Update to blog article on accuracy of confidence intervals for central tendency measures for asymmetric distributions. Even a triple boostrap-t interval didn't help: fharrell.com/post/aci #Statistics #StatsSky

Do you have a favourite resource on pair programming? Please drop a link 🙏 I'd like to do some pair programming with our student worker over the summer and he is a bit avoidant. Which is common - people don't like the idea of someone looking over their shoulder and judging them. #dataBS

“Detractors might scoff at Musk’s ambition to die on Mars, but at least the dying part would be easy.” — @henrywismayer.bsky.social #mars #spaceexploration #spacex

Just finished studying the topics covered in Spatial Data Science with applications in R (r-spatial.org/book/). Thought I'd share some of the charts I made along the way. Mostly recreations of some of the plots from the sources along with some context. 1/14 😬 #rstats #rspatial #geospatial #gis 🧵

Here's an easter egg in the new Lego Batman that I think all of you will REALLY appreciate. It's so good, I had to make a video.

If you have access to any the following stats software, would you be willing to run some chi squared tests on a handful of simulated datasets and send me results? I need to verify that that my R implementation of what other software does is correct. - Stata - SAS - StatXact - SPSS DM me :)

Sooo #rstats, I built a thing... Deploying R shiny to your own cloud server is still too hard in 2026. Lightbulb.is is my answer - connect to your digital ocean account, click to create a server, and point it at a shiny GitHub repo. That's it - spend the time you save making your customers happy!

Help pls #rstats I'm using {mice} to impute values of factor variables. My end-goal is to keep one row per obs, with the most common imputed value being retained but there are ties I could keep imputing one additional value until the tie is broken, but is there another way to go about this?

#OTD 1754 Colonel Sir John Sinclair b (d 21 Dec 1835) Introduced the words ‘statistics’ & ‘statistical’ for the first time in English in his 1791 21-vol magnum opus 'Statistical Account of Scotland'. He apologized for anglicizing German words rather than coining real English words 1/3

I've made some big changes to the fastglm package with version 0.1.0 on cran: cran.r-project.org/package=fast... - updates that further improve speed - three new models for more complex outcome (neg binom, hurdle, zero infl) - First bias correction - big data support ** Details outlined below:

Red Lobster is bringing back its famed Endless Shrimp promotion—with a few strings attached. on.wsj.com/42l1tqa

Why do the Japanese like their buns askew (2026)

🚨 #RStats and #PyData devs! I'm looking for β testers for this thing I just built: A unified dashboard + orchestrator for code and data quality checks. It has lots of neat features and I'm super eager for feedback and bug reports. Check out the video demo: vincentarelbundock.github.io/scrutin/

Excellent tweetorial by @ericjpedersen.bsky.social on Simon Wood’s new Neighborhood Cross Validation smoothness selection method, which is especially useful when fitting data with temporal and spatial dependence among observations

I've been working with NCV this last week; it's a powerful tool for modelling data with dependencies that are poorly/inefficiently modelled via stochastic process priors like cov functions or low-rank smoothers. However, it's a complex topic, so I thought I'd summarize the key ideas in a thread 1/n

🗺️ Bivariate choropleth maps blend two colour scales to show the spatial relationship between two variables. It easier now with improved support in tmap -- see a blog post by David O’Sullivan. geospatialstuff.com/posts/2026/0... #RStats #RSpatial #DataViz

Hard core #Rstats parents

Making #rstats portable on #macOS has been the community's Sisyphean boulder since 2009. Now, download a tar.gz, extract, run from: github.com/portable-r/p... Signed, notarized, 4.3.0 - 4.5.3. Blog: blog.thecoatlessprofessor.com/programming/...

Need #rstats on a #Windows machine where you can't run an installer? Locked-down workstation, USB drive, embedded app? It's 2026. You just need a URL: github.com/portable-r/p... R 4.3.0 - 4.5.3, x64 + ARM64. install.packages() works. Blog: blog.thecoatlessprofessor.com/programming/...

You can keep track of Artemis II's progress here: artemistracker.com

Your periodic reminder that there is a website that lets you listen to local radio stations anywhere in the world This is honestly one of the coolest inventions ever, imo. Global access to hyper-local imagined communities

OH. MY. GAWD.

Not sure how we went from plain, straightforward words to LinkedIn speak but now you can use Kagi Translate to fit right into that crowd: translate.kagi.com?from=en&to=L...

New open tutorial: Publication-ready tables in R using gtsummary + flextable, with real NHIS survey data. Covers Table 1, weighted vs. unweighted, regression tables, Word export, and more. 🔗 muntasirmasum.github.io/table-tutorial/ #RStats #PublicHealth #Epidemiology #OpenScience #gtsummary

Announcing {freestiler}: a high-performance vector tiling engine for R and Python. Generate vector tiles for your maps directly from R/Python spatial data, @duckdb queries, and local spatial files. Check out the docs here: walker-data.com/free... Some highlights:

Stats teachers, are you looking for real-world data for your students? Leticia Perez, Freida Reichsman, and Cynthia McIntyre introduce data biographies—a collection of curated data sets. Create activities for your students www.statisticsteacher.org/2026/01/29/d... #statssky

The second workshop, Package Management for R and Python focuses on using uv/rv to manage your packages in a reproducible way, with some discussion about other methods such as binder and Dockerfiles: hutchdatascience.org/package-mana...

Despite increasing use of observational data in public health, researchers are still hesitant to use strong causal language (for fear of overpromising). New paper and comment in @bmj.com sets out new guidance on appropriate use/misuse of causal language www.bmj.com/content/392/...

A few weeks ago I created a "Skill" for Claude Code, Codex, etc. It includes all the marginaleffects man pages, as well as summaries of every chapter in the book. The interactions are incredible. I bet something like that would work amazing with DeclareDesign too. github.com/vincentarelb...

{hypertext} is a DSL for building HTML in R. it's similar to {htmltools}, but with 2 deliberate differences: - it is *framework-agnostic* - it has *zero dependencies* we now have more web frameworks in R than ever before. {hypertext} works with all of them, and independently of them. #rstats

Beautiful. Includes package (cdcgov.github.io/ww-inference...) and code (github.com/CDCgov/waste...)

We live in a magical time for #dataviz. This map is just a static html page served on GitHub pages 🤯 It uses the incredible {pmtiles} #rstats package by @kylewalker.bsky.social to quickly filter through ~21M rows of data hosted on Cloudflare vehicletrends.github.io/hhi-map/

#stats Here's a nifty interactive demo of confidence intervals by Kristoffer Magnusson rpsychologist.com/d3/ci/

A vent 🗣️ on R's use of the GPL license. There's a balance ⚖️ of protecting the developers / language and supporting the users of the language. I don't think the GPL quite strikes that. josiah.rs/posts/gpl-co... #rstats

'Landman' star Billy Bob Thornton tells great stories about his mentor, Robert Duvall, who died February 15 at 95.

Graphics are... inline!??

The Monroe County (Bloomington, Indiana) Humane Association building took extensive damage in the tornado last night and the animal clinic was completely destroyed. Luckily, all animals and humans are safe and accounted for. I’ll post the link for donations in this thread.

New precinct-level mapping app: New Mexico Election Explorer. Pick a year and race (Pres, Congress, state houses), map D/R margin by prec, or compare two elections and see where Dem share shifted. 2022+ boundaries. #NewMexico #NMpol #nmlegis #ElectionData #DataViz #rstats jtimm.net/projects/nm-...