Ghibli films.

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#ghibli #studioghibli #スタジオジブリ #anime #cat #caturday #pixiv #fanart

Overconfidence and AI https://seths.blog/2023/01/overconfidence-and-ai/

Some Mastodon thoughts, for bird-site expats (which include myself). I'm aggregating these from posts I've boosted before, so little of this is my own brain.

- There's no algorithm here. That means favoriting/liking doesn't do anything except communicate approval to the OP and others (which is still nice!).

- No algorithm means boosting ("retweeting") is the true method to increase a post's visibility. Do that more than you did on birdsite.

- There's no post-quoting here, and that's by design. Look at quote-tweets on the birdsite; it's a feature primarily used for toxicity.

- There's no direct word-search here either; that means you want to use hashtags to make posts more searchable. This is also intended, since word-searching posts was often used to harass/stalk on the birdsite and elsewhere, so that was left by the wayside here. This also means hashtags are much more a thing here than any of the algorithm-powered sites.

- It's encouraged to put in text descriptions when you post images; a lot of Mastodon users use screen-readers due to various disabilities, and getting an image description read out loud helps them immensely.

- Speaking of screen-readers: using capitalization in your hashtags allows the screen-readers to read them more easily, especially if you're smashing multiple words together. #rockmusic = unreadable. #RockMusic = readable.

- The best way to make threads is to make set your first post as public, but "unlist" all of your replies. This prevents your whole thread from clogging up feeds.

- Content Warnings should be used more liberally here. If you haven't gotten the impression yet, much of Mastodon was built and populated by marginalized groups who were harassed/bullied off of other platforms. This is the culture they built, to respect each other's mental health. It's not a rule, but it's well-appreciated.

- Consider chipping a few bucks towards whomever runs the server you're on; the strain is real, and most server admins were likely paying out of pocket before so don't have an existing donation base. The growth here has been extremely fast, and that means money's needed.

- DMs are just posts with privacy settings. So if you @ someone in a DM, you pull them into the thread. That could be embarrassing.

- Also, no, DMs aren't end-to-end encrypted, but they aren't on Twitter either. Don't use either if you want true privacy.

- Including your Mastodon handle in your birdsite profile will help people find you here; there's a tool (pruvisto.org/debirdify/ is one of them that's used) people can use to pull Mastodon handles from Twitter profile.

- Use the blocking and reporting features liberally, if needed. This should go without saying, but they work, and work well!

- If there's an entire Mastodon server you don't want to hear from, you can block the whole thing too.

- Preferences -> Appearance -> "Slow Mode": this can make larger "Local" feeds and any "Federated" feed much more readable.

I'll reply with some more as I see them, or reply here too. I've only been here 4 days but I'm loving it so far.

Let's see which community is bigger here!!

#DataScience #MachineLearning peeps who've already joined on Mastadon,what's your core language?