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Rhian Davies
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🧮 NHS Data Scientist
🗣️ Stats communicator
👩‍💻 #RStats educator
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rssdiversity.bsky.social
🚀 The RSS presents "Statistics for Every Body: Inclusive Data Communication" on Jan 28, 2026!
📊 Learn to make your data accessible for audiences with visual & auditory impairments with experts from BBC News, ONS & more.
🔗Event details: bit.ly/Stats4Every1
#StatsSky #DataVis #RStats #InclusiveStats
An informational flyer for the Royal Statistical Society's 'Statistics for Every Body' online event. The flyer includes a summary of the inclusive data communication topic, headshots and affiliations of key speakers, and practical information like the event date (Jan 28, 2026), time (12:00-13:30), and how to register: bit.ly/Stats4Every1
December 19, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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rainbowr.org
👇 rainbowR meet-up TODAY, it's not too late to sign up! 👇
rainbowr.org rainbowR @rainbowr.org · 25d
🌈 rainbowR meet-up: Wednesday Dec 17th, 4:30pm UTC 🌈

- connect with other LGBTQ+ people who code in #RStats 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️
- ask questions about R 🙋
- tell us about an R package you like 📦
- show us something R-related you’ve been working on 💻

➡️ Registration via rainbowr.org/meetups
event flyer, same info as in post text rainbow-striped background with rainbowR logo and dark text box with rainbow colored text: rainbowR Zoom meet-up Wednesday December 17th, 4:30pm UTC - connect with community members - rainbowR updates - R chat and informal ‘show and tell’ More info and sign-up details at rainbowr.org/meetups
December 17, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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chrischirp.bsky.social
AI could be hugely beneficial to the NHS, but only if it augments, not replaces, human judgement, and is deployed with strong governance and equity-aware data.

Plus of course the challenges of workforce and infrastructure remain!

A new piece by me.
www.digitalhealth.net/2025/12/ai-i...
AI in the NHS: rewards, risks, and reality
The NHS must avoid AI's seductive overdiagnosis trap, writes Professor Christina Pagel, director of UCL’s clinical operational research unit
www.digitalhealth.net
December 16, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Reposted by Rhian Davies
ellakaye.co.uk
🎉 Big news for the future of #RStats. The project

"Enabling the next generation of R contributors"

has received £500k over 2 years.

- mentoring expert contributors
- modernising infrastructure
- improving governance
- strengthen communication and outreach

www.software.ac.uk/rsmf-round-1...
RSMF Round 1 Projects | Software Sustainability Institute
Round 1 of the Research Software Maintenance Fund awarded just under £3 million to 13 projects selected for their potential to deliver high impact, value for money, feasibility, and quality. The funde...
www.software.ac.uk
December 12, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Reposted by Rhian Davies
schloerke.com
Shiny for R v1.12 is here with built-in OpenTelemetry support! 🎉

Trace sessions and reactive calculations in production with zero code changes. Just install {otel}/{otelsdk} and set your env vars.

Learn more: shiny.posit.co/blog/posts/s...

#RStats #RShiny #OpenTelemetry
December 10, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Reposted by Rhian Davies
rainbowr.org
Today is the last day to submit proposals to speak at the rainbowR conference 🌈 Deadline is midnight, Anywhere on Earth time.

#RStats #QueerData
rainbowr.org rainbowR @rainbowr.org · Dec 1
Would you like to present at the inaugural rainbowR conference?

If you're LGBTQ+, we'd love you to tell us

🦄💻 How you use R
🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ How you work with LGBTQ+ data

Call for submissions extended to December 8th.

conference.rainbowr.org/abstracts

#RStats #QueerData
Abstracts – rainbowR conference
conference.rainbowr.org
December 8, 2025 at 8:56 AM
statsrhian.bsky.social
Really enjoying #HACA2025! It brings the #publichealth & #socialcare community together and surfaces all the brilliant work happening quietly in the background. 💙

Bonus of an online conf: lunchtime sea swim 🌊

Join us tomorrow (free!) events.hubilo.com/health-and-c...

#DataScience #DataAnalytics
Selfie of Rhian at the beach. She is smiling, wearing a red swimsuit and a silly yellow bobble hat. There is a calm, cold looking sea in the background.
December 3, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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rainbowr.org
We are absolutely thrilled to welcome Daphna Harel, @daphna.bsky.social, PI of the NYU Queer Data Lab, as a keynote speaker for the rainbowR conference!

For more about the conference, including how to submit a proposal, and to sign-up for updates, see conference.rainbowr.org

#RStats #QueerData
Conference announcement for rainbowR 2026 featuring a colorful rainbow striped border. The main text reads 'Conference Keynote: Daphna Harel - Studying Queer Data While Living It: Positionality, Power, and Practice' with event details 'February 25-26th, 2026, online' and website 'conference.rainbowr.org'. A professional headshot of Daphna Harel appears on the right side of the dark blue text panel.
December 3, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Reposted by Rhian Davies
nrennie.bsky.social
The statistical performance indicators data from the World Bank for 2024 has been released today, and I've been working on a little interactive explainer 📊

Check it out here: nrennie.rbind.io/statistical-...

#DataViz #ggplot2
December 2, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Reposted by Rhian Davies
drmowinckels.io
🎄 ANNOUNCEMENT: R Package Development Advent Calendar 2025! 🎄

Starting December 1st, I'm launching a 25-day journey through modern R package development. here's why you should follow along 🧵

#rstats #RPackageAdvent2025 #OpenSource
A festive digital illustration features the blue R logo wearing a red Santa hat with white trim on the left. To its right stands a green Christmas tree made entirely of curly braces arranged in a triangular shape. White and light-blue %>% pipe symbols float across a dark blue, starry background like snowflakes. A speech bubble above the R logo says “Ho Ho Ho! 📦” in red text. At the bottom, white text reads: “R Package Development Advent Calendar 2025” and below it, “25 Days of Coding Magic • Dec 1–25.”
November 30, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Reposted by Rhian Davies
rainbowr.org
Would you like to present at the inaugural rainbowR conference?

If you're LGBTQ+, we'd love you to tell us

🦄💻 How you use R
🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ How you work with LGBTQ+ data

Call for submissions extended to December 8th.

conference.rainbowr.org/abstracts

#RStats #QueerData
Abstracts – rainbowR conference
conference.rainbowr.org
December 1, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Reposted by Rhian Davies
nrennie.bsky.social
One of the things that has been on my to do list for a very long time, is building a gallery of all of the charts I've made across #TidyTuesday, #30DayChartChallenge, #30DayMapChallenge, and other miscellaneous projects 📊

And it's finally here!

Link: nrennie.rbind.io/viz-gallery/

#DataViz #RStats
Data Visualisation Gallery
Gallery of data visualisations created by Nicola Rennie.
nrennie.rbind.io
November 26, 2025 at 1:33 PM
statsrhian.bsky.social
Call for abstracts for the first ever @rainbowr.org conference is still open! We're looking for talks that either

🦄 Showcase how our diverse community uses #RStats
🏳️‍🌈 Use LGBTQ+ data

Get in your abstracts before December 1st.

conference.rainbowr.org/abstracts.html
#queerdata #PrideinSTEMDay
Abstracts – rainbowR conference
conference.rainbowr.org
November 20, 2025 at 4:59 PM
statsrhian.bsky.social
Back from @nhsrcommunity.bsky.social
conference with a very full brain + heart 💙🤓🐍

So good to swap ideas with people who care about #opendata, #reproducibility, and quality code.

Very grateful for this community 💙
November 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
statsrhian.bsky.social
Free #RAP support for #NHS staff. Tomorrow at 10am. Come join the chat 🗨️

Links to register in the thread 🧵
strategyunit.bsky.social The Strategy Unit @strategyunit.bsky.social · Nov 18
It was great to see so many NHS data professionals at @nhsrcommunity.bsky.social 2025! There was lots of fantastic discussion about #RAP (Reproducible Analytical Pipelines) and our next #NHS RAP drop-in is this Wednesday 19th November 2025 from 10-11 AM.
November 18, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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strategyunit.bsky.social
It was great to see so many NHS data professionals at @nhsrcommunity.bsky.social 2025! There was lots of fantastic discussion about #RAP (Reproducible Analytical Pipelines) and our next #NHS RAP drop-in is this Wednesday 19th November 2025 from 10-11 AM.
November 18, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Reposted by Rhian Davies
niccrane.bsky.social
If you've ever fought with {renv}, you *have* to go watch Shannon's talk from posit::conf. I had soooo many 💡 moments the first time I saw it!
pipinghotdata.com Shannon Pileggi @pipinghotdata.com · Nov 11
The recording of my #rstats posit::conf talk ✨ practical {renv}✨ is available! 🎉

I created this talk for frustrated {renv} users 🫠 and potential {renv} users🤩

youtu.be/l01u7Ue9pIQ?...

Even if {renv} isn't on your radar, you may still find this talk interesting if you are curious about🤔...
Practical {renv} (Shannon Pileggi, The PCCTC) | posit::conf(2025)
YouTube video by Posit PBC
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Reposted by Rhian Davies
rainbowr.org
rainbowR event: Trans Lived Experiences in Data 🏳️‍⚧️

We are partnering with the
@rssdiversity.bsky.social Celebrating Diversity SIG to host an online event next week. More info below!

📅 19th Nov 17:30–18:30 (GMT)
👉 bit.ly/rsscdnov
event flyer, see details via http://bit.ly/rsscdnov
November 10, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Reposted by Rhian Davies
jerthorp.bsky.social
It took me about three months to get here but...

Here's a 🪶 for (nearly) every species of bird, with colors extracted from wikipedia descriptions.

10,151 species.

#dataviz #birds #data
A wheel-like visualization of bird feathers colored from wikipedia descriptions
November 4, 2025 at 1:26 PM
statsrhian.bsky.social
Needed to hide the bar on a #Shiny numeric slider. Shiny sliders are ion.rangeSlider under the hood, so you can target the bar directly with .irs-bar.

github.com/The-Strategy...

The more I play with Inspect Element, the more comfortable I get tweaking little things to improve #UIUX

#RStats #CSS
https://github.com/The-Strategy-Unit/elicitation_hsa_2025_11/commit/8f31370ab6874647e1a11d1e0102d053337b2b61
October 29, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Reposted by Rhian Davies
ourworldindata.org
Maternal deaths have more than halved in the last forty years
The global number of maternal deaths has more than halved. Line chart titled "Estimated annual number of women who die from maternal conditions," showing a steady decline in estimated annual maternal deaths worldwide from about 625,000 in 1985 to about 260,000 in 2023, with a small uptick around 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic before falling again. Data source: World Health Organization - Global Health Observatory (2025). Chart licensed CC BY to Our World in Data.
October 29, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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posit.co
A data scientist and product owner shares her take on why the new Positron IDE is a game-changer for her workflow.

Learn how Dr. Claire Welsh of The Strategy Unit uses Positron to streamline everything from project management to documentation.

Read her insights: posit.co/blog/positro...
September 29, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Reposted by Rhian Davies
masalmon.eu
"How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner" by Annie Mueller 😅 😂 😭

anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-...
How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner - annie's blog
“Hello! I am a developer. Here is my relevant experience: I code in Hoobijag and sometimes jabbernocks and of course ABCDE++++ (but never ABCDE+/^+ are you kidding? ha!)  and I like working with ...
anniemueller.com
September 23, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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royalstatsoc.bsky.social
🌟 The ninth round of the Mardia Prize is now open for applications! If you’re passionate about connecting statistics with other sciences, this is your chance to run an interdisciplinary workshop series.

Deadline: 30 Nov 2025

More info & application form: rss.org.uk/news-publica...
September 22, 2025 at 3:10 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