I wrote up a blog post about how I made those animated sound waves

For this week's #TidyTuesday chess player rating data, I made an annotated barcode plot to show the distribution of age by title ♟️ It was hard to set a good transparency level for the lines since there's such a difference between the number of male and female players 📊 #RStats #DataViz #ggplot2

I Vibe Coded an R Package and it ... actually works?!? https://jcarroll.com.au/2025/09/13/i-vibe-coded-an-r-package/ I wanted an #rstats package to exist so I spent $20 and got Claude Code to build it for me. Plus a shiny app using it: https://jcarroll.shinyapps.io/kanjiexplorer/

There's still time for a last-minute registration for WOMBAT, happening next week! I'm very excited for lots of #DataViz and #RStats talks, alongside lots of other great sessions 📊 (and meeting more internet friends IRL or course!)

Oh, it might actually have been my blog? 😂 libbyheeren.com/blog/2024-06...

Your regular reminder that measles vaccines are the most lifesaving childhood vaccine in the schedule, and save over a million lives globally per year. ourworldindata.org/measles-vacc...

Launch day 🚀 We’ve just released @chartlecc.bsky.social - a daily chart game! Your job is to guess which country is represented by the red line in today's chart. You get 5 tries, no other clues! Play today, come back tomorrow for a different chart with new data and share with your chart friends 📈

Spending a little bit more time laptop-free creating (non Generative) art 🎨

Hey #rstats friends! 👋 Only one week to go until my "Introduction to R Packages" tutorial at #WOMBAT2025! This is a gentle introduction to making R packages, going from initial code to `devtools::check()` Still plenty of spots available :) Sign up at: wombat2025.numbat.space

Five years after we started it, I'm super happy to share that Works in Progress is now available as a print magazine! 🥹 It'll have everything on web and more. You can subscribe today for $100/£75 to receive 6 beautiful, 120-page issues of our magazine a year. worksinprogress.co/print

📣 #NHS Reproducible Analytical Pipelines (#RAP) Drop In Wednesday 24 September, 10-11am Hosted this time by me! from the @strategyunit.bsky.social #DataScience team. Bring along your questions about RAPs or just take part in the chat. Register at events.teams.microsoft.com/event/e0ee38...

The making of this week's #TidyTuesday plot recorded with {camcorder} in #RStats 📊📹

The Pac-Man Rule should be adopted at all conferences and meetups - it's so much more welcoming! Also an excellent use of a pie chart! 📊

New blog post! Ever wonder what geom_histogram is actually doing? How about geom_boxplot? In celebration of the release of #ggplot2 4.0.0 (ggplot8?), I explore the relationships between the “geoms” and “stats” offered by the core {ggplot2} functions. #rstats

Got into #TidyTuesday after picking up R this year. Just submitted my first dataset to the challenge—and turned it into my first R package: {tastyR}! 🍽️ Super excited to see what the #rstats community cooks up with the data this week! 😀👀 Glad to have made y'all's Tuesday a lil...tastyR. 🏃🏿‍♂️

I normally only see these ternary plots used to show UK election results, but decided to see if I could make them work for this week's #TidyTuesday data from Allrecipes 📊 A little bit tricky to add annotations to but overall, I quite like the result! #RStats #ggplot2 #DataViz

Rweekly issue #38 is out. This week's highlights include: R6 interfaces (@jakub-sobolewski.bsky.social) and ggplot2 (@nrennie.bsky.social) #Rstats #code #reading rweekly.org

🚀 Book in progress: Spatial Data Visualization with tmap A guide to creating thematic maps in R with the tmap package. Covers everything from loading data to interactive and animated maps, with reproducible code. Read online: tmap.geocompx.org #rstats #rspatial #geocompx #gischat #maps

We would love to hear your thoughts on our new set of maths teaching resources, developed in partnership with @mathsweek.scot Please share widely! @robertcuffe.bsky.social @rssedinburgh.bsky.social @rss-teach.bsky.social #MathsWeekScot

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

Co-organising with the Teaching Statistics section, four experienced educators in the data sciences (Claire Rebello, Elinor Jones, Ioanna Papatsouma, Sophie Lee) shared their passion for teaching and highlighted the varied opportunities available across different sectors. 📝

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

📊 The Dispatch is here! This week's visualizations feature China's military parade, climate change impacts and solutions, and much more. 🗞️ www.datawrapper.de/blog/data-vi...

Inspired by @nrennie.bsky.social excellent #TidyTuesday plot on the power of passports, I adapted the idea to look at refugee origins. This chart ranks countries of origin of refugees, asylum-seekers, and others in need of international protection, grouped by region. #RStats #ggplot2 #Refugees

People keep telling me they can't afford to attend #PositConf2025 next week, so I need to make a public service announcement: attending virtually is very affordable (or free!) & is amazing! Get registered & hangout with me on the Discord server!! #databs #rstats #python

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#RStats Easy technique for generating simple palettes a <- c(0.5, 0.5, 0.5) b <- (sample(colors(), 1) |> col2rgb() |> as.vector()) / 255 c <- (sample(colors(), 1) |> col2rgb() |> as.vector()) / 255 d <- (sample(colors(), 1) |> col2rgb() |> as.vector()) / 255 […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

There was lots of data to play with for #TidyTuesday this week where we're looking at the power of different passports! ✈️ I decided to try out the idea of using small multiples and highlighting to untangle a spaghetti chart with lots of lines 📊 #RStats #DataViz #ggplot2

Early morning run to catch the sunrise 🌞

If you like #DataViz or a curious about it, come on September 29 for a one-two punch of hands-on tutorials and and stick around for Nicola Rennie's talk on building effective data visualisations the next day. See the full program & register: wombat2025.numbat.space #OpenSource #RStats

960+ people. 4 days. 1 unforgettable conference. Thanks to everyone who made #RSS2025 such a standout event! Our president John Aston shares some reflections, including a timely reminder that transparency is key to trust in official stats 👉 rss.org.uk/news-publica...

At the RSS conference last week, I had the pleasure of speaking alongside @profandyfield.com, Rhys C Jones, and Margaret MacDougall about the process of book writing and publishing! You can find my slides online here: nrennie.rbind.io/talks/rss-co... #RStats #StatsEd @rss-teach.bsky.social

🎨 #Rtistry #GenArtClub #RStats #ggplot2

Want to attend #WOMBAT2025 but #Melbourne is a bit too far for you? We've got you covered with hybrid tutorials! * Fundamentals of Forecasting. * Reproducible Reporting with #QuartoDev. * Visualising Uncertainty * Regression Analysis in #RStats 📅 Program and registration wombat2025.numbat.space

Day one of metrics I gave my students an op-ed assignment, where they had to pretend to be a writer for the UpShot and argue whether or not the revisions data justified #ErikaMcEntarfer being fired. "The Jobs Report Wasn't Rigged. Revisions Are the Point" is an absolute BANGER headline. #EconSky

There are many integrated development environments for data science but which one to choose? For the upcoming EIT Mobility summer school in Lisbon next week I've put together a table of features comparing them. Interested to hear what people use for your #datascience needs #eitmobility.

Styling: nrennie.rbind.io/art-of-viz/ For publication-ready plotting, there is also tidyplots.org which takes a lot of overhead away.

I had a fabulous time at the @royalstatsoc.bsky.social conference in Edinburgh this week with lots of excellent talks and time spent catching up with people I don't get to see often enough! See you next year in Bournemouth? #RStats #StatsEd #JuliaLang #RSS2025Conf

A shout out for @nrennie.bsky.social fab book on data viz! nrennie.rbind.io/art-of-viz/

Inspire your students with data viz ideas from @nrennie.bsky.social fab book! nrennie.rbind.io/art-of-viz/

I’m doing this tomorrow along with @nrennie.bsky.social, Rhys Jones and organiser Margaret MacDougall @rss-teach.bsky.social @royalstatsoc.bsky.social

I really enjoyed giving a brief introduction to Julia for statisticians yesterday - thanks to Jake Grainger and Charles Dufour for organising such a great session! Slides: nrennie.rbind.io/talks/rss-in... #RStats #JuliaLang #ggplot2 #RSS2025Conf @tidierjl.bsky.social

Watch as the familiar pattern of the Scorpius constellation distorts into a whole new perspective. The opening of the sequence pans up to Scorpius in the night sky. The brightest star in the constellation, Antares, is a red supergiant known as the "heart of the Scorpion." 🔭 🧪

Super fun #TidyTuesday data all about frogs this week! 🐸 I decided to try to visualise the scientific names of the different frogs using a sunburst diagram 📊 Thanks to {ggiraph} - it's also interactive! Code: github.com/nrennie/tidy... #RStats #DataViz #ggplot2

Newsletter Estación R 📬 • useR! 2025 abierto y gratis • {pins} {ggtext} {ragg} {usethis} • Tutoriales: shinytest2, Julia↔R, LLMs locales, C++ • Referente: @nrennie.bsky.social • Agenda: posit::conf, Tidyverse Dev Day, rOpenSci Suscribite: estacion-r.com/newsletter #RStats #DataViz

🎨 #GenerativeArt #Rtistry #RStats #GenArtClub #CodeArt

Quarto + #RStats + Observable = ❤️ New blog post from me about: 👁️ What is Observable? ❓ Why should R users care? 📊 How do you use both together to make interactive charts? Link: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/observa... #DataViz #Observable #QuartoPub

The Sea (R code) Exponentially spaced waves and flowing forms that echo the motion of the sea #codeart #genartclub #genart

Broadway musicals meet data analysis in this month's issue of "Significance" magazine. Read about this and other topics of interest, such as the place of public input in technical statistical methodology research and gunshot detection systems: magazine.amstat.org/...

I gave the keynote at Cascadia R Conf 2025: “25 Things You Didn't Know You Could Do with R.” R isn’t just for stats — it’s great for visualization, mapping, automation, and more. Watch the talk + get all the resources here: buff.ly/6svaIME Hope you learn something new! #rstats