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Anna Fergusson
@annafergusson.bsky.social
Statistics & data science education researcher
⭐New issue of Statistics Education Research Journal!
📝Secondary teachers’ attitudes toward teaching probability
📝Preservice teachers interpreting students’ probability thinking
📝Grade 6 students on measures of central tendency
📝VR for enhancing data literacy
📖Read the articles: iase-pub.org/ojs/SERJ
November 9, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Spent the day promoting Census at School Canada at a BC Math Teachers conference (BCAMT). Census at School is a program for K-12 students to take a survey & analyze data about themselves! Its free, easy to use & very engaging, making it fun for students & teachers (and parents).
🔗 censusatschool.ca
October 25, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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📢 R Dev Day @ New Zealand 2025

🏢 Auckland University
🌐 Remote, Americas / Asia-Pacific
📅 Tue 16 - Wed 17 Dec

Registration deadline: Sunday 7 Dec
pretix.eu/r-contributo...

Attend this free event to collaborate on contributions to #RStats.

#RDevDay #RSEng
R Dev Day @ New Zealand 2025
Dec. 16th – 17th, 2025
pretix.eu
October 1, 2025 at 7:12 AM
I had a great time at #USCOTS (United States Conference on Teaching Statistics) earlier this month, attending in person for the first time. I was also grateful to give the keynote for the research satellite, about how I am trying to navigate the sea of statistics and data science education research.
July 30, 2025 at 9:04 PM
At the USCOTS opening session, someone asked me if I know about the Reddit featuring maps without New Zealand. Next thing, someone shows a map showing where everyone has come from for the conference ….. guess what was missing 🤣🤣🤣
July 18, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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Click this link to learn more about this year's RoSE econference and to submit your own abstract:

www.rose-network.org/events/rose-...
RoSE Network - RoSE eConference 2025
RoSE e-CONFERENCE 2025
www.rose-network.org
April 23, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Maybe I should feature more dogs than cats in my research? Because my paper on using grayscale photos (of dogs) to introduce reasoning with digital image data won the 2024 ASA Jackie Dietz Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education Best Paper Award 🎉 www.tandfonline.com/journals/ujs...
April 17, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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I got to give a talk on our R package in the birthplace of #rstats 😊 Thank you for the opportunity @annafergusson.bsky.social

Slides: mdogucu.github.io/auckland-2024/
December 11, 2024 at 4:44 AM
I'm trying to finish my slides for a CAUSE webinar on using grayscale photos to introduce high school teachers to reasoning with digital image data (www.causeweb.org/cause/webina...), but my cat is not giving consent for his image to be used - lucky he can't read the paper! #statsed #datascied
December 9, 2024 at 3:18 AM
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@annafergusson.bsky.social asked students to draw what they thought data science looks like and I feel so simultaneously sympathetic and attacked by the person who drew Squidward
#rstats 📊
October 23, 2024 at 2:44 AM
Six years ago, I had just finished the first semester of designing and teaching a new intro statistics and data science course. One of the many new teaching activities I created was one using grayscale photos to introduce and reinforce concepts related to data distributions.

🐱 🐶 📊 💻
June 17, 2024 at 9:56 PM
Do you like stats? Do you like cats? Chances are you might like this: teachwell.auckland.ac.nz/2024/03/28/s... 📊😻 #statscats
April 9, 2024 at 1:12 AM
Has it ever been a thing that when a journal asks you to review a paper, that in addition to the abstract, they tell you how many pages it is? 😀
March 6, 2024 at 10:48 PM
Reposted by Anna Fergusson
On the lookout for recent #biostats publications with (nice) open data for use in a postgrad biostats. Anything from (g)lm(m) to PCA, LDA... I have my usual data deps and journals to peruse but am keen to find more, esp. outside ecology and environment. #EduSky #TidyTuesday Suggestions and RP 🙏
January 23, 2024 at 7:04 PM
@tomelliott.bsky.social amazing news!!! Tino pai rawa atu!
December 18, 2023 at 9:57 PM