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Lara
@laracrc.bsky.social
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Editor for #Statistics, #RStats and #DataScience books at Chapman & Hall/CRC Press. The usual caveats apply, views are my own. https://www.routledge.com/statistics
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In honour of today being the second-most-popular day to be birthed, here's my second-favourite birthday distribution chart
Line chart showing daily births. September 26th has the highest number, December 25th and 26th have the lowest. Source: ONS births in England and Wales data
September 25, 2025 at 7:54 AM
laracrc.bsky.social
Lovely to see all the books from the series💚 @clairemkbowen.bsky.social @johnbailer.bsky.social
amstatnews.bsky.social Amstat-American Statistical Association @amstatnews.bsky.social · Sep 9
ASA’s Ron Wasserstein shares exciting news from ASA headquarters—new titles in the ASA-CRC Series on Statistical Reasoning in Science and Society have arrived! Watch his video to learn more and then explore these books that show how statistics shapes our world: tinyurl.com/4psncp6b
September 11, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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nrennie.bsky.social
There was lots of data to play with for #TidyTuesday this week where we're looking at the power of different passports! ✈️

I decided to try out the idea of using small multiples and highlighting to untangle a spaghetti chart with lots of lines 📊

#RStats #DataViz #ggplot2
Chart showing how rankings of passports have changed over time, split by region with top one in each highlighted. European are ranked high, and UAE has had a dramatic rise.
September 9, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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cvidonne.bsky.social
Inspired by @nrennie.bsky.social excellent #TidyTuesday plot on the power of passports, I adapted the idea to look at refugee origins.

This chart ranks countries of origin of refugees, asylum-seekers, and others in need of international protection, grouped by region.

#RStats #ggplot2 #Refugees
Bump chart faceted by world regions showing the top countries of origin of refugees, asylum-seekers, and others in need of international protection. Asia and Africa rank consistently high, driven by long-term crises such as Afghanistan and Sudan. The Americas and Europe also appear high due to more recent crises in Venezuela and Ukraine.
September 10, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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mackaszechno.bsky.social
My personal library's looking healthy 😁
collection of #rstats and #rspatial books
September 4, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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mrcctu.bsky.social
September is #GynaecologicalCancerAwarenessMonth.

#OvarianCancer is the most devastating gynaecological cancer in the UK.

The UKCTOCS trial involved over 200,000 women to explore if screening could save lives, but it wasn’t without challenges.

🎧 Discover the insights in this #TrialTalk episode:
Lessons from UKCTOCS, a large-scale trial in ovarian cancer screening
UKCTOCS (UK Collaborative Trial of Ovarian Cancer Screening) is one of the largest screening trials in ovarian cancer. More than 200,000 women from England, Wales and Northern Ireland took part in it,
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September 1, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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nrennie.bsky.social
I'm really looking forward to this session!

Some of the things I'll be talking about include:

📖 Writing about #RStats with #QuartoPub
✍️ Working with @laracrc.bsky.social at CRC Press
📊 How it all started with some #TidyTuesday charts!

#StatsEd #DataViz
profandyfield.com Prof Andy Field @profandyfield.com · Aug 26
Excited to participate in 'Book Publication as a Scholarly Activity for Statisticians ...' @ 11.30 on Thurs 4 Sept @royalstatsoc.bsky.social conference with Margaret MacDougall, @nrennie.bsky.social and Rhys Jones. We'll be sharing publication experiences & answering Q's! @rss-teach.bsky.social
August 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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nrennie.bsky.social
At @royalstatsoc.bsky.social conference next week, I'll be talking in the 'Book Publication as a Scholarly Activity for Statisticians' session @ 11.30 on Thu 4 Sep - which I'm really excited about!

(Very subtle announcement that there's a #DataViz book from me coming soon!)

#StatsEd #RSS2025Conf
Screenshot of slides showing my first and a more recent TidyTuesday visualisation
August 26, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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nrennie.bsky.social
For this week's #TidyTuesday data about Billboard Hot 100 Number Ones, I decided to make a sheet music-themed chart 📊 - that will probably manage to annoy #DataViz people as much as music people! 🎶

Thanks to @jenrichmondphd.bsky.social for curating the data!

#RStats #ggplot2
Chart styled to look like sheet music showing the happiness scores of funk and soul songs, by male/female/mixed songwriting teams. A cluster of happy songs by male songwriters is seen in the mid-1970s.
August 27, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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johnbailer.bsky.social
Just in time for the start of a new school year - a podcast discussion of evaluating student success. Also check out other Stats+Stories education-related #podcast episodes #EduSky
statsandstories.net/education
August 21, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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nrennie.bsky.social
If you're interested in learning #JuliaLang and are currently an #RStats user (or even if you're not!), then here's a little introduction to getting started! 📊

Blog post: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/introdu...

#QuartoPub #Julia @tidierjl.bsky.social
Introduction to Julia for R users – Nicola Rennie
This blog post will give R users an overview of what Julia is and why they might want to use it, introduce some data processing Julia packages, and show how they can incorporate Julia into existing R ...
nrennie.rbind.io
August 18, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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datavisfriendly.bsky.social
CRAN: "thanks, package heplots_1.7.8.tar.gz is on its way to CRAN!"

Added a distancePlot(), a very nice diagnostic plot for multivariate linear models.Shows leverage & outliers together
in a way that shows both problems.

See: friendly.github.io/heplots/
For a multivariate regression model, this is a plot of Mahalanobis distances of the predictor variables (~ leverage) against Mahalanobis distances of the residuals (large -> outliers)
August 19, 2025 at 1:15 AM
laracrc.bsky.social
Happy Friday 🌍! We are giving away one copy of 'Spatial Linear Models for Environmental Data'. To enter, simply follow me and re-post this by the end of Sunday, August 17. #spatial #environment # #data #StatsSky routledge.com/9780367183349 not associated with bsky
Book cover of Spatial Linear Models for Enviornmental Data, dark blue background with white pattern with a picture of caribou and data plots
August 15, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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some light teasing for an upcoming quarto revealjs plugin I have been working on
August 12, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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paulnaish.bsky.social
Taylor 🐿️ & Francis 🦔 are enjoying hanging out at their booth at #MathFest2025!

@joinmaa.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
August 7, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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📍 Registration is open for Spatial Data Science across Languages (SDSL) 2025 – Sept 17–18 (+19), Salzburg, Austria.

Connect R, Python, Julia & more in spatial science.

🔗 https://forms.gle/E9fpG88V2VQQKmjk9 -- Apply for on-site by mid-July – limited spots […]

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June 23, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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paulnaish.bsky.social
Beauty in/of mathematics: tessellations and their formulas

@tandfresearch.bsky.social #mathart #tessellations www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
June 23, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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paulnaish.bsky.social
NSF@75: Advancing Statistical Science for a Data‑Driven World (Free Conference)
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NSF@75: Advancing Statistical Science for a Data‑Driven World (Free Conference) - Live-streaming:
This Instats seminar on NSF@75: Advancing Statistical Science for a Data‑Driven World (Free Conference) taught by American Statistical Association will help you take your research to the next leve...
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June 19, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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royalstatsoc.bsky.social
📣 Call for discussion papers

We are inviting submissions of papers on the innovative usages of causal natural experiments in statistics and data science

📆 Submit your abstract by 6 June

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May 19, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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nrennie.bsky.social
There's still time to sign up for tomorrow's @EdinbR.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy event!

📅 Thursday 15 May 2025, 6.00PM - 7.00PM
📍 2.11 Appleton Tower, Edinburgh
❔ Interactive charts (me!) 📊, and fast Bayesian inference (Jordan Richards)

Register: www.meetup.com/edinbr/event...

#RStats #DataViz
May 2025: Interactive charts and fast Bayesian inference, Thu, May 15, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup
\* Title: May 2025: Interactive charts and fast Bayesian inference \* Date: Thursday 15 May 2025, 6.00PM - 7.00PM \* Location: 2.11 Appleton Tower (https://www.accessable.c
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May 14, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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Curator: @libbyheeren.bsky.social
@dslc.io welcomes you to week 19 of #TidyTuesday! We're exploring Seismic Events at Mount Vesuvius!

📂 https://tidytues.day/2025/2025-05-13
🗞️ https://www.ingv.it/somma-vesuvio

#RStats #PyData #JuliaLang #DataViz #tidyverse #r4ds
Logo for the #TidyTuesday Project. The words TidyTuesday, A weekly data project from the Data Science Learning Community (dslc.io) overlaying a black paint splash. TidyTuesday is a weekly social data project. All are welcome to participate! Please remember to share the code used to generate your results! TidyTuesday is organized by the Data Science Learning Community. Join our Slack for free online help with R and other data-related topics, or to participate in a data-related book club! How to Participate Data is posted to social media every Monday morning. Follow the instructions in the new post for how to download the data. Explore the data, watching out for interesting relationships. We would like to emphasize that you should not draw conclusions about causation in the data. Create a visualization, a model, a shiny app, or some other piece of data-science-related output, using R or another programming language. Share your output and the code used to generate it on social media with the #TidyTuesday hashtag. Map of Mount Vesuvius region from the GOSSIP website showing seismic activity. The map displays numerous colored dots concentrated mainly on the volcano, with red and orange circles indicating more recent events clustered around the crater area. Green circles represent older seismic events, while yellow triangles mark monitoring stations surrounding the volcano. The larger the circles, the stronger the seismic activity.
May 12, 2025 at 1:44 PM
laracrc.bsky.social
If you are at #SDSS2025 this week, please stop by and check out this collection of our fabulous (if I say so myself) books and journals @amstatnews.bsky.social @paulnaish.bsky.social #rstats #datascience
Table display with books and journals
April 30, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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paulnaish.bsky.social
Symmetry classification and enumeration of square-tile sikku kolams
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April 25, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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ivelasq3.bsky.social
We had a great time with @rladiesamsterdam.bsky.social and R-Ladies RTP discussing "Tidy Data, Weighted Insights: Analyzing Complex Survey Data with #RStats"!

Recording is here: youtu.be/ip78qoxoZGc?...

Interested in more? We're presenting a workshop at useR! Register here: user2025.r-project.org
R-Ladies RTP (English) - Tidy Data, Weighted Insights: Analyzing Complex Survey Data in R
YouTube video by R-Ladies Global
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April 15, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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amstatnews.bsky.social
In celebration of Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month, the "Practical Significance" podcast is featuring a special guest: Claire Bowen from the Urban Institute, who shares her journey into the world of statistics. magazine.amstat.org/podcast-2/
April 14, 2025 at 12:10 PM