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Andrew Heiss
Personal blog · andrewheiss.com/blogdataprogrammingscience
Andrew Heiss's personal blog at andrewheiss.com covers data, programming and science. Since 2022, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Fun with Positron: Combining the Best of RStudio and VS Code”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-12, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link andrewheiss.com for posts on data analysis and visualization, such as a Kotlin data analysis post with a Positron example. The comments only reference the posts without commenting on the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Andrew Heiss is an assistant professor at Georgetown University in Qatar, researching international NGOs and teaching data science.
Most-linked posts?
- Fun with Positron: Combining the Best of RStudio and VS Code2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-07-10
What Hacker News says?
What about position, with kotlin language support: https://i.imgur.com/SjbtX2z.png https://www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2024/07/08/fun-with-positro...
Comment linking /blog/2024/07/08/fun-with-positron/
on “Kotlin for data analysis”Submitted How to use a histogram as a legend in ggplot as a story · 2 points
HN discussionEven in the Era AI, GGPlot's API is still the best charting API. The name "Grammar of Graphics" isn't just marketing, they literally sought to write a god damn grammar to was capable of expressing all possible qualitative graphics. They even wrote a book about how they went about it (not that it speaks to the quality of the API) https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/0-387-28695-0 I actually stumbled upon this book…
Comment linking /blog/2017/08/10/exploring-minards-1812-plot-with-ggplot2/
on “Flint: A Visualization Language for the AI Era”Submitted Fun with Positron: Combining the Best of RStudio and VS Code as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to make fancy road trip maps with R and OpenStreetMap as a story · 2 points
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HN discussionSubmitted Marginalia: A guide to figuring out what the heck marginal as a story · 1 points
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