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2025/12/28
Have you got a PhD in Statistics (or related field) and experience in Statistical Consulting? A continuing position at the Australian National University is now open 🇦🇺🦘🐨. Would love to get an #rstats person if possible ☺️ Apply by 18 Jan 👉 jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/course-… #statssky #statsky
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2025/12/21
Back in the top 10, baby! Eat your heart out, “#rstats is dying” thinkpieces. 😜 www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
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2025/12/14
HEY! YOU! ggdibbler 0.6.1 is finally up on CRAN! harriet-mason.github.io/ggdibbler/in… You can now pass random variables to any aesthetic in any ggplot geom/stat. If you can express it as a distribution, ggdibbler can plot it. It also works with ggplot extensions, like gganimate. #rstats
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2025/12/07
#rstats It is with profound sadness I heard that my long-time friend and colleague, John Fox passed away this week. He was the author of {car}, {effects}, {Rcmdr}, … and numerous influential books. I will miss him greatly. www.john-fox.ca
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2025/11/30
Ever wonder which international border is closest? This map divides Germany into 9 zones, showing the nearest neighbor for any given point. Germany borders more European countries than any other nation.* #30DayMapChallenge Day 22: Natural Earth #rstats #ggplot2
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2025/11/23
Congratulations to my student, Maggie Ma, for publishing her first #rstats package {ggincerta} on CRAN 🥳 Spatial uncertainty visualisation (bivariate, pixel, exceedance, glyph), like {Vizumap}, but fully integrated with ggplot2 – a much simpler API with all the advantages of the ggplot2 system.
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2025/11/16
Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don’t worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp…. genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
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2025/11/09
Happy Halloween #statsky (and #rstats)
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2025/11/02
Possibly weirded out my long-suffering colleagues with this idiosyncratic observation last week, and feel like it belongs in a meme. #RStats #Python #RIPDavidLynch
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2025/10/26
💡 Came across this nice tool today: 🎨 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 🤩 #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 → native #electron desktop app workflow now on #Windows11 shinyelectron::export() → #rshinylive → installer → 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 🤩 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 𝘴𝘮𝘰𝘰𝘵𝘩 ride into the weekend 😎 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 📦 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
🚨 Big milestone for Rdatasets 🚨 The web archive now hosts 3400+ free and documented CSV datasets. Fantastic for teaching and testing! And {Rdatasets} is a new #RStats 📦 for easy download and search Web archive: vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasets R 📦: 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