As mentioned in the first post in this series, this post will cover how to build a Mastodon bot. This can be fairly straightforward, but - as always - there are multiple ways to “make it work”. Fortunately, there are already some fantastic tutorials out there that can help you ...

I spent the last weeks building two small Mastodon bots with the goal in mind to make contributions by PyLadies and R-Ladies more visible. PyLadies and R-Ladies are global non-profit organizations that seek to empower and promote greater diversity in t...

Together with Andreas Küpfer I spent the last months writing and thinking about how to best explain BERT (using huggingface), apply it to a typical social science problem, and show the functionality of explainable AI. When working with large language m...

Thank you all for a fantastic year at R-Ladies Cologne! We had a series of great events which gave us the chance to meet so many wonderful and kindhearted people across the globe. This is one thing that always makes me so thankful to be part of the com...

Let’s talk about version control and collaboration today and one of its powerful tools: git ✨ 💡What is Git? Using Git can be a lifesaver (and it has often been one in the past for me 🙏). It’s basically like a mini time travel machine that you use - it ...

Together with PyLadies Tunis and PyLadies Munich we kicked off a fantastic event last Wednesday - and I’m still overwhelmed and touched by the impressions. When I started the R-Ladies Cologne chapter in 2021, I envisioned an event that seeks to bring both R and Python communities together. From my ...

When you have your website up and running and probably already started a little blog about data science related topics, you may want to share it with an even broader community. Here, R-bloggers and Python-bloggers are a great venue! Both websites pub...

Although I am not an avid European football fan, I sometimes have the chance to watch a match – and even more so during these days! ⚽️ Now that I’ve been following the German Bundesliga for some seasons (more irregularly than regularly), I was curious to see which players are part ...