I'm starting to think that the ease of use in our apps can inadvertently lead to a friction to engage.

We don't have to linger on anything that challenges us, or even consider it for too long as we simply just rush past it to the next dopamine hit.

Which leads to optimising for apps like Sora.

Thanks to everyone who responded to my question about what folks should know about using LLMs to generate #rstats: I've summarised the feedback with a few of my thoughts at gist.github.com/hadley/77d42...

New blog post since @posit.co's Positron is out of beta: Positron is great for code, but macOS has better programs specifically for writing with Markdown. I found a neat way to quickly open a Quarto file in an external program like Typora with VS Code Tasks. www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/07...

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

Great job alert: ProPublica is hiring a computational journalist, "someone who will use technology and data to identify and unlock stories that would otherwise be out of reach."

Salary: $120K-$140K
Remote: ✅

Come join us!

In Georgia, a mom facing eviction reached out to DFCS for help. They offered her nothing. Soon the agency took her kids away because of "inadequate housing."

The state then paid *$6,200 a month* to house her kids in foster care.

One of the most important and infuriating stories I read this year:

For years, I've wanted to create an #rstats package bringing the power of Mapbox to R users.

After a few failed attempts, I finally got {mapgl} over the finish line in 2024 (with some help from #GenAI).

Get started with an interactive globe in one line of R code, and build from there!

Had not realized that R (>=4.0, per StackOverflow) provides selective function loading. Nice way to avoid naming conflicts.

Instead of barfing a package's entire namespace into your environment when you don't need to:

library(stringr, include.only = c("str_extract", "str_remove"))

#rstats

New book version up!

solomon.quarto.pub/sr2rstan/

This is the {rstan} sibling to my {brms} translation of
McElreath's 2nd edition. The 0.0.2 version now has drafts of Chapters 1 through 12.

#rstats

Friends! I need some assistance with a BIG release of gtsummary! 🙏

I would be super appreciative if you could take the new version for a spin before we send it off to CRAN.
Release details here: bit.ly/gtsummary-v2

#rstats #datascience #gtsummary #cran

I'm 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅 to be speaking at #useR2024 next week.
How to Interpret Statistical Results with the marginaleffects 📦 for #RStats
Here’s a pre-recorded video on Youtube in case you can’t make it youtu.be/ANDC_kkAjeM
Let me know if you're in Salzburg and want to chat!

Amber: Programming language compiled to Bash (amber-lang.com)

Main Link | Discussion

🚨New publication in Behavior Research Methods!🚨

We review outlier detection methods and how to achieve them in R using #easystats' {performance} 📦.
Check it out!

📄paper: doi.org/10.3758/s134...
📃preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
💻performance: easystats.github.io/performance/...

#stats #rstats

It was really hard for me to write this post. It made me feel really vulnerable. Please click through, and help if you can! #RStats #TidyTuesday

i'm a stats phd candidate and i'm looking for a job!

- i have extensive #rstats package dev experience
- i care a lot about writing and communicating clearly
- i specialize in network data and causal inference

#stats #datascience #jobs

www.alexpghayes.com/resume/