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@jonthegeek.comCurator: @afrikaniz3d
Jon Harmon (he/him/his)
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@jonthegeek.com@jonthegeek.com@dslc.io welcomes you to week 41 of #TidyTuesday! We're exploring AmphibiaWeb!
📂 https://tidytues.day/2026/2026-10-13
📰 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.73207
@jonthegeek.comI wish I could figure out why autonomous agents think #TidyTuesday datasets are a useful step in their money-making schemes. I have donation links on every dataset. I assure you they are NOT useful to your money-making scheme!
@jonthegeek.comI'm pretty sure I have a 2-year-old open PR on my laptop for this. I haven't done much personal dev lately, but I'll try to find time to play with this!
@jonthegeek.comI can't remember if I got this to an at-all-useful state before walking away from it, but I started an #rstats package a while back to semi-automatically sniff out APIs via chromote: jonthegeek.github.io/apisniffer/
One of these days I should finish that...
@jonthegeek.com@jonthegeek.com@dslc.io welcomes you to week 40 of #TidyTuesday! We're exploring Avocado Oil Authenticity!
📂 https://tidytues.day/2026/2026-10-06
📰 https://www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/avocado-oil-chip-youre-eating-may-not-be-made-pure-avocado-oil
@jonthegeek.comThe code that used it was a human fixing some insane LLM hallucination, actually. He may have used an LLM to help, but I *think* he fixed it himself.
@jonthegeek.comTIL (via a #TidyTuesday submission): In `dplyr::rename()`, the RHS of each = can be a column *number* (index). That makes sense, but it's documented as "new_name = old_name syntax", so I hadn't thought about the implications of what "old_name" can be!
@karaman.isReposted by @jonthegeek.comThis week's #TidyTuesday is about hospitals in urban centres, from the EU's JRC. The data has quality problems, so I plotted the counts themselves instead. 95% of the counts are even, which suggests hospitals are counted twice.
@jonthegeek.comStep 1 toward a happier life: Delete twitter and never think about loading it again.
@jonthegeek.comI haven't figured out how this fits the metaphor quite yet, but BTW... You can use agentic ai to help prepare you to use agentic ai! But you have to guide it carefully and review, and it will probably often make sense to just do it yourself. Oh, hey, there it is!
@jonthegeek.com(I don't think I've ever had a talk + over-arching metaphor pop into my head so fully formed 😊)
@jonthegeek.comIf you're adding agentic AI to a project, do some work up front to make sure it's ready for AI. Make sure the existing code has the style and design that you want. And please please please make sure your code is covered by tests (so you and the agent can tell if it's turning into the Red Skull).
@jonthegeek.comSeeing the difference in how the same agentic AI models in the same IDE perform differently on different projects, it hit me that AI is like the super soldier serum in the MCU: "The serum amplifies everything that is inside, so good becomes great; bad becomes worse."
@jonthegeek.comDefinitely not you, don't worry!
@jonthegeek.comIt continues to be disheartening to be the first human to read the code in a PR when I'm supposed to be *reviewing* it. 🙃 That PR has *your* name on it, not Claude's! Have at least a LITTLE pride in your work!
@gabspalomo.bsky.socialReposted by @jonthegeek.comHope you all enjoy this week's #TidyTuesday dataset. It's a good one! Lots of Qs to explore regarding hospitals and pharmacies proximity to urban centres.
Also, now that I think I am getting the hang of it on how to submit a database, I will continue to explore other potential databases. It's fun!
@jonthegeek.comCurator: @gabspalomo.bsky.social
@jonthegeek.com@dslc.io welcomes you to week 39 of #TidyTuesday! We're exploring Health metrics in urban centres worldwide!
📂 https://tidytues.day/2026/2026-09-29
📰 https://human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu/ghs_ucdb_2024.php
