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Emi Tanaka
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Statistical Data Artist & Scientist at Australian National University 🇳🇿 Interested in mixed models, experimental design, plant breeding 🌱, bioinfo 🧬, data vis 📊, statistical practice, ML/AI 👩🏻‍💻 Dabbles in UI, UX, front-end & #rstats 📦 dev

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Emi Tanaka @emitanaka.org · 7d
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
Course Coordinator - Canberra / ACT, ACT, Australia
Classification: Academic Level BSalary package: $121,598 – 137,870 per annum plus 17% superannuation Terms: Full-time, Continuing (flexible arrangements, job share, or part time hours will be consider...
jobs.anu.edu.au
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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
Course Coordinator - Canberra / ACT, ACT, Australia
Classification: Academic Level BSalary package: $121,598 – 137,870 per annum plus 17% superannuation Terms: Full-time, Continuing (flexible arrangements, job share, or part time hours will be consider...
jobs.anu.edu.au
December 19, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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Prettier R manual coming soon 😁✨
Change to css
December 10, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Had a fantastic time at #BIBC2025 in Canberra 🌿
Shared my work on Bayesian Ordinal Regression for Crop Development 📊 Big thanks to @emitanaka.org for organising such a great event 🙌 Grateful for support from GRDC, AAGI, CCDM & Facey Group 🌾 The morning coffee tasts sooo good!☕ #IBS #Statistics
December 5, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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Michael is sure to become a future leader in the Aussie ag stats space. Great to see the next generation rising up! #BIBC2025
michaelmumford.bsky.social Michael Mumford @michaelmumford.bsky.social · 23d
Last week I had the honour of presenting my PhD research on the development of a statistical model for the multi-enviornment trial analysis of agricultural count data at the Australasian Region Biometrics conference in Canberra. #BIBC2025 #Statistics #biometrics
December 3, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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tslumley.bsky.social
R Dev Days Dec 16/17 at Auckland *and remote* for people interested in contributing to the code and documentation of base R, or to infrastructure that supports such contribution.

Because timezones, there are morning and afternoon streams, join either or both
pretix.eu/r-contributo...
December 2, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Wow workflow getting some recognition in research! Well done to @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social editors for making this happen!

Now only if exists in other domains as well… (c’mon ag stats)
methodsinecoevol.bsky.social Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 24d
We have a new article type!! 🚨 🌍 🧪

Workflow articles will describe the design testing, and analysis of the performance of complex workflows.

Find our more about workflow articles in our new blog post and in our authors guidelines.

Blog post 👉 buff.ly/R7vcuqT
Author guidelines 👉 buff.ly/VUfAt3x
December 2, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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End of a great week at @biometricsociety.org.au -
still in awe of the tote bag (with a zip!) and compostable tag 💙
November 28, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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My paper "Examining the Interface Design of Tidyverse" is now published in ANZJS. This paper calls attention to the importance of UI/UX principles & approaches to statisiticians and #rstats developers.

Many thanks to reviewers who made this paper better!

🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...
the UI design principles and the two UI approaches
November 23, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Looking forward to next week as we kickstart the Biometrics conference!

We’ve also got an explicit printout of the Pac-Man rule to make it a welcome and inclusive event 🤗

#BIBC2025
Conference signs
November 21, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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Friends of Stats: The U. of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Statistics needs your help. The university's Chancellor submitted a FINAL proposal today for budget cuts (budgetprocess.unl.edu/final-budget...) that eliminates the department. 1/ #LNK #Nebraska #Huskers @amstatnews.bsky.social
Final Budget Reduction Plan | Budget Process | Nebraska
budgetprocess.unl.edu
November 11, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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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.
exceedance plot ggplot(nc) + geom_sf(aes(fill = duo_exceed(value, sd))) bivariate plot ggplot(nc) + geom_sf(aes(fill = duo(value, sd))) glyph plot ggplot(nc) + geom_sf_glyph(mapping = aes(v1 = value, v2 = sd)) pixel plot ggplot(nc) + geom_sf_pixel(mapping = aes(v1 = value, v2 = sd))
November 16, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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The conference bags + the goodies, designed by our LOC member, Yidi, have arrived for Biometrics in the Bush Capital and it's absolutely gorgeous 🤩

Final registration by this Friday 7th Nov 2025 👇

🔗 biometricsociety.org.au/conference2025

#BIBC2025
Conference bag, notebook and pen
November 4, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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Coming to the Biometrics in the Bush Capital meeting & need a little R&R? 🌿

🚨 Our social activity sign-ups closes this Friday! 🚨

Whether you want to get out and see the wildlife 🦘, enjoy fine wines 🍷or stretch your legs 🚶, we hope you will enjoy your time in Canberra.

🔗: bit.ly/4oSSMwL
November 3, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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Registration for the Biometrics in the Bush Capital meeting is closing in just over one week!

We have an incredible line up of workshops and talks and hope to see you in Canberra soon!!

Register here!
membership.biometricsociety.org.au/event-6157046
October 28, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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tslumley.bsky.social
Statisticians of Melbourne and environs!
I will be giving a talk (the Belz Lecture) next Monday, 2pm, Melbourne Uni.

The title is "Laws and Orders"

The lecture is free but they want you to sign up. There's also an early career stats showcase with lunch that costs
www.statsoc.org.au/event-6288035
October 21, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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Fantastic job @fontikar.bsky.social & @weihaolipatrick.bsky.social ! Beautiful slides and well explained statistical concepts — you both have amazingly high standards 😍
Patrick presenting about generalised linear models Fonti presenting about the problem
October 21, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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Happy World Statistics Day 📊😄

We should remind ourselves how statistics has been and continues to be fundamental to data driven approaches.

It’s been appalling to hear about the undermining of stats, eliminating stats programs (UTS, UOW, UNL.. 😡) and thinking that AI/ML is a replacement for it.
emitanaka.org Emi Tanaka @emitanaka.org · Oct 19
Ahead of World Statistics Day (20/10), @isi-official.bsky.social has released an official statement: "No Statistics, No Deal"

In celebration, SSA has a webinar tomorrow, featuring @bharrap.bsky.social + more:

www.statsoc.org.au/event-6365055

#WorldStatisticsDay #DataForDevelopment #TrustInData
No Statistics, No Deal Statistics are more than numbers; statistics are society’s mirror. Without reliable statistics, democracy falters, markets waver, and citizens lose the means to hold power to account. Reliable figures on growth, jobs, inflation, health, environment and education allow people to judge for themselves, based on impartial evidence rather than political spin. When statistics vanish, speculation fills the gap — and trust disappears. Statistics underpin international scientific cooperation in fields ranging from vaccine innovation to climate research and sustainable development by providing accessible and shared sources of evidence. When their integrity is undermined, mistrust can spread across borders. An attack on statistics and science in one country can quickly become a political export, replicated elsewhere by actors with similar objectives.
October 19, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Ahead of World Statistics Day (20/10), @isi-official.bsky.social has released an official statement: "No Statistics, No Deal"

In celebration, SSA has a webinar tomorrow, featuring @bharrap.bsky.social + more:

www.statsoc.org.au/event-6365055

#WorldStatisticsDay #DataForDevelopment #TrustInData
No Statistics, No Deal Statistics are more than numbers; statistics are society’s mirror. Without reliable statistics, democracy falters, markets waver, and citizens lose the means to hold power to account. Reliable figures on growth, jobs, inflation, health, environment and education allow people to judge for themselves, based on impartial evidence rather than political spin. When statistics vanish, speculation fills the gap — and trust disappears. Statistics underpin international scientific cooperation in fields ranging from vaccine innovation to climate research and sustainable development by providing accessible and shared sources of evidence. When their integrity is undermined, mistrust can spread across borders. An attack on statistics and science in one country can quickly become a political export, replicated elsewhere by actors with similar objectives.
October 19, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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This was supposed to be a quiet release, so I can refer to it in my upcoming talk, and I wasn't expecting many likes for this article. Thank you for your interest ☺️

A summary to come out when the paper is hopefully accepted 🤞
October 15, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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I wrote a paper about "Examining the Interface Design of Tidyverse" 📝

TL;DR to follow in future 😊

arxiv.org/abs/2510.10382
Examining the Interface Design of Tidyverse
The tidyverse is a popular meta-package comprising several core R packages to aid in various data science tasks, including data import, manipulation and visualisation. Although functionalities offered...
arxiv.org
October 14, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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Congratulations to @weihaolipatrick.bsky.social for having yet another paper published!

"Automated Residual Plot Assessment With the R Package autovi and the Shiny Application autovi.web"

doi.org/10.1111/anzs...
Automated Residual Plot Assessment With the R Package autovi and the Shiny Application autovi.web
Visual assessment of residual plots is a common approach for diagnosing linear models, but it relies on manual evaluation, which does not scale well and can lead to inconsistent decisions across anal...
doi.org
October 9, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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tslumley.bsky.social
Ok so "top statistician breaks silence" is up there with "worthwhile Canadian initiative" as a headline, but you still might want to read it
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Top statistician accuses government of spinning rock art science
A scientist who quit a major study on WA rock art is accusing the government of downplaying findings linking damage to heavy industry.
www.abc.net.au
October 2, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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Very excited to be reunited with @ellakaye.co.uk + Heather Turner to help out in the #RDevDay! Lots of small wins with @emitanaka.org and others on making R manuals pretty, a continuing project I worked on at last years R Dev Day in Austria 🫶
September 12, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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A pleasure to present research and the analytics projects for the Australian grains industry to the UTokyo Lab of Biometry and Bioinformatics 🌾

Fantastic to also listen to the lab’s students present their crop analytics work 🫛🇯🇵

Bonus: the food is so good here 🤤

anu-aagi.github.io/news/posts/2...
Presenting to the UTokyo Lab of Biometry and Bioinformatics
September 9, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Honored to be Highly Commended for The Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Programs that Enhance Learning under the leadership of Alice Richardson as part of Statistical People of Knowledge and Experience (SPOKEs) 🎖️

learningandteaching.anu.edu.au/development/...
The Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Programs that Enhance Learning
September 4, 2025 at 2:22 AM