Initial skepticism replaced by thinking this actually looks pretty good

Just tried out this new package and it is very useful! Quick beautiful plots with one line. The code line below was all I needed to make this plot. det_day |> ggauto(date, det_per_tag, SP, ylab = "Daily detections per tag") Looking forward to future compatibility with datetime variables!

If you use GitHub (especially if you pay for it!!) consider doing this *immediately* Settings -> Privacy -> Disallow GitHub to train their models on your code. GitHub opted *everyone* into training. No matter if you pay for the service (like I do). WTH github.com/settings/cop...

🎉 ggauto is now on CRAN 🎉 An #RStats package that selects better chart types, and provides more accessible styling for #ggplot2 plots 📊 Blog post explaining why I made it and how it works: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/introdu... #DataViz

New blog post: Adding human.json to WordPress https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/03/adding-human-json-to-wordpress/ Every few years, someone reinvents FOAF. The idea behind Friend-Of-A-Friend is that You can say "I, Alice, know and trust Bob". Bob can say "I know and trust Alice. I also know and …

I wrote about the findings from the inquiry about the impact of the pandemic on the NHS, and the mistakes of the first year. I hope it makes you angry - it should make us all angry. open.substack.com/pub/christin...

My little blog just surpassed one million views. That is a whole lot for a niche blog dedicated to the teaching of statistics. And the teaching of statistics in a way that highlights statistical literacy, contemporary issues, and funny stuff. Stats to enrage and delight and explain. 1/n

NEW POST: I asked Obinna to compile a list of data viz and notable subject-adjacent conference events taking place in 2026 and he gathered so many it felt natural to publish as a post and share with the world! visualisingdata.com/2026/03/data...

I always think I should make a thread of it, but I can't find the time, so here it is, one of the projects I'm most proud of: we developed the dataviz standards for the Quebec government's website. 📊

Experimenting with Luma for an R Community Calendar. If anyone is running an event, and wants to take part in this project, please get in touch #rstats luma.com/R_User_Commu...

It's almost time for the #30DayChartChallenge again 📊 As I start to plan out which prompts I'm going to do this year, I'm trying to implement my own advice from last year! This year I'm going to focus on the CAPphrase dataset, because there's so many aspects of it I want to dig into! #DataViz

Join us for “Working Smarter in R” 💜 📅 Apr 22 ⏰ 6–7 BST / 11–12 PDT A global panel sharing tips on workflows, data cleaning, debugging & more in R. Featuring: @nrennie.bsky.social, Pao C., @meghansharris.bsky.social, Soraya C., @ivelasq3.bsky.social & @cghlewis.bsky.social #RStats #RLadies

29 years of #rstats community knowledge was sitting in hard-to-search pipermail archives. So I built a more modern home for it. Introducing the R Mailing List Archives: 631,000+ messages from 32 lists, fully searchable and available as open data. r-mailing-lists.thecoatlessprofessor.com

And a bigger version!

Another #PiDay themed visualisation for #TidyTuesday this week! 📊 Made with #ggplot2 🛠️ Function to shown first n digits and highlight specific ones 🪄 Gif created with {magick} Code: github.com/nrennie/tidy... #DataViz #RStats

Decided that the time has come to wrap up the series of #rstats art pieces I've been posting recently. As usual, the pieces themselves are released under CC-BY licence, and the source code is linked to from the gallery page

A few more tweaks to chart types, styling, and syntax for {ggauto}: 📊 Lines/points/text all scale together ➡️ Pipe in unquoted variable names 🎨 Better styling for line and scatter plots #ggplot2 #DataViz #RStats

Happy to be back in one of my favourite places (Lancaster) for a few days 🎨

Today I’m excited to finally start a project I’ve been wanting to launch for a long time: Color for #Geoscience. 🎨🌍 ℹ️ to build an open, community‑driven collection of palettes 📄 Contribution: github.com/dominicroye/... 🌐 APP dominicroye.github.io/color-for-ge... #ScientificVisualization #dataviz

I made a tiny tool for quickly sharing small datasets (< ~1000 rows) without uploading any data to a server. 🔗 ziptbl.com It compresses the data into the link itself, so there’s no account, hosting, or storage layer involved. Here's Florence Nightingale's famous 📊 data: ziptbl.com#d=eNpdlE-LGz...

No single dataset captures poverty but, taken together, we can start to close the gaps. The final write-up from our poverty data gaps workshop series focuses on improving disability data: rss.org.uk/news-publica... Get involved: royal-statistical-society.github.io/poverty-data...

Are you ready for the next #30DayChartChallenge? 🚀 Only 2 weeks left until the 6th edition starts — it’s time to reveal this year's topics 🎉 1 prompt for each day of April across 5 categories to spark inspiration, experimentation, and learning 📊 Who’s in? 👀 #dataviz #datavisualization

Are you trying to learn how to do something data-related in #RStats, #PyData, #JuliaLang, #RustLang, and/or #JavaScript? We currently have **2203** videos at DSLC.video! If you learn something through them, reply to the video to let us know! #DataBS #DataScience #AI #MachineLearning #RShiny #PyShiny

The problem is simple: a gap now exists between what Police Scotland says it is recording about sex/gender and what people actually report about themselves. 📝 Read more here: kevinguyan.com/2026/03/18/p...

This week's #TidyTuesday data is about salmon mortality 🐟 in Norway 📊 Small multiple line charts show each region 🔍 Larger chart explains how to read 🧩 Arranged using {ggh4x} with {cowplot} for annotations #RStats #DataViz #ggplot2

Very cool new interactive and data visualizations up by Pew Research Center on how Americans spend their time and how that differs by gender: www.pewresearch.org/social-trend...

you can just do things (create your own homebrewed, bespoke programming language) github.com/b-rodrigues/...

new release of quarto-revealjs-editable ✏️ Notable updates: - Improved text edit experiance. Now able to change colors as well (has _brand.yml) support - floating toolbar for more ergonomic use - Add new text fields or slides using the toolbar - Much expanded docs github.com/EmilHvitfeld... #quarto

Great to see all the visualisations people have been doing with the CAPphrase dataset (github.com/adamkucharsk...) for #TidyTuesday!

When AI tools do well - or badly - at a task, it’s tempting to explain it away with the benefit of hindsight. But can you anticipate how well they’ll do before you see the outcome? Have a go here – and then see how your estimates compare with 1000+ others: quiz.wholesum.tech

Happy #PiDay! Here's the first 1,000 digits of pi encoded as colours 🎨 made with #RStats

Many journals require data and code sharing. Yet code is still rarely shared and datasets are often hard to reuse. Our new paper introduces the @sortee.bsky.social guidelines for data & code quality control in ecology & evolution, developed by 26 experienced data editors. 📄 doi.org/10.24072/pcj...

Palantir CEO promises that his technology will reduce educated women's economic and political power newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

I made this a while ago. There are some vertebrates in here but the inverts steal the show. I especially love the triangular plaid on the velvet worm.

Fantastic news! 🎉

Excited to announce I'll be one of the keynote speakers at EARL Conference later this year! 📍 Brighton, UK 📆 6-8th October 2026 ❓️ Lots of great #RStats, #Python, and data science sessions Still time to submit an abstract if you want to join me: earl-conference.com

A really fun dataset for this week's #TidyTuesday, looking at how people interpret different probabilistic statements 📊 There's so many aspects of this to visualise, but I decided make some barcode plots comparing how people from the UK and US responded! #DataViz #RStats #ggplot2

As a contribution to the collective understanding, here is what I say when teaching an 1 hr 50 min introductory #rstats course. So the intended audience is mainly people contemplating teaching/tutoring R to others, to give some ideas if you aren't sure where to start. github.com/thoughtfulbl...

I spent too much time looking at too many colo(u)rs to try and optimise them for csskit. Here are some interesting findings. www.keithcirkel.co.uk/too-much-col...

For those who want to test their perception of colour, I made a little game called "What's My JND" www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...

Really useful #QuartoPub extension, especially for things like online event schedules 👇

This is a really fun dataset to play with - thanks to @adamjkucharski.bsky.social for creating it! I'm looking forward to seeing some #TidyTuesday visualisations of it! 📊 And the quiz is still open if you'd like to add yourself to the original data: probability.kucharski.io

Really interesting blog post ,👇 (Also the Poverty Data Gaps Explorer is made with a combination of #RStats, #QuartoPub and Observable!) #DataViz

Just thinking about a few of the absolute queens who’ve been a constant inspiration today ❤️

In more important spite-driven development news... sessioncheck is now on CRAN. At long last I now have something dead-simple and concrete I can point to next time I'm asked to put rm(list=ls()) in a script for no obvious reason sessioncheck.djnavarro.net

A new, work-in-progress #RStats package which 📊 Tries to automatically choose the best chart type from data types and values 🎨 Uses accessible colours, with added labels and shapes 📈 Has cleaner, more readable default #ggplot2 styling in just one line ggauto(df$v1, df$v2, df$v3) #DataViz

A new, work-in-progress #RStats package which 📊 Tries to automatically choose the best chart type from data types and values 🎨 Uses accessible colours, with added labels and shapes 📈 Has cleaner, more readable default #ggplot2 styling in just one line ggauto(df$v1, df$v2, df$v3) #DataViz

I had a lovely visit to Bath yesterday! ✈️ Thanks to SAMBa CDT for the invitation to give a seminar about data visualisation, followed by an interactive workshop on how to make better charts with #ggplot2 📊 #RStats #DataViz

Let me start a belated thread of Aotearoa New Zealand silvan birds. To lead things off, a New Zealand Bellbird photographed on Kapiti Island.