Thinking about odds ratios... An odds is a ratio of events to non-events. For example, if the event is survival, the odds of survival is the number of survivors per death. If the event is getting a disease, the odds is the number of diseased individuals per healthy individual.

New paper: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New article: Children’s Perception of the World of Technology: Through the Lens of Heidegger Children found technology distracted them from connecting with nature, relating to others and themselves @drjessicahamer.bsky.social supported by @nuffieldfoundation.org link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Teachers! Send us your computing girls! Online - so all welcome Please share 👇 www.kcl.ac.uk/events/unloc... @crestem.bsky.social @peterejkemp.bsky.social @drjessicahamer.bsky.social @jobrodie.bsky.social

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

If you are preparing your bachelor statistics course and would like to add optional material for students to better understand statistics on a conceptual level (see topics in the screenshot) my free textbook provides a state of the art overview. lakens.github.io/statistical_...

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I’m about halfway through this update (first 11 tutorials are done). I think they’re a lot better. Using a consistent @easystats.github.io workflow throughout will - I think - massively reduce the cognitive load for students. Looking forward to road testing in autumn term.

When teaching at UCLA, I always start with this principle: “All models are wrong, but some are useful.” The key is knowing how a model is wrong—bias, variance, scope—and when it still adds value. #DataScience #MachineLearning #AI #RStats

Today is my annual reminder that read_csv() is vectorized and you can just pass a vector of file paths and it will read and append the datasets. No need to use map or for loops to read in multiple files. #rstats

US CS degrees 1964-2022, female uptake getting better for bachelor degrees (peak 1984), MA and PhD have never been as well balanced as now (from a low base) #rstats #DataScience #python #csed #edusky

when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet

Running a workshop tomorrow on reproducible workflows in R at the King's Open Research Summer School. 📽️ Slides: ewancarr.github.io/reproducible-r 👩‍💻 Practical: ewancarr.github.io/reproducible-r/practical Mildly terrified that Git on Windows will be my downfall—but we'll see. 😅 #rstats #opensci

#tidyverse purrr 1.1.0 is out - now with parallel processing! Scale your #rstats map operations reliably and efficiently across multiple cores and even distributed systems. Powered by the mirai framework, this unlocks new levels of performance. Read more at: www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/07...

New version 0.3.1 of tidyplots.org now on CRAN 🚀 🍒 Paired comparisons in `add_test_*()` 📋 Selected comparisons in `add_test_*()` 🌍 Global options for all tidyplots 🐣 New `add_ellipse()` function 👀 Functions to rename, reorder, sort, reverse now end in `*_levels()` #tidyplots #rstats #dataviz #phd

A short #rstats post about generating quarto syntax (e.g., for wrapping several plots in a tabset) within the R code chunk itself. I am entirely unsure if this is useful. Some feedback would be appreciated

At Posit, we've been busy making async first class within #RStats with mirai. Now it's time to make High-Performance Computing a first class option for distributed computing within mirai! mirai 2.4.0 includes a cluster launcher for: Slurm, SGE, Torque, PBS, LSF. shikokuchuo.net/posts/27-mir...

Bleeding edge update for the #tidyverse purrr package with even more seamless #rstats parallel maps. Introducing our shiniest new adverb: `in_parallel()`. Just wrap your function to take advantage of blazing fast parallel processing via mirai. pak::pak("tidyverse/purrr") purrr.tidyverse.org/dev/

This is how you can sort data in #tidyplots 🏆 #rstats #dataviz #phd

Thanks to everybody who chimed in! I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist. So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>

🚨 All staff for NSF’s Division of Equity for Excellence in STEM (EES) have just been fired. In email to grantees: “the entire Division of Equity for Excellence in STEM has just been dissolved and the entire staff fired.” High time for scientists, public, Congress, YOU to take action to #SaveNSF

New unhinged #rstats rant about NSE just dropped: 🔗 kbodwin.github.io/paRticles/po... tl;dr - some cute (?) tricks for iterating over unquoted columns see below to skip the stream-of-consiousness blog and go straight to code snippets

TIL: The 2000s piracy PSA used a font designed by the fantastic Just van Rossum, whose brother Guido created the Python programming language.

📚 How Does Ofsted Spell "Shakespeare" and its derivatives? There is debate over how William Shakespeare—the only writer in England's National Curriculum(?)—spelled his own surname. Even his gravestone (Shakspeare) differs from his wife’s (Shakespeare). Today, we’ve largely settled on "Shakespeare"

The MA STEM quantitative methods in educational research module started a few weeks ago and students are already producing lovely work in R using ggplot and PISA 2022 data. First is a post from Jon Snell on home studying and maths scores: richardabrock.github.io/mastemquantb...

👀 jcarroll.com.au/2025/02/13/b...

real time deepseek 32B on a M4 Max 36GB RAM #rstats

#libreoffice what's up with your spell checker?

AI & other digital skills are important for jobs... But we call for a rethink around the computing curriculum in England to ensure it serves ALL young people. SCARI Computing recommendations here: scari.sites.er.kcl.ac.uk @peterejkemp.bsky.social @billybwong.bsky.social @mcopseyblake.bsky.social

So (according to PISA 2022), children in England are marginally more likely than children in other countries to say that they can write computer programs. Interesting position for Wales, which leads the UK pack, but doesn't have the same CS focus that England has had for the last 10 years

von Neumann was asked what it would take for a computer ... to think and behave like a human being. He said that it would have to grow, not be built. He said that it would have to understand language, to read, to write, to speak. And he said that it would have to play, like a child.

1. Bill Gates 2. Alan Turing 3. Steve Jobs 4. Elon Musk 5. Mark Zuckerberg 6. Jeff Bezos 7. Ada Lovelace 8. Stephen Hawking (a renowned physicist) 9. Grace Hopper 10. Charles Babbage www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Quantitative methods in the context of education research by Peter EJ Kemp, Richard Brock, Amy O’Brien, Carla Finesilver, Lulu Healy and David Pepper #RStats https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/field%20specific.html#quantitative-methods-in-the-context-of-education-research

regex _with_ stringr, surely :)

New publication by @billybwong.bsky.social @peterejkemp.bsky.social @mcopseyblake.bsky.social and I, on the dominance of entrepreneurial white men as the famous faces in computing and tech for young people: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @nuffieldfoundation.org #WIASN

As Government considers how to tackle the SEND crisis, experts have begun to look to other countries for inspiration The work of @scastrokemp.bsky.social may be of help to ministers - she is heading up a 2-year investigation of SEND practice in 9 countries👇 www.politicshome.com/thehouse/art...

#rstats solution to #adventofcode day 1. github.com/plukethep/Ad...

PISA creativity summaries with UK regions listed. Scotland winning! #rstats #pisa

Hi, so I've spent the past almost-decade studying research uses of public social media data, like e.g. ML researchers using content from Twitter, Reddit, and Mastodon. Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵

As a statistics PhD student, I helped PhD students in other departments with their data analyses, and discovered that most of the challenges weren't fitting statistical models.

📢 "Cracking the code: exploring student attitudes towards coding in secondary education" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Interested in how we can make sure ALL young people leave school with the digital skills they need? Read our report: scari.sites.er.kcl.ac.uk

schoolsweek.co.uk/excessive-20... #TeacherEducation #TeacherMentoring good decision. Labour listening to advice from the sector. More please.

Hi Folks, another batch of Young Animator of the Year Winners: younganimator.uk/winners Morgan, veteran of @3Dami won the 3D animation prize: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4211... Congratulations to everyone! Next year's event hopefully being announced soon!

The winners of the Young Animator of the Year UK Animation Awards 2024 were announced this week at the Manchester Animation Festival, showcasing extraordinary talent from young animators across the United Kingdom. www.animationmagazine.net/2024/11/youn...