About Sharon Machlis
Sharon is an award-winning journalist and data analyst who is equally at home analyzing data, coding tools for journalists, and covering technology. She is currently director of editorial data & analytics at Foundry (an IDG Inc. company), which publishes tech Web sites including Computerworld, CIO, PCWorld, and Macworld; and author of InfoWorld's Do More With R series .
Her book, Practical R for Mass Communication and Journalism, is available from publisher CRC Press and Amazon (you can see Six chapters free online).
Sharon is well known in the R community. She has taught workshops at ProPublica, and Investigative Reporters and Editors conferences and keynoted the 2020 European R User Meeting.
Sharon received an ASBPE national gold award for impact/investigative online excellence (see story) and two ASBPE national golds for best how-to article (see 2014 and 2017 winners) She was also named the Digital Analytics Association's top practitioner in 2021 for her work analyzing data at her job and in her community.
Sharon holds an Extra-class ham radio license and was honored by the Association of Radio Amateurs of Bosnia & Herzegovina "for extraordinary contribution to transmitting humanitarian messages of the citizens of Bosnia-Herzegovina" during the 1992-95 war.
Sharon's other hobbies include photography, travel, hiking, snowshoeing, crocheting, and classical piano. And, she's somewhat obsessed with both generative AI and the R programming language.
You can follow Sharon on Mastodon at @smach@masto.machlis.com and her searchable app with her Mastodon posts, as well as on LinkedIn. (She is not currently active on Twitter, but you can see her prior tweets at @sharon000.)
Sharon's Recent InfoWorld and Computerworld Articles
5 easy ways to run an LLM locally 2024-03-28
How to run R in Visual Studio Code 2024-02-15
Posit lays off R Markdown, knitr creator Yihui Xie 2024-01-05
8 ChatGPT tools for R programming 2023-12-21
Anthropic's Claude 2.1 LLM turbocharges performance, offers beta tool use 2023-11-21
Anthropic's Claude 2.1 LLM turbocharges performance, offers beta tool use 2023-11-21
Sharon's Data-Related Mastodon Posts
Jan is another easy way to run LLMs locally on your own system.
My roundup, just updated:
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3705035/5-easy-ways-to-run-an-llm-locally.html
Info on Jan: https://jan.ai
#GenAI #LLM #LLMs #GenerativeAI #AI #InfoWorld (2024-03-28 16:57:31) >>
There are some cool VS Code extensions in here I want to try! Ex: SQL Tools, for adding a database workbench to Code; and Data Preview, offering “handlers, visualization tools, and management functions for a wide variety of common formats—not only JSON or CSV, but also Excel, Apache Parquet, Arrow, Avro, YAML” & more. By my colleague Serdar Yegulalp at #InfoWorld
#VSCode
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3434611/7-visual-studio-code-extensions-you-didnt-know-you-needed.html (2024-03-28 11:54:56) >>
“You can now host Quarto Websites on Hugging Face using the new Quarto Template. This template allows you to deploy Quarto sites to Hugging Face with a click of a button, making it easy to integrate them with other Hugging Face models and datasets.” - Hugging Face
#QuartoPub
https://quarto.org/docs/publishing/hugging-face.html (2024-03-28 03:34:41) >>
The {dbx} #rstats 📦 is a “fast, easy-to-use database library for R . . . Designed for both research and production environments. Supports Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite, SQL Server, and more” By Andrew Kane. On CRAN.
https://github.com/ankane/dbx
@rstats #databases (2024-03-27 11:06:29) >>