At the beginning of my teacher's career I taught mostly for the best students in the class. As I get older, I can see I'm lowering my standards and teach more and more for the weaker students. I also grade more generously as time passes. => is this a common pattern? Or is it just me? I'm curious.

Any good ressource for LEARNING PROGRAMMING for students who know NOTHING about programming (really nothing)? It would be great in R/python (final obj. is data analysis). Any help appreciated! Thanks! @andrew.heiss.phd @gmcd.bsky.social @kylefbutts.bsky.social @vincentab.bsky.social

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Happy `tinyplot` v0.6.0 (codename "Thanksgiving") release day to all those that celebrate. Some new features, but mostly bug fixes and internal improvements. grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/NEW... #rstats

Tell me something you do when you code that other people would tell you that you shouldn't do. Tell me the rules you break! I'll go first: I work in untitled files in the wrong project directories all the time. Like, all the time. Yes, I do tend to lose things 😂 #databs #rstats #python

`tinyplot` 0.5.0 is now available from CRAN & R-universe. Alongside bug fixes & internal improvements, this release includes some cool new features like bubble chart + dual legend support, element dodging, & ephemeral themes. Detailed changelog: grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/NEW... #rstats #dataviz

Sarcasm, but actually something brought up by one of the deans, that having statisticians around is *less* important in the age of AI because AI can just do experimental design and data analysis for researchers. No joke. #sendhelp

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...

Important note for Mac users: make sure your installation properly exploits `fixest` multi-threading capabilities: 1. Follow @coatless.bsky.social's simple shell script and OpenMP instructions here: github.com/coatless-she... 2. Install from source: `install.packages("fixest", type = "source")`

#rstats #econsky fixest v0.13.0 is finally out! It's still about making OLS and GLM estimations easy. Some major changes: - *default* VCOV becomes iid always! - singletons are removed by default! See all the changes here: github.com/lrberge/fixe...

The EEA conference starts tomorrow in Bordeaux! I'll be around, so if you want to meet, just reach out! #rstats #econsky www.eeassoc.org/events/eea-b...

#rstats #econsky PSA: The next release of `fixest` will include some important changes (plus cool new features). E.g. Fixed-effects regs will now default to 'iid' SEs rather than clustered. github.com/lrberge/fixe... You can install and test drive the dev version from R-universe; see the README.

Announcing sircon: a new R console! (for Windows) It's in beta and actively developed (new patched version just released). I've been using it for a while now and I think it's rather bug free. But if you encounter some: let me know! github.com/lrberge/sircon

Just gave a presentation a the REGIS summer school we organised in Bordeaux. Algorithms for empirical research Slides and material here: github.com/lrberge/2025... The conclusion is that, even in the age of AI, using your brain is still relevant! #RStats #EconSky

github.com/kylebutts/vs... If you are using vscode and stata, you should try out my extension. It uses interactive window which let's you write in a `.do` file but get a notebook type experience.

Good post that generates discussions on student's use of LLMs. If you're a teacher, have a look!

Updated my "AI, LLMs, and bullshit" mini-lecture post in my dataviz class with a new section on vibe coding datavizs25.classes.andrewheiss.com/resource/ai-...

At Posit, we love @typst.app: ⚡ Make PDFs in milliseconds, not minutes ✨ The power of LaTeX with today's technologies ✍️ Modern typography (including emojis!) 🧠 Clear mental model So I'm thrilled to announce that we're now supporting its development: posit.co/blog/posit-a... #rstats

I had to endure some teasing from my collaborators for choosing to write our NeurIPS submission in @typst.app – looks like I have one more reason to believe I made the right call... 😅

This is a great article in the latest issue of the JEP for anyone teaching panel methods (any level). Love this history of economic terms and ideas feature. #Econsky pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...

#rstats #SWE 2021 R Journal issue on software engineering practices in R dev community: journal.r-project.org/issues/2021-2/ Target paper calling for research : journal.r-project.org/articles/RJ-... Wonder if there are recent interventions on the state of SWE with R [beside great work by rOpenSci]

Blog post (fixest vignette) on "Collinearity": something everybody faces one day but for which there's not much guidance. Trying to clarify how econometrics software handle collinearity and what one should do about it. #RStats #EconSky Comments welcome lrberge.github.io/fixest/artic...

PyFixest 0.29 is on PyPi! - We have updated how small sample adjustments are computed. PyFixest inference matches fixest now 100%, out of the box and all of the time! - We have added support for fully saturated event studies, which in turn enables @apoorvalal.com's DiD specification tests.

great little explanation on why to avoid passive voice refactoringenglish.com/chapters/pas...

French researcher, going to a conference in Houston, was forbidden entry to US; his work and personal electronics were both confiscated. Why? Because a “random search” of his cell phone revealed a negative personal opinion on Trump and the Trump administration. www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

Graphic #rstats reminder that vaccines work 📊 www.databrewer.co/R/gallery/gg...

Help me write a playbook of best practices for giving data-specific technical workshops or code-heavy talks. This isn't about bashing bad talks, it's about sharing experiences from which we can all learn. We'll all need slightly different things from a learning environment, so let's share. #databs

📣 Bordeaux School of Economics is pleased to invite you to participate in the 40th meeting of the European Economic Association @eeanews.bsky.social 📅 25-28 August, 2025 🔔 Submissions until Feb, 28 📍@bsebordeaux.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social ⬇️ Info eea2025.org

Like Vincent says, this is a big release with a shedload of new features. Same small footprint, though ;-) Here’s quick rundown of some of my favourites... #rstats #dataviz

{tinyplot} 0.3.0 is out! 🚨 It's a lightweight #Rstats 📦 to draw beautiful and complex plots, using an ultra-simple and concise syntax. This is a massive release! @gmcd.bsky.social @zeileis.org and I worked hard to add tons of new themes and plot types. Check it out! grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/

I've been sick lately and.... unable to code for a big stretch of time (can you believe) The moral of the story is: don't forget your health! But don't worry #rstats, I'll be back in package development soon!

I have been severly ill in December and had to spend 3 weeks at the hospital. I received top notch care and never was I asked my credit card, nor had I to complete any red tape (despite France)... So big shoutout to the French health care system!

PSA: GitHub Actions switched `ubuntu-latest` to `ubuntu-24.04`, which does not have #Rstats pre-installed. Use `r-lib/actions/setup-r@v2` (see github.com/r-lib/actions) to install it, or use a Docker container, e.g. docker run ghcr.io/r-hub/r-minimal/r-minimal:latest R ...

You're welcome, @kevinroose.com and @nytimes.com. While I cannot speak for all open source maintainers, those I know would say "you're welcome, we do this for ourselves too". #eatyourownfood #opensource #rstats www.nytimes.com/2024/12/30/t...

Anyone have a silly #rstats idea to do with a class the day before break when there won’t be many students present? These are beginners.

A longer version of my post yesterday re: my thoughts on this study on the impact of GenAI tools on dev productivity www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Foursquare just open sourced their 100 million place point of interest dataset! Some notes on poking around with it using DuckDB (it's Parquet files on S3) simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/20/...

This is one of my favourite Bluesky features. It basically lets you get some algorithmic juice into your timeline, but you get to control the content

Scam PSA: Heads up folks, there are now bots on here who will make clone accounts and dm you asking for donations if you offer support to real people. New platform means you are less likely to have dm history with someone so even if you think you know them, just be extra observant.

This is the chaos grenade we need in our timeliness today.

The 'correct' way would be to create a uv environment and run jupyter from inside it docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/in... You can also just yolo it and !pip install everything you need in the first cell of your notebook (that's how colab users do it)

Out of a webscraping course: I ventured in teaching in python and looked like a loser b/c my pip installs were applied to another version of python than the one I was using.... I know it's rookie mistakes, but why isn't there an `install.packages` function in python?? (miss you #rstats!)

Out of a webscraping course in python. OMG notebooks is sooo bad for students. They all use notebooks but have no clue how to debug when a problem pops. I don't understand why everyone uses notebooks, script + REPL works just fine and is easy to debug. (maybe it's b/c I come from #rstats!)

Hey #RStats people. How do you feel about startup messages? Would this nudge be too obnoxious if I added it to my package?

Finally decided to join The Good Place™ I'm a postdoc @ Penn State and my research asks *why* and *how* people age poorly. Currently interested in mechanisms of psychosocial, biological, immunological, and cognitive processes that contribute to accelerated aging. Learn more here: elanagloger.com

📄 New blog post on embedding #rexams exercises in #rmarkdown or #quarto documents Joint work with Reto Stauffer Generate quizzes for self-paced #elearning in #rstats www.r-exams.org/tutorials/ex...

Official, official notice of #rstats being removed from the ubuntu-latest GitHub Actions runner: github.blog/changelog/20... Luckily spoiled for choice between the #r2u (github.com/eddelbuettel...) and r-lib actions (github.com/r-lib/action...).