Lucy D’Agostino McGowan
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Lucy D’Agostino McGowan
@lucystats.bsky.social
Biostatistician • Associate Prof @ Wake Forest University • former postdoc @ Hopkins Biostat • PhD @ Vandy Biostat • 🎙 Casual Inference • lucymcgowan.com
Pinned
a bit more #Severance data
please enjoy all analyses equally

👉 lucymcgowan.github.io/mdr-website/

and for my #rstats friends:
👉 lucymcgowan.github.io/mdr/
So proud of @ashleymullan.bsky.social -- featured on the cover of @significancemag.bsky.social! Check out her beautiful interrupted time series plot 😍
October 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
And for my next talk, “The Role of Congeniality in Multiple Imputation for Doubly Robust Causal Estimation” #IDWSDS2025

In which I insist imputation models MUST include:

✅outcome
✅exposure
✅all in PS model
✅all in outcome models
*in the same functional form*

🎞️: www.lucymcgowan.com/talk/idwsds_...
The Role of Congeniality in Multiple Imputation for Doubly Robust Causal Estimation | Lucy D'Agostino McGowan
This talk provides clear and practical guidance on the specification of imputation models when multiple imputation is used in conjunction with doubly robust estimation methods for causal inference. Th...
www.lucymcgowan.com
October 14, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I am SO enjoying celebrating International Day of Women in Statistics & Data Science by attending #IDWSDS2025

My first talk of the day:
The Art of Data Refinement: Severance Analyses
🎞️ Slides: lucymcgowan.github.io/mdr-talk/

(All made in Quarto ♥️)

Here is a sneak peak:
October 14, 2025 at 5:10 PM
If you’re at the ISI conference, I’ll be here until Friday!
Associate Professor @lucystats.bsky.social spoke today at the ISI World Statistics Congress in The Hague on how “Causal inference is not just a statistics problem”

You can find her slides here: www.lucymcgowan.com/talk/isi_wor...
October 7, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Quick little update to quarto-revealjs-editable

Now works with `::: editable` in addition to `::: {.editable}`. Not shown in gif.
github.com/EmilHvitfeld...
#quarto
September 25, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Not loving these MMRV headlines, they feel misleading! The vast majority of kids under 4 in this country get MMR and V separately when they’re ~1 and this is what will still happen. The combined MMRV is what is changing, but that was not commonly given to young children already
September 19, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Another delightful #positconf in the books! So lovely to see everyone 🌻 I miss it already!

Especially excited about:
🤖 @minecr.bsky.social’s aifeedr
🌬️ Making my code pretty like @davisvaughan.bsky.social’s with air
@emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social’s editable quarto magic
📈 everything @kjhealy.co said
September 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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StatFest 2025 is here! This program connects undergrad students from historically underrepresented groups with industry experts in stats, data science, and academia. Sept. 11, 18, & 25. Free and virtual. Register today: community.amstat.org...
#StatFest2025 #DataScience #Statistics #STEMCareers
August 25, 2025 at 11:02 PM
My extremely talented baby sister was featured in this @redbull.com documentary that was released today!

watch the whole thing here 👇
www.soundsofredbull.com/scoring-chal...

listen to more of Teesa’s music:
open.spotify.com/artist/2CttZ...
www.teesadagostino.com
August 23, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Does Jenny Bryan #VibeCode? 🤔

She shared on the Hangout that she's been thankful that she gets to learn #rust and #typscript in the age of #AI and these are her thoughts on #LLM use. (We really need a #RubberDuck emoji 🦆)

#rstats #databs #VibeCoding #DSHangout #python
August 20, 2025 at 10:13 PM
We are hiring into 3 (THREE!) tenure track lines this year at Wake Forest — if you’re looking please reach out, I love chatting about our department! We are a vibrant group that love & embrace the teacher-scholar model 👩‍🏫
August 20, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Wake Forest will welcome more than 1,500 first-year students this week as the Class of 2029 arrives from 45 states, the District of Columbia and 22 countries.
WFU to welcome Class of 2029 this week | Wake Forest News
On April 20, Wake Forest University will welcome more than 1,500 first-year students, most of whom were born the year the iPhone debuted and the Harry Potter book series concluded. The Class of 2029 includes students from 45 states and the District of Columbia. Twenty-two countries are
wakefo.rest
August 19, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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I've stumbled upon an odd data resource. The FCC "Mapping Broadband Health in America" tool purports to be about mapping broadband internet access, but actually is the easiest source I've ever found for linking state-level averages across a zillion different topics c2h.fcc.gov/broadband-he...
Mapping Broadband Health in America - Connect2Health FCC
c2h.fcc.gov
August 19, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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I was recently on a panel talking about Synthesize Bio and the future of AI in biotech! www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR5s...
The Future of Drug Discovery: AI, Data, and Design
YouTube video by Madrona
www.youtube.com
August 19, 2025 at 7:08 PM
The answer to this is YES there is something I can fix, update my positron (thank you @davisvaughan.bsky.social 🙏😅)
I’ve been dipping my toe into using Positron for #rstats (have been using for everything else for 9 months or so and do love it!) and the biggest pain point is the limit on what I can run in the console - like even fairly tiny shiny apps require source() 😫 is this something I can fix?
August 17, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Dev and deploy require of diff skills. @getdbt.com bridges the gap for #data pipelines, but what about MLOps?

I explored how @posit.co {orbital} + dbt delivers "good enough" zero-infra MLOps for batch model scoring in database from python or #rstats models

www.emilyriederer.com/post/orbital...

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MLOrbs?: MLOps in the database with orbital and dbt | Emily Riederer
Playing with the potential, perils, and design principles of deploying ML models into the analytical database using orbital’s sklearn-to-sql translation, sqlglot, and dbt
www.emilyriederer.com
August 16, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I’ve been dipping my toe into using Positron for #rstats (have been using for everything else for 9 months or so and do love it!) and the biggest pain point is the limit on what I can run in the console - like even fairly tiny shiny apps require source() 😫 is this something I can fix?
August 16, 2025 at 9:49 PM
this is my TS album drop 🤩
Excited to share my newest quarto revealjs plugin: imagemover

Easily reposition and resize images directly in your quarto revealjs slides for a much smoother slidecrafting experience

github.com/EmilHvitfeld...
#quarto
August 13, 2025 at 9:10 PM
omg 👀
some light teasing for an upcoming quarto revealjs plugin I have been working on
August 12, 2025 at 11:51 PM
@hadley.nz & #rstats friends, is there a way for me to use gpt-oss with ellmer?
an elephant sits at a desk with the words back to work written on the bottom
Alt: an elephant sits at a desk with the words back to work written on the bottom
media.tenor.com
August 12, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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REPLACE_WHEN!!!

Aaaaaaaah this is like an 8 year dream come true!!!
August 10, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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Made a Starter Pack to help us #user2025 attendees find each other and stay in touch!

👉 go.bsky.app/NjYV48L

(hopefully I did this right... 🤓)

Let me know by replying here if you attended UseR and would like to be added, I'll try to update regularly! 🥰
August 10, 2025 at 3:27 PM
in which we vibe code a shiny app at #user2025
📽️ Slides: www.lucymcgowan.com/talk/user2025/
August 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Come watch the most unhinged talk of a lifetime! ✨good vibes only ✨ at #useR2025
Excited for @davisvaughan.bsky.social & my talk tomorrow in which we will demo a shiny app we ✨ vibe coded ✨ up today, if you're at #user2025 stop by Gross at 10:30a tomorrow.

Sneak peak 👇
August 10, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Excited for @davisvaughan.bsky.social & my talk tomorrow in which we will demo a shiny app we ✨ vibe coded ✨ up today, if you're at #user2025 stop by Gross at 10:30a tomorrow.

Sneak peak 👇
August 10, 2025 at 1:53 AM