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New blog post: open-source software packages have surprising problems with the way they calculate weighted medians and other quantiles. www.practicalsignificance.com/posts/weight... #rstats #julialang

Know this, I will be saying "bring the flavor to the rice" for the next, oh, 5 years

WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger. Gen Z women aren't playing around.

For years, but especially for the past year, Democrats have been in thrall to the idea that they need to chase an imagined median voter, and adopt that voter’s positions. Mamdani’s victory shows another way: hold principles, and persuade people to share them.

if you didn't follow the VA governor race you didn't know that Earle-Sears ran like a billion anti-trans campaign ads and Spanberger didn't flinch or pull a Newsom. going all-in against trans people is a losing move, especially when the federal government has made harming and killing us a priority.

A message from CTA Acting President Nora Leerhsen: "No service cuts. No layoffs. In fact, CTA will grow."

Assistant Professor Associate Professor Professor Professor Lord Their Royal Professorial Highness, Duke of Knowledge and Defender of the Books

I wrote a lil post on the amazing work that @ginareynolds.bsky.social does championing ggplot2 extension developers and teaching others to build their own! The post features the Scrollytelling Quarto extension and the group's cute #RStats hex 🐱: rworks.dev/posts/ggplot...

Americans’ trust in information from national and local news organizations has declined after a slight increase earlier this year, according to a new survey. The decline has occurred in both major political parties. www.pewresearch.org/...

brutalist: what's a "win-dow"

It's a Chicago holiday

Not wrong. Yes, I own one.

take this quiz then tell me you can win over low-info "moderates" on policy it's just vibes all the way down

Take this quiz to die instantly www.americansurveycenter.org/quiz/

Tune in tonight, as Bari Weiss has arranged an exclusive interview with Clyde, the orangutang from the 1978 blockbuster EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE!

U.S. Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino is on the witness stand in the courtroom of U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis. He is wearing his typical Border Patrol uniform. "Good morning, your honor," he says.

Really excited to share this new paper on "Data Visualizations as Propaganda", co-led by PhD students Priya Dhawka and Nina Lutz, which just won a Best Paper award at the CSCW conference: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... [Short thread]

NYT pushed its “Dems must go moderate” take again yesterday. In a new piece out today, @adambonica.bsky.social shows even more clearly why the data don’t support it. It also shows what a skilled empiricist and teacher Adam is. Very proud of my pal’s public work. open.substack.com/pub/data4dem...

While reviewing for #CHI2026, I've noticed four new writing issues in #HCI papers, likely due to an increased use of #LLMs / #AI. I describe them here - and how to fix them: dbuschek.medium.com/when-llms-wr...

I may have finally had to break my rule of being nice to authors in reviews. If you send me LLM-generated gibberish, I am not obligated to treat you like an adult.

This linked discussion is a great example of how to think through setting priors

Great piece on the absurdity of brute force multiverse analyses. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Whoever did the data "analysis" and #dataViz for this piece should be embarrassed. This is beyond naive empiricism; it's wrong in so many ways that it'd take an entire article to explain them. I have better things to do, but this type of intellectually vacuous nonsense must be debunked.

I'm trying to digest the editorial, but I keep coming back to this plot & the simple statistical mistake it's making. **OF course** moderate Democrats outperformed Harris in purple seats, purple-seat voters don't like progressive presidential candidates! The comparison artificially inflates strength

Neighbors 2.0

people think this isn't feasible but the average american spends ~20% of their income on car-related expenses and in your wildest dreams you can not even imagine how much public transportation that could build

and lo was "touchless analprint" added to the zeitgeist, and we fell a little further from grace

Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!

inspired ty

call it the "authoritarianism sponge" theory of constitutional monarchy keep society's potential bootlickers happy collecting stamps of the queen instead of trying to overthrow the government

I wrote a paper about "Examining the Interface Design of Tidyverse" 📝 TL;DR to follow in future 😊 arxiv.org/abs/2510.10382

Today is the day we defend the #stats department against the #unl #administration. If you haven't yet left a comment apc.unl.edu/fall-2025-bu..., please do so and explain how silly it is to cut #statistics in this day and age. Hear us make our case at 3 Central today: unl.zoom.us/j/99178278682.

Unreasonably excited to present THEORY IS SHAPES at alt.vis this November! Read on to find out what the "BLT Sandwich Theory of Visualization Consumption" (and other shape-based shenanigans) can teach us about theorycrafting in research 🥪🧲🧊♾️

to appear at #alt.vis 2025: THEORY IS SHAPES sure "theory figures" are great, but @matthew.wiki, @maryamhed.bsky.social, me, and Carolina Nobre wonder: why always a 2D plane or a flowchart? why not icebergs, horseshoes, Möbius strips, or BLT sandwiches? arxiv.org/abs/2510.01382 #ieeevis #hci

omg - this alt.vis paper about NASA-TLX was styled like the original NASA-TLX paper 😍 arxiv.org/pdf/2509.24643

dunno about you but between the death of twitter and *waves hands* everything fucking else I've been consciously setting my phone down out of arms' reach and (for the first time in years) listening to an honest-to-god physical radio in the morning

I've been sitting with this piece of @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social for two days, reading it, re-reading it. You should too. #EzraKlein is the avatar of a new kind of liberal indulgence for the worst of the far-right, embracing bad-faith as a practice. www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

At @hcde.uw.edu, we will be hiring an Assistant or Associate Teaching Professor this coming year! Timing wise, we are hiring for a Sept. 2026 start date, but could be sooner. We are looking forward to welcoming a new colleague! Learn more and apply at apply.interfolio.com/171881

I need an 'Excel for R users' book. I _have_ to use Excel in a course (not for stats) and it feels very strange.

MC Stan is here! Follow for the latest Stan news, and tag if you want us to repost your posts about new papers, packages, courses, etc. about Stan

"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/...