Thriving in a multi-lingual data science lifestyle while authoring your next Quarto project, putting LLMs to the scientific test with parsing manuscripts, and replicating a life-saving spatial visualization originally created over 170 years ago!
Episode Links
* This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @R_by_Ryo@mstdn.social (Mastodon) & @rbyryo.bsky.social (Bluesky) & @R_by_Ryo) (X/Twitter) * Creating multilingual documentation with Quarto * The ellmer package for using LLMs with R is a game changer for scientists * {SnowData} 1.0.0: Historical Data from John Snow's 1854 Cholera Outbreak Map * Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2025-W12

Supplement Resources
* Wes McKinney & Hadley Wickham (on cross-language collaboration, Positron, career beginnings, & more) https://youtu.be/D-xmvFY_i7U * Tabby Quarto extension https://quarto.thecoatlessprofessor.com/tabby/ * Plotting the Past: The 1854 Cholera Outbreak Visualized in R https://simplifyingstats.wordpress.com/2025/01/18/plotting-the-past-the-1854-cholera-outbreak-visualised-in-r/

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