Love coming across new libraries that are sharing Data Management in Large-Scale Education Research as a resource, especially along with other great resources like this one from @kbriney.bsky.social! www.uwyo.edu/libraries/se...

I had the terrific fortune to meet @cghlewis.bsky.social in 2022 and her book is SUPER and anybody working in education research should get themselves a copy 💪🏼

Data Management in Large-Scale Education Research by Crystal Lewis #RStats https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/workflow.html#data-management-in-large-scale-education-research

This was such a struggle, but it's finally there! After struggling with graphql for a good while, not only is meetupr now ported to httr2, has a comprehensive test suite and proper OAuth handling, it's finally on CRAN! rladies.org/meetupr/ #rstats #rladies

Created new work in at least in 20 new ways.... hedgehoglibrarian.com/2025/10/27/2...

Data Humans! 🎉 I made a quick end-of-year survey with Qs our #DSHangout community chose: tools you use, how you use AI, what’s changing in DS, how you get unstuck, & even cat vs dog 🐕 ❤️ 🐈‍⬛ If you’re a #databs #rstats #pydata person, join in: pos.it/hang25bsky Haven't attended the DSH? NA as needed!

Planning a friendly intro to dbt for the 1st DS Lab of the year w/ Michael Chow, & the question came up of who the episode will be for. It'll rock for anyone curious about #dbt & data eng, obvs, but if you're a dbt pro, it will be a chance to come help others learn!! #databs #rstats #duckdb #pydata

Exclusive: A World Bank report on obesity trends with at least 14 fake references in the text has been removed from the website and is being reviewed by the organization following a Retraction Watch inquiry.

Best way to validate that in input is a valid date in #rstats? Note - valid date not necessarily valid date format. Eg 2025-02-30 should return an error even though it’s in yyyy-mm-dd format.

I would love to know if people have other go-to resources for how to build a data entry/collection tool that is well thought out and leads to good data!

This year especially, I feel grateful to have been able to continue working as a data management consultant. I took some time to summarize a few of the noteworthy things that happened for me in 2025 in this blog post. I hope 2026 is a great year for all of you! cghlewis.com/blog/year_20...

Join our Replicability Project: Health Behavior! We have 55 replication studies underway, our target is 65-70. We are only recruiting for secondary data replications--i.e., using existing data to test the original question. Here's a list of studies we think could be feasible. If interested...

Not wanting to disappoint you so much that it lies is the last quality I want in a computer.

There *are* legitimate use cases for this kind of stuff! Simulation studies! Synthetic data for a preregistered analysis plan prior to an actual study! But this isn't being marketed as that. It's advertised as a cheaper, faster alternative to humans. Temu we-have-results-at-home survey results.

Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)? Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"

You! Yes you, the one reading this. Why aren't you subscribed to RDM Weekly yet?

Issue 26 of RDM Weekly is out! Including: ➡️ Open Science Bingo @sortee.bsky.social ➡️ Don’t Panic: A Researcher’s Guide to Replication Packages @i4replication.bsky.social ➡️ Creating DMPs that Meet Funder Requirements @dmptool.bsky.social and more! Link: rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

For those on the job hunt, I recently came across this newsletter: Jobs for Social Scientists. A newsletter put together by an individual who just wants to help others find work. anthrotechana.substack.com/about

Great to see a position like this advertised

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

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. 🫠

Ditto scholarly publishing.

if i have data files nicely organized like `[participant]/[visit]/[task]/[files]`, then is there a better way to parse it than this? files |> str_remove(dir_parent) |> stringr::str_match( "/(?<participant>[^/]+)/(?<visit>[^/]+)/(?<task>[^/]+)/(?<filename>[^/]+)" ) |> as.data.frame()

Favourite books from Taylor Routledge? Already have @vincentab.bsky.social ‘s book in my basket

This is another example of why the first online panel of my upcoming course on R/stats for environmental scientists has a link to Crystal Lewis

Not sure where to start when creating a data dictionary for your project dataset? I've got a simple template available that provides examples of fields you may want to include. It also includes an example completed data dictionary for reference. osf.io/e5g6t/files/...

Recently we had @drkjwilliams.bsky.social come speak with our Data Management Hub about how she uses Asana to organize her project management. Making tool use a "habit" is the key to gaining real benefits. See examples of how Kelly uses Asana to manage work in her slides. osf.io/ap3tk/files/...

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

I accidentally missed a credit card payment last month. I've never done that. So I decided to reach out to the company to see if they would be willing to refund the penalty if I paid the bill today and they did! I'm saying this out loud to say, it never hurts to just try and ask for something.

I see that all the R girlies (laudatory) are excited about %notin% so I have to ask, is there already a better/more idiomatic way to say !is.na()? Because that is by far my most used awkward criterion...

Issue 25 of RDM Weekly is out! 📬 It includes: ➡️ Make Your Open Data More Useable @collin-schwantes.bsky.social ➡️ PIDs 101 - Webinar @sparcopen.bsky.social ➡️ Cleaning Medical Data with R @pipinghotdata.com ➡️ Lab Manual Template @martonkovacs.bsky.social rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

Here is a fairly obscure bit of Excel weirdness. column A is the weekday() function with return type 2 for Monday start of week. But to have conditional formatting highlighting the row using a Formula rule, I needed a rule to match 1 & 7, because conditional formatting sees the default return.

🚨New blog post: Replicators, rejoice! Episode 1 of the new series is out: “A New README.” A practical guide to transforming messy project folders into clear, well-structured documentation that strengthens transparency and reproducibility. See more at i4replication.org/dont-panic-a...

A reminder to all that the deadline for bursaries for the new Sonraí microcredential (Introduction to Data Stewardship) is Friday 12th of December at 5pm. If you are thinking of doing this course, please do get in touch!

I just want everyone to know that if we are connected on here, I’m rooting for you. For your career, your creative endeavor, your happiness, whatever you are chasing. I hope it happens for you!

I'm trying out a Quarto website for my blog! What do you think? #rstats eringrand.github.io/new_blog/pos...

The 1980s called, they want their headlines back. www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Opening a new dataset for cleaning.

Many of us need to keep writing federal grants (both for political reasons and as a Hail Mary to keep people employed) despite the feeling it's a waste of time, so... if you got an NSF or NIH grant funded this year, would you mind bragging about it in the replies, so it feels like the odds are >0%?

Voluntary retraction remains a key way to put scientific self-correction into practice. Zhu and Holmes (2024) did the right thing when they realized that some of their results were based on a coding error. Original: psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202... With retraction: psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Every week is takes me 4 or so hours to put the RDM Weekly newsletter together and every week I'm like, "What am I doing with my life?" 😅 But also, every week as I finalize the newsletter, I end up saying, "Yes, this is awesome! I think someone is going to find some real gems in here this week!" 🙌

Survey experiments' popularity in political science is getting attention. What is good and bad about them? How can one maximize their benefits and mitigate their downsides? Greg Huber and I wrote up our thoughts: Paywalled: doi.org/10.1016/bs.h... Free: m-graham.com/papers/Huber...

A public dataset I am currently working with has these rules: - Blank if a count is suppressed - The entire category is missing if the count is 0 In comes #rstats tidyr::complete() to make those implied categories (with counts of 0) explicit!

If you're an ECR who has done great work to promote open research, please consider applying for this excellent award! I recieved this earlier this year and my minifig sits proudly in my office 😊 A great way to recognise ECR contributions!

For folks who do pharma/biotech consulting work: how did you get started?

We will still consider applications submitted today and tomorrow!

It’s publication day for “The Data Management Workbook”! 🎉 If you want to improve your data management but don’t know how, this is the book for you. It contains 24 hands-on exercises to customize data management strategies to fit in your research workflows. 📚 pelagicpublishing.com/products/the...

Ideally timed for the 2025-12-25 market. Congratulations @kbriney.bsky.social!

RDM Weekly Issue 24 is out! - Philosophical Issues in Open Qualitative Research @oercommons.bsky.social - Existence of Stealth Corrections in Scientific Literature - Why Open Science is Just Good Science in a Digital Era @heidiseibold.bsky.social and more! rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...