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2025/10/26
๐ก Came across this nice tool today: ๐จ qualpal for algorithmically choosing maximally distinct colors under certain restrictions #dataviz JOSS paper, online tool, R package #rstats joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21…
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2025/10/19
Ross Ihaka: The Open-Hearted Data Hero #rstats www.historyofdatascience.com/ross-ihaka-t…
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2025/10/12
If you’ve ever wanted to learn how to make beautiful websites with #QuartoPub and #rstats , check out this workshop I’m giving in a couple weeks! It’ll be a blast (and we’re covering Quarto’s brand new _brand dot yaml system!)
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2025/10/05
Did you know that the A in FAANG stands for Ambiorix? (and the R is for #rstats) github.com/ambiorix-web…
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2025/09/28
The new ggplot2 4.0.0 now supports absolute plot dimensions ๐คฉ #rstats #dataviz #phd
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2025/09/21
I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It’s not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats
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2025/09/14
By request: Same #rshiny app โ native #electron desktop app workflow now on #Windows11 shinyelectron::export() โ #rshinylive โ installer โ app.exe [Worth the Parallels license to record this from my Mac] Still no #rstats dependencies for end users. Living the cross-platform life (virtually).
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2025/09/07
Excited to announce that our paper with @pingfanhu.bsky.social and Bogdan Bunea on our #rstats package {surveydown} is now published in @plosone.org The paper compares the benefits of using a code-based approach to survey design, leveraging #quarto and #shiny journals.plos.org/plosone/arti…
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2025/08/31
It’s official, I’m the Vice President of the Statistical Society of Australia ๐คฉ It’s nice to get this vote of confidence, so here’s to the next four years of leadership and making the SSA as friendly and welcoming as I can #statssky #rstats #databs
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2025/08/24
#rstats #statistics I’ve released my new open source book, “Powered by Linear Algebra: the role of matrices and vector space in data science,” at matloff.github.io/WackyLinearA…. Turns the classic LA course on its head! Still proves the theorems, but with a deep emphasis on applications.
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2025/08/17
#rstats So chuffed! I printed the first PDF copy of my book to see what it might look like in print! It will be printed in full color! Visualizing Multivariate Data and Models in R On the whole, looks good, but lots of tweaking to do. It weighs in at ~440 pgs., so perhaps some cutting needed.
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2025/08/10
We are an #rstats lab now. Still a #julialang dev, but we are officially exiting the Python-first mindset after a year of trying to make it work for our lab.
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2025/08/03
Wishing you all a ๐ด๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ ride into the weekend ๐ rafalab.dfci.harvard.edu/dsbook/smoot… #rstats #stats
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2025/07/27
I work with the best people… Gift from a colleague because I am sticking it out at work. I think my #rstats and #tidydata rants have made an impact!
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2025/07/20
#tidyverse purrr 1.1.0 is out - now with parallel processing! Scale your #rstats map operations reliably and efficiently across multiple cores and even distributed systems. Powered by the mirai framework, this unlocks new levels of performance. Read more at: www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/07…
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2025/07/13
{tinytable} is a dead simple, ultra-flexible, and dependency-free #Rstats ๐ฆ to turn data frames into beautiful tables: html, word, pdf, latex, typst, markdown, etc. v0.10.0 has cool new features and important bug fixes. Check out the detailed tutorials at: vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/
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2025/07/06
Gosh, I am so lucky. I’m so incredibly lucky to share a community with such smart, giving, kind, & funny data people. I’m so lucky to feel like I belong. Whatever you do, help someone feel this way, too. Spread this warmth. You can do it. It’s up to you! And me. And us. #databs #rstats #pydata
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2025/06/29
ICYMI githistory.xyz is a great way to navigate #git commits and visualise how a file has been changing across commits Just replace github.com with github.githistory.xyz in the URL and enjoy! #rstats
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2025/06/22
Bleeding edge update for the #tidyverse purrr package with even more seamless #rstats parallel maps. Introducing our shiniest new adverb:
in_parallel(). Just wrap your function to take advantage of blazing fast parallel processing via mirai. pak::pak(“tidyverse/purrr”) purrr.tidyverse.org/dev/
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2025/06/15
๐จ Big milestone for Rdatasets ๐จ The web archive now hosts 3400+ free and documented CSV datasets. Fantastic for teaching and testing! And {Rdatasets} is a new #RStats ๐ฆ for easy download and search Web archive: vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasets R ๐ฆ: vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasetspkg
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2025/06/08
I’m on a podcast! I had a blast talking with @lucystats.bsky.social and @epiellie.bsky.social on @casualinfer.bsky.social! We cover all sorts of fun things: {marginaleffects}, defining estimands, fixed vs. random effects, & how to teach all this stats stuff in accessible ways #databs #EpiSky #rstats
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2025/06/01
I’ve recently learned about some handy {tidyverse} functions I didn’t know about, so I thought I’d compile them (and some other favourites of mine) into a blog post. Let me know your favourite functions! #rstats benharrap.com/post/2025-05…
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2025/05/25
I wrote about learning R as a humanities studentโhow intimidating it felt at first, how I got past the fear, and what these tools can actually do for our work. hallieknipp.net/2025/05/06/c… #DigitalHumanities #GradSchool #RStats #HumanitiesCoding #AcademicLife #DigitalHistory #dh
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2025/05/18
NSF grant cuts for this week’s #TidyTuesday Code: github.com/gkaramanis/t… Map by @donnermaps.bsky.social of @the-downballot.com at the-db.co/maps #RStats #dataviz
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2025/05/11
Once again, Australian election results prove how awful choropleth maps are for data visualisation. “Land doesn’t vote, people do.” #rstats code to reproduce animation here: github.com/emitanaka/oz…
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2025/05/04
Happy reinstalling-all-your-R-packages day to all those who celebrate #rstats
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2025/04/27
Thing I just learned in #rstats: unz() lets you connect to a .zip and load files from inside it without actually unzipping it (great for a file I’m working with that’s 30 MB zipped and 1+ GB unzipped, with multiple CSVs in it)
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2025/04/20
New version of R is out! Our Data Scientist, Russ Hyde, has put together a quick review of the key features and changes in R 4.5 โ from new language features to graphics updates and more. ๐ Read the full blog post here: www.jumpingrivers.com/blog/whats-n… #rstats #Rprogramming #opensource
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2025/04/13
The #tidyplots paper shares what went into shaping the package โ including the controversial bits ๐ doi.org/10.1002/imt2… #rstats #dataviz #phd
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2025/04/06
Made a little something to help students quickly convert between wide and long data for my (no-code) viz class. Helpful for when Datawrapper or Rawgraphs insist on a particular format for certain chart types. Built with #svelte and #rstats using webR! pivotteer.netlify.app