Interesting new Statistics Canada paper on firm sizes and the Canada-U.S. productivity gap. Shows most of our gap is due to Canada having more small firms (less productive). But most of the widening gap is due to large firms lagging. Details: www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/36-2... #cdnecon

When the linear trend continues, Russia will face 1500 casualties per day in 2026.

R for Social Network Analysis by David Schoch #RStats https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/network%20analysis.html#r-for-social-network-analysis

Data Management in Large-Scale Education Research by Crystal Lewis #RStats https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/workflow.html#data-management-in-large-scale-education-research

📊 Forecasting Russian Losses (Personnel)-2026: Machine Learning Analysis of the Trajectory of the Russia-Ukraine War Status Quo: 367,937 Linear Trend: 499,651 ARIMA Cycles: 348,730 #MachineLearning #StatisticalModelling #MilitaryAnalysis #Forecasting #Time-Series #WarInUkraine #DataVisualization

Kicking off my new newsletter about #forecasting with an introduction to piecewise regression for modeling changes in the trend 👇🏼 theforecaster.substack.com/p/piecewise-... Code available both in #rstats and #python Please subscribe to get an email notification. #timeseries

Visualizing #GreenBook locations relative to #SunDownTowns, tells a pretty striking story of mobility for Black families. In a post-Great Migration/Jim Crow era, a simple trip from Chicago to St. Louis is a harrowing trip. #GreenBookProject greenbookproject.org.ohio-state.edu/greenbookmap/

Using unemployment rates, disaggregated by education, in a modified #SahmRule, shows that low-educated groups experience recessions months prior. Data shows unemployment rates for many economically vulnerable groups have been rising. 🚨New Working Paper🚨 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... #EconSky

#WeekendPlaying 🔖 A NEW TOOL ON MONETARY POLICY 🏦 With the latest rate cut earlier this week by the Bank of England, explore some of the factors influencing this decision with our brand new #MonetaryPolicy Dashboard 👇

Excited to see this post by Heather Turner with more details on their recent RSMF grant for enabling future contributions to R. I'd encourage #rstats folks to give it a read: there are some much-needed modernisation ideas in here. blog.r-project.org/2025/12/17/r...

And, as always, there's R's C API Bible™: Writing R Extensions (cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/...) Anything mentioned in here was canonically "API" but that's changing with this fun new push! :)

You've found yourself in the empowering-yet-very-painful part of R's C API! @yutannihilation-en.bsky.social has a great page on the functional API see yutannihilation.github.io/R-fun-API/ and then there's this wonderful (though terse) resource on the R-API aitap.codeberg.page/R-api/

Power lines of Italy. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

I was afraid to take over as maintainer of {tibblify}, since it's more "famous" than anything I maintain... but I'm realizing all the things I've been planning to work around it since it was dying, and instead I can focus on just making them easier! Watch tibblify.wrangle.zone ! #RStats #dataBS

I need #RStats C help! @mgirlich added me as a maintainer on {tibblify}, which has been archived due to use of non-API entry points (among other things). I want to learn to fix this, but I don't know where to start. I'll see where I can get with AI, but would greatly prefer some human guidance!

Fantastic! $650k awarded via the Research Software Maintenance Fund for “Enabling the Next Generation of Contributors to R”—mentoring new contributors, modernizing R’s dev infrastructure, and strengthening the R Foundation. r-consortium.org/posts/650K-f... #rstats

"These houses are in areas increasingly prone to natural disasters like wildfires or hurricanes. Private insurance wouldn't cover them, so they are covered under insurance plans of last resort, known as FAIR (Fair Access to Insurance Requirements) plans." www.reuters.com/graphics/USA...

My #QuartoPub website has had a little bit of a makeover recently! ✅ Dark-mode option ✅ New cover page (obviously made with #ggplot2) ✅ Cleaner fonts and higher contrast for improved accessibility ✅ Hopefully easier to find things Link: nrennie.rbind.io #RStats

R Consortium: 2025 in Review—growth, community, and a ton of momentum! Highlights: R/Medicine 2025, useR!, R+AI; Submissions WG + expanded FDA eCTD support for R packages; 13 infra projects funded; YouTube +1,472; LinkedIn +1,769. r-consortium.org/posts/2025-i... #rstats

New paper with J.A. Christen, just accepted in Statistical Methods in Medical Research "Hazard-based distributional regression via ordinary differential equations" preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2512.16336 R and Julia code + data: github.com/FJRubio67/Su... #rstats #JuliaLang #SciML

How "unlikely" was the November core CPI? #EconSky econbrowser.com/archives/202...

In all seriousness, it's not til you start reading the utterly bullshit attributions in the papers that cite your work that you realise scientists legitimately cannot read above a grade 6 level #statsky

Has anybody written an 'agent' (or 'script' as we used to call it) detecting incoming SMS messages containing Reply STOP to End and which immediately replies with 'STOP' ? #getOffMyLawnAlready

New on CRAN: blockr.ggplot (0.1.0). View at https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=blockr.ggplot

US coffee bean prices continue to hit new highs in inflation data released today, up 19% over the last year and 47% since pre-COVID

I am just learning of this 2015 retraction, adding to my "science as amateur software engineering" files. Seems they classified missing values as obs outcome of interest (divorce). Classified 32% of sample divorced, rather than true 5%. retractionwatch.com/2015/07/21/t...

Problem set for my GIS and the Economy course: Explain what's going on in this picture.

Lunch break adventures 🏞️

New Post on @ropensci.org: Better #RStats Code, Without Any Effort, Without Even AI Edited by @etiennebacher.bsky.social & Steffi LaZerte Read about: ✨ {lintr} for detecting lints ✨ Air for formatting code ✨ jarl for detecting+fixing lints ✨ {flir} for refactoring ropensci.org/blog/2025/12...

During the Cold War, US President Reagan put nuclear war in clear words: “A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought. The only value in our two nations possessing nuclear weapons is to make sure they will never be used. But then would it not be better to do away with them entirely?”

{ggview} can print plots to Viewer (Rstudio or Positron) with true scaling. Adjust plot settings and see the final proportions immediately. Save the plot once 👌 e.g.: ggplot(...) + ggview::canvas(width = 220, height = 220*2/3, units = "mm", dpi = 300) per @nrennie.bsky.social #datavis #rstats

Dynare just got more asymmetric 🌀 ✅ Skewness parameters in shocks & estimated parameters ✅ Skew-normal shocks in simulation ✅ Skewed Kalman filter & smoother in estimation Already available in the unstable snapshot, will be in version 7. Contributed by Willi Mutschler.

Harold Zurcher's policy function for replacing bus engines. Estimated in Stan. Shaded regions show 95% Bayesian credible regions. Dashed curve is the logit fit through the data. Estimated with fixed discount factor of 0.9 More to come. Watch this space! #EconSky #Structural #DynamicProgramming

Our paper on the inflated effects of corporate tax cuts on economic growth, published in the European Economic Review, is the journal’s most downloaded paper and has attracted the most attention on social media over the last 3 years. It's also among the most widely cited papers🧵

GDP per capita has doubled in all three Baltic states since 2000— Since 2000, GDP per capita has doubled in all three Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania (where it has nearly tripled).

Das Update d Global Offshore Wealth von Taxobservatory.eu zeigt für österreichische Haushalte einen Anstieg von gehaltenem Offshore-Finanzvermögen von ~10% (2007) auf ~17% des BIP (2023). Österreich wird in den Daten, im Gegensatz zu Vorversionen, nicht mehr als Offshore-Finanzzentrum behandelt. 1/3

Ben raises a good point about the gap, how you treat the @claudia-sahm.bsky.social rule. Here’s my shameless plug for the conclusion of my WP: the #SahmRule shouldn’t be understood as a singular heuristic, but rather a really flexible labor-oriented turning point framework.

Nothing fancy, but it still took a while 😅 But I don't have to google everything all the time anymore 💪 Two dot plots showing how years predict warming weather better than burning time of the Böögg. Code: github.com/stats33100/t... #tidytuesday #rstats

@bossproofreader.bsky.social szechno.github.io/blog/ wip

Our cat is smelling the bacon (while I prepare two 'Flammkuchen' aka 'tarte flambée'). We did not share with her though.

rOpenSci published a blog post requesting feedback for a prototype of an organization-level dashboard for tracking the health and maintenance of an organization’s R packages. They’re still looking for feedback and suggestions, so please read and help out with your ideas! ropensci.org/blog/2025/09...

New pre-print! Brazil Data Commons arxiv.org/abs/2511.11755 Collaborative work led by Isadora Cristina with Ramon Gonze, Jônatas Santos, Julio Reis, Mário Alvim, and Fabrício Benevenuto. Brazil Data Commons: A Platform for Unifying and Integrating Brazil's Public Data

Back in the top 10, baby! Eat your heart out, "#rstats is dying" thinkpieces. 😜 www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

🚨 New #DataViz post! I explore smart alternatives to a broken chart and highlight why avoiding bad practices matters. 👉 Which alternative do you prefer? Let us know in the comments! #rstats dominicroye.github.io/blog/2025-12...

I ignored the strip.clip argument in #ggplot2 for way too long 😲 Combined with a small negative margin tweak, you can place facet labels inside each panel. A tiny trick that makes small multiples feel so much cleaner. 🔵 no manual coordinates 🔵 inherits theme styling 🔵 scales nicely when resizing

Are you interested in adding alt text to your publications? It helps share your data visualisations with vision impaired readers. Try out github.com/numbats/auto... to get a reasonable first draft or maybe complete text. @r-forwards.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy @rladies.org @rconsortium.bsky.social

🎉 Big news for the future of #RStats. The project "Enabling the next generation of R contributors" has received £500k over 2 years. - mentoring expert contributors - modernising infrastructure - improving governance - strengthen communication and outreach www.software.ac.uk/rsmf-round-1...

GPT 5.2 is now included in our R code generation eval! The -Pro version is slightly SoTA at a substantially higher price point than similar performers. Read more: skaltman-model-eval-app.share.connect.posit.cloud

There's a delicious time in book writing when I switch from actual writing & making graphs to POLISHING-- smoothing language, adding X-references, and improving graphs that don't pass the smell test. I'm there now with my book, Visualizing Multivariate Data and Models with R. What a sweet feeling!