William E. J. Doane, PhD 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪

he/him/his; S&T Public Policy Researcher; Computer Science educator. Degrees in Informatics (CEdR), information & computer sciences, and cognitive science.

[The Data Science & AI Conference @TheDataConf]

💻 We are hosting a WORKSHOP on Nov 30 along with the R Gov Conference!

Join @WilDoane in-person or virtually for a full-day interactive Intro to Natural Language Processing for Public Policy Research workshop.

More info & tix at https://t.co/XfRNjpKouM

#rstatsgov | #rstats

[William E. J. Doane, PhD 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪 @WilDoane]

Beware: @Free2Move only reimburses for a max of $25 for gas, and only if the pump printer was kind enough to work, which you won't know until after. (hint: it didn't). Despite my CC charge from Exxon during the trip + photos of the pump showing total and unit cost, no joy.

[William E. J. Doane, PhD 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪 @WilDoane]

Beware: @Free2Move doesn't appear to actively monitor maintenance indicators. A "low tire pressure" indicator was actually a totally shredded tire that had obv. been driven on its rims... but that @Free2Move listed as ready to drive. Next nearest car: 40 minute walk.

[William E. J. Doane, PhD 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪 @WilDoane]

@dtoher @eddelbuettel https://t.co/sgzAWklbUh

[🦋 Tom Mock @thomas_mock]

RStudio is now Posit 🎉

Find the new handle @posit_pbc and the brand new site at https://t.co/heCvKJbbFb !!

I'm really excited that we can double down on our commitment to open source - it's going to be a fun ride!

#RStats #PyData #DataScience

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[William E. J. Doane, PhD 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪 @WilDoane]

@AmazonHelp and now it turns out I was mistaken... the problem remains unresolved. Amazon still has a payment processing issue.

[William E. J. Doane, PhD 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪 @WilDoane]

Was repeatedly told off by multiple @amazon @AmazonHelp customer service reps yesterday while trying to resolve a trivial billing issue because "rewards can't be used for digital content." Someone should tell their web team.

[William E. J. Doane, PhD 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪 @WilDoane]

@AmazonHelp After 3 calls, 5 different employees, and a lost 1.5 hours of time, yes, the issue was resolved. Not a good use of your time or mine. At the end, the $1.99 transaction was completed.

[William E. J. Doane, PhD 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪 @WilDoane]

@AmazonHelp Your support people don't understand "Items ordered through Buy Now or 1-Click, except for Kindle eBooks" per that help page.

[William E. J. Doane, PhD 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪 @WilDoane]

@wirecutter Your suggested "A small screen with smarts (but no camera)" for use bedside or in the bathroom... very decidedly has a camera.

https://t.co/jWXKKImyhK

per: https://t.co/RgQxQ4zQ4A

"Echo Show 5 (2nd Gen, 2021 release) | Smart display with Alexa and 2 MP camera"

[William E. J. Doane, PhD 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪 @WilDoane]

@DextraordinaryH Yes, but doesn't address Hadley's request for function definitions that serve the purpose.

[William E. J. Doane, PhD 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪 @WilDoane]

@DanChaltiel The request was for examples of functions that reduce repetition/avoid errors. Having ! and %in% separated is a common source of errors in code (the ! gets misplaced) and is difficult to read in English: "If not A in A, B, C..." vs. "If A not in A, B, C..."

[William E. J. Doane, PhD 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪 @WilDoane]

@hadleywickham library(dplyr)

keep <- filter # :)

[William E. J. Doane, PhD 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪 @WilDoane]

@leRaffl @rstudiotips @rstudio “Errors” are fatal by definition. “Warnings”, “Info”/messages and unexpected behaviors and not formal errors, but mistakes in programmer intent/expectation.

[William E. J. Doane, PhD 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪 @WilDoane]

��…then I was told, once I was blacklisted, I was an articulate liberal, and that was bad. I was told that in fact it wasn’t really about communism — that was the thing that frightened everybody — it was about control and about power.” https://t.co/c424m91g17

[William E. J. Doane, PhD 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪 @WilDoane]

@EmorieBeck Getting from “it could be anything” to “it has to be one of these 5 things” —a much tighter upper bound!

[William E. J. Doane, PhD 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪 @WilDoane]

@wmata schedules are pure fiction. As are the labels on busses. As are commitments to customer service. Chassis 6461. -21:00

[William E. J. Doane, PhD 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪 @WilDoane]

@FedExHelp I've followed you

[William E. J. Doane, PhD 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪 @WilDoane]

"Work like your work is valuable" ~ E. David Aja at RStudio::conf(2022) #RStats #rstudio