This has been an educational side-project: vectorizing scans of handwriting in #JuliaLang. From top to bottom: scan, skeletonized, path extraction, SVG fitting simplified curves with Catmull-Rom splines.
Still some refinement to make on that last step.
I’d like to share that my book, Multilevel Thinking: Discovering Variation, Universals, and Particulars in Cross-Cultural Research is available for pre-order at Oxford University Press: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/multilevel-thinking-9780197806463?cc=us&lang=en&#
* This book explains multilevel modeling building upon my 15 years of teaching this topic.
* The book contains appendices for estimating multilevel models in #Stata, #Rstats, and #Julialang.
Are you in SoCal? Come join me on April 24 for a behind-the-scenes talk on the origin of Tidier.jl for #julialang, and why #rstats users should give it a look. More details will be posted here: www.meetup.com/socal-rug/
Strange asemic writing explorations in #JuliaLang this morning.
Starting to build up my own little library of utilities for making pen plotter art. Though Julia's excellent Luxor library is so good and full-featured already.
@viz Well, I seem to have figured things out. I brought together the JuliaCtags #JuliaLang package to generate a `ctags` file suitable for use by `exuberant-ctags` on Linux (at least). I used this to generate tags for my various projects both individually and all together as well as tags for the full Julia base module. This was then followed by the configuration of `tags-table-list` [*] in #Emacs to work with multiple tags files.
The results is that the various Emacs #xref commands work very well for navigating in the code: jump to definitions, find all references, go back and forth, etc.
[*] the use of a table of tags files is quite important when working with multiple inter-linked packages. I hadn't known about this variable before as I somehow missed the relevant paragraph in the documentation the various times I'd checked previously. :-(
Anybody here have any experience using #xref in #Emacs for #JuliaLang? I am not interested in LSP approaches (for the moment). Probably need to figure out tags support for Julia.
Thank you!
New preprint! "Spatial Data Science Languages: Commonalities and Needs" 
Exploring challenges & insights from #Rstats #Python & #JuliaLang for spatial data handling—geodetic coords, data cubes, and more!
Read here: https://arxiv.org/html/2503.16686v1
We are hiring a researcher to work on dispersion modeling in #JuliaLang. The location is #Brussels, job starts in August.
How to test new Julia's compile to exe feature in local machines:
Interesting write-up regarding the reason behind the speed in #JuliaLang. Author argues that speed isn't solely from the JIT (both #Python and #R have JIT implementations). Instead, the speedup is from type stability + multiple dispatch for specialization, which allows for easier compiler optimizations.
Why Does Julia Work So Well?
https://ucidatascienceinitiative.github.io/IntroToJulia/Html/WhyJulia
https://DSLC.io welcomes you to week 12 of #TidyTuesday! We're exploring Text Data From Amazon's Annual Reports!
https://tidytues.day/2025/2025-03-25
https://gregoryvdvinne.github.io/Text-Mining-Amazon-Budgets.html
Submit a dataset! https://github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/blob/main/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md
Some #JuliaLang learning sketches this morning. Good ole' circle packing with my own quadtree. And starting to explore asemic glyphs inspired by @inconvergent.net's earlier algorithms. (Delaunay triangulation, toss out the longest edge of every triangle. Now I need to traverse the graph as spline.)
I predicted¹ in 2014 that #julialang might replace #Fortran for #science and #engineering calculations. I think this process has begun and will continue.
Get a solid foundation in Julia (or any) language by starting with a good book:
If you're an 
power user / dev interested in putting R in production please join my discord :) https://discord.gg/YS8JKTrm
Its probably the best way to get a hold of me these days!
users welcome too—I want to learn more about y'all
@joss Just published in JOSS: 'NeuroAnalyzer: Julia toolbox for analyzing neurophysiological data' https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.07734
Anyone know what #atproto API call to get basic user info like # followed, # following, # of posts? (preferably using an #rstats package like {atrrr} or {bskyr} or other, or #julialang) I can fetch the actual posts — typically 100 at a time paginated — but I just want total count estimate.
Curator: @lydz_gibby
https://DSLC.io welcomes you to week 11 of #TidyTuesday! We're exploring Palm Trees!
https://tidytues.day/2025/2025-03-18 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-019-0189-0
Submit a dataset! https://github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/blob/main/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md
We recently published a new member of the Unfold-family: UnfoldMakie.jl
Are you looking for a dedicated #EEG plotting library? Look no more!
Based on the powerful @makieorg and 
fast #julialang
More exciting EEG methods news coming next weeks!! Stay tuned :)
via @vlad_mikheev
Julia v1.11.4 and v1.10.9 have been released #julialang https://julialang.org/downloads/
According to the Tiobe index March 2025, VBScript is more popular than Julia.
