Libby Heeren

@libbyheeren.bsky.social

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Posit host & educator. Data Weasel. Community Builder. Teaches R+Python. 🔉 Heeren == "hair-en" ✨ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/libbyheeren DS Hangout: https://pos.it/dsh DS Lab: https://pos.it/dslab

Three stacked poll screenshots on a dark blue background. Poll 1 asks, “Do you love being asked for help by coworkers?” Results: 85% said “Yes! Nerd-snipe me!” and 15% said they’d rather be left alone to get their work done. Poll 2 asks whether people track personal data such as sports or sleep. Results: 41% don’t track their own data, 38% track it but don’t analyze it themselves, and 22% both track and analyze it. Poll 3 asks about anxiety around sharing code or screen-sharing while coding. Results: 48% currently struggle with this, 39% struggled early in their careers but not anymore, and 12% never struggled with it.
An iOS text message with Wordle results showing it took Libby 6 tries, despite having the first two letters correct since her first guess, and the text message, "So ashamed"
Batsyhead comic, black ink on post-it note yellow. Two cartoon cats are hugging each other. One says, "can I interest you in a terrible idea? And the other replies, "yes."
Classic scene from the opening of The Simpsons where Bart is writing lines on a chalkboard, except the board says "30 minutes isn't enough to switch tasks" - which was added custom by Libby Heeren using https://enufstyle.com/generators/bart/
A screenshot from the Data Science Lab community call. Emil is showing Quarto code on the left of his screen and the preview of a Quarto slide on the right, showing iOS style chat bubbles featuring dialogue from Romeo and Juliet
A black and white sonogram image of a baby's profile
The color palette in Google Calendar where you can change the color of an event. It's got 24 colors, including multiple shades of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple. It also includes brown, light grey, and dark grey. There's a pencil icon above the palette that lets you change the labels of each color, and a button at the bottom that says Default with a blue check mark next to it, which changes the color of an event back to your calendar default.
An orange and white cat lounges on a large pillow, his head resting on his front paws and his right leg and tail dangling off one side sleepily
Part of an orange and white tabby cat's face, and part of a laptop sitting on a blue lap desk. A circular spot of cat drool is on the lap desk.
An orange and white tabby cat is curled up next to a woman watching a laptop and looking up at the camera. There's a blanket on the sofa behind the cat and you can see part of a woman's leg and torso.
An orange and white tabby cat lounges on a cat condo with his eyes half-closed and one white paw outstretched
Screenshot of a website with "The Warehouse" at the top. The user has typed "add interactivity to a ggplot" into the search bar at the top of the website and results below include plotly and ggiraph
A conference talk slide by Ted Laderas. The title of the slide says "Burnout Happened" and there is a hand-drawn picture below it. There's a face with x eyes and a squiggle mouth that looks very anxious. Around the face radiate out different phrases, which say "It's only me", "Me", "It's not enough", "It's not helping"
A brown and white tabby lays on a back sofa cushion that he has flipped down onto the seat of a light grey sofa. His body is sprawled out on the cushion and his cheek rests on the arm of the sofa.
A woman's left hand holds 9 Peanut M&Ms and an empty, yellow Peanut M&Ms bag. The bag is full-sized, not fun-sized.
A photo taken in a dark room. It's a close-up of a bookshelf ledge. There's a small toy on the ledge with books visible behind it. The toy is a rectangular plastic base with the words "this is fine" written on it inside a speech bubble. On top of the base is a figurine of a cartoon dog with very large black pupils wearing a hat, sitting on a wooden chair in front of a wooden round table with a coffee mug on it. Around the base are clear plastic flames lit up orange by lights inside the base.
Ingredient list for HEB deli brand chocolate hummus: steamed chickpeas, organic sugar, water, sunflower, oil, olive oil, cocoa processed with alkali, vanilla (vanilla bean extractives in water and alcohol), sea salt, nisin (preservative).
An image of H-E-B brand Chocolate Hummus Spread. It's a flat, round, clear plastic container with a brown and white label, filled with a dark brown spread.
Timelapse of an illustration done in Procreate on an iPad. It's three scenes from the animated film Song of the Sea.
A vertical triptic of three consecutive scenes from the animated film Song of the Sea that have been illustrated by hand in order to study them. The top one is a beach scene at night, the middle is a girl stepping into water, and the bottom is a white seal underwater.
A still from the movie Mallrats. Three young men are looking at something behind the camera (a magic eye 3D image). The text at the bottom says OH, YEAH, LOOK. IT'S A SAILBOAT.
A close-up view of the ground outside: very small white daisy flowers with vibrant yellow centers cover the ground and are interspersed with slightly yellow, thin, dry grass.
The hexagonal logo or "hex sticker" for the chores R package developed by Simon Couch. It's a light purple background with a beige border, and the word "chores" in white at the upper right. There's a little character taking up most of the hexagonal shape that looks a little like a happy potato with a curl of hair on the top of its head. It's got little round feet and it's holding a clipboard in its right hand and a list in its left hand, as if it's ready to help! It's smiling, has big black eyes, raised eyebrows, and pink cheeks.
A hand holds a small, sparkly purple rubber duck, and a blurry laptop screen is seen in the background with a blurry view of a bar chart. The duck is purple plastic with pinkish sparkles, an orange nose, and black eyes.
A blurry security camera image of a skunk walking toward a red water bowl on a cedar plank patio
A brown and white cat is curled up on a tan blanket. His head is bent toward the blanket with his front legs curled under his head. The back half of an orange and white cat is seen in the foreground
A brown and white cat is sleeping on a cream colored plaid blanket with his front right paw covering is left eye. Only the top half of the cat is in view, and part of a grey sofa is seen behind him, past the blanket. The cat's nose is pink smudged with brown.
Screenshot of a google search where the user has mistyped posit data science hangout as "aposit data sicec hangout" but still got the top 3 most relevant and correct search results. There is an "eye rolling" emoji near the mistyped words in the search bar
A slide built using the quarto publishing system showing speech bubbles like on an iPhone, white bubbles showing up on the left and blue bubbles showing up on the right. The title of the slide says "Romeo & Julie -- Act II, Scene II" and each speech bubble has a line from Romeo or Juliet
The settings UI in Positron IDE showing that the user has searched for "dev containers" and has checked the box next to the setting called Dev > Containers: Enable (Experimental). Some text on the screen says "then restart" meaning that the user should restart after enabling this setting
Libby is a white woman with wavy grey and brown hair, blue earrings, a silver necklace, pink glasses, and a plaid jacket. She's seen in the bottom left hand corner of the frame with a beach behind her, the waves breaking in the distance. She's wearing a backpack and smiling, and the wind is blowing some of her hair into her face
A brown tabby cat curled up on a beige plaid blanket, holding one of her own back feet in her front paws. Her eyes are closed and her tail is curled up between her back legs
screenshot of a youtube description field with a warning in a text bubble that says "Your description is too long"
A brown tabby cat with her eyes closed, seemingly smiling as she nuzzles the top of her head into the backside of an orange and white tabby cat whose back half is visible. They're laying together on a mustard yellow and crème colored plaid blanket
A wrist near a laptop wearing an Apple Watch and a plastic bead bracelet with blue beads around some letter beads that spell out the word journey with all betters being black font except the r, which is blue font
An orange and white tabby cat is laying on a sofa surrounded by pillows, his head craned back, while his brother, a brown and white tabby cat, grooms his neck. Both cats look very content.
A survey question in slido that says "Do you use regression modeling in your job?" 48 people voted. 81 percent answered yes and 19 percent answered no
An orange and white cat sleeping on a grey sofa. The cat is on his left side, with his head curled to the viewer's right. His eyes are closed, his front paws are curled near his face, and he looks like he might be smiling. A couple of his little teeth are visible. He has a white belly with some orange spots, a striped tail, and a pink nose.
Ncpus the number of parallel processes to use for a parallel install of more than one source package. Values greater than one are supported if the make command specified by Sys.getenv("MAKE", "make") accepts argument -k -j <Ncpus>.
Two photos stacked on top of each other. Both images are black and white captures from a security camera capturing a night mode scene of a back porch. In the top image, a North American opossum is seen from behind, its tail taking up much of the picture, as well as its hind legs. The bottom image shows the scene without the opossum, which is a mat with a plate on it and a bowl with water spilled all around it on the concrete.
a quadrant of black and white nightmode images from a security camera on a back patio. The top two are of an opossum eating cat food and the bottom two are of a skunk drinking water.
grainy screenshot of a scene from the movie Finding Nemo of Peach the starfish smiling and saying "The sun is shining! The tank is clean!"
A brown tabby cat curled up on beige and pink blankets, fast asleep on a round curled up shape
A grey and white cat wearing a blue and white raglan-sleeve shirt
A brown tabby cat propped sitting up with her back legs spread out so she can groom her tummy. She's looking at the camera as if she has been interrupted
Plaid fabric being stitched on a sewing machine. A small, fake, plastic hand removes a straight pin before feeding the fabric through the machine.
Screen shot of an iPhone text message screen with two messages. On the right, the first text message says, "This dashboard is cursed." On the left, the second message says, "It truly is," followed by two laughing emojis
Libby leans in near the camera. She's a white woman with wavy brown hair, a silver necklace, turquoise earrings, and pink glasses. She's wearing a v neck light blue sweatshirt that she made. It has a posit logo on the left front.
A picture of a light blue sweatshirt with a small white posit logo and text saying that Libby got a company sweatshirt but the collar bothered her neck. The next clip is Libby wearing a refashioned version of the blue posit sweatshirt that she sewed. It now has an overlapping v-neck front, 3/4 length sleeves, a hood, and a front pocket. Text indicates Libby used her superpowers (sewing and making) to turn the sweatshirt into something she would love to wear.
Kelly from the TV show The Office with her arms crossed and caption saying, "yeah, I have a lot of questions. Number one: how dare you?"
The character Dr. Evil from the Austin Powers movies with the caption "Scotty Don't!" Dr. Evil is a bald white man in a grey suit that has large shoulders and closes all the way up to his neck. He's seen from the chest up and seems to be speaking.
Blue fabric on a sewing table. It's the front pocket of a hoodie pattern that's got lines of stitching running vertically, showing how it's been pieced together from different scraps of the same fabric.
An early 90s Brother serger with a bit of blue fabric being fed into it. Scissors and fabric clips are on the table in front of it. The serger has a sticker on it that's an illustration of Ruth Bader Ginsburg as a mermaid.
A screenshot of Nur Shahir in Discord asking: "this is a simple question but what is linting and what is the purpose of it"
A screenshot of an R console where a vector of strings has been created, each string containing a number somewhere in it, and then the vector has been passed to the readr package function called parse_number() which has output just the numbers. A yellow emoji with red heart-shaped eyes is seen in the top right corner. Full code is below: a_bunch_of_ugly_stuff <- c( "yr_2026_bqp", "compsci3001-spr", "subject5689-west" ) readr::parse_number(a_bunch_of_ugly_stuff) 2026 3001 5689
Brown IKEA pegboard with a set of blue sewing bobbin holders hung on it
A closet with ikea pegboards mounted to shelf rails using 3D printed mounts