Giving what we can has implemented a fun game where you spin a globe to see how your starting point in life would compare if you were reborn today, randomly somewhere on earth. www.givingwhatwecan.org/birth-lottery

@dslc.io welcomes you to week 51 of #TidyTuesday! We're exploring The Languages of the World! 📁 https://tidytues.day/2025/2025-12-23 🗞️ https://glottolog.org/#TidyTuesday #RStats #PyData #JuliaLang #DataViz #tidyverse #r4ds

New, improved, typo-free meme. That's what I get for making a meme when I'm behind on sleep with a sick kiddo at home. 🫠

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

I ignored the strip.clip argument in #ggplot2 for way too long 😲 Combined with a small negative margin tweak, you can place facet labels inside each panel. A tiny trick that makes small multiples feel so much cleaner. 🔵 no manual coordinates 🔵 inherits theme styling 🔵 scales nicely when resizing

Or as I often say: Friends don't let friends use abbreviations!

In their article "Signs of Deaf Ni-Vanuatu", Jacqueline Iseli and Rachel McKee describe the sociolinguistic context of deaf people in Vanuatu who have limited opportunities to socialise together, and document signs used by 19 deaf adults across the country nzlingsoc.org/journal_arti...

New paper on lexical variation in Swedish Sign Language with Swedish colleagues. Using a combo of elicitation (in-person), survey (online) & corpus data, we look at some changes in lexical choices over time & discuss methods for measuring variation of variation #linguistics doi.org/10.16995/glo...

Yesterday I got to give a guest lecture in Dr. Hannah Lutzenberger's methods class at the Humboldt University of Berlin. It was great and I finally got to make use of this little figure from the methods chapter in my dissertation! I forgot I like explaining things #linguistics

Far down in Saloni's post, an example worthy of becoming a standard reference argument against extending the y-axis to zero (or showing full range)

Highly recommended for all mentors and advisers who work with deaf students in graduate programs: academic.oup.com/jdsde/advanc...

The {qatarcars} dataset for #TidyTuesday How do the sizes of different car types relate to the dimensions of a standard parking space? 🅿️🚗🅿️🚙🅿️🛻🅿️🚙 Code: github.com/borstell/tid... #ggplot2 #RStats #DataViz

This might be for an extremely limited target group, but if you ever need to visualize landmarks/keypoints of Mediapipe or OpenFace computer vision models, I've created simple coordinate data files for plotting in a Github repo: github.com/borstell/com...

I've always liked making bubbles in generative art 🫧🎨 #rtistry #ggplot2

Aurélia Nanna Gassa Gonga will present at the Silc Seminars next week, Thursday Dec 11th, at 14:30 Norway time on her PhD research - "International Sign Interpreting: New Evidence for a Language-Like System" Find more information here: www.hvl.no/en/research/... #linguistics

Reminder that it's the season for the objectively best bun in the world, Swedish saffron buns. Recipe: borstell.github.io/misc/saffron/

🎄 ANNOUNCEMENT: R Package Development Advent Calendar 2025! 🎄 Starting December 1st, I'm launching a 25-day journey through modern R package development. here's why you should follow along 🧵 #rstats #RPackageAdvent2025 #OpenSource

🚨 #EnvisionBOX alert 🚨 We are pleased to announce a virtual EnvisionBox Community Meeting, designed to bring together researchers who work with computational tools for processing, annotation, and analysis of multimodal data available on the EnvisionBox platform (and beyond). #multimodality

Happy to share the first version of my textbook "Quantitative Data Analysis for Linguists in R". stefanocoretta.github.io/qdal/ Comments and suggestions welcome! (on the GitHub repo: github.com/stefanocoret...) The textbook takes you from 0 to basic stat modelling with Bayesian regression.

People who use ELAN for research: What is your preferred way of analyzing annotated data? 1) Searching within ELAN 2) Exporting from ELAN and opening as spreadsheet 3) Exporting from ELAN and importing into R (or similar) 4) Other? #Linguistics

I don't know how I've missed it because it's *right on the documentation home page*, but if you use {glue} for nice string interpolation in #rstats and you have {stringr} loaded (likely through the tidyverse), you can use str_glue() instead of glue::glue() or loading library(glue) glue.tidyverse.org

This was such a cool map animation of Germany that I had to try to make one for Sweden! But with only ≈2000 towns, so some sparsely populated areas don't show so well. #ggplot2

When you think you’ve finally gotten through the last round of reviews. Reviewer 2:

🚀 Call for Papers: #DeafTech2026. We want anything on tech + deaf experiences. Deaf interpreters using captions, deaf animator & game devs, speech-to-text in daily life, sign language AI, VR/AR, media & streaming and more critical/theoretical reflections. Deadline: 8 Dec AOE www.deaftech26.eu/cfp

To all educators out there: We are trying to formulate a criterion for our exams that tackles the vagueness of LLM output and punishes it more strictly. If you recognize the issue, has anyone of you come up with a crisp operationalization of such a criterion. Also grateful for other pointers 🙏

Smeared charcoal with #ggplot2

#norge #norskforsk

Elementary, my dear Watson #TidyTuesday While the full phrase is never there (see also "Luke, I am your father" & "Play it again, Sam"), you can find "My dear Watson" multiple times across the Sherlock Holmes novels – but which lines? 🔎📖 Code: github.com/borstell/tid... #r4ds #DataViz #ggplot2

Hei! Jeg ser etter norsktalere som vil gjøre et eksperiment 🔎. Du vil se bilder og norske ord og si om de er like eller ikke. Eksperimentet tar 10 minutter og du må gjøre det på PC/nettbrett. Velg ett eksperiment og del med andre nordmenn! 🔎 1: tinyurl.com/forsk1 🔎 2: tinyurl.com/forsk2 #norsk

#TidyTuesday in the style of Chartle showing estimated incidence of TB Code: github.com/borstell/tid... #R4DS #DataViz

Purrr is great and while I can still struggle with remembering the exact behavior of map functions, {purrr} is definitely becoming a staple for my own coding

So it finally happened. I had to translate an expression from Norwegian because I couldn't retrieve it in Swedish when writing a thing (in Swedish)

Flint water samples #TidyTuesday Bootstrapped water samples for estimating proportion of samples with dangerous levels of lead Code: github.com/borstell/tid... #R4DS #DataViz #ggplot2

library(ggplot2) ggplot() + geom_density(data=data.frame(x=rnorm(1e5)),aes(x))+ geom_line(data=data.frame(x =-5:5,y=cos(-5:5)/100),aes(x,y))+ annotate("point",x=c(-.3,0,.3),y=c(.3,.25,.3),size=3) + ggtitle("Happy Halloween")+ theme_void(base_family="Rubik Wet Paint") #RStats #ggplot2

Maybe Don't Publish In predatory journals

Friday night early #TidyTuesday of British Literary Prizes. Wanted it as a bookshelf, made it into a bookshelf 📚 Code: github.com/borstell/tid... #R4DS #DataViz

Can you predict when Lou Bega's greatest hit, Mambo No. 5, was released based on the names of all the women mentioned in the song? Weirdly yes. yawpr.substack.com/p/project-a-... #databs #rstats

Since I have most of my peer reviews saved, I wanted to see some quick stats on the word length of reviews. I suspected they had gotten shorter over time, but it seems less than I thought.

Playing around with subsampling and color tweaking in #RStats and #ggplot2 Ended up with this painting-like rendering of a photo of mine from 2019 🏔🖼

UK weather data #TidyTuesday Temperature changes over time and some individual temperature extremes highlighted on map 🌡🇬🇧 Code: github.com/borstell/tid... #DataViz ##ggplot2

New paper with @ryanlepic.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1515/ling.... Our previous research showed that ✨️inherently plural meanings✨️ favor two-handed signs across sign languages, now we see that hearing non-signers also produce more two-handed forms when asked to gesture plural meanings! 👐🏼 #linguistics

The real magic is ✨️regex✨️

World Food Day #TidyTuesday FAO's data on moderate/severe food insecurity across areas of Europe 🌍 Code: github.com/borstell/tid...

In 2017, I collected a bunch of ratings for a project. The participants were a messy group and the survey tool and design were not ideal, so I always wanted to recollect better data with a better experimental design. I just did. Seems like the old ratings were pretty solid after all.

Euroleague Basketball #TidyTuesday A mini dataset, so decided to find a way to plot stadium capacity in an interesting way: went with points along the trajectory of a basketball shot! Swoosh! 🏀 Code: github.com/borstell/tid... #R4DS #DataViz

Trying to debug for much longer than needed before realizing that sample(3, 1) is interpreted as sample(1:3, 1) Could not understand what the issue was, thinking it must be my own code, but finally looked at ?sample documentation... #RStats

I just learned about the `truncate` argument in {lubridate} functions, which means NO MORE HACKY paste0(year, "-01-01") code to build dates when converting years to dates in #rstats

Distributions of endings in Swedish place names #RStats #DataViz