Reading up on Posit

the-stats-duck v0.6.0 adds OLS regression, bootstrap, expanded distributions, and a Vega-Lite plot grammar to DuckDB SQL.

Posit releases py-yaml12, a Rust-backed Python library implementing YAML 1.2, arguing many criticisms of YAML stem from outdated PyYAML's 1.1 behavior rather than the modern spec.

ggsql is a SQL extension that enables declarative data visualization within SQL queries using the Grammar of Graphics, currently supporting DuckDB and SQLite.

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