schiff.nz
data tinkerer with #rstats occasional economist Aotearoa NZ
👤 Joined on 23 July 2023
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@aschiff.bsky.social@aschiff.bsky.social → @schiff.nzI've got a YouTube channel with well over 1,000 sunrises from the local beaches over the past 6+ years. But I have to say, last Friday's sunrise had got to be in the top 10 of those. If you want 45 minutes of beauty, watching the sun rise in real-time, here's a link: youtu.be/YXV7x4gkZtM?...
Show PostFor the NZ Trade Data I am writing a guide for, This is my current standard commodity panel. 1st - monthly change in dollars (h/t @schiff.nz) which suggests if movements between US and non-US amounts are replacements, 2nd (I may yet drop) is US as % of non-US, & 3rd unit value- checks if oversupply
Show PostHi if you’re in NZ I HOPE YOU VOTED IN YOUR LOCAL ELECTIONS OTHERWISE UR A JERK
Show Posthere is my first rendering of the bread scale of triviality (any suggestions welcome; I love thinking about bread)
Show PostI was loving Claude Code... until I tried it with #rstats. Constant errors, wouldn't use the tidyverse even when asked, "optimized" functions were slower. Frustrated, I started a session just to teach R to Claude and summarize what it learned into a CLAUDE.md file gist.github.com/sj-io/3828d6...
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