Aesthetics evaluation control in #ggplot #Rstats jmsallan.netlify.app/blog/aesthet...

My Quarto #rstats tip for big/complex papers is to set up R scripts that do data processing/modeling & save plots/outputs as RDS files. The Quarto can then load the RDS file & make any modifications to the ggplot2 object before plotting. This avoids unwieldy long Quarto docs /w complex caching.

Impact of COVID Lockdowns on Barcelona Air Quality jmsallan.netlify.app/blog/2025-06... #rstats

Impact of COVID Lockdowns on Barcelona Air Quality jmsallan.netlify.app/blog/2025-06... #rstats

If you see emojis in my R code, it definitely wasn’t ChatGPT, it was me, because I’m cool and young

In predictive modeling, we use spatial resampling to evaluate how the model performs in different regions of the space. Here is an example with spatialsample in the #tidymodels framework. jmsallan.netlify.app/blog/spatial...

A rare colour photo graph of a young Samuel Beckett.

Here is an example of explainable machine learning models (decision tress, random forests and regression) using the #tidymodels #Rstats framework in an important problem: predicting cat adoption: jmsallan.netlify.app/blog/explain...

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊 💀May 1, 1772 Gottfried Achenwall died in Göttingen, Germany 🇩🇪 1748: First use of the term "statistik,'' meaning numbers of the state. Some call him the 'father of statistics' bit.ly/4m2w3O8

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So 4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

Lucky day | Stray thoughts on the announcement of Thomas Pynchon's novel Shadow Ticket biblioklept.org/2025/04/12/l...

Oedipa Maas

Richard M. Zhlubb

Plotting age pyramids with ggplot #rstats jmsallan.netlify.app/blog/plottin...

An early draft of CRASH by JG Ballard, circa 1971.

I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own! Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚 Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!

Some work I have done on Monte Carlo simulation in #Rstats: Analyzing a Lottery: jmsallan.netlify.app/blog/2024-10...

#np Can - Live in Keele 1977

#np open.spotify.com/track/5qm0Ki...

If you're teaching R, or statistics, and you want your students to get more practice of data wrangling with "messy" data, you can use the {messy} package to turn the clean data you currently use for examples into more realistic looking data! #RStats #StatsEd

💫Released on this day 1974💥 #musicsky #musiciansky #progrock

A very rare picture of author Roberto Bolaño, circa 1973.

Peter Sinfield, King Crimson’s original roadie, lyricist, lights operator, and live sound engineer died yesterday, 14th of November 2024 aged 81. www.dgmlive.com/news/peter-s...

Pareto Front in Multicriteria Optimization using #Rstats and #rPref jmsallan.netlify.app/blog/pareto-...

#TodayinHistory #datavis #Onthisday #OTD 📊 💀Mar 14, 1884 Adriano Balbi died in Padua, Italy 🇮🇹 1829: The first comparative choropleth thematic maps, showing crimes against persons and crimes against property (with Andre-Michel Guerry)

Nice example of justifying your alpha level in practice, from a conversation with colleagues yesterday. When deciding whether or not to ask a colleague if they are pregnant, set your alpha level to 0.

50 Greatest Prog Rock Albums. No. 37. King Crimson: Discipline. 1981. First of three spectacular 80s KC albums, a big change in the sound here, but that's what KC is all about, new sounds, new directions, new experiments.

The small-world property of networks, illustrated with some #rstats plots:

Introducing confidence intervals using #RStats