#PugetSound high tide

sorry for those who missed out. i had a nice little Rapture yesterday, a wonderful Côte de Provence to be exact.

always

for my outside-the-USA-peeps: this is how bad politics is this year

I think… we tried this once… and we agreed… that we weren’t doing it again.

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the meme is 👨‍🍳 💋

Having seen how the British act in Europe makes me understand the history and current state of America much better

it’s up there, Bob! what is?!? where I last saw my goddamn compass!

wow

My book Cultural Analytics in R: A Tidy Approach has just been published! It showcases how tidy data can be used in cultural analytics workflows, from text analysis, machine learning, network science, etc. Check it out: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #tidyverse #rstats #digitalhumanities

My definition of "tech debt" is "somebody else's problem," and the trick is to make sure that "somebody else" isn't actually just "future you."

python environments something somethings

yep

#rstats sorry 😅

what is it with nutrition research?!?

Narrator: they were totally fucking up with their own agenda

one of my favorite freshman science class student projects involved potato canons 😂

got my 🦠💉!

AI is going GREAT! substack.com/inbox/post/1... (apologies for a substack link but it's a good post)

In my field there is a huge enthusiasm for "AI" to provide clinical decision support when the fact of the matter is that the clinical decisions we actually have evidence to support can be modeled with rules that could be deployed on a tamagotchi.

p-values will now be known as fisher-values

The readablility of a regex is measured in millisecond-post-write, if I remember correctly.

📊#rstats #dataviz I have two possible designs for the cover image for my multivariate visualization book. One is an abstract design of and ellipsoid and vectors in 3D space, the other a fancy 3D scatterplot of the Penguin data. Which do you think I should go with? Why?

Even 10 years in, doing stats can still feel like a Sisyphean task. Except the hill is really steep. And it’s more of a U than a hill, so I can repeatedly get flattened from both sides.

Canada has fully approved Moderna’s 2025-2026 COVID19 vaccine.

If you would like to be a speaker for my Workshops for Ukraine series, you can send me a DM or email me at [email protected] Looking for speakers for 2-hour weekly workshops starting end of October on #RStats, #Python, data science, #dataviz, methods in #EconSky, etc.

Stayed up real late last night trying to figure out how I’m going to explain to a group of clinical researchers that their DV, although ‘numeric’ is probably best modeled as beta distributed. And I decided that I’m just gonna fake my own death, as that would involve less hassle/frustration.

The paper about splines in R that I wish I had known about when I was learning splines in R. bmcmedresmethodol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

well, crap

anybody have favourite resources on longitudinal / time-series modeling in R they'd like to share? tutorial papers, primers, fancy web tools, best practices, etc

so when the author list is all MDs, you know that statistical shenanigans are likely within

This is my shocked face

We are looking for some community feedback on 3 new dplyr functions! - replace_when() - recode_values() - replace_values() New tools for recoding (think, lookup tables!) and replacing (think, replace `-99` with `NA` in `col`) in the tidyverse - I'm pretty excited about these!

everyone who does computer hates doing computer the point of being a wizard is to *not* do magic if you have to do magic you fucked up

i am simultaneously sad for the future and happy i haven’t been a professor since well before all this shit

Happy Friday 🌍! We are giving away one copy of 'Spatial Linear Models for Environmental Data'. To enter, simply follow me and re-post this by the end of Sunday, August 17. #spatial #environment # #data #StatsSky routledge.com/9780367183349 not associated with bsky

Since I quit my tenured academic position a few months ago I have talked with a lot of people who have made the transition from research/teaching into #rstats data roles. I am keen to hear more stories! Tell me... What you left: What you do now: What has surprised you most:

i don’t normally quote-dunk but cannot believe we are still doing “statistics as a flowchart” in 2025 😭

i REALLY wanna do this but i have a can’t miss work meeting 😭

Not sure how little ole me got @rmkubinec.bsky.social, @chelseaparlett.bsky.social and @matti.vuorre.com to write a thing with me, but it happened! We wrote a Beta tutorial showcasing Beta and extensions of Beta (like ordered Beta). A preprint is available here: osf.io/preprints/ps....

Once, just once, even for 5 minutes, I want the confidence of a reviewer who denigrates the MLM choices I’ve made but based on the comments is likely a clinician who has literally no idea what an MLM is or does.

📢 NHS-R Community Webinar - August 📢 Don’t forget to register for our August webinar, ‘An Improved I Chart’, with the amazing Jacob Anhøj and Mohammed A Mohammed at 13:00 (UK Time) tomorrow! 📆 Click on the link below to register! 😊 events.teams.microsoft.com/event/9e3dea... #RStats

New paper in @annalsofim.bsky.social "50 ways to misinterpret clinical prediction models for treatment decisions” --> Published version: www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/... --> Open access version: arxiv.org/pdf/2402.17366

480+ people. 1 free course. Tomorrow we dive into Generalised Linear Models for Ecologists — accessible, practical training from PR Stats. See what’s next: www.prstats.org/courses/ #DataScience #Statistics #Ecology #LifeSciences #ResearchTraining #GLM #RStats #Biostatistics #QuantitativeEcology

I just learned about nightshade: A filter for images that "poisons" AI training by passing misleading feature information. #rstats does anyone know if this also works on plots? I'd be very happy to put this on figures in papers if it means AI has a harder time scraping my work.

Change my mind: with current statistical software there is no need to report t/z statistics for frequentist NHST tests. Just show me the p-value, people rarely need to look things up in tables so just skip ‘em, you won’t lose anything.