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Malcolm 朝精 Barrett

@malcolmbarrett.malco.io

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Ph.D., epidemiology. research software engineer @ Stanford Health Policy. living in Ann Arbor. open-source data science. causal inference. doing poems on aircrafts. approximately Bayesian. formerly Posit, Apple, AmeriCorps. 心を燃やせ。sic semper tyrannis. .. more

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Malcolm 朝精 Barrett @malcolmbarrett.malco.io · Jul 9

Link broke! Here is the current link: www.r-causal.org/chapters/04-...

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 1d

now for the traditional eating of the christmas tree

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 6d

Scooby doo mask reveal meme.
Top panel: intriguing, mildly counterintuitive story.
Bottom panel: the villain is revealed — collider bias

Malcolm 朝精 Barrett @malcolmbarrett.malco.io · 6d

all my writing is trending toward good

Malcolm 朝精 Barrett @malcolmbarrett.malco.io · 6d

72.49530001

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Pictures of Nixon @picturesofnixon.com · 11d

not the kind of behavior I expect from the winner of the fifa peace prize

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 11d

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

Malcolm 朝精 Barrett @malcolmbarrett.malco.io · 13d

the word about %notin% is out baby

Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 15d

Back in the top 10, baby!

Eat your heart out, "#rstats is dying" thinkpieces. 😜

www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

TIOBE Index - TIOBE

www.tiobe.com

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 15d

Back in the top 10, baby!

Eat your heart out, "#rstats is dying" thinkpieces. 😜

www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

TIOBE Index - TIOBE

www.tiobe.com

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We Are R-Ladies @weare.rladies.org · 16d

The ability to specify colours with a 3-digit hex (e.g. "#12A" as equivalent to "#1122AA"). It was the first patch I was involved with, so it's especially dear to me! It's also makes changes to C code.

github.com/r-devel/r-pr...

With @oberman.bsky.social @malcolmbarrett.malco.io @gws.phd

3-digit hex colors · Issue #74 · r-devel/r-project-sprint-2023

Discussed in #73 Originally posted by pmur002 August 30, 2023 A post on fosstodon suggests adding support for "#RGB" colours in R (in addition to existing "#RRGGBB" colours. This may not be an urge...

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Malcolm 朝精 Barrett @malcolmbarrett.malco.io · 16d

hold on, I didn't get visited by one last year. Am I now obligated to provide a spirit?

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Mark D. White, Brian Keegan , and 2 more Anna O. Law, Mark D. White, Brian Keegan, Barrett, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 17d

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop, John Kennedy, James P. Collins , and 26 more Dorothy Bishop, John Kennedy, James P. Collins, Ken Caldeira, Hugo Mercier, Johannes Haushofer, Philip N. Cohen, Martin Paul Eve, Pierre Bataille, Rebecca Sear, Paul E. Johnson, Ian Hussey, Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Climent Quintana‐Domeque, Aaron Sojourner, Andrew Livingstone, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Dominik Vogel, Barrett, Bruce Bradbury, Zen Faulkes, Richard Pettigrew, Johannes Breuer, Marcus Credé, Richard M. Carpiano, Hisham Zerriffi, Juan Ramón, Michael Scharkow, Fiona Spooner

Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 17d

Big new blogpost!

My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more.

--> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...

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R for the Rest of Us @rfortherestofus.com · 17d

Want your Quarto PDFs to actually look good?

Use Typst's "set" rules for global text formatting and "show" rules to target specific elements like headings.

Mix fonts, colors, sizes et cetera to make those reports pop!

See full tutorial: buff.ly/uMXvUzR

#rstats #quarto #typst #dataviz

Malcolm 朝精 Barrett @malcolmbarrett.malco.io · 17d

honestly the most important discovery here is the similarity between air jordan and lambda. I don't think I'll be able to unsee that

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We Are R-Ladies @weare.rladies.org · 17d

Today I'm talking about contributing to base R 💻

Are you curious about how to improve the language we love, at its core?

This is a thread for you!

#RStats

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 17d

oh yea

the jumping orange cat is labeled the supreme court majority, and the clueless chilling tabby cat below is “a thriving productive society”

Malcolm 朝精 Barrett @malcolmbarrett.malco.io · 17d

Luckily, I’ve had a fever for two days. My brain is cooked, but I make a great heater

A brown tabby snuggling in bed with a sick human

Malcolm 朝精 Barrett @malcolmbarrett.malco.io · 17d

Winter is an affront to all cats

A brown tabby sitting in front of a heater vent

Reposted by Michael Barnett, Will Lowe, Barrett , and 1 more Michael Barnett, Will Lowe, Barrett, Ondřej Mottl

Ben Harrap @bharrap.bsky.social · 20d

%notin% coming soon to an #rstats environment near you 🤩

developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/...

Daily News: R-devel/NEWS

developer.r-project.org

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Jeremy Labrecque @jeremylabrecque.bsky.social · 22d

People rarely check the positivity assumption but I’d say 5% of the time it shows something strange is going on that we wouldn’t have caught otherwise.

Malcolm 朝精 Barrett @malcolmbarrett.malco.io · 22d

startup idea: invent a shipping status email that says "your package hasn't shipped yet but we got the order" instead of "your order has shipped!"

Malcolm 朝精 Barrett @malcolmbarrett.malco.io · 23d

My gramma always said if you want to sleep better have a glass of warm milk and time-order your dag

Malcolm 朝精 Barrett @malcolmbarrett.malco.io · 24d

that is why I am hoping to make that the default layout in ggdag sooner than later!

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Al Sweigart @alsweigart.bsky.social · 24d

There's a video course that follows the "Automate the Boring Stuff with Python" book on Udemy. Here's a free sign up code for lifetime access: inventwithpython.com/automateudemy

Automate the Boring Stuff with Python Programming Course

A practical programming course for office workers, academics, and administrators who want to improve their productivity.

inventwithpython.com

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ᴅʀ. ᴍᴏᴡɪɴᴄᴋᴇʟ'ꜱ @drmowinckels.io · 26d

🎄 ANNOUNCEMENT: R Package Development Advent Calendar 2025! 🎄

Starting December 1st, I'm launching a 25-day journey through modern R package development. here's why you should follow along 🧵

#rstats #RPackageAdvent2025 #OpenSource

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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 26d

I am challenging The Grinch to a debate

Malcolm 朝精 Barrett @malcolmbarrett.malco.io · 26d

Andrew have you considered that perhaps you made too many pies

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Data Science Renee @becomingdatasci.bsky.social · 27d

Small Business Saturday is a great time to shop at independent bookstores!

You can buy my book through one of them via Bookshop:

bookshop.org/p/books/sql-...

SQL for Data Scientists: A Beginner's Guide for Building Datasets for Analysis

A Beginner's Guide for Building Datasets for Analysis

bookshop.org

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 27d

Finally got around to switching my in-browser #rstats R Primers website to use the newer better-supported #QuartoPub Live extension, which will now let me eventually add nicer inline feedback someday

- Free primers site: r-primers.andrewheiss.com
- Extension: r-wasm.github.io/quarto-live/

Screenshot from the R Primers website showing live R and ggplot code being run in the browser

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