Eric Book

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Account age
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Can't get much simpler than that. Yeah, {futurize} is nice. #rstats13 views Can't get much simpler than that. Yeah, {futurize} is nice. #rstats Didn't know that {skimr::skim} worked an arrow object. It's pretty cool, but it hits your RAM pretty hard. That's only a 70MB directory of parquet files, and my RAM usage went up by ~1.3GB. #RStats Code: https://ray.so/fCoXwso8 views Didn't know that {skimr::skim} worked an arrow object. It's pretty cool, but it hits your RAM pretty hard. That's only a 70MB directory of parquet files, and my RAM usage went up by ~1.3GB. #RStats Code: https://ray.so/fCoXwso RE: https://mas.to/@CRANberriesFeed/116373937906718292 Cool shiny module inspired by Positron's data explorer #rstats6 views RE: https://mas.to/@CRANberriesFeed/116373937906718292 Cool shiny module inspired by Positron's data explorer #rstats How spatial sampling methods affect the variance of your mean estimate when spatial autocorrelation is present. https://dosull.github.io/posts/2025-11-14-gia-chapter-2A-spatial-autocorrelation/ #rstats #rspatial4 views How spatial sampling methods affect the variance of your mean estimate when spatial autocorrelation is present. https://dosull.github.io/posts/2025-11-14-gia-chapter-2A-spatial-autocorrelation/ #rstats #rspatial

📊 Post engagement

4
Avg engagement / post
2.9%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: Can't get much simpler than that. Yeah, {futurize} is nice. #rs · 13 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence
0.14 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly images
Recent: 0 text · 11 image · 1 video.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post Can't get much simpler than that. Yeah, {futurize} is nice. #rstats ★ 13
RE: https://mas.to/@CRANberriesFeed/116373937906718292 Cool shiny module inspired by Positron's data explorer #rstats ★ 6 How spatial sampling methods affect the variance of your mean estimate when spatial autocorrelation is present. https://dosull.github.io/posts/2025-11-14-gia-chapter-2A-spatial-autocorrelation/ #rstats #rspatial ★ 4 Just as I've started to get a pretty comfortable with all the coordinate representations, projections, etc., I see this. If I would've came across an older dataset with this before now, I'm not sure what I would've done. Tried an internet … ★ 2 Hmm — an htmlwidget serializer. I'd like to see that out in the wild. #RStats ★ 2 @erc_bk Decided to improve upon this a bit (with some Claude help). The code is in this gist, https://gist.github.com/ercbk/8d8803a3b22d21a4a871dc8ae967cd6a. Not as comprehensive as skimr, but takes advantage of arrow's lazy evaluation. Th… ★ 2 Didn't know that {skimr::skim} worked an arrow object. It's pretty cool, but it hits your RAM pretty hard. That's only a 70MB directory of parquet files, and my RAM usage went up by ~1.3GB. #RStats Code: https://ray.so/fCoXwso ★ 8 I feel like ChatGPT is taking a jab at other types of models here. Another damn dynamic website bit me today. Tried to scrape some data with a POST request, but it was sneakily generated by secondary GET request that was triggered by a button I didn't even click. Second time seeing these diamond plots. There's a little bit of visual friction with the rotated grid, but I don't think it's too bad of a trade-off for when you have long axis labels. Angled tick labels and region labeling/color coding ca… ★ 2 ‘The data on extreme human ageing is rotten from the inside out’ – Ig Nobel winner Saul Justin Newman https://theconversation.com/the-data-on-extreme-human-ageing-is-rotten-from-the-inside-out-ig-nobel-winner-saul-justin-newman-239023 ▶ Loss Rider - A plotting tool that outputs Line Rider maps, so you can watch a man on a sled scoot down your loss curves. https://github.com/jndean/LossRider ★ 1

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On Mastodon since
Nov 2022
Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 4 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.1× per week.

🛡️ Audience credibility

83/100 Excellent
  • Est. 99% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
  • Strong engagement (~2.9% of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
  • Verified account.
  • Established account (3+ years old).
Est. authentic audience
99%
Fake-follower risk
Low
Data confidence
Medium

Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.

About

Pathologically curious about most things, but this space is mostly focused on data science and engineering. #tfr

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RE: https://mas.to/@CRANberriesFeed/116373937906718292 Cool shiny module inspired by Positron's data explorer #rstats Can't get much simpler than that. Yeah, {futurize} is nice. #rstats How spatial sampling methods affect the variance of your mean estimate when spatial autocorrelation is present. https://dosull.github.io/posts/2025-11-14-gia-chapter-2A-spatial-autocorrelation/ #rstats #rspatial Just as I've started to get a pretty comfortable with all the coordinate representations, projections, etc., I see this. If I would've came across an older dataset with this before now, I'm not sure what I would've done. Tried an internet search out of curiosity, but didn't come up with much. sp::ch Hmm — an htmlwidget serializer. I'd like to see that out in the wild. #RStats @erc_bk Decided to improve upon this a bit (with some Claude help). The code is in this gist, https://gist.github.com/ercbk/8d8803a3b22d21a4a871dc8ae967cd6a. Not as comprehensive as skimr, but takes advantage of arrow's lazy evaluation. This only uses around 214MB of RAM. #RStats Didn't know that {skimr::skim} worked an arrow object. It's pretty cool, but it hits your RAM pretty hard. That's only a 70MB directory of parquet files, and my RAM usage went up by ~1.3GB. #RStats Code: https://ray.so/fCoXwso I feel like ChatGPT is taking a jab at other types of models here.

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