🚨 New blog post the-kids-biostats.github.io/posts/2025-1... This one looking at the use of the {readaihw} package and the value of the AIHW data it enables you to access, plus a peak behind the scenes of something we do to spur on a little water cooler talk in the office.

Here's to World Statistics Day 📊 Yes that's right, we've already got our eye on wrapping up 2025. #RStats #Statistics #Statssky #DataScience

Happy birthday to me! Let's go @chargers.bsky.social ⚡⚡⚡

Inflation in the past year was BELOW the RBA's target range in FIVE capital cities. And the only places it was above 2% were Brisbane and Perth, where the end of state-based energy rebates saw an abnormal jump in electricity prices. Time to wake up the RBA www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It's the little game no one asked for! What's! This! Plot?! #RStats #RStudio #StatsEpi #Stats

Did I make it within 24 hours? #RStats #RStudio #StatsEpi #Stats

"Overall the country’s fertility rate, or children born per woman, was 1.51 in 2024, statistically similar to the 1.5 observed in 2023 ..." I wonder if someone was asked to statistically compare those two numbers? I wonder if the result of the test would have swayed one's thoughts on the numbers?

This is incredibly disappointing to read!

📌📝 We're hiring 📝📌 Open to considering all levels of experience for this Biostatistician position in Perth WA - one of the most 🌞 cities on 🌏 www.seek.com.au/job/85795271... #RStats #RStudio #StatsEpi #Stats

A little bit sad to see that 'statistician' wasn't one of the many 'data' professions listed on this page. I'm sure the engineers will nail this though. PowerBI crashboard incoming? #RStats #RStudio #StatsEpi #Stats

🚨 New blog post alert - This one looking at large scale projects with analysis feeding into Professional Reports, as opposed to peer-reviewed journal articles. Exploring some challenges and learnings. the-kids-biostats.github.io/posts/2025-0... #RStats #RStudio #StatsEpi #Stats #DataScience

Hilariously, the AFR is showing just how absurd is the scare campaign against the super tax changes. They give an eg where someone's super goes from $2m to $3.18m in a year! Yep a $1.18m increase. How much extra tax? $1,528! OMG!! THAT'S OUTRAG... err... oh actually that's bugger all

"Skilled workers". What proportion of that 80k were 'born into', or 'fell into', or 'acquired by questionable means' the funds that put them in that position. I can't see us losing anyone that does any real work over this. Oh no, CBA might not have a CFO 😱 How will my bank transfer go through?!

A few pics from a holiday in Broome, Western Australia.

🚨 New blog post alert - This one about a handy little-known package for curating your RStudio Addins list! A little customising to your IDE to make your workflows much more efficient. the-kids-biostats.github.io/posts/2025-0... #RStats #RStudio #StatsEpi #Stats #DataScience

One party stands alone pretending we don’t have a gas shortage. Come on ALP - let’s get on with taxing our gas properly and stop being afraid of the gas companies

Hi #rstats friends! I'm starting consulting! I've had a great journey in academia working with brilliant people, and while it's bittersweet (and a bit scary!), I'm excited for this next step. I'll still be maintaining {greta} and am hoping to be even more involved with the R community. 1/n

This is cool!

Everyone should be screaming like this! More of this, now please!

Just a little thread on (some) of my favourite charts I've made. 🧵

How good are graphs! This is from my BBQ, smoking a brisket on Friday night. Red - set pit temp Orange - brisket flat Green - brisket point The "stall" is so well shown here, as the rate of temp climbing slows to zero in the flat (circled). Then the entire brisket is wrapped and put back in /1

This is a very cool old math device! Looks really well built too, and smooth. www.instagram.com/reel/DFqdAfP...

This is a fantastic diagram of (parameterisation of) modelling time effects in stepped wedge designs. Nice Jessica! (jkasza.netlify.app) doi.org/10.1002/sim....

Lovely @grogsgamut.bsky.social "Failure to do so would be one of the most political and misguided decisions the RBA would have made in recent history." Since that bloke made the decision to tell the country they 'wouldn't rise for a few years'. As an example.

Yes inflation is falling. But it isn't zero. Falling inflation is not falling prices, (nominal) prices are still increasing, just not as fast. We are still cost of living crisising. CRISISING. I need a @grogsgamut.bsky.social article, stat!

Our package has launched! Ultimately, this is to simplify our workflows and give us consistency between projects (without copy paste): + create_project (setup directory structure) + create_template (qmds and dependencies) + some theming and data wrangling helpers #Stats #RStats

If you read one article this year, let this be it! If you read one article a day this year, then read this 365 times. Fuel the 🔥

Happy New Year - first post of 2025 up. This one looking at how we structure model output in our #Rstats #Quarto reports, keeping output both (relatively) comprehensive and (relatively) concise (real estate wise). Thoughts welcome! Encouraged even :) the-kids-biostats.github.io/posts/2025-0...

Last post up for the year! A function for visualising (figure and table) bidirectional Likert scale data - quite common in health research! the-kids-biostats.github.io/posts/2024-1...

Bloke in a pink shirt explains why the RBA should cut rates

New paper out. This was a fun project to work on, I really like simple changes that bring tangible benefits to patients. Increased physical activity, reduced length of stay, and hence reduced cost of admission using spring-infusors during CF exacerbations. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Guys... free text? This is that vibe www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk31...

New post up - some high level thoughts on blogging 'code' vs blogging 'functions', comments welcomed :) the-kids-biostats.github.io/posts/2024-1... #Stats #RStats

It took me a very long minute to wrap my head around this chart from one of my favourite economists @grogsgamut.bsky.social. I wish, in health academia, we had the freedom to circulate something with arbitrary trend lines like this for the sake of broad 1/ www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

Bit of a nerdy econ chart for you - showing that the link between wages and unemployment is headed back to the 2016-2020 trend, rather than staying at the higher 1998-2012 trend www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

Supposed to be a 'data' article showing insightful trends. What an appalling collection of bad figures from The Guardian. Lack of axis labels, poor colour choices. The whole thing should be titled 'Off the Charts". The ABC/ABS youth crime rate figure is serviceable.

New post up on the blog. This one, looking at a nice way to plot pre/post (ordinal) Likert scale data. the-kids-biostats.github.io/posts/2024-1... #Stats #RStats

New post up on the blog. This one is looking at understanding variability in mean estimates and confidence intervals when working with small samples. the-kids-biostats.github.io/posts/2024-0... #Stats #RStats

250+ word doc when there is a PDF available? Please!

A couple of new blog posts up - AI in Biostats the-kids-biostats.github.io/posts/2024_0... the-kids-biostats.github.io/posts/2024_0... #Stats #RStats

Once all your data and workflows are fully embedded in and dependent on everything AWS/Azure. And then Amazon/Microsoft realise they need to recoup funds after their massive DC and AI capex that isn't turning a profit. And they have all these people trapped in subscriptions for their BAU...

To put all those that tried to guess out of their misery. The lines were WA Population and WA Births. #Stats #Epistats I know, it looked like house prices and real income!

Anyone want to guess what the two lines are? (I have a hint I can put up before posting the labelled plot) #Stats #Epistats

Perth July Weather Summary - mean overnight low 9.7 - mean daily max 19.5 against longterm (1993-2023) July mean values of - 8.1 - 18.5 Seniors can mention code COOPER20 for 20% off 10+ day Antarctic cruises - limited time offer (literally) #stats

Cracking @apod.shinyakato.dev today! 🔭🧪 Uluru, under the Milky Way, which sits right above us during our winter months. Look at all those beautiful h-alpha regions. Uluru is about the height of the Eiffel Tower and sacred to our Indigenous people. 📷 Max Inwood / apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap24072...

Blog post - a little worked example of analysing pre-post data! Am loving Quarto right now, and the documentation for it is amazing, get on board. #Stats #Rstats #StatsSky the-kids-biostats.github.io/posts/pre_po...

We launched a blog a few weeks ago. 3rd post is up - a link to our Data Anonymising shiny app - to help your colleagues avoid uploading their research data into (potentially) dodgy websites (e.g. AI graphing tools etc) More to come! #Stats #Rstats #StatsSky

I love it! Such a cool interface, drawing what you think is the trendline, and then seeing 1) the actual trend, and 2) everyone else's guesses. Anyone know of a platform for spinning something like this up for an interactive session during a talk? #Stats #RStats #Data #StatsSky

Sometimes I find Vinay a bit hard to take. But the message here is on point. "address the worst off people in the world (which BTW isn’t...Pediatricians who...make 3 mil...lifetime earnings after loans" "I would not donate to...trendy modalities— aka genome sequencing or artificial intelligence"

Oh wow this plot makes my brain hurt. Why would the lines linking the labels to their value on the graph be the exact same colour and weight as the actual "change" line plotted in the middle? #Stats