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"I can make you better at doing your work and also give you more work to do" is not a great value proposition Does it remind you of anything in the modern world 🤔

As someone who came to R from computer science a lot of this post resonates Also, I had not previously connected the inconsistencies of the base R API to the same philosophy that makes CRAN work

Really insightful post from Julie Tibshirani (spotted in LinkedIn, can't find on Bsky) reflecting on #rstats 's unique governance structure and what can be learned for other languages jtibs.substack.com/p/if-all-the...

Q. Who aligns the aligners? A. alignmentalignment.ai Today I’m humbled to announce an epoch-defining event: the launch of the 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀.

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

Alright #datasky, who's picking this one up? https://brodrigues.co/posts/2025-08-22-pypan.html #datascience, #python, #rstats

🚀 gratia 0.11.0 is out! Now has a paper in JOSS — please cite 📄 doi.org/10.21105/jos... Experimental parallel processing ⚡ New assemble() for building plots 🎨 Better support for complex families + new diagnostics 🧪 Lots of bug fixes + polish ✨ 👉 gavinsimpson.github.io/gratia/ #Rstats

Make errors more accessible and better with #rstats package {more} by @milesmcbain.bsky.social - inspired by rustc's detailed error explanations! This idea feels so good. github.com/milesmcbain/...

A proposal for an iterator protocol for the #Rstats `for` special primitive by Tomasz Kalinowski R-devel thread : stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-... Pull request : github.com/r-devel/r-sv... Very interesting discussion thread, hope it gets merged

Is there a recommended set of best practices for writing print or format S3 methods (e.g., print.myclass or format.myclass) in #rstats? I couldn't really find what I was looking for in style.tidyverse.org, design.tidyverse.org, r-pkgs.org, adv-r.hadley.nz, or devguide.ropensci.org/pkg_building...

New blog article in Statistical Thinking: www.fharrell.com/post/aci/ #Statistics #StatsSky #RStats

I'm extremely excited to share this new paper out of the Data Cognition Lab! In it @krisha-mehta.bsky.social, Gordon Kindlmann, and I reframe visualization as a mechanism for data disclosure and develop a vocabulary for how visualization design induces loss on underlying data signals.

Announcing my forthcoming short paper at #ieeevis! In this solo-author work, I examine and critique the logic of generalization about decision support in visualization research. arxiv.org/abs/2508.06751

Arcade Flicker Plasma Soundsystem Dented Social Scene The Off-White Stripes Animal Duo Beach Hut Do Make Say The Room Temperature Furnaces Gliding Lotus Black Bear The Mercury Volta Terrapin Vampire Sunday The Strictly Weakerthans

Star Trek Discovery is the tale of a starship stuck in an Infinite Therapy Time Vortex created by a bored cosmic entity (possibly Q). Reno, immune to its effects but unable to convince the others, works in secret to get them unstuck as she goes slowly mad at all the twee bullshit going on around her

I think @chelseaparlett.bsky.social complained once about have to teach posterior-predictive functions have names like “pp_check()”

There's so many parallel sessions at #JSM2025 that it's hard to choose where to go, so I web-scraped the schedule and made a chatbot to help. I've made it public, so hopefully it can help you too - try it out 👉 shiny.mitchelloharawild.com/jsm2025/

"I asked the AI" is not research. clauswilke.substack.com/p/i-asked-th...

Congrats to Dr. @abhsarma.bsky.social on a successful Ph.D. thesis defense! "Designing Interactive Systems for Reasoning with Ontological Uncertainty in Data Analysis" Advised by @mjskay.com and me with Darren Gergle and Fanny Chevalier also on the committee.

Congratulations Dr. Paula Kayongo for successfully defending her Ph.D. dissertation! "Behavioral Information Design for Forecasting Dashboards: Equilibria, Mechanisms, and Calibration" Thanks to her stellar committee: @jessicahullman.bsky.social, @mjskay.com, and Annie Liang!

If you've been working hard on an alt.vis25 submission, then good news!! The alt.vis deadline is extended! It is now on AoE August 6. We look forward to seeing what you've been up to! Keep up the alt.work!!

How do people work at work? Also: How do you get quantile dot plots to play nicely in a dataviz 📊 design system across an 89 page report, with hundreds of different plots, each with varying distributions? New deep-dive case study on my recent project for Worklytics: 3iap.com/work/worklyt...

An actually interesting take on NA handling in #rstats! That we can treat it like a monad and use function wrappers to handle it instead of arguments like na.rm. I really like this!!

Interesting read about NA handling in #rstats (via rweekly.org/2025-W31.html): www.biobits.be/biofunctor/2... The overview of the {stats} package's various NA utility functions was informative: `na.pass`, `na.omit`, `na.exlude`, `na.contagious`, and `na.fail`. 1/2

goddammit every day is a new "hmm I should make a package for that" #rstats

marginalizing over random effects with posterior::rvar()s

yeah i fit a beta regression model with a 3-df spline on age and by-child random intercepts and computed marginal means by simulating and averaging 1000 children on each posterior draw... just to get the same thing as a LOESS smoooooth of the observations

1. Kevin Gross and I just posted a new science-of-science preprint. This one explores the looming peer review crisis. As many of you know, it's becoming significantly more difficult for journal editors to find scholars willing to serve as peer reviewers for submitted manuscripts.

New #rstats blog up! solomonkurz.netlify.app/blog/2025-07... This is the second post in the series where we use {brms} to learn {Stan} code. This time we review matrix notation, model matrices, and a new class of distribution functions in Stan.

This is where my love of 4X started, and I spent many, many summer days and nights playing this as a kid. I can still hear the soundtrack in my head.

The @datavizsociety.bsky.social Is going through a rough patch. They have a USD 35k deficit, down from 115k after compressing and reorganizing. Their Executive Director has resigned to make space for someone skilled in financial recovery. There are 30k members. We can do this. 1/🧵

All right, wrote it up: campaign-trails.ghost.io/third-party-...

Day off so punched out a little blog post for the #rstats crowd. Still entertaining myself 10 years in. milesmcbain.micro.blog/2025/07/04/d...

Nice thread on simultaneous confidence bands (SCBs) by @noahgreifer.bsky.social ! Not many papers explore varying critical values—despite cool uses like narrower or fairer bands. Bit of shameless self-promo if you're into this 😉: academic.oup.com/jrsssb/artic... #econsky #statsky

Randomly obsessed with simultaneous (uniform) inference. Feel free to ask about it. A mini thread on this follows. 🧵 Recommended reading: #statssky #econsky #episky

#rstats hivemind Anyone know a good way to check of 'zstd' is supported by the current version of R? Is there an exported variable or retruned value that is easy to check for?

The cost of a ten-minute bugfix on a package you haven't touched in a few months is approximately 2-3 hours of fixing Github CI #rstats (I'm not complaining, it was worse in the travis days)

#statstab #181 Comparing Bayesian Approaches by @jebyrnes Thoughts: Compares running models in #rethinking, #stan, #brms, #inla, and #glmmTMB via #TMBstan. It's nice to have options. #bayes #bayesian #rstan #r #stats #rstats biol609.github.io/lab/alt_to_r...

I wrote a blog post to celebrate 10 years of loo package 🎉 (R package implementing fast Pareto smoothed importance sampling cross-validation and many other useful methods for cross-validation)

#rstats Another great meeting of the ggplot2 extenders club!. @mjskay.com gave a nice talk on the foundations of {ggdist}📦 Info: ggplot2-extenders.github.io/ggplot-exten...

a nice example of a chart as a legend (legends are just linked charts after all) plus there's a pithiness to it that follows from good use of visual language: the bars don't need a y axis label because both their visual form and the broader context already tell you they are proportions

I still use this as an example of storytelling with visualization when I teach #datavis

10 years ago today, we dropped a thing that people still ask me about regularly. The question "What's Really Warming the World?" still has the same answer. With Blacki Migliozzi, in conversation with NASA GISS geniuses @climateofgavin.bsky.social and @drkatemarvel.bsky.social 🎁🔗

Now out in Cognition (open access): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... We show that sampling-based models of probability judgement make qualitative predictions in an event-ranking task that are beautifully confirmed by the data.

Someone has gone through and actually run the numbers on molestation crimes against children. The politicians who commit these crimes are overwhelmingly Republican. 67% of politicians convicted between February 10, 2023 and May 23, 2024 nationwide were Republicans. www.whoismakingnews.com

Putting myself out there a bit. Honest request from an open-source developer: Can I please ask you to encourage people you know to stop with the "any updates on this?" discussion post? Every post like that genuinely makes me die inside a little bit. I'll try to explain in this thread. 1/

Data science junkies, get ready! 🚀 "The Test Set" #podcast trailer is here for your viewing pleasure. Tune in July 1st and every Tuesday after for new episodes with hosts @mchow.com, @hadley.nz, and @wesmckinney.com as they welcome thought leaders in #DataScience. Subscribe now: pos.it/thetestset