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Ecologist turned fraud data scientist, based in Tel Aviv. 🕷🐦 ➡️ 🦹🏻‍♀️ First love: #rstats New friends: #sql / #pydata / #spark

Joined June 2017
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The latest in my #rstats / #sql adventures: ✨Using SQL in RStudio✨ Featuring SQL RMarkdown chunks, query previews in RStudio, and my first make-my-own cartoon irene.rbind.io/post/using-sq…
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How did I, an Israeli-American, talk to my mostly Jewish and Muslim lab in New York about what's going on? (1/8)
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10 days of writing in one tweet: I am sad and angry and appalled. Revenge is not a strategy. A child is a child is a child. Freedom and dignity for all. Release the civilian hostages now. Let the aid in. Stop and think. Without a vision for a shared future, this does not end.
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If you want to stand with and for Palestinians, you need to put your body between any thug and Jewish individuals they want to harm or harass. You need to shut down and push back against any antisemitic bullshit. Jewish people are not the enemy. So many are our staunchest allies
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Israel has the right to defend itself. We must make sure they have what they need to protect their people today and always.   At the same time, Prime Minister Netanyahu and I have discussed how Israel must operate by the laws of war. That means protecting civilians in combat as best as they can.   We can’t ignore the humanity of innocent Palestinians who only want to live in peace. That’s why I secured an agreement for the first shipment of humanitarian assistance for Palestinian civilians in Gaza.   And we cannot give up on a two-state solution.
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Of course Twitter has the audacity to tell me *I* turned off 2FA when really they just want me to pay for it 🙄
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What fun to come back to RStudio after a long while and discover new features like this! 🎨
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I love when some new AI text model comes out and everyone is putting up crazy screenshots like “This weighted string generator is so terrifying, it will overthrow the world order” and then it spits out something like, “Random forests are common throughout Northern Europe.”
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What is the craziest thing you've built or seen in SQL? Mine is probably the single select statement with 22 joins... I've also written SQL that writes dynamic SQL to do pivoting, which is also pretty gnarly.
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Data science cannot be fully automated. No amount of parameter tuning, benchmarking, automation, model comparison, automated feature engineering, etc., can automatically figure out what data column location_123_old contains and whether it should be a feature or not.
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Psych folks who know #rstats but are intimidated by SQL databases (i.e., industry work)--you already know the core concepts. Let me help you translate. 🧵 1. The "database" is analogue to your R environment. It can store many tables. (1/n)
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Optimist: The glass is ½ full. Pessimist: The glass is ½ empty. Excel: The glass is January 2nd.
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Replying to @cdisalvo
PowerPoint slaps
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If you've been paying attention there is a huge unbundling happening in the chocolate chip cookie space. A thread 1/x
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The hardest problem in machine learning is getting off your chair to do the 2-factor auth confirm when your phone is two rooms away.
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user! 2022 is pleased to offer up to 25 diversity scholarships to members of underrepresented and historically marginalized groups. Scholarships are reserved for useRs who are presenting a poster or talk at the conference; registration and two tutorials will be covered.
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rstudio::conf(2022) is coming July 25-28 to National Harbor, DC! More soon on our amazing keynote speakers, tutorials, diversity scholarship, & what we’ll be doing to keep y’all safe. Please save the date & read on if you’re interested in submitting a talk rstudio.com/blog/save-the-da…
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I recently discovered WITH in sql (late bloomer) and it has changed my life.
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Okay arrow::write_parquet() is incredible. Went from a CSV that was 4.79 GB down to a 19.5 MB parquet file. 🤯 #rstats
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