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Stats, surveys, R, and dogs. www.practicalsignificance.com
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Mike Hixenbaugh
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Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.
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Kyle Walker
1 day ago
Announcing spopt-r: spatial optimization for regionalization, facility location, and market analysis in R. My all-time favorite Python package is PySAL's spopt - and until now, it did not have an R equivalent. Get started here:
walker-data.com/spopt-r
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Elizabeth Stuart
2 days ago
Great opportunity to join us at JHU!
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Thomas Lumley
2 days ago
#rstats
blogdown/netlify users: you might have received an email saying your site will go away because something something prerendering. If you go to the check link in the *comments* of the linked page (not the one in the text) it will likely tell you there's no problem because your site is static🎉
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Andrew Mercer
2 days ago
Pew Research Center just posted a brand new opening for a Data Archivist! This is a 2-year, grant-funded position housed within the methods team (the best team obv). Check out the link below for a full description and to apply!
#openscience
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Data Archivist
Position Summary Pew Research Center is seeking a Data Archivist to support our commitment to open science and data transparency. This newly created role will play a key part in enhancing the accessib...
https://pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CenterExternal/details/Data-Archivist_R003046-1
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Ariel Edwards-Levy
2 days ago
This looks like fun for somebody!
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Marshall Burke
3 days ago
Excited to share a new R package: 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘁 🌡️ `heat` makes it easier to work with climate or other gridded data in applied research, providing a comprehensive + optimized set of tools to compute environmental exposures for admin boundaries or points from gridded/point data.
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GitHub - echolab-stanford/heat: R package heat: Harmonized Environmental Exposure Aggregation Tools
R package heat: Harmonized Environmental Exposure Aggregation Tools - echolab-stanford/heat
https://github.com/echolab-stanford/heat
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Theresa Kim, PhD, MS
4 days ago
The 2026 Joint Statistical Meetings are in Boston August 1-6, 2026. The Survey Research Methods Section is still accepting applications to the student paper award until 2026/01/15! Please share with your networks!
#statssky
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Survey Research Methods Section 2026 JSM Student Travel Award Application
Please click the link to complete this form.
https://amstat.jotform.com/team/sections-and-interest-groups/SRMS_Student_Travel_Award_2026
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Everything about these sentences and photos is just cartoonishly insane
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Tim Onion
6 days ago
The way the press is treating chatbots, like they have agency and they “know” things all of a sudden, crossed the line recently from dumb and obsequious to something else entirely. Treating them as alive and making conscious decisions is an almost religious belief. It won’t age well.
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Dariia Mykhailyshyna
28 days ago
❗️Our next workshop will be on Jan 8 , 6 pm CET titled Inference for non-probability samples with nonprobsvy package in R by
@mberesewicz.bsky.social
Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine! Details:
bit.ly/3wBeY4S
Please share!
#AcademicSky
#EconSky
#RStats
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Scott Imberman
6 days ago
I dropped Spotify a long time ago because they signed an exclusive contract with Rogan. Looking like a good choice.
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Kyle Walker
8 days ago
2025 was a massive year for me as an R developer. This past year I've branched out and focused on bringing interfaces to some of the most exciting geospatial technologies to the R community. Here's a summary:
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Rafael H. M. Pereira 🚡 Urban Demographics
9 days ago
Working with big spatial data sets in
#rstats
? You should try {duckspatial}. The dev version of
#duckspatial
(soon on CRAN) uses
#duckdb
to perform super fast and memory efficient spatial operations
cidree.github.io/duckspatial/...
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Ariel Edwards-Levy
10 days ago
lol
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Brian Stelter
10 days ago
"What Americans in a 1998 poll expected to happen by the year 2025..."
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Cara Jackson
10 days ago
This !@#$% year in review: the wrecking ball that was February 2025 brought the abrupt end to many Institute of Education Sciences contracts for data collection, evaluation and research.
www.brookings.edu/articles/cut...
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Cutting research funding would make education less effective and efficient | Brookings
Presidents of education research associations explain the impacts of recent funding cuts to the Institute of Education Sciences (IES).
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/cutting-research-funding-would-make-education-less-effective-and-efficient/
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Josh Persi
11 days ago
Hey folks! I built a Canadian trade database to practice what I'm learning about DuckDB. The database includes all Canadian imports and exports from 1988 to present as per Statistics Canada. Here's a blog post I wrote with more details:
joshpersi.github.io/blog/posts/0...
#rstats
#duckdb
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A Canadian trade database built with DuckDB – Josh Persi
https://joshpersi.github.io/blog/posts/03_duckdb_trade_database/
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John Holbein
14 days ago
DOGE was A LOT less likely to cancel contracts from companies that donated money to Republicans than companies that donated to Democrats.
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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham
15 days ago
In seriousness X is really bad and a lunatic controls the algorithm and people’s social temperature there. I do not understand why people keep using it.
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The Upshot
16 days ago
On DOGE’s watch, federal spending did not go down at all. It went up. But is still led to cuts that closed offices, canceled programs and deprived people of food, medicine and other aid.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
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How Did DOGE Disrupt So Much While Saving So Little?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/us/politics/doge-musk-trump-analysis.html
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Brady West
17 days ago
We are hiring a Research Assistant Professor within the Survey Methodology Program, located in the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research. Click on the link below for more details, and join an outstanding group of faculty!
apply.interfolio.com/179362
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https://apply.interfolio.com/179362
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Excited to see this post by Heather Turner with more details on their recent RSMF grant for enabling future contributions to R. I'd encourage
#rstats
folks to give it a read: there are some much-needed modernisation ideas in here.
blog.r-project.org/2025/12/17/r...
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RSMF: Enabling the Next Generation of Contributors to R - The R Blog
https://blog.r-project.org/2025/12/17/rsmf-enabling-the-next-generation-of-contributors-to-r/index.html
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Cameron Patrick
18 days ago
is there a good citation discussing recent Gelman/Vehtari/etc style choices of prior? like what's on the Stan wiki but in the form of an academic paper?
github.com/stan-dev/sta...
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Prior Choice Recommendations
Stan development repository. The master branch contains the current release. The develop branch contains the latest stable development. See the Developer Process Wiki for details. - stan-dev/stan
https://github.com/stan-dev/stan/wiki/Prior-Choice-Recommendations
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Ben Harrap
18 days ago
There's still space on the starter pack! If you're a statistics/data science or adjacent person living in/are from the pacific region and you want to be added, just let me know (DMs are OK)
#statssky
#datascience
#databs
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Kevin Collins
22 days ago
A reminder, no one is making you use his AI-slop-filled, disinformation vector of a social media site and rewarding him for his campaign of mass death. If you use X, you should feel bad about that and make more moral life choices.
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Any
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rtists (or admirers) out there selling or sharing prints? I’m also in the market for stats-related or generative art prints for an office space
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Mark Rieke
23 days ago
New Research Paper Shows 90% of US Adults Don't Know How Many R's Are In The Word "Strawberry"
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈
24 days ago
I don’t use social media to argue about politics with strangers. I use social media to talk to people about fish. When I talk about fish on Bluesky, people ask me questions about fish. When I talk about fish on Twitter, people threaten to murder my family because we’re Jewish.
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Tim Onion
25 days ago
Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it. They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
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Kelly Bodwin
28 days ago
Yes but this month our random number generator is winning and therefore we must feel superior, have you learned nothing from The Sports.
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R Consortium
28 days ago
R Consortium applauds the R Foundation & R Core on receiving a major new investment in R’s future. More than $650K (£499,981.21) over 24 months for “Enabling the Next Generation of Contributors to R,” modernizing infra, governance & mentoring new contributors!
www.software.ac.uk/rsmf-round-1...
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RSMF Round 1 Projects | Software Sustainability Institute
Round 1 of the Research Software Maintenance Fund awarded just under £3 million to 13 projects selected for their potential to deliver high impact, value for money, feasibility, and quality. The funde...
https://www.software.ac.uk/rsmf-round-1-projects
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Aki Vehtari
28 days ago
All the material for my Bayesian Data Analysis course is available online, including the lectures, which we re-recorded this fall (some of them by
@aloctavodia.bsky.social
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avehtari.github.io/BDA_course_A...
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Bayesian Data Analysis course - Aalto 2025 – Bayesian Data Analysis course
https://avehtari.github.io/BDA_course_Aalto/Aalto2025.html
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Ella Kaye
about 1 month ago
I wrote a long thread about contributing to base R, highlighting the resources and opportunities provided by the R Contribution Working Group.
contributor.r-project.org
#RStats
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Nick Tierney
30 days ago
Is there an
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best practices for including a shiny app in an R package? I see
mastering-shiny.org/scaling-pack...
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github.com/daattali/ddpcr
by Dean Attali (couldn't find his handle!) - just curious on understanding best practices, bunding data, app, and the www folder etc.
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Chapter 20 Packages | Mastering Shiny
If you are creating a large or long-term Shiny app, I highly recommend that you organise your app in the same way as an R package. This means that you: Put all R code in the R/ directory. Write a...
https://mastering-shiny.org/scaling-packaging.html
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Better Things Are Possible
about 1 month ago
One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
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Rodger Sherman
about 1 month ago
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Andrew Heiss
about 1 month ago
Some closing thoughts for my students this semester on LLMs and learning
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datavizf25.classes.andrewheiss.com/news/2025-12...
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Kelly Bodwin
about 1 month ago
Huge thanks to
@posit.co
and hosts
@mchow.com
and
@wesmckinney.com
for having me on The Test Set!!!
posit.co/thetestset/e...
My favorite part was learning that I've been pronouncing "pandas" correctly all along. I've never felt more vindicated. And y'all are wrong about candy corn. 😜
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Episode 11 : Kelly Bodwin — Quarto hacks, AI in the classroom, and why R should stay weird - Posit
https://posit.co/thetestset/episode/kelly-bodwin-quarto-hacks-ai-in-the-classroom-and-why-r-should-stay-weird/
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Libby Heeren
about 1 month ago
We're getting a native R %notin%!! "after many years of private definitions mostly hidden in packages" 😂😂
#rstats
#databs
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We really need a word for this phenomenon of guys feeling the need to use podcasting to justify hanging out
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Mattan S. Ben-Shachar
about 1 month ago
Okay, I just did this and it is soooo worth it!
#rstats
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Jonathan Ladd
about 1 month ago
There have been question-wording survey experiments almost since the dawn of modern polling. Modern technology also lets you give a text or video treatment in the context of a "survey." Still, I think this might be a temporary era of cheap respondents ended by AI's that can beat attention checks.
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CAMERON WILSON
about 1 month ago
The man who inspired Australia's teen social media ban literally did this:
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Vittoria Elliott
about 1 month ago
SCOOP from me +
@makenakelly.bsky.social
: despite recent reports, DOGE isn’t dead—it’s actually everywhere.
@wired.com
www.wired.com/story/what-i...
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DOGE Isn’t Dead. Here’s What Its Operatives Are Doing Now
Contrary to popular reports, DOGE has “burrowed into the agencies like ticks,” government sources tell WIRED.
https://www.wired.com/story/what-is-doge-doing-now/
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Jen Jennings
about 1 month ago
Miracles are for Sundays. Monday through Friday, improving public schools requires 1% solutions, sweat, and shoe leather. Old schoolers remember the baller 1990s move in states testing in grades 4 and 8: retain 3rd and 7th.
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Thomas Lumley
about 1 month ago
In which horses are more common than zebras and this isn't a reason to oversample
notstatschat.rbind.io/2025/12/01/h...
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Horses or Zebras? - Biased and Inefficient
https://notstatschat.rbind.io/2025/12/01/horses-or-zebras/
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Thomas Lumley
about 1 month ago
For the avoidance of doubt: does svyglm() use robust standard errors? Yes!
notstatschat.rbind.io/2025/12/01/d...
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Does svyglm use robust standard errors? - Biased and Inefficient
https://notstatschat.rbind.io/2025/12/01/does-svyglm-use-robust-standard-errors/
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