Dr. Julian Barg, climate disinformation research

Retro greenwashing from Shell

A few days ago, I randomly came across this 2009 promotional film by Shell. In their own words:

Using the OpenAI API to quickly code data in R

Every time I want to quickly bash out a command to code some data with ChatGPT in R, I stumble. Not that it is very difficult, it is just a very different workflow compared…

Rmarkdown and Pandoc

More of a reminder to myself – how to get rmarkdown to play nicely.

R reticulate and virtualenv: oh god why?

Over the years, I have definitely learned not to ask too many questions—some, but not too many—and go with what works. The problem with not asking questions, or accepting…

OpenAI’s disjointed documentation

I have been using OpenAI a lot over the last couple of weeks, and one issue that keeps tripping me up is their disjointed and incomplete documentation.

How (the heck) does ggalluvial work?

We have this unfortunate problem that we want to create a sankey diagram, but most of the existing packages are not feature complete enough. ggsankey is a popular solution…