Derek Beaton
derek--beaton.bsky.social
Derek Beaton
@derek--beaton.bsky.social
Director, Advanced Analytics at Unity Health Toronto. So early to Blue Sky they don't even allow underscores. I like beer, data, and multivariate blah-blahs. 2x Guinness world record holder in nonsense (5 person half and full marathon)
I groaned. but I approve.
November 21, 2025 at 1:27 AM
instant publish
November 20, 2025 at 4:25 AM
it's currently 1 hat every few months. clear trajectory towards a few hats every month.

terrified of the day it becomes a multi hat day.
November 16, 2025 at 12:29 AM
I bought my first hat---in about 10 years---approximately two years ago. It's been a quadratic function since.
November 16, 2025 at 12:26 AM
I will not give up my em-dashes but I've pivoted to explicitly using 3 dashes instead of the proper em-dash
November 14, 2025 at 6:52 PM
very jealous.
October 20, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Boston Public Market is a good food hall near Fanieul. Pretty good overall and variety. But may be a bit far from seaport/convention center
October 13, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Taiwan Cafe and most things in Chinatown. Shy Bird. Bardo's Bar Pie is about as far north (sort of...) as you'll find south shore bar pizza (a regional specialty). Most things in Seaport are good but can be $$$$ (Row 34, Trillium, etc...)
October 13, 2025 at 6:44 PM
a lazy hack I've used when I really want access to something hiding or not exported is :::

reprex.lazyload:::myfunc()

but admittedly I don't think this is the norm and probably only for emergency use (or laziness)
October 7, 2025 at 12:25 PM
I'm at the airport and the airline forced me to do that at the kiosk -- which makes sense

It printed a form I had to fill out by hand with emergency contacts

No one wants to take it. I keep trying to give it to airline staff and they say "You dont need that. We just have to ask"

Cool.
October 1, 2025 at 9:28 PM
We should chat (you know how to find me)! We've been working on this a bit
October 1, 2025 at 8:35 PM
yes actually! I don't know if an abstract/write up is available but if of interest, please let me know and I'll dig this up

scholar.google.ca/citations?vi...
scholar.google.ca
October 1, 2025 at 8:34 PM
if Doug Flutie and Arnie *weren't actually there*, then I choose my false memory that they were.

The seats were incredible regardless. Basically high five distance from from Mick Jagger as he danced around
August 29, 2025 at 7:54 PM
agree I'd prefer CIs. but I lean more comprehensive reporting of everything because "p < .05" could be .0499 or .0101

put it all out there. it's all useful!
August 9, 2025 at 9:00 PM
software as a replacement of look up tables: totally agree.

but the exact p-values themselves are not always reported. so we need those other bits of information to help (and verify)

I'd rather see it all reported/displayed (especially N or df) than reporting of just one thing or another.
August 9, 2025 at 8:05 PM
it took me a minute but I remembered the suite of R packages developed across companies to replace other tools with R:

pharmaverse.org
pharmaverse
This is meta description
pharmaverse.org
August 5, 2025 at 1:56 AM
After IBM acquired SPSS, they also started offering direct integration with (or even pass through to?) R

A big, perhaps qualitative, sign of movement is in bio/pharma industry and how they're now making/publishing R packages to support this work (and move away from SAS and others)
August 5, 2025 at 1:53 AM