Karthik Ram (@_inundata)

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November 2014

jllord Renting a 1-bedroom apartment near BART in SF/Oak—blog.onradpad.com/renting-a-1-be… via @radpad pic.twitter.com/7Vo0BAuStF

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This is how I pack/travel and also why I love my Minaal Travel Pro (bit.ly/15JWpNN) so much.

bit.ly/1tpwZKa

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Just a couple of enjoying some post holiday reading. pic.twitter.com/VANc5QrlQ1

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@kara_woo @kwbroman impossible to listen to nut cracker without picturing you two.

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@VirginAmerica really wish you would join star alliance so I could quit United forever. Your planes are so civilized.

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@carlystrasser librarians are going to lose this battle.

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@oceankidbilly @cpsievert This is a hard problem to solve after the fact.

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@functiontelechy Nice! Too bad I’m leaving town soon. How long you here for?

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@kwbroman I like that you have a copy of numerical recipes in C. I used to own that book!

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@JennyBryan psst @vsbuffalo, you could also kick your tab habit.

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hspter ICYMI, install_github now includes the option to change the host to an enterprise github account github.com/hadley/devtool…

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BenChartoff @zfurnas @HarlanH @hadleywickham I ended up building a shiny tool to make this easier
github.com/bchartoff/ggSh…
bchartoff.shinyapps.io/ggShinyApp/

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@ToriHerridge @KathyHerridge I could switch to a VPN closer the pole (Norway) and try again.

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@ToriHerridge @KathyHerridge These are all very appropriate suggestions for where I live!

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a_mendelson My landlord tried to me from my apartment to rent it on @Airbnb. This is the letter he handed me: pic.twitter.com/7lfhSarJ5i

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@genetics_blog I use it quite a bit. It’s heavily covered in @jeroenhjanssens Data Science from the CL book. Check it out.

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@hadleywickham Great idea. Most people/commenters are so oblivious to the current state of R.

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MarcMangel1 Today in 1859 The Origin was published.

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hadleywickham rvest: easy web scraping with now on CRAN: blog.rstudio.org/2014/11/24/rve… (this is my answer to beautiful soup)

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@oceankidbilly @John4man “I’m just a chimpanzee/elephant, standing in front of Big Data asking her to love him”

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ylecun The NYU Center for Data Science is looking for a new director.

For the last several years, I worked with many... fb.me/1FRdiw4cQ

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@helsouth @JennyBryan @Pinboard is a one time fee for no ads and fast service. No brainer to me.

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@JennyBryan yes! I’m a longtime @Pinboard user! OCD enough to go with archival bookmarking.

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ToriHerridge Right. Let's do this. *rolls up sleeves*

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@arnicas that’s my project and I built that ant package! Happy to answer any questions!

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beatonna "are you interested in these fine floating cats?" I SAID NOT NOW pic.twitter.com/Fc3N6zWImM

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@gvwilson pass on my contact info. I’m an expert on shoe laces.

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Fresh copy of 2013 @feltron report in the mail. pic.twitter.com/XFzITEcdvJ

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@romain_francois PS: I’m so sorry. This is why I am banned from performing comedy in over 14 countries.

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@romain_francois Question: Should we call it the Ram-ain Francois touR ™? @ibartomeus

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@opencpu nice work Jeroen! Looking forward to trying it out.

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@cpsievert @hadleywickham @hspter I’m working on a shirt. Will request feedback shortly. @drewconway

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@hspter Nice! I was already following Jason!

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@hspter Awesome. Other power user recomemndations?

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@hspter I need some cool stuff to decorate my new office cube with. Any recs from Etsy besides the stats motivational posters?

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seldo Pity the poor AWS graphic designer who had to come up with 30+ distinct icons for almost wholly abstract concepts: pic.twitter.com/Lyduxy2H0Z

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@hadleywickham This monstrosity →
bit.ly/11DPJ0W
E.g. table that starts on line 196 view-source:bit.ly/1HwaixB

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@hadleywickham @recology_ Would love for rvest to replace BeautifulSoup for me. I have a complex usecase not currently doable with rvest.

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chrismentzel We're hiring (NEW): bit.ly/DDD2014POjob Program _Officer_ for the Initiative here @MooreScientific -help us advance research!

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@michaelwaskom @davidjayharris @noamross @dalejbarr @recology_
That functionality will soon be moved to the little bobby tables package.

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pierce "Be there in five minutes" is the cruelest and most obvious lie

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@geoffjentry @CMastication What Goeff said. But don’t stop posting more pictures.

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@dalejbarr @recology_ Nice! But I worry that the syntax has gotten so Un-R like that it will confuse the hell out of most users.

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@rdpeng seems very inefficient to me. How big are the chunks and how many?

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@jessicablois Awesome! I have that shirt (well many BML ones) too!

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@froggleston fine. But you should just ship Baxter here for a few months so I can properly train him on at my local pub.

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@skmorgane @ethanwhite we should have an intervention just to be safe.

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@skmorgane I think @ethanwhite wants a new toaster for Christmas. Pretty sure.

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@SCEdmunds but what are the odds that it won’t kill you?

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@berkeleyjess He followed our open source project a few weeks back. Very confused too.

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@ctitusbrown @ethanwhite @shoutybrown @HoggHulk Previously suggested one was CantankerousKarthik

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@ctitusbrown @ethanwhite Just learning about @shoutybrown. Between that & @HoggHulk maybe it’s time for a new Twitter act to follow these.

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How I Start is a mix between a collection of development tutorials and The Setup.

bit.ly/1F4GeqG

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renkun_ken New feature in : Operator-free pipeline! Build easy-to-read/write/debug pipelines! @timelyportfolio @hoxo_m pic.twitter.com/SkpBjMgNdy

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@maxogden when are you coming back? Is the Oakland cat cafe open? Can we hack there?

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hadleywickham @AmeliaMN rstudio dailies now autocomplete variable names in dplyr chains!

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@recology_ In Portland too. What an outrage. Isn’t there some local ordinance that requires him to make amends with a dozen jars of pickles?

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OH at “Institutionalize metadata before metadata institutionalizes you”

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“Retract bitrotten publications” (or incentivize maintained research software) - James Howison

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ethanwhite Daniel Katz talking about implementing transitive credit for software arxiv.org/abs/1407.5117 Work with @arfon

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powersoffour My summary of @cboettig 's talk: @rOpenSci is awesome. (@_inundata) "How many new faces are on our community page?"

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@powersoffour Around tomorrow too (for another meeting not sc). But sometime today would be great.

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@powersoffour Hey Matt, would love to meet up sometime today if you’ve got time.

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ethanwhite "worst thing that could come out of this meeting is that we all agree that [software sustainability is hard]. See you next year" - @gvwilson

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ethanwhite Up next at , 2 min "snap talks" starting off with @gvwilson on "Close Enough for Scientific Work" ustre.am/17ddh

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@kcranstn @danielskatz Is there a public link to the PDF of the slides?

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@timtriche Alas no. A bourbon bar in New Orleans. Need to go back to B&B when I’m back.

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@scheidegger here till Monday night. Here for 3 random meetings (one sc fringe event) but not sc.

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@hadleywickham bourbon house in New Orleans! We should definitely do bourbon and branch in January.

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Excited to be in my old stomping grounds for @datacarpentry’s board meeting and (mute or follow that tag this weekend).

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drewconway “If we want to be valuable as data scientists, we should aspire to create as many ‘how did they do that? moments as we can.” ~ @seanjtaylor

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@nhcooper123 wow, congrats! Would love to visit you at NHM after the move.

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@shaka_lulu @whytewithawhy
Favorite because I like it when awesome people I know lunch together.

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@JennyBryan we do some of this in our dashboard. Will see about integrating into a package. We need to start a R/ @rOpenSci wish list!

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@noamross @swcarpentry that part covers some material on how to seek help (including SO). Also s/vc/bc

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@noamross @swcarpentry Not that I know of. But I wrote a seeking help for R. See the vc repo /intermediate/r/r-basics

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@danielskatz what is the hashtag for whispy this weekend?

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@tomjwebb what’s your gmail usage? Yikes! Let me send you some email ASAP.

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danielskatz Want to learn how WSSSPE2 (wssspe.researchcomputing.org.uk/wssspe2/) Sunday at was put together and what was accepted? arxiv.org/abs/1411.3464

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seanjtaylor Putting the Magic in Data Science: seanjtaylor.com/post/102556088… A blog post (with slides) about my talk at @QConSF last week.

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@dhalperi awesome! Also super jealous you got to go to French Polynesia.

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@recology_ Raining in Berkeley. Feels magical.

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@KyleCranmer K I will get on it with the host right away.

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Just in time for my next flight, new chapters of Monument Valley!
bit.ly/1sJaChD

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@KyleCranmer Hey did you get an invitation for the ALM meeting in SF in December?

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@ucfagls @recology_ @cboettig @ORCID_Org Someday I will win a prize for the most number of manuscript central logins.

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@katyhuff yo, when do you come back? Your replacement is not doing a good enough job filing your shoes. pic.twitter.com/jjj64LJdHT

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@ethanwhite @recology_ @kara_woo @skmorgane Alpaca cape you say? This tweet is useless without pictures.

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@tomjwebb Totally is. I spent more time admiring the building than the exhibits. Wish I could work in a place like that.

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@tomjwebb @NHM_London I was just there a couple of weeks ago!

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@hspter Oh Kima, you are the original Rcatlady ™
Hope you feel better soon.

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My review of this paper is approaching the word count of the paper itself. Guess which way I’m leaning.

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@sjGoring If it’s an iPad you can still make it ring from iCloud.

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@gvwilson @ctitusbrown @tracykteal Everything in SF is now pretentious. But next time y’all are here I’ll take you to delicious lunch.

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@gvwilson @ctitusbrown @tracykteal @portagebaycafe You have to tell me more about this place and I’ll find you something similar here.

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@BrunaLab @ethanwhite it also allows you to disable retweets from specific users. Keeps the trigger happy ones from clogging up the stream.

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@BrunaLab @ethanwhite tweetbot can do that. And more. You can also mute by regular expressions and keep out noise like “thanks for the RT!”

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@ethanwhite I got no algorithm but I frequently mute people/tags/topics/ for varying lengths of time. Only way I stay sane.

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@hspter Poor Kima. Hope she feels better soon.

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@hadleywickham @recology_ Yeah, It’s a pretty neat idea. Not enough people using widely yet. Hoping to help automate some of this.

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@soozaphone Can you call the cops about a noise complaint? Most places have noise ordinances (nothing loud outside of 8am-10pm).

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@bolkerb @davidjayharris At least two of those articles appear to be referring to the Black Crappie (Pomoxis nigromaculatus)

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@arfon Where is the data from? GitHub language stats?

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abestanway I honesty just want upvotes. If Arxiv added an upvote button...humanity would progress like twenty times faster

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@davidjayharris I have a friend who got a fellowship with a draft like that!

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@cosmicpinot Congrats Brian! I hope Saul convinces you to come up to Berkeley while you’re here.

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Noticed this @github image as a billboard on the 101 last week. What is going on?
bit.ly/11ch3nJ

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@recology_ @neilfws There is a guy next to me at this cafe carefully crafting one for the past hour. Should I intervene?

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@ramnath_vaidya @hadleywickham @recology_ I setup a first draft here: bit.ly/145lphH
Feel free to dump list into issues or a md.

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@hadleywickham @recology_ We could set it up the same way Scott set up web services. We get a lot of new additions by PRs.

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@hadleywickham @recology_ We can definitely maintain it. Perhaps @ramnath_vaidya could help maintain too.

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UCBIDS Congrats to BIDS Director Saul Perlmutter and his team for winning a 2015 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics! nyti.ms/10QPv6z

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rOpenSci [Blog] Growth of in biology ropensci.org/blog/2014/11/1…

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@CieraReports I like the name. Will check it out next time in there. When I was a youngin like you we hung out at Mishka’s.

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@megankjennings I made some changes to the script. Reload that gist and run the code again. Now you’ll see a better result.

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@inundata I very much appreciate you redirecting replies back at me!
Apologies for the handle confusion.

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@carlystrasser what is with all this hacker speak. Who the hell are you?

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@phylogenomics @ctitusbrown Make sure he has enough snacks and sunscreen. Does he have more layers? He looks really cold.

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@kwbroman @recology_ yes please. I’ve also been seeing build failures the past two days.

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@kara_woo I like their choice of emojis on the last page.

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seanjtaylor .@DataKind is looking for a Director of Programs: datakind.org/howitworks/dat… Pretty awesome gig to work for a great organization + @jakeporway!

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@waldojaquith That was me a week ago. :(
Best thing you can do is sleep.

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@KyleCranmer Not knowing more I’d recommend this book. Great for folks with some prog background. amzn.to/1GuCHU5

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