I get an automated email in my inbox every single morning describing what changed overnight in a harmonized dataset from 50+ open data portals. Data science is messy, and hard, and the reality is not that glamorous. ⬇️ Check out our reflections on a year of maintaining the Live Crime Tracker!

This is a fun piece on denominators to share with your friends, written with my @wakeforest.bsky.social colleague Jeff Camm!

Monash University has made many positions available specifically for young and early career researchers who would like to take some time away from the USA. These are case by case, not advertised. So if you are interested or know anyone interested have them get in contact with someone at Monash.

i'd fork this repo

Unfortunately, all Census TIGER/Line and cartographic boundary shapefiles are down as of this evening. This means that the tigris #rstats and pygris #Python packages will not work, and geometry support in tidycensus will also fail. The Census API, for now, is still up.

Crime dropped in 2024. How much? Record-breaking amounts in several categories. www.norc.org/research/lib...

SAVE THE DATES!!! Great news: useR 2025 will take place at Duke University, in Durham, NC, USA, August 8-10! More details to announced shortly, so stay tuned via duke-university-ocmd.read.axioshq.com/signup/user_... www.linkedin.com/posts/user-c...

this but for my unread emails

Last year I started an annual "R Trivia Night" at our org's R Users Group as a fun way to close out the year. In prepping for this year's, I'm reviewing my (diabolical) questions from the inaugural event. Enjoy. #rstats (answers as of Dec. 18, 2023)

⬇️ find the stat graphics squad!

late to sharing this over here but wheeee posit::conf(2024) talks are up on YouTube!! go check out my talk "Wait, That's Shiny?" if you like thinking creatively about what Shiny can do and/or like dorky concept graphics youtu.be/SAbV6d7Pn0U?...

Thought I might as well get around to introducing myself over here :) I'm a #DataViz, #RStats, #Reproducibility, and #SciComm person. If you want to learn more about what that means, check out my website (built in Quarto!): kiegan.github.io