Some people think that 'the null is never true' is a killer argument against p values. It isn't. If you believe this, test against a meaningful null - e.g., r > 0.1, instead of r > 0. Moving to range predictions is a big improvement - also if you like p values. doi.org/10.1177/1745...

Every day is a good day for sharing one of the most useful papers about research data ever written. PLEASE get your people to understand and follow this advice. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This animated globe by @tylermorganwall gives us a rather immersive view of global population. I particularly love how clear the "empty hemisphere" appears.

We spent a year asking: how do stakeholders actually evaluate open research infrastructure? The answer wasn't checklists. It was trust — and one universal non-negotiable: data sovereignty. New from IOI: Our full report from the MoCHI project. investinopen.org/blog/buildin...

This fun interactive tool allows you to draw circles anywhere in the world to see how many people are around you. A 3km circle around my home in Melbourne shows that I have almost 84,000 people nearby I can annoy in person with my maps! Play with the tool here: buff.ly/GcGnreL

This map visualizes the follower pattern of Bluesky users. My little map and data account is in the same cluster as news pages, geopolitics, journalists, but also great accounts like @chazhutton.com - have a play with the tool here: buff.ly/xLEkH0x

A really fun dataset for this week's #TidyTuesday, looking at how people interpret different probabilistic statements 📊 There's so many aspects of this to visualise, but I decided make some barcode plots comparing how people from the UK and US responded! #DataViz #RStats #ggplot2

Americans Are Overschooled This post is an essay I recently published in Kappan.  Here's a link to the original. I also presented these ideas in a talk.  Here's a link to the PowerPoint slides of that talk. The story is in the title.  See what you think. Americans are overschooled By David F.…

“GenAI is like an unreliable and sloppy employee, they can make your life easier but also much harder. Always double check their work”- my podcast w/Stern we dicuss the environmental impact of AI, bias, AGI &science fiction, workplace automation & the future of education www.stern.de/wirtschaft/d...

Universities Give Away Knowledge and Sell Degrees This post is a piece I wrote a couple years ago.  I tried unsuccessfully to publish in five different venues and gave up, so I'm posting it here.  It is also republished in my book, Being a Scholar. I focus on an issue that I've been thinking about…

A success story for a physician with Alzheimer's which, in spite of the obstacles outlined, is a precursor for our enhanced ability to prevent the disease in the future gift link www.wsj.com/opinion/i-ca...

#rstats A new package, {CASIdata}, provides the datasets from Efron & Hastie, _Computer Age Statistical Inference_ for teaching and learning. friendly.github.io/CASIdata/

dplyr 1.2.0 is out now and we are SO excited! - `filter_out()` for dropping rows - `recode_values()`, `replace_values()`, and `replace_when()` that join `case_when()` as a complete family of recoding/replacing tools These are huge quality of life wins for #rstats! tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...

Ever walked down bookstore aisles and had a strange feeling that something's changed? Our web developer Jonathan did, and he decided to investigate. 🕵️ 📚 ☄️ www.datawrapper.de/blog/science...

Upcoming deadline -- AERA Open invites submissions for a Special Topic Collection. The deadline for abstracts is February 1, 2026. www.aera.net/Portals/38/1...

Some academic publishing contract advice: make sure your contract specifies 1. a qualified human copyeditor will copyedit on the MS; 2. a qualified human proofreader will proofread the MS; 3. that production must have a proper system for version control (!).

hivemind, i'm curious how you are dealing with llm/vibecoding in recruiting undergraduate research and masters RAs ..... so far the range has been pretty wide in terms of way overconfident use vs. being able to leverage tools to move along at a fairly effective pace

I’ve been thinking about how to find R packages by functionality when you don’t already know the package name. So over the holidays, Claude Code and I built The Warehouse: a functionality-first R package directory that helps you find packages by what they do. rwarehouse.netlify.app #rstats

Issue 30 of RDM Weekly is out! 📬 ➡️Mapping Public OA K-12 State Education Data @alexjbowers.bsky.social ➡️ A New Tool for Measuring Metadata Completeness ➡️ Ten Simple Rules on How to Write a Standard Operating Procedure ➡️ Please Switch to Python and more! rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

We mapped 3,822 public open-access K–12 education datasets across 7 states + D.C. using FAIR data principles and the National Academies’ 16 indicators. 🗺️📊 Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable First cross-state FAIR mapping at this scale. doi.org/10.7916/c0jk... call-ecl.wceruw.org

#TodayinHistory #datavis 📊 📅 Jan. 13, 1832 John Frederick W. Herschel reads a paper on the orbits of revolving double stars. He explains a graphic method to interpolate among "imperfect observations", establishing the essential ideas of the scatterplot. www.datavis.ca/papers/frien...

📊 The data visualization field is undergoing a fundamental shift from simply presenting information to fostering active, participatory conversations with diverse communities. Erica Gunn explores how this transition is redefining the purpose and impact of the craft. nightingaledvs.com/info-plus

This is one of my favorite ways to visualize #SeaLevelRise... With another year of verified water levels at Key West behind us now (as of today), here's the updated version of this chart I've been making for the past decade or so. 🧪🌊 [1/3]

What movie remakes are most common? And how much do we like them, compared to originals? Our developer Julian sets out to tell fact from fiction in the movie remake world. 👀 🎞️ 🍿 www.datawrapper.de/blog/movie-r...

The fact that a train (!!!) can travel under ideal conditions at over 600km/h is unbelievably amazing to me. Also, I had no idea that Indonesia would pop up in the top 10 list!

ANNOUNCE: #dataviz #rstats #psy6136 📊 This winter I'm teaching a new instance of my course on Categorical Data Analysis, featuring analysis and visualization methods for frequency data and model-based methods (loglinear models, logistic/Possion regression).

The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.

Interested in a fully-funded #datavis PhD with training? Applications for our 2nd cohort of PhD students at Diverse-CDT open! We're keen to diversify the sector, encouraging anyone with enthusiasm for using 📊 to make change, even if you've not considered PhD study before: diverse-cdt.ac.uk

"less than 48 hours since the product was released, people within the Post have flagged what four sources described as multiple mistakes in personalized podcasts. The errors have ranged from relatively minor pronunciation gaffes to significant changes to story content"

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

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

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

Some closing thoughts for my students this semester on LLMs and learning #rstats datavizf25.classes.andrewheiss.com/news/2025-12...

Big new blogpost! My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more. --> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...

Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds. "In almost every region, the top 1% was wealthier than the bottom 90% combined, the report found, with wealth inequality increasing rapidly around the world." www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

AERA Open invites submissions for a Special Topic Collection focused on understanding the complex processes that shape engagement, participation, & long-term persistence in STEM pathways across K–20 and workforce contexts. The deadline for abstracts is February 1, 2026. www.aera.net/Portals/38/1...

Got to experience the "this paper completely made up research by me" phenomenon a couple weeks ago when reviewing a manuscript and it was so demoralizing. What are we doing here, people?!

Have you ever run into problems when a project stops working because a package was updated? The renv R package makes it easy to create isolated project environments, so your code always runs with the same package versions it was written with. More: eepurl.com/gH6myT #datascientists #statisticians

If you want your work to be reproducible, you have to remember that others don't have the insider knowledge you have. You have to be explicit. This morning I was able to recreate a file made by someone else because they explicitly documented their definitions, calculations, and their assumptions. 🫶

New post on our efforts to back up the NCES Datalabs tables. Big thanks to all of the volunteers involved in backing these up! #DataRescue www.datarescueproject.org/nces-datalab...

We get asked all the time about how people can get involved to protect public data. @prbdata.bsky.social has compiled a list for you! We agree that "even small actions" can help!

A pretty entertaining gallery of misleading visualizations + discussion www.vislies.org/2024/gallery/ (already a year old, but I only discovered it through this year's VIS conference)

Really excited to share this new paper on "Data Visualizations as Propaganda", co-led by PhD students Priya Dhawka and Nina Lutz, which just won a Best Paper award at the CSCW conference: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... [Short thread]

@amstatnews.bsky.social is launching a citizen science effort to monitor the health of the federal stats system. We ❤️🛟 citizen science efforts 😉 Get involved today! docs.google.com/forms/d/1jI4...

Interrupting the usual #datavis #rstats broadcast: 📰ANNOUNCE: Big Day here -- 📘📗📕 ✔️Finished final editing and tweaks on my book ✔️re-built PDF & web versions, ✔️clicked SEND to forward to my editor. ✔️Published the online version ✔️DONE, for now: Visualizing Multivariate Data and Models in R

{tinytable} 0.14.0 for #RStats makes it super easy to draw tables in html, tex, docx, typ, md & png. There are only a few functions to learn, but don't be fooled! Small 📦s can still be powerful. Check out the new gallery page for fun case studies. vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/vi...

Data Science in Education Administration, Policy, and Practice from @alexjbowers.bsky.social academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/...

How can #DataScience help schools improve? 📊 Despite huge investments in #EdData #Dashboards, evidence shows weak links to student outcomes. We need a new approach. #EdPolicy #SchoolLeadership #EdResearch 👉 Preprint: doi.org/10.7916/amq5...

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

I agree with this so much! LLMs can "save you time" writing code, reading, and writing - which are all things I like doing! Spending less time doing those things doesn't feel like that much of a win.