Issue 2026-W06 Highlights

A prominent leader at the intersection of data science and data engineering across multiple languages shares her insights, how a recent Git workshop tailored for data science de-mystifies common pitfalls, and for the second straight episode a new transpiler bringing dplyr syntax to databases (quite literally).
Episode Links

• This week's curator: Jon Carroll - @jonocarroll@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @jonocarroll.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy (Bluesky) & @carroll_jono (X/Twitter)
• The Test Set Pod - Column selectors, data quality, and learning in public (Episode link)
• Git & GitHub: Practical Version Control for Data Work
• dplyr comes to duckdb
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2026-W06

Supplement Resources

• Risk Conference 2026 Agenda (Mike is presenting!) https://rconsortium.github.io/Risk_website/program.html
• libdplyr https://github.com/mrchypark/libdplyr

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