@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.

Florida weatherman John Morales explains how the drastic cuts to science and federal services would reduce his ability to predict the movements of hurricanes.

Top 15 ggplot2 extensions, by downloads during the last month. Some surprises here, at least for me. #rstats Code: gist.github.com/carl...

Yesterday, June 2, was an interesting day at work. I was reporting a story about how the Education Department hadn't delivered a report to Congress on the Condition of Education, despite the June 1 deadline mandated by law. 🧵 (1/9)

If you're interested in Data Visualization, get your ticket for the data viz conference Outlier. If you're a Data Visualization Society member, virtual tickets are only $150! www.outlierconf.com/outlier-2025...

"Improving the Teaching of Applied Statistics: Putting the Data Back into Data Analysis" from Singer and Willet jstor: www.jstor.org/stable... 👇good👍 1️⃣real data 2️⃣context info 3️⃣interesting 4️⃣teaches something real 5️⃣allows many methods 6️⃣raw 7️⃣case ID

"Signal Messenger is warning the users of its Windows Desktop version that the privacy of their messages is under threat by Recall, the AI tool rolling out in Windows 11 that will screenshot, index, and store almost everything a user does every three seconds." arstechnica.com/security/202...

📊 Uncover how a card game, "Vizionaire," transforms the way students learn data visualization by challenging them to find the perfect chart for specific scenarios. Check out the design by Alena Boucher and Christina Stoiber and read how you can play for yourself! nightingaledvs.com/cards-charts...

"Even when explicitly prompted for accuracy, most LLMs produced broader generalizations of scientific results than those in the original texts."

The journal Research in Higher Education is seeking manuscripts using data from the National Center for Education Statistics for a special issue. Please read the full call for papers here and circulate to your networks! #RIHE link.springer.com/collections/...

Come & work with me @hpi.bsky.social & @bmittelstadt.bsky.social & @cruss.bsky.social @oii.ox.ac.uk I am looking for 3 post docs on the governance of emergent tech. CS: tinyurl.com/yr5bvnn5 Ethics: tinyurl.com/yc2e2km4 Law: tinyurl.com/4rbhcndp Application deadline is 15.06.2025.

My sabbatical leave allowed me to reflect on my professional life. As I’ve stepped into more senior roles in academia (plus gotten a bit older), I often get asked: 
“How do you keep writing academic articles, policy work, opinion pieces, while juggling everything else?” My answer: skillpower 🧵

Decision-making studies appear in HCI, vis, & increasingly AI/ML, but how “good decision” is defined is often ad-hoc My #CHI2025 talk today will answer Qs like: What's a decision problem? What's the best possible performance on a decision problem? What minimum info must participants be given? 1/2

Our Annual Review of Sociology article on conceptualizing and measuring structural racism is now available. Get it while studying racism is still legal. @tyson-brown.bsky.social @pahoman.bsky.social (also, lots of great articles are in this volume). www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

As ‘bot’ students continue to flood in, community colleges struggle to respond

One thing the GPT-4o personality issue demonstrates is that treating AI like every other online product by maximizing for engagement & likeability will have unintended consequences that could cause real problems, both for the usefulness of the models & for the people using them,

87 years ago. In April 1938, Guy Callendar published the first evidence from thermometer observations that the world’s land areas were warming. He also linked the observed warming to the increase in atmospheric CO₂ from burning coal. 87 years ago. rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

If you work with Qualtrics, and want to import a file into R without the extra rows of metadata, here is one way to do that. #rstats

Someday, maybe I'll find the time to write this up in article format. #databs cghlewis.com/talk/sssp_ecf/

just wanted to remind folks that @eotarchive.org 2024 harvest is winding down & the URL nomination tool is closed. HOWEVER, there is a NEW nomination tool at eotarchive.org for the "U.S. Govt Web & Data Archive 2025". We'll continue to take url nominations there until we don't need to anymore.

Think Stats 3e is on its way to the printer! (And available to pre-order) Here's the new cover, with a suspicious-looking archerfish. Blog post with the details: www.allendowney.com/blog/2025/04...

Users of the tigris / tidycensus #rstats packages: The Census website has been blocking requests from tigris (and curl) since yesterday. (Don’t worry, the datasets are still there!) I’ve patched tigris, install with `pak::pak("walkerke/tigris@ftp-patch")` and everything should work.

Amazing variety of datasets in here!

ggplot2 is the gold standard when it comes to data visualization. The image in this post showcases examples of ggplot2 visualizations, demonstrating its versatility to create a wide range of plots with nearly limitless customization options. More: statisticsglobe.com/online-cours... #package#data

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊 📅Mar, 1628 [no day] Michael Florent van Langren presented the first statistical graph, in a letter to Isabella of Spain A simple 1D dot plot, showing the 'extravagant errors' in estimates of longitude See: bit.ly/3DXaBZJ for the story📚

📣 excited to announce a 2-year post-doc at the University of Amsterdam @rpa-cs-uva.bsky.social on government responses to displacement project w/ me, @stephrschwartz.bsky.social & Adam Lichtenheld. - Closing date 30 April, starts fall 2025. - More info & to apply: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Here is another EMV (earth movement visualization) for the M7.7 Myanmar earthquake, this time showing the waves passing seismic sensors in Europe. 🧪

If the NIH gets messed up, there is no alternative. Not just in the US, but globally. It is by far the biggest engine of health research in the world. Which is why the idea that US scientists can just do their work elsewhere is a little fanciful. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/politicizi...

Bill Gates' entire net work is 100B, and NIH budget is 50B/yr. I wish that philanthropy could make up this diff, but the truth is that govt funding for NIH is what has fueled incredib tech+innov in the US, for decades. There's no full replacement. Every $ cut from NIH = less science done

AI drafts kill original thought. How I write better papers with AI: • Ask AI to expose gaps in your methodology • Write your conclusion draft first, then ask AI to challenge it • Use AI to generate contrarian perspectives to your arguments The best research uses AI as a critic, not a creator.

New Statement from @apduorg.bsky.social on Education Research & Data. "NCES is mandated by law to report on the condition of education annually, collect and disseminate key education data, and support state and local education agencies." apdu.org?p=5812775 Spread the word #SaveEducationData

We are getting email questions about IPEDS and NCES data. Please share this information with any partners looking for Dept of Ed data. #DataRescue

I did. Because it does. techcrunch.com/2025/03/07/s...

Per @statnews.com, a group of researchers has filed a lawsuit against 6 academic publishers, alleging antitrust violations. "The need to confront what has been going on in the scientific publishing area is very overdue," said COS Sr. Director of Research Tim Errington. 🗞️: www.statnews.com/202...

Hey #RStats peeps, 9 books have been added to the collection! oscarbaruffa.com/9-new-books-...

New post focused on Education data. A data user wrote, "Many of those users are likely unaware that IPEDS is the source data underpinning the tools they use. Loss of IPEDS data would impact high school students and school staff across the country." www.datarescueproject.org/education-da...

Process spatial data and create reproducible maps with R using "Cartography with R" by Timothée Giraud. Covers R Spatial, data manipulation, thematic maps, and more. Read it at: buff.ly/sIqGXss #RStats #Mapping #DataViz #map #rspatial

I think something that uniquely positions a data manager on a team, is that a data manager is not necessarily invested in a specific analysis outcome. They are invested in making sure that you have usable data that accurately reflects your data collection effort, which is a useful vantage point.

Let's talk about this Nature piece in more detail. I've rarely read something so anti-scientific anywhere short of the National Review. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Want to recreate this plot (or generate it for other countries)? Here's a link to my script on GitHub: github.com/owid/noteboo...

It's that time of year to circulate this list of orgs for those seeking ed policy jobs/internships. Please let me know if there are opportunities/orgs I should add. Good luck out there! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

We’re excited to share the first batch of US Government websites that Webrecorder has archived as part of the @eotarchive.org initiative. They’re now available on our public collections gallery app.browsertrix.com/explore/usgo... #WebArchiving #Browsertrix #EOTarchive

📊 #psy6135 And, for those who want to try to re-make Minard's majestic plot in #rstats: 🔗 friendly.github.io/6135/tutoria... 🔗 github.com/andrewheiss/... 🔗My Minard Gallery: www.datavis.ca/gallery/re-m...

Just a reminder for anyone who receives SPSS, Stata, or SAS files but does not have licenses for these programs (🙋), you can import any of these files into #rstats and work them! My favorite package for working with these files is {haven}. haven.tidyverse.org