When I’m secretary of education there will be at least twice as many linear algebra courses in schools as there are calculus classes. Day one. Sixth graders will have a unit on the singular value decomposition or states don’t get block grants.

The nuclear block is truly one of the best features of this site

Missouri state capitol

Mike Kehoe’s career prior to entering state politics was primarily owning one of the biggest (if not the biggest?) Ford dealerships in mid-Missouri

Illinois Enacts Protections for Immigrant Students with “Safe Schools for All Act” mahometdaily.com/illinois-ena...

Between this and Porco Rosso we really need to think more about how airlines commissioning inflight videos incidentally (or maybe not???) end up creating masterpieces

Took Amtrak’s Lincoln Service/Missouri River Runner back to my hometown for new year’s and lost track of how many deer, turkey, cranes, and bald eagles I saw. Also some sort of weird navy-looking boat on the Gasconade???

Cleaned the office yesterday and rediscovered some old tidyverse cheat sheets #rstats

I think tolerance of the pop tarts antics at the pop tarts bowl is the ultimate divisor of who’s worked at an ad agency or not

Happy holidays to (most of) the econ folks back home for the next week or so

My hottest unsolicited Christmas movie take is that The Polar Express is Very Good Actually™️ and everybody needs to get over the CGI

Merry Christmas, nerds

You know what, I completely agree

Introducing: The Christmas Bean™️

The Middleton WI public library has some incredible Lego builds on display from a local builder group

Final exams, projects, etc turned in so you know what time it is

Walking out of the theater after Fellowship in 2001 with my dad, behind an older man who was absolutely livid that “they didn’t even destroy the ring”

absolutely gut-wrenchingly terrifying

After the final today for the course I’m TAing for one of my discussion section students showed me their very cool study guide they made and another who’d talked to me about not being sure if they should apply to policy/econ masters programs said they’ve decided to go for it. Very good day overall.

Thrilled to share my latest paper entitled, "Estimating Discrimination in Sentencing: Distinguishing between Good and Bad Controls" Led by @jpinasanchez.bsky.social, the paper introduces a framework for examining discrimination in criminal justice processes. 🧵 1/10 publicera.kb.se/ejels/articl...

Does anybody have linter recommendations for R? Do people just use lintr? I briefly looked into this a while back but didn’t land on one. #rstats

This semester has been good overall but I’m definitely getting reacquainted with the “I think I’m getting dumber, actually” phase of grad school

Doubly robust estimators? In this economy???

How on earth have I not used DAGitty before now?

If I didn’t already like my header photo I think I’d use this lede from my hometown newspaper in an article about my high school quiz bowl team circa 2010 instead

Suddenly, snow

Some parts of the state are waking up to snow on the ground on this cold November 9. While not a big snowmaker, it’s the first measurable snowfall across southern Wisconsin, and wind chills have dipped into the single digits and teens across the state. Stay warm this weekend!

Who decided this was a good idea

New foods I’ve eaten since moving to Wisconsin (corn edition): ✅ risotto (made with sweet corn) ✅ pad thai (also make with sweet corn, new as of today)

We need to have a conversation about random seeds. Don't use 42. blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/if-your-ra...

It’s a really nice day in Madison for a casual walk to the state capitol

1) found an implementation of something I needed on CRAN 2) it didn’t have a feature I needed 3) wrote the feature, tested it 4) found a GitHub repo from the maintainer under the package name 5) forked it, started on a PR 6) only then realized the repo isn’t actually for the CRAN package (???) 🎢

Me after not caring about Mizzou football in at least a decade

Millennium Park a few nights ago

One year of this relentless ball of energy

Made it to four gallons total as a blood donor today

R-Universe by @rOpenSci is an extremely useful project. My latest R package, {pmtiles}, is not a good fit for CRAN as it bundles a pre-compiled Go library. With R-Universe, I was able to get installable cross-platform binaries built in hours! #rstats walkerke.r-universe....

"Many people still have an elderly relative who survived a bout of severe childhood illness; not one of us has an elderly relative who did not." This is the best and perhaps most important illustration of sample selection i have seen in a good long while.

Now we tune into today’s installment of Seen From The Metra Train

Making simple, seemingly easily navigable, and accessible class pages is such a fun self-inflicted foray into “UX is my passion/UX is my burden” territory

Madison, summer #35mm #filmphotography

Baileys harbor range lights, Door County WI #35mm #filmphotography

New camera day #filmphotography

I just contacted my reps and you should, too. There’s a helpful script in the thread to use or work off of.

Keeping my eyes peeled today for the first article eulogizing Robert Redford as a beloved actor known for his MCU appearances

He saw somebody using setwd() instead of opening an RStudio project