Sharon Machlis was a longtime writer and editor at Computerworld and later the Director of Editorial Data & Analytics at parent company Foundry. She is also the author of Practical R for Mass Communications and Journalism.
Sharon's Do more with R video tutorials won a Jesse H. Neal award for Best Instructional Content.
Recently retired, Sharon is still passionate about R and generative AI, and also blogs about the retirement life. You can find her on Bluesky at @smachlis.bsky.social, Mastodon at @smach@masto.machlis.com, and LinkedIn.
Use the vitals package with ellmer to evaluate and compare the accuracy of LLMs, including writing evals to test local models.
Databot is an experimental alternative to querychat that works with R or Python. And it’s now available as an add-on for the Positron IDE.
See how to query documents using natural language, LLMs, and R—including dplyr-like filtering on metadata. Plus, learn how to use an LLM to extract structured data for text filtering.
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Version 1.0 of the reactive web framework for Python also includes a testing framework, data frame improvements, and new styling options for interactive tables.