i do not like this, not one little bit

nobody knows how to unzip a zip file any more. (because of woke?)

We all know filter, mutate, summarize, but the #tidyverse has some advanced hidden jems! Recently a client sent me some code they were using to look up values between 2 tables based on date-times. I replaced ~100 lines of code* with a single inner_join(by = join_by(overlap())).

This is an unbelievable statistic and I mean that literally

my dr: how's the stress level me: what's the world record for the longest running panic attack bc i think i may be a contender

I’m becoming more and more concerned that people at high levels of public discussion cannot identify the difference between a genuinely viral conversation vs a bunch of bots making noise.

"This is what made parenting so much more interesting in the good old days. You young folks—Millennials, GenZ, GenAlpha, and whatever the heck comes after that—have no idea how much fun you’ve been missing. Now, though, you may get the chance to find out."

I’m surprised that the “evidence-based” medicine gurus who mocked any pandemic recommendation that lacked multiple randomized trials, are now sitting by quietly while Tylenol is blamed for autism without randomized trial evidence.

I would code 500 lines And I would code 500 more Just to be the one who coded 1,000 lines instead of writing function at_your_doh_oh_or() duh-duh-duh-duht-duh 🙃🤪🤣 #rstats @rladies-bot.bsky.social @rladies.org

If someone understands how you would reasonably transport one of these, please, let me know

An important message from my wife, a leading breast imaging researcher, and a 10+ year survivor of invasive breast cancer found because she knew enough to advocate for her own effective breast cancer screening.

R-Ladies and its chapters share so many amazing recordings! Interested in seeing what they are and how to watch them? 🔍 Check out the R-Ladies YouTube Video Feed 🔗 ivelasq.github.io/rladies-vide... Made with flexdashboard + GitHub Actions! 🧑‍🏫 Tutorial here: ivelasq.rbind.io/blog/automat...

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Someone with a hot mic greeting their colleague with “sup nerd” is very relatable.

This child was infected with measles before they were able to be vaccinated (under 12 months), likely from someone unvaccinated. They survived the infection but years later they’re dead. The risk of SSPE for an infant infected with measles is 1 in 600, & it’s 95% fatal. Your vaccine protects others

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This should have been ggplot4 version 1.0.0! @teunbrand.bsky.social has done an amazing job bringing this together! 👏👏👏👏

I've written a short blog post introducing "The Art of Visualization with ggplot2"! This book is all about the end-to-end process of creating charts with #ggplot2 📊 including data wrangling, sketching, and styling your plots! nrennie.rbind.io/blog/art-of-... #RStats #DataViz #TidyTuesday

Be gay. Do crimes. IN SPACE

Can I interest you in a really cool bug in these trying times? This is the Picasso moth (Baorisa hieroglyphica), native to India & Southeast Asia.

If you see something graphic a thing you can do is not instinctively hit repost but take a few seconds and consider if everyone wants to be traumatized by that and choose not to be the person who forces it into their feed non consensually.

Absolutely off the charts public health capacity on display here.

I applaud this and also hate that it’s become necessary infectious diseases don’t stop at the state line

Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):

It frankly boggles my mind that we have invented a computer that cannot do math.

Unfortunately the virus continued to mutate but seeing this chart was a true holy-shit moment that you don’t get very often in research and medicine

It feels like Mamdani is running for mayor against three competing Tim & Eric sketches

But I don't want to be busier

“One of the enduring lessons of Katrina was the knowledge that the country could, at the drop of a hat or the bursting of a storm cloud, convince itself that it bore no responsibility to large swathes of its population.”

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Let's talk about the birthday paradox. Suppose there's a group of people in a room. What are the chances that any pair of people happen to have the same birthday? Or, put in terms of the paradox: "What's the minimum sized group where two people are more than 50% likely to have the same birthday?"

A federal-state partnership that monitors for foodborne illnesses quietly scaled back its operations nearly two months ago. As of July 1, the critical surveillance program is monitoring for only two pathogens instead of the usual eight, a spokesperson for the CDC says.

RDM Weekly made it to double digits! 🎉 Week 10 includes: - The @turingway.bsky.social Handbook - Evaluating a Data Steward Pilot @openresshef.bsky.social - Intro to Parquet files in R @tladeras.bsky.social - #rstats packages for CONSORT diagrams and more! rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

interactivity in html tables was the one thing keeping me tied to gt in some fashion — this is super cool ! (:

“I gave my life to Christ in the Cracker Barrel parking lot” sounds like the filthiest euphemism I have ever heard.

you gotta respect a man committed to doing the hell out of his job

📢 New issue is out! This week's focus: ➡️ #Diphtheria sub-clusters in DE & PL with mostly local transmission, severe outcomes & links to homelessness. ➡️ A cross-border #TB outbreak in Vienna tied to a wider multi-country cluster, possibly linked to migratory routes. & much more! bit.ly/4oLHNWD

"rat made entirely of plague" is an A+ insult and the kind of thing I come to the internet for

Hey remember that raw milk outbreak in FL? They traced it back to Keely Farms Dairy. Here's a pic! Cows lounging in a warm stagnant pond that's lush with weeds & algae, thanks to cow poop. Their raw milk has been making people sick since January for some reason apnews.com/article/raw-...

Super interesting deep dive into US excess mortality. We're doing better than we were in 1980 but a *lot* worse than every other high-income country. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

I was so excited to see these data released that I wrote a short blog post showing how to get started in #RStats: rworks.dev/posts/anes20... Many thanks to @statsteph.bsky.social and Rebecca Powell for their review and feedback💙

I've added a few new features to {grateful}, the package that facilitates citation of #rstats packages, and I'd love feedback before submitting to CRAN 🧵

If you're in Atlanta, come! It's at GSU in the heart of downtown. I'll be there! #rstats

Please do not.

Erin McCanlies spent almost two decades at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health studying how parents’ exposure to chemicals affects the chance that they will have a child with autism. This spring, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. eliminated her entire division.

The raw milk people are going to love radioactive shrimp.

I think this is the thing the public most widely misunderstands about then vs. now. There have always been sincere skeptics, and there have always been misinformation peddlers. These guys are neither. They really don't care about science; it just happens to be where they're waging their culture war.

Seizure medication, wheelchairs, Social Security cards, dentures, urns of ashes, work uniforms — just some of what's been thrown away during cruel, degrading, utterly counterproductive homeless sweeps. A good time to revisit this gutting @propublica.org story: