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Corey Sparks
@coreysparks1.bsky.social
Demographer, Research Scientist at The Coleridge Initiative, reformed #academic #rstats
https://coreysparks.github.io/appdem_Book/
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Coming tomorrow. It’s almost that time of year…
October 13, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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✍️ Just out: Annette Baudisch & I delve into the formal demography of fertility, birth, & reproduction timing. 👶 We use methods from mortality research to summarize when in the parental life course children are born. 📆 1/n
doi.org/10.1080/0032...
@sdu.dk @oxforddemsci.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social
Fertility, birth, reproduction: Connecting formal demographic frameworks
The conventional framework of fertility research conceptualizes childbirth from the mother’s perspective. From her perspective, birth is an uncertain and potentially recurring event. In contrast, t...
doi.org
October 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM
For those of you interested in accessing U.S. Census Bureau data from data.census.gov during the government shutdown, the Census APIs are still working.

Here is an example of how to access the Census API using both #Rstats and #Python

coreysparks.quarto.pub/accessing-th...
October 3, 2025 at 4:05 PM
ok, dumb #rstats question. I'm using #quarto and i want to print some inline R code in my HTML report, but I DON'T want it to actually run the code

I want it to be like this in the report:
`r mean(1:10)`
September 5, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Question for the group.
If you are in a job and there is basically no way of moving upwards in your organization, what would you do?
#jobs #work
August 29, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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New bonus lesson out now! 🎉

"A Quick Introduction to R" is for all course members that are new to #rstats or need a refresher 🧑‍💻

➕ 7 exercises and lots of in-browser code examples

Part of our interactive workshop #ggplot2 [un]charted 💙
Get access 👉 www.ggplot2-uncharted.com

#dataviz #datascience
May 23, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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The 1.2.0 version of my #brms + #tidyverse translation of Kruschke’s "Doing Bayesian data analysis" is up!

bookdown.org/content/3686/

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#rstats
Doing Bayesian Data Analysis in brms and the tidyverse
bookdown.org
April 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Taking your analyses to the necks level tomorrow…
March 31, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Without public data, Trump can say whatever he wants, his administration is effectively removing the ability for the public to have any factual basis to the health and socioeconomic conditions of his great america. If you are a public data user, archive whatever you can. #resist #publicdata
Corey Sparks, Ph.D. on LinkedIn: #resist #publicdata
Without public data, Trump can say whatever he wants, his administration is effectively removing the ability for the public to have any factual basis to the…
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January 31, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Hey #rstats and #quarto folks, I'm building a quarto dashboard and using a gt table to show a reactive dataframe. The problem is that when I select the filter, the table keeps getting large and larger, has anyone else seen this? TIA
December 5, 2024 at 3:59 PM
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If fellow BlueSkyers were like me and used to love TweetDeck back in the day, I'd really recommend @deck.blue to bring back that column view and general vibe.
November 18, 2024 at 12:26 PM
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Are you a #student who is interested in #Demography and #DataScience & you have no plans for ☀️☀️☀️#summer 2025☀️☀️☀️☀️ yet? Look no more! @mpidr.bsky.social has just the program for you: Population and Social Data Science Summer Incubator Program! Apply until Jan 8, 2025 demogr.mpg.de/go/Incubator...
November 14, 2024 at 12:42 PM
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My first try at a Demography "Starter Pack". There's a limit of 50 contacts, so this is definitely partial.

go.bsky.app/FqXNjEh
August 25, 2024 at 7:06 PM
Just deactivated my Twitter account, it was a really productive and fun place a few years ago, now it's a dumpster fire
November 16, 2024 at 12:45 AM
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During trump 1.0, we had to pull down all of the climate change pages off the EPA website. Start archiving shit now, document, backup, photograph, whatever you need to do.
November 6, 2024 at 7:28 AM
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My fav starter packs so far, a thread:

stats: go.bsky.app/Ki7PjpS
stats: go.bsky.app/7TBN5rX
causal inference: go.bsky.app/FdemGAZ
package devs: go.bsky.app/N1569Qh
data peeps: go.bsky.app/8TdEfdK
medical stats: go.bsky.app/ArqEz36
bioinformatics: go.bsky.app/Ha64Gmv
r-ladies: go.bsky.app/Vgxwa2F
October 26, 2024 at 7:23 PM