Posit at SciPy 2025

The Shiny Team was at SciPy 2025! If you missed us at SciPy 2025 here’s what we were up to.

We just got back from a week at SciPy 2025 and had a great time meeting and talking with folks at the conference. If you didn’t get a chance to say hi to us, you can also find us online on GitHub or Discord . You can also learn more about Posit at posit.co .

If you missed a tutorial or talk we have all the information below. You’ll have to wait a bit for the SciPy folks to get all the tutorials and talks uploaded to Youtube .

Talks by Posit Folks#

Mar 12

Recreating Septa Transit Timetables in Python

Recently, Rich and I were poking around transit data, and we were struck by the amount of structuring that goes into transit timetables. For example, consider this weekend rail schedule table from SEPTA, Philadelphia’s transit agency. Notice these big pieces: The vertical text on the left indicating trains are traveling “TO CENTER CITY”. The blue header, and spanner columns (“Services” and “Train Number”) grouping related columns. The striped background for easier reading. Also the black background indicating stations in Center City (the urban core). Tables like this often have to be created in tools like Illustrator, and updated by hand. At the same time, when agencies automate table creation, they often sacrifice a lot of the assistive features and helpful affordances of the table.

Mar 5

Outgrowing your laptop with R and Positron

R-Ladies Abuja has posted a recording of a recent talk on Positron, and you can find it here!

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Mar 5

PDF Accessibility and Standards

Quarto 1.9 brings PDF accessibility and standards support, building on new tagging features in LaTeX and Typst.