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Nicholas Vietto
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PhD Candidate @unosccj.bsky.social | Research interests: Quantitative Methods, Data Visualization | #Rstats | #DataViz 📈 | #firstgen

website: https://nvietto.rbind.io/
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hadley.nz
Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp....

genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
GitHub - hadley/genzplyr: dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap
dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap. Contribute to hadley/genzplyr development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:25 PM
nvietto.bsky.social
#TidyTuesday Week 38 - FIDE
Took what I know about ELO ratings and made a beeswarm 🐝 to compare Masters and players (like me) near the 1000 ELO mark. Also added a reference section to my script to 'cite' what scripts I looked at. Maybe it'll catch on
#Rstats #dataviz
Code github.com/nvietto/Tidy...
September 22, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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nrennie.bsky.social
The Pac-Man Rule should be adopted at all conferences and meetups - it's so much more welcoming!

Also an excellent use of a pie chart! 📊
jonthegeek.com Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · Sep 17
Remember the Pac-Man Rule! Leave a gap for people to join your conversation!

#PositConf2024 #RStats
Remember the Pac-Man Rule. Invite new people into your groups, make new friends, and build a community full of people who feel included.
September 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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thomasp85.com
I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN.

It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package.

Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats
ggplot2 4.0.0
A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.
www.tidyverse.org
September 11, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social
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 7:20 PM
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andrew.heiss.phd
I’ve long used FiveThirtyEight’s interactive “Hack Your Way To Scientific Glory” to illustrate the idea of p-hacking when I teach statistics. But ABC/Disney killed the site earlier this month :(

So I made my own with #rstats and Observable and #QuartoPub ! stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way/
Screenshot of the linked Quarto website, with input checkboxes to change different conditions for a regression model that predicts economic performance based on US political party, with a reported p-value
March 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
nvietto.bsky.social
Here’s a fun extra credit assignment I made that uses R/Posit Cloud for generative art with {aRtsy}. I’ve used it in stats, methods, even crim theory. Students love it. I do a mini art show before the final lecture lol. Feel free to use it!

#academicsky #rstats

nvietto.quarto.pub/extra-credit...
Extra Credit - Generative Art with {aRtsy}
nvietto.quarto.pub
March 21, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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jamesgoldie.dev
I’ve been using the new gradients and patterns in #rstats and #ggplot2 quite a bit for recent package, so here’s a deep dive! Everything from the basics of using gradients in your plots through to sophisticated visual effects.

jamesgoldie.dev/writing/stac...
The guide to gradients in R and ggplot2 – James Goldie
Visualising data and building things for fun and for change. #climatehealth → #datajournalism
jamesgoldie.dev
March 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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jonthegeek.com
Curator: @jonthegeek.com
@dslc.io welcomes you to week 10 of #TidyTuesday! We're exploring Pixar Films!

📁 https://tidytues.day/2025/2025-03-11
🗞️ https://erictleung.com/pixarfilms/articles/pixar_film_ratings.html

#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. A hex logo for the pixarfilms package. A light blue background inside a black hexagon, with the Pixar desk lamp in the center of the hexagon below the text pixarfilms.
March 10, 2025 at 1:36 PM
nvietto.bsky.social
March 5, 2025 at 9:26 PM
nvietto.bsky.social
I'm currently working through a dissertation section that involves describing gradient descent, and Josh Starmer's explanation is by far the clearest I've come across. And I had a great ML teacher, but his explanation is a simple and straightforward, highly recommend.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDv4...
Gradient Descent, Step-by-Step
YouTube video by StatQuest with Josh Starmer
www.youtube.com
March 3, 2025 at 8:19 PM
nvietto.bsky.social
Got this in my email today from DrivenData, seems like a useful resource if you're looking for data science positions that center on helping fix social and environmental problems.

#datascience #dataBS

drivendata.co/blog/where-t...
Where to find a data job for a good cause
Finding data jobs for good causes can be difficult. Learn strategies, job lists, and tips to find organizations with open positions working on causes you care about.
drivendata.co
February 25, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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hadas.bsky.social
tried downloading kafka’s diaries but there was a bug
February 12, 2025 at 4:56 AM
nvietto.bsky.social
New pub up! We examined how associations between measures of the autonomic nervous system and psychopathic traits differ across stress tasks.

Thank you to everyone who helped us recruit participants for this study!

Data and code:
github.com/nvietto/Repl...

www.crimrxiv.com/pub/q7z2nfny...
Differences in Associations Between Autonomic Nervous System Activity and Psychopathic Traits Across Stress Paradigms and Measures
Vietto, N., Armstrong, T.A., Schroll, D.M. et al. Differences in Associations Between Autonomic Nervous System Activity and Psychopathic Traits Across Stress Paradigms and Measures. J Psychopathol Beh...
www.crimrxiv.com
January 22, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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thr.com
As A24 re-releases the Colman Domingo Oscar contender #SingSing in movie theaters this week, the indie studio is also making the film available to nearly a million incarcerated people across the U.S. bit.ly/4hfud9f
January 14, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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lukasz.langa.pl
#genuary5 prompt: Isometric art.

It's game of life. History goes down. I've seen a visualization like this last year and wanted to recreate it.

Made with #PyScript:
ambv.pyscriptapps.com/genuary-prom...

#genuary2025 #genuary #GenerativeArt #CreativeCoding #WebGL #Python
January 5, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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detroitlions.bsky.social
Back. To. Back.
January 6, 2025 at 4:44 AM
nvietto.bsky.social
#TidyTuesday Week 51 - Dungeons and Dragons Spells

Couldn't pass up the chance to do a D&D TidyTuesday. Thanks @jonthegeek.com for curating this dataset!

Code: github.com/nvietto/Tidy...

#Rstats #dataviz
December 21, 2024 at 6:31 PM
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hadley.nz
Very proud to announce that @posit.co has joined the opensourcepledge.com. We're committing to spending $2000 / developer / year to support open source software that we use (but don't develop): posit.co/blog/posit-p... #rstats #pydata
Open Source Pledge
Our companies feast year after year at the Open Source table. It's time to settle up.
opensourcepledge.com
December 19, 2024 at 9:59 PM
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jonthegeek.com
@dslc.io welcomes you to week 51 of #TidyTuesday! We're exploring Dungeons and Dragons Spells (2024)!

📁 https://tidytues.day/2024/2024-12-17
🗞️ https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1804-start-playing-today-with-the-2024-d-d-free-rules

#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. The cover of the Dungeons and Dragons Free Rules from the website dndbeyond.com. The tagline at the top calls D&D the World's greatest roleplaying game. The image shows a wizard with white hair and a red robe casting a spell, with a pair of sword-wielding allies nearby. They're battling a wyvern, a dragon-like creature with a scorpion's tail. A bar plot of D&D Spell Power. Number of spells available at each level for each class. Spells are counted by level, from cantrip, which is level 0, and then 1 through 9. Columns are grouped by class, with paladin having the fewest total spells available, and wizards having the most. Wizards have the most spells available at every level except for cantrips, where they're barely edged out by sorcerers. Only warlocks, clerics, druics, bard, sorcerors, and wizards have spells above level 5. Paladins and Rangers only have spells at levels 1 through 5.
December 16, 2024 at 2:13 PM
nvietto.bsky.social
This is happiness. Can't wait
ign.com IGN @ign.com · Dec 13
BREAKING: CD Projekt has unveiled The Witcher 4 with a six-minute trailer that confirms Ciri as protagonist. bit.ly/3Zy0WiX

#TheGameAwards
December 13, 2024 at 2:59 PM
nvietto.bsky.social
New R package up - {samplezoo}. I designed it to allow educators to focus on teaching statistical concepts instead of getting stuck in the setup process. There's still a lot I want/need to add but for now it's a useful tool for discussing distributions and such.

nvietto.rbind.io/blog/samplez...
Introducing {samplezoo} | Nicholas Vietto
A quick way to generate samples that contain a variety of probability distributions
nvietto.rbind.io
December 10, 2024 at 4:34 PM
nvietto.bsky.social
Kinnnda looks like Omaha a bit with downtown on the right and midtown on the left, lol. Nevertheless, a fun way to view your GitHub contributions this year.

3D Image here: github.com/nvietto/nvie...

Learn how to do yours here: github.blog/changelog/20...

#GitHubSkyline
December 9, 2024 at 7:21 PM
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posit.co
We are excited to announce posit::conf(2025)! Join fellow data enthusiasts & developers for an unforgettable three days of learning, connection, and inspiration.

Learn more and register at posit.co/blog/positco...

#datascience #rstats #pydata #quarto #tidyverse #posit
Registration for posit conference 2025 Now open. Atlanta, Sept 16-18
December 6, 2024 at 4:00 PM
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hadley.nz
Bluesky really is the new #rstats twitter because we have the first base R vs tidyverse flame war 🤣
November 14, 2024 at 5:18 PM