James Clawson

Reader, writer, teacher, traveler, rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief
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Instead of continuing to not post anything on this avian site, these days I'll be devoting my silence elsewhere: https://t.co/CZ30xXDCgx

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@athandimakis And what timing! 😄

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@WeatherFrontMan Shreveport, LA

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@WeatherFrontMan Jeffersonville, Ohio

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@dkaczv Thanks, Don!

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@erufleth Thank you!

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@denhli Thank you! 😊

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Hearty congratulations to Dr. Anshare Antoine for her successful defense! I’m pleased for and proud of you, @AnshareA, and I’m looking forward to see what comes next! 👏

[UCF Texts & Technology PhD @UCFTandT]

T&T congratulates our newest PhD, Dr. @AnshareA, who successfully defended her dissertation, "We're not just well suited, we are ethically obligated!”: Reimagining Technical and Professional Communication as Advocacy Against Discriminatory Digital Technologies, today!

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@hrbrmstr @kevin_ushey No problem there: I’m not totally production stable, either. And for someone who likes pain, you’re taking pains to make checking it out nearly painless for the rest of us, so thanks again!

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@kevin_ushey @hrbrmstr Thanks!

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@hadleywickham I found pivot_wider() useful as the final step to tidy a table of bibtex data in a process that didn’t need or use pivot_longer(). This particular example is a little involved, but the data structure seems like it would be common.

https://t.co/pocljOdayC

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Likewise, if you feel there's something missing from MLA support in Latex for humanities citations using Biblatex / Biber / Bibtex (yes, that's SEO), message me here or write up a note to track the issue on GitHub. Quick fixes may yet make it into 2.1. https://t.co/TZfk3BIts6

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I'm readying the next update for biblatex-mla, which should be out this month & cover many more edge cases. While it's still baking, any suggestions to improve the much-expanded documentation? For instance, should the 77 pages of examples be their own PDF? https://t.co/AdukAo1ofa

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These are the four cartographic dimensions I consider when running through my neighborhood:

↕️ latitude

↔️ longitude

🛗 altitude

🐕 proximity to previous encounters with unleashed dogs whom I’m sure mean only to protect their turf but are nevertheless a bit scary

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And yes, this grows out of the earlier, simpler Gist I mentioned in November 2019. Good news, though: some of the work I was doing that necessitated its creation will soon be in print—with affiliated ggplot2 charts, and all.

https://t.co/FtPkfID3jw

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After months of stupidly, laboriously converting each frequency table to make nicer ggplot2-style PCA charts and dendrograms with stylo, it finally struck me that I could write a simple function. It's still a bit limited, but it works well. Enjoy: https://t.co/mOaVObyCPl

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If you’re using the Stylo package in R for stylometry, why not give my stylo2gg package a whirl? It prepares visualizations in ggplot2 for more options and customization.

A silly installation error is now fixed, so you’ll have more luck than in the past:

https://t.co/TdM6GO2wat

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A blog post here shows off some of the options and outputs, using the Federalist Papers as an example. As is unsurprising for me, I think I forgot to tweet about it before now, but the code is available on GitHub, committed to hands I cannot see.

https://t.co/v6ouXwIsA9

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So pleased at the outcome of this. Everyone at Authors Alliance and the Samuelson Clinic deserves a round of applause!

[Authors Alliance @auths_alliance]

Authors Alliance is thrilled to announce that our proposed exemption to DMCA § 1201 to allow text data mining on e-books and films has been granted! Read more on our blog: https://t.co/xktW06z4Tg