Issue 2025-W50 Highlights

Issue 2025-W50 Highlights

From R Weekly Highlights by Eric Nantz

December 10, 2025 · 38 min · Episode 215

About this episode

The episode discusses recent LLM model releases, a new data science podcast, and programming languages suitable for data science.

How the recent frontier LLM model releases compare for successfully generating R code, our take on the new Test Set data science podcast, and a surprising entry in the world of languages equipped for data science.  Episode Links  This week's curator: Sam Parmar - @parmsam@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @parmsam_ (X/Twitter) 2025-12-05 AI Newsletter The Test Set: Now on YouTube + a look at what’s next Haskell IS a Great Language for Data Science Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2025-W50 Supplement Resources Add links discussed in the episode (in place of this sentence) How well do LLMs generate R code (Shiny app) https://skaltman-model-eval-app.share.connect.posit.cloud/ Python is not a great language for data science (Claus Wilke) Part 1 https://blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/python-is-not-a-great-language-for DataHaskell https://www.datahaskell.org/ Supporting the show Use the contact page at https://serve.podhome.fm/custompage/r-weekly-highlights/contact to send us your feedback R-Weekly Highlights on the Podcastindex.org - You can send a boost into the show directly in the Podcast Index. First, top-up with Alby , and then head over to the R-Weekly Highlights…

People in this episode

Host: Eric Nantz

Topics covered

  • LLM models
  • R code generation
  • data science podcast
  • programming languages
  • Haskell
  • Python

Keywords

  • LLM
  • R code
  • data science
  • Haskell
  • Python
  • Test Set
  • AI

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Organizations: The Test Set, DataHaskell, AI Newsletter

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