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Christina
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mostly football ⚽️ sometimes psychometrics 📏 views are my own | en/fr 🇨🇦
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To be effective, data science agents need to be able to read plots reliably. @sara-altman.bsky.social and I wrote about some concerning findings on LLMs' ability to interpret plots when the content contradicts their expectations on the @posit.co blog.

posit.co/blog/introdu...
When plotting, LLMs see what they expect to see - Posit
Data science agents need to accurately read plots even when the content contradicts their expectations. Our testing shows today's LLMs still struggle here.
posit.co
November 13, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Stat literacy—the ability to interpret, evaluate, and communicate about data—is essential in today’s world. In this episode, @johnbailer.bsky.social and @rompenni.bsky.social talk with Pedro Campos, Mark Glickman, and Larry Lesser about creative ways to promote it worldwide. tinyurl.com/bdzbcj2h
November 13, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Plain language is communication that your audience can understand the first time they hear or read it. This varies by audience, of course. What is common vocabulary for clergy won't necessarily be common for chemists, attorneys, or engineers. Know your audience.
November 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The Northern Super League announces figures on the inaugural season

- $75k average salary

- Top 5 women’s league globally in average attendance

- 65 different goal scorers

- More than 3 million Canadians reached on linear TV.

- $30 million in League-wide revenue
November 13, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Really annoying that Canada Soccer gives 10 mins~ notice (to the public at least) for the pre-match press conference with it being on Instagram Live with no replay option.
November 12, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Speaker announcement!

The ASI Summit is excited to welcome its next speaker, Devin Pleuler. Pleuler is the Senior Director of Research and Development at Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, where he leads the Sport Performance Lab.

Register for the Summit: 
americansoccerinsights.com/registration/
November 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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My latest blog post "From Data to Wisdom: Playing Football’s Information Game at the Right Level" explores how football clubs can move from simply collecting data to making better, evidence-based decisions.

janvanhaaren.be/posts/from-d...
From Data to Wisdom: Playing Football’s Information Game at the Right Level – Jan Van Haaren
From Data to Wisdom: Playing Football’s Information Game at the Right Level.
janvanhaaren.be
November 12, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Mo Salah completed more dribbles (5) vs Aston Villa than *the rest of his 25/26 season combined*.
5 more vs Real tonight, so 10 in 2 games matching the total from his previous 20 (twenty) #LFC appearances
November 7, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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We have a loaded lineup this year that includes @lvanden.bsky.social, @jperline.bsky.social, Gerard Cuenca (UEFA), Peter Tea (Sportlogiq), Dee Kundra (Bayern), Martha Reyna (Statsbomb), and many more!

isac.baquora.app/conference/s...
ITAM Sports Analytics Conference
The ITAM Sports Analytics Conference (ISAC) is an annual event founded by students and alumni from Mexico’s ITAM. Rooted in the belief that sports data can reshape the industry across Latin America, I...
isac.baquora.app
November 4, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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I do think defining a single league strength value to order is tricky, and probably needs breaking down into various metrics

E.g. English Champ is ranked 6th by "average" rating which is probably too high. That's more due to the depth of the league as it drops to 13th using top 5 team quality (2/2)
November 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
November 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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I wrote a lil post on the amazing work that
@ginareynolds.bsky.social does championing ggplot2 extension developers and teaching others to build their own!

The post features the Scrollytelling Quarto extension and the group's cute #RStats hex 🐱:

rworks.dev/posts/ggplot...
An Introduction to Writing Your Own ggplot2 Geoms – R Works
The ggextenders club provides inspiration and resources for those venturing into the exciting world of creating custom ggplot2 extensions.
rworks.dev
November 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Join me for "Mastering Quarto CLI: From Authoring to Publishing" 📈 5-6 Feb 2026

I'll help you master:
- Reproducible documents
- Multi-language workflows
- Beautiful publishing

Let's transform your data projects! www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

#DataScience #Quarto
Mastering Quarto CLI: From Authoring to Publishing
5th-6th February 2026
www.physalia-courses.org
October 31, 2025 at 4:52 PM
🎃
The Witch of the Westmorland
open.spotify.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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We're expanding the Club Brugge Football Data Science team. As our Football Data Scientist, you'll work with one of the most advanced analytics infrastructures in football to help management, scouting, and analysis staff turn data into better decisions.

jobs.clubbrugge.be/en/football-data-scientist
Football Data Scientist at Club Brugge
As a Football Data Scientist, you will be responsible for researching and developing advanced models and metrics for analyzing player and team performances and evaluating potential acquisitions for Cl...
jobs.clubbrugge.be
October 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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I'm super excited to give a workshop during next week's R/Pharma conference! Join me if you'd like to discuss the ✨beautiful✨ outputs you can create with #Quarto and #RStats.

📅 Tuesday, November 4 at 9 am CT

🔗 Free to register, too! events.zoom.us/ev/Ai-geyS63...
October 30, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Liverpool 541 oop at home to Palace was unique in many ways. The last time Liverpool started a match not in a back 4 at Anfield was Brendan Rodgers' last home game in charge (October 1st 2015). afaik #lfc
October 30, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Glasner yesterday. Slot goes 541 oop from the off at home, in what is damage limitation mode.
October 29, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Larnaca beat Palace 541 so Slot figured it's worth a shot under these conditions 😅
October 29, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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I'm much more used to Salah showing up on charts as the other kind of outlier

this is... quite something
Updated from last weekend/ gameweek 9. 😬
October 29, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Updated from last weekend/ gameweek 9. 😬
October 29, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Big fan of the match event illustrations from the Almanacco Illustrato Del Calcio 1984. Romania v Italy 1983.
October 28, 2025 at 4:43 PM
🗣️Glasner on long throws [28/10]
October 28, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Can you spot the difference?

If you've wondered how to get those pretty previews when you share your Quarto websites on social, you need to enable `open-graph`.

Docs: quarto.org/docs/website...
October 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM
🗣️Pereira 24/10/25 #wwfc
October 24, 2025 at 3:40 PM