Out of context slides and insights from #positconf26, a short thread. Firstly, Americans defining words is often extremely upsetting to us Brits 🇺🇸🇬🇧😭

A 🧵 of cool #rstats & #python things I want to read more about after learning about lots of updates at #positconf26 today!

1. commons - a framework for creating trusted data agents which enables some really thoughtful ways to add context and flag up trust to end users

github.com/posit-dev/co...

*stares in residual 2024 election night trauma* #positconf #positconf26

Christine Zhang: please know that I'm using margin of error as a simplification not a Bayesian vs frequentist thing
#positconf #positconf26

Wow, we had some BAD technical difficulties at our #positconf26 talk today 😩 but I put up the demo videos here for folks to check out! 👀

juliasilge.github.io/posit-conf-2...

Final Keynote of the day Christine Zhang from the NYT! #positconf #positconf26

Bonus link: posit.co/product-demo... #positconf #positconf26

Now it's AI Governance in Posit Team from Elliot Murphy #positconf #positconf26

commons R package mention: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-09... from @jcheng5.bsky.social
#positconf #positconf26

I have no strong opinion on next talk to attend so heading to the main stage sessions so I'm not getting squashed by the crowd for the keynote #positconf #positconf26

Next talk, One Report Many Audiences: Role Based Views in Posit Connect from Inger Bergom #positconf #positconf26 !

Sadly having some technical difficulties with the video 🥲 #positconf #positconf26

Round 3 of Talks
First off, SQL as a first-class language in your data science IDE with @juliasilge.com and @softwarenerd.bsky.social ! #positconf #positconf26

BONUS LINK: martinezc1-nyc-open-data-lab.share.connect.posit.cloud #positconf #positconf26

Final talk of this talk session

The Accidental Author: Designing Reproducible Learning Ecosystems with R and Quarto from Christian Martinez #positconf #positconf26

Now attending "From Programming Alone to Programming and Prompting" by @derrickcogburn.bsky.social ! #positconf #positconf26

Now is "Finding Common Language between Data Scientist and non-Data Scientists" from Michael Hausinger! This is something that is incredibly important in bioinformatics because you have to interface between disciplines and thus different languages #positconf #positconf26

I really loved how the speaker wove in his English teaching background to inform his data science teaching #positconf #positconf26

Next is Debugging is Nightmare by James Clawson! #positconf #positconf26

Next is Josh Livingston and shinyfilters!
Bonus link: joshwlivingston.github.io/shinyfilters/
#positconf #positconf26