So thrilled to hear that Nightingale, the Journal of the Data Visualization Society, will be back in PRINT @datavizsociety.bsky.social #dataviz Online is awesome, but I love to see how they do it on paper nightingaledvs.com

Another brilliant interactive explanation! 💯

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊 🎂Jun 24, 1738 Johann Friedrich von Charpentier born in Dresden, Germany 🇩🇪 In 1778 he made insightful & delightful geological maps of distribution of soils, minerals 😻Gotta love that legend/palette in the detail

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊 🎂Jun 24 1781 Siméon Denis Poisson born in Pithiviers, France 🇫🇷 Best known for his eponymous distribution for count data in 1837 in connection with wrongful jury decisions. (Derived previously by de Moivre in 1711)

Hmm. Quite an interesting idea! But it seems to me like a spectacularly poor UI for people to find the color corresponding to concept. Could spark another Rainbow 🌈Color War

Here’s me learning that shiny didn’t have toolbars until now! #RStats

As part of Beach Science stuff, started to try some work with Claude on my iPhone 📱 Too bad I can’t run #rstats on the beach 🏖️ Any other tools I should consider?

This is a major development from my perspective regarding what AI can do with data storytelling. 📊 This interactive data story was created by AI *without any prompt beyond the dataset*. fdaudens.com/life-expecta...

So many gems in here 💎💎💎

"Probable" can mean anywhere from 55% to 90%, depending who you ask. Turns out words for "warmth" have the same problem. New Beach Science post on temperature words, the CIA's Sherman Kent, ridgeline plots, and why "heat map" has nothing to do with heat 🌡️ friendly.github.io/blog/posts/2...

I didn't know this was public info, but yes, it was an incredible & humbling privilege to be part of the jury. The process of thinking about, and then deciding on the most consequential development(s) in statistical practice, theory and impact was quite an experience

Who remembers the days on R-Help when one use to say, simply fortune(2) in reply to someone's query

Flashback for June 20, 2026 28 points 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Play here: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Happy🎂to Siméon Poisson b #OTD 1781 (d 25 Apr 1840) His name is most associated with the Poisson distribution, developed to model jury decision-making. It gained traction in 1898 with Bortkiewicz’s analysis of Prussian horse kick data. But it is another example of Stigler’s Law of Eponomy 1/3

Somewhat unsettling to stick-in-the-mud me to see fav tools (Quarto, Latex) getting replaced by woke new kids on the block like typst 🧐

Doing Bayesian Data Analysis in brms and the tidyverse by A Solomon Kurz #RStats https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/statistics.html#doing-bayesian-data-analysis-in-brms-and-the-tidyverse

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊 🎂Jun 19, 1623 Blaise Pascal born in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne, France 🇫🇷 Around 1654, he developed the initial statements of the theory of probability (with Pierre de Fermat) 👀See www.goodreads.com/book/show/60...

Good advice: Life is good at The Beach 🏖️ Beer is cheaper than therapy 🍺

Wikipedia now officially lists the result of the 2026 Iran War as an "Iranian victory" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Ir...

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #OTD 📊 💀Jun 18, 1969 Edgar S. Anderson died in St. Louis, Missouri, USA 🇺🇸 Iris Sepal & Petal Remembrance Day! 1928: Ideograph, a multivariate rectangular glyph, invented to display four variables and their relations (length and width of petals and sepals in iris flowers)

The 2026 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics has been awarded to the R Project. #RStats www.rousseeuwprize.org/2026

I’ve charted American hegemony during the Iranian campaign

Elon Musk’s DOGE cut the federal government’s screwworm monitoring program, which cost $15 million. Now, the Trump administration is preparing to spend $1 billion to combat the screwworm outbreak. Never forget how destructive and downright stupid DOGE was.

Nice; but also good to remember there we other important contributors to R Core Team over many years, even though only these 5 mentioned in the official citation. Also good to remember that members made many important contributions to what #rstats has become other than just commits to the SVN

I guess one difference between Jim Crow then and Jim Crow now is that we have cool graphics to show how it's done.

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊 🎂Jun 16, 1915 John W. Tukey born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA 🇺🇸 It is hard to summarize Tukey's impacts on #dataviz. The Milestones Projects highlights 5: www.datavis.ca/milestones/i... Happy 111th, John! 🎉🎉You'd love to see where EDA has gone

BREAKING The R Core Team just awarded the prestigious Rousseuw Prize in statistics, stats equivalent of Nobel Prize 🏆 🏆🏆🏆 #rstats A team effort over many years suitably recognized

It's tomorrow!! 🤩 #ggplot2 #rstats

A new post in the Beach Science series: Warm-Up Exercises for the Beach Scientist friendly.github.io/blog/posts/2...

I wrote detailed guidelines for acceptable / not AI use for my #psy6136 grad course on Categorical Data Analysis. I was generally quite pleased with the results. friendly.github.io/psy6136/assi...

I'm on holiday, Leucate Plage 🇫🇷, my favourite spot in the universe. Decided to write some blog posts on Beach Science: lying on a beach towel, considering interesting scientific questions. Here's the first: friendly.github.io/blog/posts/2...

Here's a #statsmeme I sometimes use to talk about simplistic, uncritical outlier rejection rules But there's another size of the coin: Sometimes the unusual data is a true discovery

I recently had to make a static photo gallery with #QuartoPub and used PhotoSwipe (which is neat!) so I decided to plugin-ize it to make it easier to use elsewhere, so behold, quarto-static-photo-gallery! andrewheiss.github.io/quarto-stati...

I just ignore packges without a detailed README or vignette, no matter what they promise in the DESCRIPTION.

"Yankee Doodle" was a ditty (Roud 4501) that predated the American Revolution & was adapted by both British and Americans to mock one another. To mark the 250th anniversary, Trump birthday & #NoKings protest we've made a 2026 arrangement, where you can find the lyrics: themarshfamily.bandcamp.com 🎶

This makes me SO HAPPY! This is what I want people to do! See tidytuesdayR on CRAN for relatively easy dataset submissions! dslc-io.github.io/tidytuesdayR...

And a joyous read!

Beautifully done!! Kudos 👍

Nice to have. Now ask: how could this be even better than a searchable listing ?

But history tells us this was once the default in the time of Playfair. X was always time. You could use several Ys to show how wages were related to the price of wheat, annotations to show wars and monarchs…

Great. I always wait for x.x.1 version

Is looping LLM 📊 output through a prompt asking it to do a better job really better (cheaper? faster?) than just doing a good job oneself? www.goodeyelabs.com/insights/the...

An unhealthy outlier... ourworldindata.org/grapher/life...

The overall msg here is one I strongly endorse, but it misses my mark: good visuals are an integral part of The Hook, the Aha moment … Great data stories are told in words, pictures & numbers

Could this be @cedricscherer.com spotted in a computer repair shop in Narbonne 🇳🇱 today?

Whipped up this little silly website. I always wanted to have an infinite hex grid, and now it is a reality! emilhvitfeldt.github.io/posit-hex-gr... #rstats

Those lovely #rstats #CRAN words again thanks, package vcdExtra_0.9.6.tar.gz is on its way to CRAN. friendly.github.io/vcdExtra/

A lovely memorial service was held for John Fox in Toronto. Friends & colleagues got to share their stories and memories of John. Here is a collection of photos of John posted by Bonnie

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊 🎂Jun 05, 1913 Harry H. Harmon born in Poland 🇵🇱 In 1944 (working on army classification tests) he developed an electro-mechanical machine to aid in the rotation of multidimensional factor analysis solutions to "simple structure."

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