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Achim Zeileis @zeileis.org · Oct 2
👋 bsky!

▶️ I just joined - fed up with the bird place for too long. I'll also remain @zeileis@fosstodon.org

📈 I'll post about: statistics, science, software. Often combining all three in my work for Journal of Statistical Software #jstatsoft

🤓 Hope to learn new interesting stuff & meet new people!
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r-foundation.bsky.social
An #RStats blog entry by Heather Turner explains the new Research Software Maintenance Fund grant.

blog.r-project.org/2025/12/17/r...
RSMF: Enabling the Next Generation of Contributors to R - The R Blog
blog.r-project.org
December 18, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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weare.rladies.org
This is a thread about Forwards, the R Foundation task-force on women and other under-represented groups.

We work on accessibility, community, conferences, on-ramps, social media, surveys, and teaching.

forwards.github.io
Forwards
R Foundation taskforce on women and other under-represented groups
forwards.github.io
December 12, 2025 at 4:54 PM
zeileis.org
🚨 New paper and blog post together with my #gamlss colleagues.

Refuting "Debunking the GAMLSS Myth: Simplicity Reigns in Pulmonary Function Diagnostics"
(Letter to the editor of Respiratory Medicine)

📈 Blog post with replication #rstats code:

www.zeileis.org/news/undebun...
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December 12, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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easystats.github.io
🎉 Great news for #rstats users! If you love the native R graphics feel of #tinyplot AND you're a fan of the powerful #easystats #modelbased package, this is for you!

Thanks to @gmcd.bsky.social, we significantly enhanced the tinyplot integration.

🔗 Read more: easystats.github.io/modelbased/a...
Plotting estimated marginal means with tinyplot
easystats.github.io
December 12, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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r-foundation.bsky.social
The R Foundation is happy to be a partner on the project

"Enabling the next generation of R contributors"

awarded £500k under the Research Software Maintenance Fund (Software Sustainability Institute, UK).

Announcement: www.software.ac.uk/ssi-awards-f...

Congratulations to the project team!
SSI awards funding to 13 projects through the RSMF Round 1 | Software Sustainability Institute
We are pleased to announce that the Research Software Maintenance Fund (RSMF) has funded 13 projects to advance the sustainability and impact of research software. Through this initiative, the SSI, wi...
www.software.ac.uk
December 10, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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noahgreifer.bsky.social
I TA'd for John at ICPSR in 2017. He was very supportive of me early on in my career and so inspiring as someone bridging statistics education, methodological research, and statistical computing. He is certainly a giant whose shoulders I am honored to stand on.
November 28, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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f2harrell.bsky.social
Oh my this is a loss. I feel so fortunate to have interacted with John many times over decades. His contributions to the #Statistics and #RStats communities are mammoth. His insights about statistical modeling were profound. John Fox leaves behind a huge body of work for all to enjoy.
November 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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datavisfriendly.bsky.social
#rstats
It is with profound sadness I heard that my long-time friend and colleague, John Fox passed away this week.
He was the author of {car}, {effects}, {Rcmdr}, ... and numerous influential books. I will miss him greatly.
www.john-fox.ca
John Fox: Books and Software
www.john-fox.ca
November 28, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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gsimpson.bsky.social
A new release of the mgcv #RStats 📦 is out on CRAN and Simon Wood (U Edinburgh) has added some significant new features despite the small bump in version number:

🌟 scasm() for estimating GAMs with shape constrained smooths. Can be used with any family & smoothness selection is via the EFS method
Model is: b3 <- scasm( y ~ s(x0, bs = "bs", k= k) + s(x1, bs = "sc", xt = "m+", k = k) + s(x2, bs = "bs", k = k) + s(x3, bs = "bs", k = k), family=poisson, bs=200 ) The second smooth `s(x1) is a shape constrained smooth with a positive monotonicity constraint (xt = "m+"). The `bs = 200` arguments uses 200 boostrap samples, which generates bootstrap distributions for each coefficient in the model. These bootstrap samples respect the shape constraints, while the usual +/- 2 SE credible intervals may not. The uncertainty in the partial effects is shown by two credible interval bands; a dark blue central band is a 68% Bayesian credible interval, while the lighter blue outer interval is a 95% Bayesian credible interval. The background of each panel is light grey with white grid lines, in a similar style to ggplot2's default theme.
November 12, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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leonido.bsky.social
Das Gespräch gibt es bereits zum Nachhören im Cultural Broadcasting Archive: cba.media/743990
Das politische Gespräch mit Leonhard Dobusch
12.11.2025 - Mit Leonhard Dobusch im Gespräch über die Österreichische Medienlandschaft und Herausforderungen, Kritikpunkte sowie Potenziale.
cba.media
November 12, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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🎨 How to create elegant #dataviz with base #rstats and the #tinyplot pkg

📈 useR! 2025 presentation by Grant McDermott @gmcd.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOB-...
tinyplot: convenient and customizable base R plots - Grant McDermott
YouTube video by useR! Conference
www.youtube.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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gmcd.bsky.social
Nice. Looks like my `tinyplot` talk from userR! 2025 is up on YouTube. youtu.be/MOB-QS-vMeY?...

#rstats
tinyplot: convenient and customizable base R plots - Grant McDermott
YouTube video by useR! Conference
youtu.be
October 30, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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janvanhaaren.be
We're expanding the Club Brugge Football Data Science team. As our Football Data Scientist, you'll work with one of the most advanced analytics infrastructures in football to help management, scouting, and analysis staff turn data into better decisions.

jobs.clubbrugge.be/en/football-data-scientist
Football Data Scientist at Club Brugge
As a Football Data Scientist, you will be responsible for researching and developing advanced models and metrics for analyzing player and team performances and evaluating potential acquisitions for Cl...
jobs.clubbrugge.be
October 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
zeileis.org
🚨 New CRAN Task View: Anomaly Detection
#rstats #anomalydetection

By Priyanga Dilini Talagala, Rob J. Hyndman @robjhyndman.com, Gaetano Romano

URL: cran.r-project.org/view=Anomaly...
Screenshot of the CRAN Task View "Anomaly Detection" at https://CRAN.R-project.org/view=AnomalyDetection
October 22, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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brodriguesco.bsky.social
if someone wants to give feedback on a paper i’ll be submitting soon titled "Nix for Polyglot, Reproducible Data Science Workflows" that’d be greatly appreciated!

github.com/b-rodrigues/...
rix_paper/paper.qmd at master · b-rodrigues/rix_paper
Contribute to b-rodrigues/rix_paper development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
October 22, 2025 at 8:59 AM
zeileis.org
📢 PSA for colleagues at @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social

📈 New release of #latex and @quarto.org presentation styles in UIBK corporate design

- LaTeX beamer theme with more banners
- Quarto+beamer for PDF
- Quarto+revealjs for HTML
- Code with #rstats and #python

Link: www.uibk.ac.at/de/public-re...
Title page of a slide deck generated with the new Quarto+beamer style files of Universität Innsbruck. The logo of the university is shown in the top left corner. In the center is a banner image that spans the whole width of the slide and shows the view over the Western end of the Inn valley as seen from the Nordkette mountain ridge. Close up on the right-hand side there is a a rocky mountain slope partially covered with white snow. In the distance more mountains with snow-covered tops can be seen. The rest of the slide shows the title and author information (left-aligned) and the CC-BY logo in the bottom-right corner. The information is: PDF Presentations Using the Universität Innsbruck Corporate Design An Implementation via Quarto and beamer Gabriele Mustermann Title page of a slide deck generated with the new Quarto+revealjs style files of Universität Innsbruck. The logo of the university is shown in the top left corner. In the center is a banner image that spans the whole width of the slide and shows students entering the main building of the university. The photo is blurry giving more focus to the seal of the university shown partially on the left-hand side. The rest of the slide shows the title and author information (left-aligned): HTML Presentations Using the Universität Innsbruck Corporate Design An Implementation via Quarto and reveal.js Gabriele Mustermann (Gabriele.Mustermann@uibk.ac.at) https://www.uibk.ac.at/statistics 2025-10-14 The footer line shows the hamburger navigation menu, a small university logo, the footer text "Quarto/reveal.js presentation theme" and the slide number.
October 22, 2025 at 7:52 AM
zeileis.org
💡 Came across this nice tool today:

🎨 qualpal for algorithmically choosing maximally distinct colors under certain restrictions #dataviz

JOSS paper, online tool, R package #rstats

joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21...
Qualpal: Qualitative Color Palettes for Everyone
Larsson, J., (2025). Qualpal: Qualitative Color Palettes for Everyone. Journal of Open Source Software, 10(114), 8936, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.08936
joss.theoj.org
October 17, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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dryad.technology
What I'm listening to today: "Olson"

Boards of Canada arranged to play on a DEC PDP-1 from 1959. The PDP-1 doesn't have sound, but it does have front-panel light bulbs for debugging, so they rewired the light bulb lines into speakers to create 4 square wave channels

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wubk...
Boards of Canada "Olson" on a 1959 PDP-1 Computer
YouTube video by Joe Lynch
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October 12, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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robjhyndman.com
We're looking for a new actuarial professor. careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo... @monashebs.bsky.social @monashuniversity.bsky.social #actuarial
Job Search
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October 3, 2025 at 5:45 AM
zeileis.org
📢 PSA: The R-Forge server is under attack from hackers and hence web access (e.g., for package installation) is currently down. #rstats

The team at WU Wien is working on it. I'll report here when it is back up again.
September 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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datavisfriendly.bsky.social
Where was tinyplot alll my #rstats life?
gmcd.bsky.social Grant McDermott @gmcd.bsky.social · Sep 23
`tinyplot` 0.5.0 is now available from CRAN & R-universe. Alongside bug fixes & internal improvements, this release includes some cool new features like bubble chart + dual legend support, element dodging, & ephemeral themes.

Detailed changelog: grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/NEW...

#rstats #dataviz
tinyplot bubble chart example with dual legend, using penguins data. Taken from https://grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/vignettes/gallery.html
September 24, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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rpodcast.bsky.social
Episode 211 of R-Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

🏗️ Parse & edit #markdown documents @ropensci.org
🤖 Vibe-coding a package @jonocarroll.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
🏫 R-Exams quality control @zeileis.org

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & Jon Carroll 🙏

#RStats #DataScience
Issue 2025-W39 Highlights
Fresh off an amazing experience at posit::conf(2025), the R Weekly Highlights podcast is back with episode 211! Eric and Mike share their experiences at…
serve.podhome.fm
September 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
zeileis.org
🚨 PSA for R/exams users.

New StackOverflow post showing how to generate interactive overviews of all your exercise files. In response to the question by @luca-scr.bsky.social #rexams #rstats

stackoverflow.com/questions/79...
Create a document with an overview of all available R/exams exercises
I have several .qmd files with R/exams exercises. I can select a subset and include them in a PDF file using exams2pdf() without any problem. However, I would like to produce a PDF file with all the
stackoverflow.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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datavisfriendly.bsky.social
#dataviz #StatsSky
A fun new game: dataguessr.com
Place countries in order based on some variable
Dataguessr
Update your knowledge of the world. One quiz at a time.
dataguessr.com
September 23, 2025 at 2:37 PM