forcats is my second favorite R library I never use. My favorite one is still purrr. forcats.tidyverse.org/articles/for... #rstats

Contemplating format for my Statistical Rethinking course in January. In recent years, felt too many students can't keep up, fall behind in 2nd half. Maybe I should offer two sections: beginner, advanced. Beginner is first half of content, at half speed. Advanced is 2nd half, also half speed. ?

Se cae Cloudflare y páginas web de todo el mundo se caen. Españoles: https://elpais.com/tecnologia/2025-11-18/un-problema-en-la-nube-deja-sin-funcionar-a-x-canvas-y-otros-programas.html

Every time I open PowerPoint I think: "So we're living in the era of Artificial Intelligence"

The belief that numbers offer a single, objective description of reality overlooks a crucial truth: data does not speak for itself. Every dataset results from choices, which inevitably reflect implicit, and sometimes ideological, assumptions. arxiv.org/abs/2507.03628 @freakonometrics.bsky.social

Lately the sentence I say the most is "I don't remember"

What alternative to Google Calendar do you like? Notion, Proton...? #android #app #calendar #productivity

📢 Talk Announcement "From Jupyter Notebook to Publish-Ready Report: Effortless Sharing with Quarto", by @cderv.bsky.social from @posit.co. 📜 Talk info: pretalx.com/pydata-paris-2025/talk/K7CAAE 📅 Schedule: pydata.org/paris2025/schedule 🎟 Tickets: pydata.org/paris2025/tickets

Have you read this by @anthropic.com ? Any explanation for dummies? Are they saying that not-so-random number sequences might hide info only readable by AI? alignment.anthropic.com/2025/sublimi... #llm

Have you ever loved saving money so much that you've WALKED from an airport to the city center?

On a ML Explainability course, the author compares one concept with coeffs on a linear regression. Then says: “if you don't know about linear regression forget about this comparison”. My question: how on earth someone who doesn't know about linear regression is studying ML? #ML #stats

#statistics #mathsky

Happy early summer weekend, #stats!

«América se tragaba a Europa. »—Nos comen. Somos pobres, muy pobres. Unos miserables que solo entendemos de tomar el sol.» La Regenta, Leopoldo Alas, Clarín (1884)

We should first define 'dead' for answering the question below. As examples: - Is Pascal dead? - Is Fortran dead? - Is SPSS dead? (alas this one isn't)

I'm reading lately lots of posts by R users claiming R is not dead. Does it mean that R is almost dead? #rstats

On bubble plots, what should the bubble size variable be associated to: the radius or the area? #dataviz

Help internet where can I buy this hoodie

Estimates are distributions, points are decisions (Richard McElreath)

20 #pandas one-liners. No idea about some of them, and seem pretty elegant www.nb-data.com/p/20-pandas-... Via #TLDRData #python

While attending online meetings, today I'm listening to Marin Marais by Brandon Acker and Craig Trompeter in the background. It's the only thing worth it in today's meetings.

Some people say AI will take out my job... Looking forward to it! 🎉 The poor thing it's going to get so bored that it'll beg me to give it back.

I'm starting to love Information Theory. I tried some weeks ago these lectures from Oxford Uni but were too much for me, as a beginner. I've read some texts about the subject and understand much better the intuition. Am I now ready for the lectures? Let's try www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScX2...

Being able to cancel and restart slow-running jobs in shiny with {mirai} is a bit of a game-changer #rstats Full app in alt text / gist.github.com/simon-smart8... with a method for updating progress too

"As programmers use more AI-written code, debugging may end up being the only remaining programming skill. But for some reason, the vast majority of programming content is about writing code well, not about debugging. What’s different about debugging?" www.seangoedecke.com/debugging/ #coding

For #rstats people working on computing environments without GUI, you should check out the package `txtplot`. E.g. this density plot is pretty useful to get an idea what my data looks like:

Computer questions: 🧐 Do you have a laptop AND a desktop? 🤔 If so, what do you use your desktop for?

Thing I just learned in #rstats: unz() lets you connect to a .zip and load files from inside it without actually unzipping it (great for a file I'm working with that's 30 MB zipped and 1+ GB unzipped, with multiple CSVs in it)

En menos de media hora empieza el directo en el canal de Instagram de Javier Santaolalla: hablaremos sobre vida (terrestre y extraterrestre), biomarcadores, dimetilsulfuro, exoplanetas, grandes preguntas y retos de la ciencia… y por qué ambos viajamos #ABordoDeTuCuriosidad 😊

For the last few weeks, the only thing that motivates me in my job is helping others when I can. The rest of my duties (internal products, some client work) are of no interest to me anymore. Is it time to look for something else? (I don't think anyone in my company reads Bluesky 😂)

After so many years, this video is still so powerful. The introduction perhaps even more than the song itself. One of my favorite versions. #bobdylan #steviewonder youtu.be/WZnv6qLWPy4?...

«If you are slave to A/B tests, and that informs all your decisions… you will eventually end up selling porn.» (read somewhere)

A company should allow their employees to use whichever tool they need. Restricting your developers to use an IDE, a OS or a GenAI supplier it's just a way of reducing productivity.

On our next podcast episode, @joscani.muestrear-no-es-pecado.es and I talk about how to correct your model's optimism using bootstrap. You train your model on each sample and compare its fitness metric against the original sample. The average of differences is your correction. Soon on Spotify

Have you ever done a bootstrap plot? I don't know if it's valid, or even useful, but I just have. Just for fun. Sepal Length bootstrap density #rstats #dataviz

In 1998, I chose to learn Perl, not Python - for administering Unix servers In 2013, I chose to learn R, not Python - for Data Analysis and modeling 💕 In 2025, I need to finally learn Python - for finding bugs in the code that AI spits out for me 🫠 #rstats #python

Hey, who all is doing the #30DayChartChallenge this year?! 📣 Sound-off so I can follow you! #databs 📌 Pin this feed to follow along: bsky.app/profile/did:... I'm going to try to keep up using #TidyTuesday data and definitely challenging myself to do #PydyTuesday, so a mix of #python and #rstats 👏🏻

For quick tests these days I'm using R GUI. I've just realised one of the most accessible buttons is the `Print` button. Who on Earth (and when) could be interested on printing a script? #rstats #20thCentury

'Comparing the posterior to the prior can help seeing how much information the model extracted from the data. When posterior and prior are similar, the calculations might be right -you got the right answer to what you asked. What you might need is a better question.' @rmcelreath.bsky.social

Where should be the limits of cybersecurity measures? The most effective cybersecurity measure is avoiding your users doing anything at all. But it's not recommendable. We're going in that direction where I work... I had never before considered leaving a job because of IT.

Past events that made programming easier didn't make programmers disappear. Instead, more people started working on programming. LLMs shouldn't be any different. www.oreilly.com/radar/the-en... via @oreilly.bsky.social

How many coin tosses do you need until getting tails? #stats

Is this a barplot? Where all bars have the same length and you need to read the labels and quantify their difference with your imagination? Source: Lego . com #dataviz

7 Quarto presentation tips. Didn't know about the pagedown::chrome_print() function. It seems pretty useful 😄 remlapmot.github.io/post/2025/qu... #rstats

Splitting up your project into small tasks might be counterproductive if these smaller tasks differ too much from the general solution you'll finally use. Focus on unavoidable bottlenecks instead -or buy your team some drinks. www.lesswrong.com/posts/Hgj84B... #projects #MVP

There are people who think that #EldenRing has no plot, that it's just a fighting game.

Avoid majoring in minors

Do you know which license to pick for your #rstats 📦? If not, you can always follow other devs! 🐑 On CRAN: 1️⃣ GPL-3 – 4918 📦 2️⃣ MIT + file LICENSE – 4904 3️⃣ GPL (>= 2) – 4284 4️⃣ GPL-2 – 2391 5️⃣ GPL (>= 3) – 2039 6️⃣ GPL – 449 7️⃣ GPL-2 | GPL-3 – 338 8️⃣ CC0 – 238 9️⃣ LGPL-3 – 179 🔟 Apache License (>= 2) – 145

There's something deeply satisfying about creating a funnel plot with {ggplot2}. (Though I think it might look better if the dots - rather than the areas - were colour-coded.) #rstats