Jose M Sallan
jmsallan.bsky.social
Jose M Sallan
@jmsallan.bsky.social
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Economics 20%

Aesthetics evaluation control in #ggplot #Rstats
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Aesthetics Evaluation Control in ggplot
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My Quarto #rstats tip for big/complex papers is to set up R scripts that do data processing/modeling & save plots/outputs as RDS files. The Quarto can then load the RDS file & make any modifications to the ggplot2 object before plotting. This avoids unwieldy long Quarto docs /w complex caching.

Impact of COVID Lockdowns on Barcelona Air Quality
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#rstats

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If you see emojis in my R code, it definitely wasn’t ChatGPT, it was me, because I’m cool and young

In predictive modeling, we use spatial resampling to evaluate how the model performs in different regions of the space. Here is an example with spatialsample in the #tidymodels framework.

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Here is an example of explainable machine learning models (decision tress, random forests and regression) using the #tidymodels #Rstats framework in an important problem: predicting cat adoption:

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Explainable Machine Learning Models
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#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊
💀May 1, 1772 Gottfried Achenwall died in Göttingen, Germany 🇩🇪

1748: First use of the term "statistik,'' meaning numbers of the state. Some call him the 'father of statistics'
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Gottfried Achenwall - Wikipedia
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LLMs hallucinating nonexistent software packages with plausible names leads to a new malware vulnerability: "slopsquatting."
LLMs can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything
: Hallucinated package names fuel 'slopsquatting'
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Plotting age pyramids with ggplot #rstats

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Richard M. Zhlubb

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A rare colour photo graph of a young Samuel Beckett.

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Oedipa Maas

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An early draft of CRASH by JG Ballard, circa 1971.

And a toy example of stochastic project planning with PERT graphs

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Deterministic and Stochastic Project Planning
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Using the triangular and PERT distributions with the mc2d package:

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Triangular and PERT Probability Distributions
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Some work I have done on Monte Carlo simulation in #Rstats:

Analyzing a Lottery:

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#np Can - Live in Keele 1977

Good morning, DM.
I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own!

Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚

Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!

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💫Released on this day 1974💥

#musicsky #musiciansky
#progrock

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A very rare picture of author Roberto Bolaño, circa 1973.

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Peter Sinfield, King Crimson’s original roadie, lyricist, lights operator, and live sound engineer died yesterday, 14th of November 2024 aged 81.
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Came across this fun #rstats package from @nrennie.bsky.social that turns clean datasets into messy ones. github.com/nrennie/messy

Pareto Front in Multicriteria Optimization using #Rstats and #rPref

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I'm a bit late, but see this Elsevier output:

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#TodayinHistory #datavis #Onthisday #OTD 📊
💀Mar 14, 1884 Adriano Balbi died in Padua, Italy 🇮🇹

1829: The first comparative choropleth thematic maps, showing crimes against persons and crimes against property (with Andre-Michel Guerry)

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Nice example of justifying your alpha level in practice, from a conversation with colleagues yesterday. When deciding whether or not to ask a colleague if they are pregnant, set your alpha level to 0.

Watts and Strogatz modelled the small-world property starting from a lattice network (high clustering coefficient C, high average path lenght L), and rewiring some nodes with probability p. For small values of p appeared the small-world property: low L, high C: