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Simisani Nokulunga Ndaba

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University of Botswana R-Ladies Gaborone https://r-ladiesgaborone2021.quarto.pub/ #rstats | #rladies | #datascience | #dataviz

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Ella Kaye, Senior Software Engineer. They say, “I make contributions to base R, develop R packages and take part in the DSLC Advanced R book club."

Ella Kaye, Senior Software Engineer. They say, “I make contributions to base R, develop R packages and take part in the DSLC Advanced R book club."

This week’s #RLadies curator is @ellakaye.co.uk 🎉

08.12.2025 03:56 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1

Hello 👋 I'm Ella and I'm thrilled to be the R-Ladies RoCur this week.

I look forward to engaging with you about my favourite R topics, both about code and community.

08.12.2025 15:29 👍 20 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

Agree about cowplot for precise customization. From the Q&A: 💯 I don’t think an LLM could recreate those in the first few sane attempts.
This actually makes me want to try recreating them, thank you, adding to the list.
And yes, as we can all see in 2025, history does repeat itself.

10.11.2025 17:28 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
History repeats itself: What the Du Bois Challenge taught me about reproducing design (Simi Ndaba)
History repeats itself: What the Du Bois Challenge taught me about reproducing design (Simi Ndaba) YouTube video by Posit PBC

My Posit::conf talk is now live on YouTube! 🎥
👉 youtu.be/RxwU1cZ5FiA?...

Exploring reproducible design in R & bringing history to life through data.
Grateful to the @posit.co team! 💜

#positconf25 #RStats #DataScience

10.11.2025 09:59 👍 15 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Positron for RStudio Users: A Gentle Introduction with an image of a cute orange kitten sniffing a hand

Positron for RStudio Users: A Gentle Introduction with an image of a cute orange kitten sniffing a hand

I loved discussing "Positron for RStudio Users: A Gentle Introduction" with @simisani.bsky.social & R-Ladies Gaborone!

Check out the recording and materials:

📹 www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fOQ...
📝 ivelasq.rbind.io/talk/positro...

I hope this intro is better than the one between my three cats 😹

27.10.2025 22:20 👍 40 🔁 8 💬 3 📌 0

This week, I'll be posting about #quarto, sharing interesting #rstats content from others, and answering your questions.

20.10.2025 15:49 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Hi, I'm Charlotte Wickham and I'm your @weare.rladies.org curator for this week!
I'm a developer educator at @posit.co where I work on the @quarto.org team. Before Posit, I worked at @oregonstate.edu where I taught stats, data science and, of course, #rstats.

20.10.2025 15:49 👍 35 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Curator Charlotte Wickham, Developer Educator at at Posit PBC. They spend most of their time using and writing about Quarto, but R remains their go-to language for creating examples, managing repositories and files, and exploring and visualizing data whenever the opportunity arises.

Curator Charlotte Wickham, Developer Educator at at Posit PBC. They spend most of their time using and writing about Quarto, but R remains their go-to language for creating examples, managing repositories and files, and exploring and visualizing data whenever the opportunity arises.

This week’s #RLadies curator is @cwick.co.nz!

20.10.2025 03:18 👍 21 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
IDWSDS

The International Day of Women in Statistics & Data Science (IDWSDS) Conference is approaching soon!

⭐️ When? October 14th!
⭐️ Where? Online!
⭐️ How much? Completely Free!

Sign up now to stay updated about the program and learn about networking opportunities.

www.idwsds.org

15.07.2025 16:45 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Just over 24 hours to go! 🎉 Join us for an exciting R-Ladies+ panel on The People, Purpose & Power of R-Ladies+. See thread below to be part of it!

13.10.2025 00:22 👍 11 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
R-Ladies Gaborone (EN) - Positron for RStudio Users: A Gentle Introduction with Isabella Velásquez
R-Ladies Gaborone (EN) - Positron for RStudio Users: A Gentle Introduction with Isabella Velásquez YouTube video by R-Ladies Global

🤔 Curious about Positron, the next-gen IDE from posit?

R-Ladies Gaborone with @ivelasq3.bsky.social 💜 from @posit.co for “Positron for RStudio Users.” takes us through Positron tour, tips & tools 🚀

🎥 Watch: youtu.be/2fOQzgkxi6g

💬 Join: meetup.com/rladies-gabo...

#RLadies #rstats #DataScience

10.10.2025 06:47 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Thanks @ivelasq3.bsky.social for the edutainment posts...I learnt so much!
Thank you again for the {vitals} package sticker I'd been trying to find at #positconf25 🤗.
I think I managed to find space for it on my laptop 💻 🙂 😅.

29.09.2025 16:44 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I'm glad you enjoyed the talk Nur..🤗💜

26.09.2025 05:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
R-Ladies YouTube Video Feed

R-Ladies YouTube Video Feed

R-Ladies and its chapters share so many amazing recordings!

Interested in seeing what they are and how to watch them?

🔍 Check out the R-Ladies YouTube Video Feed
🔗 ivelasq.github.io/rladies-vide...

Made with flexdashboard + GitHub Actions!

🧑‍🏫 Tutorial here: ivelasq.rbind.io/blog/automat...

24.09.2025 17:08 👍 17 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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Wrapped up my very first presentation at #positconf2025 🎤✨
Nerves, excitement, and so much joy.
What made it unforgettable was finally meeting people I’ve only known online until now.
Grateful for the community, connections, and the chance to share my work. 🚀

#RStats #DataScience #rladies

24.09.2025 13:26 👍 20 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
Dr. D’s Data Science

If you're interested in the website, it's drddatascience.com My blog is linked in there as well. I never thought to do a tutorial as to how I created it.

23.09.2025 11:27 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Perhaps you can demonstrate to us how you do that 😃.

23.09.2025 08:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Yes it will definitely be recorded.
Please try and attend while its happening, we would love to see you there.

23.09.2025 08:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Positron for RStudio Users: A Gentle Introduction, Thu, Oct 9, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup Curious about Positron, the new open-source data science IDE from Posit? This session will walk RStudio users through the basics of Positron, highlight familiar features, a

🚀 Curious about Positron, Posit’s new open-source IDE?

This session shows RStudio users the basics, what’s new, and how it fits your workflow with @ivelasq3.bsky.social (Posit, PBC)

#RStats #DataScience #Positron #rladies

Thursday 09 October, 11am CT | 6:00 PM CAT

www.meetup.com/rladies-gabo...

22.09.2025 14:18 👍 42 🔁 18 💬 3 📌 2
Alt text: Curator Isabella Velásquez, Sr. Product Marketing Manager at Posit. Recently gave a workshop on survey analysis at the useR conference; is updating a book called Data Science in Education Using R.

Alt text: Curator Isabella Velásquez, Sr. Product Marketing Manager at Posit. Recently gave a workshop on survey analysis at the useR conference; is updating a book called Data Science in Education Using R.

This week’s #RLadies curator is @ivelasq3.bsky.social!

20.09.2025 21:20 👍 32 🔁 13 💬 2 📌 1

Please tell @simisani.bsky.social how cool her talk was since I can't do it in person! #positconf2025

18.09.2025 17:57 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Thank you so much 💜...please attend posit conf 2026 next year...

18.09.2025 18:20 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

🤗

13.09.2025 12:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Join me #positconf2025 in the #ATL where I will be talking about,
"History repeats itself: What the Du Bois Challenge taught me about reproducing visualisations",

reg.conf.posit.co/flow/posit/p...

If you see me come say "Hi" 😃

Find out more :
posit.co/conference/
www.linkedin.com/company/posi...

13.09.2025 11:33 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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At #RSECon25 at the University of Warwick!
I got to connect with three communities that mean so much to me:
💜 #RLadies
💻 Society of Research Software Engineering
📚 #TheCarpentries

And the countdown is on: #RSECon26 in Sheffield 🎉
Who else is planning to be there?

#Community

13.09.2025 11:08 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
“Smiling group of 14 R-Ladies at R Dev Day, posing together in a meeting room with a whiteboard and chairs in the background.

“Smiling group of 14 R-Ladies at R Dev Day, posing together in a meeting room with a whiteboard and chairs in the background.

R Developer Day at University of Warwick brought together R-Ladies from around the world 🌎.

Spaces like this remind us how powerful our global community is when we learn, collaborate and build together.

Thanks to Heather Turner for making this possible 💜

#RDevDay
#rladies

12.09.2025 19:21 👍 23 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 1
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a white cat laying on its back with the words hello there ALT: a white cat laying on its back with the words hello there

Hello, all! My name is Morgana, and I am so honored to be this week's curator for the #rladies account here on Bluesky!

I have been an R user since 2017, and while I now dabble in Python, in my heart of hearts I'll always be an R girl :)

I'll my best to make it an interesting week, and thank you!

25.08.2025 16:36 👍 22 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Curator Morgana Kinlan, Sr. Strategic Analyst at DeepSeas, LLC. They say, “I'm currently working on improving my visualization skills in R, and also working with language models”.

Curator Morgana Kinlan, Sr. Strategic Analyst at DeepSeas, LLC. They say, “I'm currently working on improving my visualization skills in R, and also working with language models”.

This week’s #RLadies curator is @morgana-kinlan.bsky.social 🎉

24.08.2025 09:28 👍 13 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0

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22.08.2025 13:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hope we'll be seeing these at posit conf 🤞🏽

14.08.2025 06:11 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0