We're offering two hands-on tutorials on September 29th for those wanting to level up their software dev skills. Learn how to create your own #RStats packages in the morning, followed by an afternoon treat of C++. See the full program & register: wombat2025.numbat.space #WOMBAT2025 #DataScience

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

@science.org.au please add me to the fellows starter pack

Early bird registration for #WOMBAT2025 ends this week! WOMBAT is a data analytics workshop in Melbourne featuring the latest open source software. 📅 29-30 September (day 1 is tutorials, day 2 is the main event) 📍 In-person | Melbourne CBD, Australia wombat2025.numbat.space

🕰️ Take the time to come to this tutorial by Mitchell O’Hara-Wild. Use the tidyverse to manipulate time series data and fable to create models in a timely fashion. Don't be late! Early bird discount ends 31st of August! wombat2025.numbat.space/program/tuto... #DataScience #BusinessAnalytics #RStats

If #RStats is a bit sluggish for your #DataAnalysis needs, maybe it's time to move a few letters up the alphabet and integrate some C++ in your life. Register here: wombat2025.numbat.space/program/tuto... #DataScience

In this tutorial, you'll learn how use #QuartoDev top write reproducible reports, journal articles and presentations. Also, learn how to manage bibliography automatically, create equations and render to multiple formats with #RStats and/or #Python! More info: wombat2025.numbat.space/program/tuto...

Making effective scrollytelling visualisations is hard, but @jamesgoldie.dev 's Closeread makes it so much easier. Come learn about Closeread's design decisions and what's coming next for this great tool. wombat2025.numbat.space/program/work... #RStats #Python #BusinessAnalytics #DataViz

Are you having trouble designing a figure for your research or report? Bring it to this tutorial to learn and apply principles from graphic design and get feedback! Early bird pricing is ending soon! Register today! wombat2025.numbat.space/program/tuto... #RStats #DataViz #BusinessAnalytics

Students use #ChatGPT to do their homework, so how can teachers design effective courses so they actually learn anything at all? Register before August 31st to get early bird tickets! wombat2025.numbat.space/program/work... #RStats #AI #LLM #DataScience

If you want to organise your own personal code collection or contribute to the broader #RStats ecosystem, you can write your R package!📦️ Nick Tierney will show how to use essential tools that make creating a package a breeze. Read more and register here: wombat2025.numbat.space/program/tuto...

Join Dianne Cook and Harriet Mason to learn about visualising uncertainty in plots using #RStats. Register by August 31 for an early bird discount! 🐧 wombat2025.numbat.space/program/tuto... #DataScience #DataViz #BusinessAnalytics #DataDrivenDecisions #RStats

Registrations for the annual #WOMBAT2025 workshop are open! 🎉 Register before August 31 to get the early bird discount! 🔗 Registration & Info: wombat2025.numbat.space #DataScience #OpenSource #BusinessAnalytics #DataDrivenDecisions #RStats

We won’t even mind if you fake data, our institutions don’t much care. www.theage.com.au/national/the...

Hi folks! This is the account for the 2025 WOMBAT workshop in #Melbourne, #Australia organised by the NUMBAT group. Stay tuned for updates! wombat2025.numbat.space/

In the latest episode🎧of The Random Sample, host Cynthia Huang catches up with Dr Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz! Hadley is Chief Scientist at Posit (formerly RStudio), where he leads the Tidyverse team. This team is behind some of the most widely used open-source packages in the R programming language.

NHS has a helpful page with a set of questions you can ask your GP to ensure you receive the right treatment for your illness. Surprisingly, these questions can be applied in other fields as well. Here’s an example in applied forecasting, working with companies. openforecast.org/2025/05/28/s...

Still few days to apply !

New version of R is out! Our Data Scientist, Russ Hyde, has put together a quick review of the key features and changes in R 4.5 — from new language features to graphics updates and more. 📝 Read the full blog post here: www.jumpingrivers.com/blog/whats-n... #rstats #Rprogramming #opensource

A new Python edition of "Forecasting: Principles and Practice" is now available online at otexts.com/fpppy/. Thanks to @azulgarza.bsky.social, Cristian Challu, Max Mergenthaler, Kin Olivares & Nixtla for making this happen. #forecasting #python

"Olimpiy Kvitkin was arrested and murdered by firing squad after the 1937 census revealed the bloc’s population to be millions smaller than Stalin had claimed. Those disseminating the inconvenient data were 'enemies of the people.'" Gift link provided. #statssky #defendresearch #sciencesky

For any Portuguese-speaking forecasters: the latest translation of our #forecasting book is available at otexts.com/fpppg/ #rstats "Previsão: Princípios e prática"

Job alert 🔈 We are seeking 3 postdocs in #statistics, data science, machine learning, bioinformatics, quantitative biology or related discipline for the Analytics for Australian Grains Industry collaboration. #agriculture #databs See more information here: jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/postdoc...

A paper to read over the Xmas holiday: Wang et al. (2023) – Forecast combinations: An over 50-year review by Xiaoqian Wang, @robjhyndman.com, Feng Li, and Yanfei Kang openforecast.org/2024/12/23/a...

New #quarto poster ready for #TSF2024! My screen’s tone shifted, so less beige than planned, but still looks good I guess :( If you want to improve forecasts of multiple series, check out FLAP—our method with George Athanasopoulos, @robjhyndman.bsky.social & Anastasios Panagiotelis. #forecasting

Australian statisticians starter pack. Needs completing.

I have a new paper out on #forecasting harms: arxiv.org/abs/2411.16531 with Bahman Rostami-Tabar, Travis Greene and Galit Shmueli.

We now have a new discussion forum for OTexts books at github.com/orgs/OTexts/..., for questions about #forecasting and the software used in our books. #rstats

Quarto 1.6 is out! 🎉 Download it here: quarto.org/docs/download/ Quarto 1.6 supports unified branding across formats, updates to RevealJS, a new shortcode to reorder content, a landscape page block, and more. Blog post: quarto.org/docs/blog/po...

We have a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer position in Econometrics and Business Statistics at Monash with a focus on education: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo.... You can see more about our Business Analytics group and courses that we offer at numbat.space.

There are going to be THREE statistical demography sessions at #PAA2025! A great set of talks on forecasting, Bayesian methods, and compositions/decompositions. Get excited!

Hi, can you help me? I want to develop a model that makes risk predictions. Use logistic regression. Can I use some more modern techniques, like AI? Use a neural network with single non-hidden feed forward layer that outputs to a single dimension using a sigmoid activation function.

We’ve been working hard on next quarto version and it is coming out soon. It is already available so if you are ok to try it please do ! Feedback welcome to find the remaining bugs that could still be hidden. Thanks !

In the spirit of being new to bsky, I made a starter pack of stats/data folks in Australia If you want to be on the list or know others who should be on the list (or want to be taken off the list!) let me know :) #stats #data #rstats #episky go.bsky.app/3wERdAo

I wonder how the forecasts are being produced. Seems weirdly pessimistic. #forecasting

I thought a forecasters starter pack might be useful, but I can't find many people. This is a start. Please suggest additions. go.bsky.app/NJJseT8

If you love statistics and want to live in a tropical paradise, this might be the job for you! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/40...

If you're submitting an article to the "Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics", I've made a #quarto template based on their latex template here: github.com/emitanaka/qu...

Trying out one of these starter packs for statistics and data folks, with something of an academic lean! go.bsky.app/7TBN5rX

Here’s an #rstats starter pack for those new here go.bsky.app/Ki7PjpS

Some thoughts on #conformalprediction for #timeseries with Xiaoqian Wang robjhyndman.com/publications...

Our World in Data now has an account on Bluesky! Follow us here: @ourworldindata.bsky.social

A new #rstats package: `SAI` An AI assistant to help you save time from tedious data cleaning tasks 🧹 github.com/emitanaka/SAI

There are still spaces available for WOMBAT2024. Register at wombat2024.numbat.space

Registrations open for WOMBAT2024: wombat2024.numbat.space Bringing together analysts from academia, industry and government to learn and discuss new open source tools for business analytics and data science. #rstats #python

One for the syntax folk 🐦🐦

An update to the fpp3 package for #rstats robjhyndman.com/hyndsight/fp... Lots of new data sets

PSA: All #rstats package on #cran will get an official DOI! This will facilitate bibliometrics and giving credit to R package authors. Registering all 20,000+ packages will still take a few more days. But the first couple of thousand are already live. Example:

Talking #demography at @mpidr.bsky.social in a few weeks. demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even... #rstats

My new #rstats package for tidy demography is now on CRAN: cran.r-project.org/package=vital Hear more about it at #useR2024