@evolutionv2.bsky.social
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The recording of @dingdingpeng.the100.ci's fantastic #CIIG presentation "Making Rigorous Causal Inference More Mainstream" is now available on YouTube!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL0c...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL0c...
CIIG Seminar: Julia Rohrer | Making Rigorous Causal Inference More Mainstream | 20 Oct 2025
YouTube video by the Causal Inference Interest Group (CIIG)
www.youtube.com
October 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
The recording of @dingdingpeng.the100.ci's fantastic #CIIG presentation "Making Rigorous Causal Inference More Mainstream" is now available on YouTube!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL0c...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL0c...
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Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!! formatmypaper.com
October 15, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!! formatmypaper.com
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The {modelbased} R package is here to be your statistical sidekick! It's an #rstats gem that helps you squeeze every last drop of insight from your models. It's got a super user-friendly interface to pull out all those estimands from a huge variety of models (doi.org/10.21105/jos...).
modelbased: An R package to make the most out of your statistical models through marginal means, marginal effects, and model predictions
Makowski et al., (2025). modelbased: An R package to make the most out of your statistical models through marginal means, marginal effects, and model predictions. Journal of Open Source Software, 10(1...
doi.org
August 31, 2025 at 8:27 AM
The {modelbased} R package is here to be your statistical sidekick! It's an #rstats gem that helps you squeeze every last drop of insight from your models. It's got a super user-friendly interface to pull out all those estimands from a huge variety of models (doi.org/10.21105/jos...).
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Excited to announce that our paper with @pingfanhu.bsky.social and Bogdan Bunea on our #rstats package {surveydown} is now published in @plosone.org
The paper compares the benefits of using a code-based approach to survey design, leveraging #quarto and #shiny
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
The paper compares the benefits of using a code-based approach to survey design, leveraging #quarto and #shiny
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
surveydown: An open-source, markdown-based platform for programmable and reproducible surveys
This paper introduces the surveydown survey platform. With surveydown, researchers can create surveys that are programmable and reproducible using markdown and R code, leveraging the Quarto publicatio...
journals.plos.org
August 29, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Excited to announce that our paper with @pingfanhu.bsky.social and Bogdan Bunea on our #rstats package {surveydown} is now published in @plosone.org
The paper compares the benefits of using a code-based approach to survey design, leveraging #quarto and #shiny
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
The paper compares the benefits of using a code-based approach to survey design, leveraging #quarto and #shiny
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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Now on CRAN, ggdiagram is a #ggplot2 extension that draws diagrams programmatically in #Rstats. Allows for precise control in how objects, labels, and equations are placed in relation to each other.
wjschne.github.io/ggdiagram/ar...
wjschne.github.io/ggdiagram/ar...
August 20, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Now on CRAN, ggdiagram is a #ggplot2 extension that draws diagrams programmatically in #Rstats. Allows for precise control in how objects, labels, and equations are placed in relation to each other.
wjschne.github.io/ggdiagram/ar...
wjschne.github.io/ggdiagram/ar...
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🚨 New FREE self-paced course!
We are excited to launch the #EpiTrainingKit #Africa: Introduction to Infectious Disease Modelling for Public Health.
🎯 Tailored for the African context
🌍 With a gender perspective
🆓 Open-access and online
#EpiTKit #Epiverse #PublicHealth
We are excited to launch the #EpiTrainingKit #Africa: Introduction to Infectious Disease Modelling for Public Health.
🎯 Tailored for the African context
🌍 With a gender perspective
🆓 Open-access and online
#EpiTKit #Epiverse #PublicHealth
August 4, 2025 at 6:30 PM
🚨 New FREE self-paced course!
We are excited to launch the #EpiTrainingKit #Africa: Introduction to Infectious Disease Modelling for Public Health.
🎯 Tailored for the African context
🌍 With a gender perspective
🆓 Open-access and online
#EpiTKit #Epiverse #PublicHealth
We are excited to launch the #EpiTrainingKit #Africa: Introduction to Infectious Disease Modelling for Public Health.
🎯 Tailored for the African context
🌍 With a gender perspective
🆓 Open-access and online
#EpiTKit #Epiverse #PublicHealth
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How can we reform science? I have some ideas. But I am not sure you’ll like them, because they don’t promise much. elevanth.org/blog/2025/07...
Which Kind of Science Reform
What hope is there for science reform, if we can't agree on what to reform? Right now, principles are more important than practices.
elevanth.org
July 9, 2025 at 1:40 PM
How can we reform science? I have some ideas. But I am not sure you’ll like them, because they don’t promise much. elevanth.org/blog/2025/07...
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At this point, I might as well --
Here's an infographic showing different ways to include age as a predictor. The top shows two extremes, just as a plain old numerical predictor (imposes linear trajectory) vs. categorical predictor (imposes nothing whatsoever). And then three solutions in between!
Here's an infographic showing different ways to include age as a predictor. The top shows two extremes, just as a plain old numerical predictor (imposes linear trajectory) vs. categorical predictor (imposes nothing whatsoever). And then three solutions in between!
July 16, 2025 at 12:33 PM
At this point, I might as well --
Here's an infographic showing different ways to include age as a predictor. The top shows two extremes, just as a plain old numerical predictor (imposes linear trajectory) vs. categorical predictor (imposes nothing whatsoever). And then three solutions in between!
Here's an infographic showing different ways to include age as a predictor. The top shows two extremes, just as a plain old numerical predictor (imposes linear trajectory) vs. categorical predictor (imposes nothing whatsoever). And then three solutions in between!
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Isabella Velásque @ivelasq3.bsky.social taught a fantastic workshop on how to use brand.yml for consistent, multiformat styling in Quarto.
👉 tiny.cc/brand-yml
I haven’t mastered it yet, but I definitely need to!
Check it out if you want your PDFs, HTMLs, and slides to look cohesive and on-brand.
👉 tiny.cc/brand-yml
I haven’t mastered it yet, but I definitely need to!
Check it out if you want your PDFs, HTMLs, and slides to look cohesive and on-brand.
Quarto with brand.yml with Isabella Velásquez
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
tiny.cc
July 16, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Isabella Velásque @ivelasq3.bsky.social taught a fantastic workshop on how to use brand.yml for consistent, multiformat styling in Quarto.
👉 tiny.cc/brand-yml
I haven’t mastered it yet, but I definitely need to!
Check it out if you want your PDFs, HTMLs, and slides to look cohesive and on-brand.
👉 tiny.cc/brand-yml
I haven’t mastered it yet, but I definitely need to!
Check it out if you want your PDFs, HTMLs, and slides to look cohesive and on-brand.
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📦 My R package {ggsurveillance} now supports nested date scales. All thanks to the fantastic {legendry} package by @teunbrand.bsky.social
🔗 ggsurveillance.biostats.dev/
🔗 teunbrand.github.io/legendry/
ggplot rules supreme
#rstats #ggplot #DataViz
🔗 ggsurveillance.biostats.dev/
🔗 teunbrand.github.io/legendry/
ggplot rules supreme
#rstats #ggplot #DataViz
July 4, 2025 at 2:47 PM
📦 My R package {ggsurveillance} now supports nested date scales. All thanks to the fantastic {legendry} package by @teunbrand.bsky.social
🔗 ggsurveillance.biostats.dev/
🔗 teunbrand.github.io/legendry/
ggplot rules supreme
#rstats #ggplot #DataViz
🔗 ggsurveillance.biostats.dev/
🔗 teunbrand.github.io/legendry/
ggplot rules supreme
#rstats #ggplot #DataViz
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🚲 Heute ist Europäischer Tag des Fahrrads!
Aktive Mobilität ist ein Public-Health-Thema!
Das RKI hat mit der Bundesanstalt für Straßen- und Verkehrswesen (BASt) den gesundheitlichen Nutzen und Maßnahmen zur Förderung aktiver Mobilität zusammengefasst.
Hier lesen:
www.rki.de/DE/Aktuelles...
Aktive Mobilität ist ein Public-Health-Thema!
Das RKI hat mit der Bundesanstalt für Straßen- und Verkehrswesen (BASt) den gesundheitlichen Nutzen und Maßnahmen zur Förderung aktiver Mobilität zusammengefasst.
Hier lesen:
www.rki.de/DE/Aktuelles...
June 3, 2025 at 7:22 AM
🚲 Heute ist Europäischer Tag des Fahrrads!
Aktive Mobilität ist ein Public-Health-Thema!
Das RKI hat mit der Bundesanstalt für Straßen- und Verkehrswesen (BASt) den gesundheitlichen Nutzen und Maßnahmen zur Förderung aktiver Mobilität zusammengefasst.
Hier lesen:
www.rki.de/DE/Aktuelles...
Aktive Mobilität ist ein Public-Health-Thema!
Das RKI hat mit der Bundesanstalt für Straßen- und Verkehrswesen (BASt) den gesundheitlichen Nutzen und Maßnahmen zur Förderung aktiver Mobilität zusammengefasst.
Hier lesen:
www.rki.de/DE/Aktuelles...
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Today is #WorldBicycleDay 🚲
Did you know❓ Cycle lanes count for just 0.2% of the current road infrastructure.
It’s time to demand safer streets that put the health & safety of pedestrians and cyclists first 👉bit.ly/4jPzXsa
Did you know❓ Cycle lanes count for just 0.2% of the current road infrastructure.
It’s time to demand safer streets that put the health & safety of pedestrians and cyclists first 👉bit.ly/4jPzXsa
June 3, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Today is #WorldBicycleDay 🚲
Did you know❓ Cycle lanes count for just 0.2% of the current road infrastructure.
It’s time to demand safer streets that put the health & safety of pedestrians and cyclists first 👉bit.ly/4jPzXsa
Did you know❓ Cycle lanes count for just 0.2% of the current road infrastructure.
It’s time to demand safer streets that put the health & safety of pedestrians and cyclists first 👉bit.ly/4jPzXsa
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Thanks to everybody who chimed in!
I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist.
So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>
I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist.
So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>
May 11, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Thanks to everybody who chimed in!
I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist.
So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>
I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist.
So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>
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Slides from my "Shiny without Boundaries" guest lecture in STAT 447 at UIUC are now available!
#rstats #rshiny fundamentals + 7 pathways to deploy apps anywhere: from on-premise servers to WebAssembly in browsers.
🖥️ : talks.thecoatlessprofessor.com/stat447-shin...
📦: github.com/coatless-tal...
#rstats #rshiny fundamentals + 7 pathways to deploy apps anywhere: from on-premise servers to WebAssembly in browsers.
🖥️ : talks.thecoatlessprofessor.com/stat447-shin...
📦: github.com/coatless-tal...
April 10, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Slides from my "Shiny without Boundaries" guest lecture in STAT 447 at UIUC are now available!
#rstats #rshiny fundamentals + 7 pathways to deploy apps anywhere: from on-premise servers to WebAssembly in browsers.
🖥️ : talks.thecoatlessprofessor.com/stat447-shin...
📦: github.com/coatless-tal...
#rstats #rshiny fundamentals + 7 pathways to deploy apps anywhere: from on-premise servers to WebAssembly in browsers.
🖥️ : talks.thecoatlessprofessor.com/stat447-shin...
📦: github.com/coatless-tal...
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Trying something new:
A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?"
It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social
🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...
A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?"
It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social
🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...
November 20, 2024 at 5:09 PM
Trying something new:
A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?"
It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social
🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...
A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?"
It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social
🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...
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“The truth is paywalled, but the lies are free.”
March 19, 2025 at 10:37 PM
“The truth is paywalled, but the lies are free.”
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#EpiverseTRACE is now on Bluesky & LinkedIn! 🎉
We’re expanding to be more inclusive & diverse, reaching a wider audience in public health & data science.
Want to know more about what we do?⁉️🤔
🧵a thread!
We’re expanding to be more inclusive & diverse, reaching a wider audience in public health & data science.
Want to know more about what we do?⁉️🤔
🧵a thread!
March 11, 2025 at 10:29 AM
#EpiverseTRACE is now on Bluesky & LinkedIn! 🎉
We’re expanding to be more inclusive & diverse, reaching a wider audience in public health & data science.
Want to know more about what we do?⁉️🤔
🧵a thread!
We’re expanding to be more inclusive & diverse, reaching a wider audience in public health & data science.
Want to know more about what we do?⁉️🤔
🧵a thread!
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#rstats tidypolars 0.13.0 is available via R-universe!
It brings some features and bug fixes, notably:
- more support for functions from base R, lubridate, stringr
- better errors/warnings when some args in a function are not supported
Changelog: www.tidypolars.etiennebacher.com/news/#tidypo...
It brings some features and bug fixes, notably:
- more support for functions from base R, lubridate, stringr
- better errors/warnings when some args in a function are not supported
Changelog: www.tidypolars.etiennebacher.com/news/#tidypo...
Changelog
www.tidypolars.etiennebacher.com
March 10, 2025 at 8:24 PM
#rstats tidypolars 0.13.0 is available via R-universe!
It brings some features and bug fixes, notably:
- more support for functions from base R, lubridate, stringr
- better errors/warnings when some args in a function are not supported
Changelog: www.tidypolars.etiennebacher.com/news/#tidypo...
It brings some features and bug fixes, notably:
- more support for functions from base R, lubridate, stringr
- better errors/warnings when some args in a function are not supported
Changelog: www.tidypolars.etiennebacher.com/news/#tidypo...
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Decades from now, the Covid-19 pandemic will be visible in the historical data of nearly anything measurable today. Here’s an incomplete collection of charts that capture that break — across the economy, health care, education, work, family life and more.
30 Charts That Show How Everything Changed in March 2020
It can be easy to forget, or look away from, the pain and disruption of the pandemic. The numbers will be there to remind us.
www.nytimes.com
March 10, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Decades from now, the Covid-19 pandemic will be visible in the historical data of nearly anything measurable today. Here’s an incomplete collection of charts that capture that break — across the economy, health care, education, work, family life and more.
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Das @rki.de hat sein Portal DEMIS jetzt auch für Arztpraxen zur Meldung von Infektionskrankheiten frei geschaltet.
Ärztinnen und Ärzte sind nach dem Infektionsschutzgesetz verpflichtet, meldepflichtige Infektionen innerhalb von 24 Stunden den Gesundheitsämtern mitzuteilen.
Ärztinnen und Ärzte sind nach dem Infektionsschutzgesetz verpflichtet, meldepflichtige Infektionen innerhalb von 24 Stunden den Gesundheitsämtern mitzuteilen.
KBV - Meldepflicht bei Infektionen: RKI schaltet Portal für Arztpraxen frei und stellt Infos bereit
www.kbv.de
March 6, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Das @rki.de hat sein Portal DEMIS jetzt auch für Arztpraxen zur Meldung von Infektionskrankheiten frei geschaltet.
Ärztinnen und Ärzte sind nach dem Infektionsschutzgesetz verpflichtet, meldepflichtige Infektionen innerhalb von 24 Stunden den Gesundheitsämtern mitzuteilen.
Ärztinnen und Ärzte sind nach dem Infektionsschutzgesetz verpflichtet, meldepflichtige Infektionen innerhalb von 24 Stunden den Gesundheitsämtern mitzuteilen.
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🦠🔬 Labore können Sequenzdaten meldepflichtiger Erreger jetzt über #DEMIS ans RKI senden.
Das stärkt die integrierte genomische Surveillance #IGS – für eine schnellere Erkennung von Infektionsketten und Ausbrüchen dank einer automatisierter Datenübermittlung.
📌 Mehr: wiki.gematik.de/display/DSKB...
Das stärkt die integrierte genomische Surveillance #IGS – für eine schnellere Erkennung von Infektionsketten und Ausbrüchen dank einer automatisierter Datenübermittlung.
📌 Mehr: wiki.gematik.de/display/DSKB...
DEMIS-Wissensdatenbank - DEMIS Wissensdatenbank - Confluence
wiki.gematik.de
March 4, 2025 at 2:17 PM
🦠🔬 Labore können Sequenzdaten meldepflichtiger Erreger jetzt über #DEMIS ans RKI senden.
Das stärkt die integrierte genomische Surveillance #IGS – für eine schnellere Erkennung von Infektionsketten und Ausbrüchen dank einer automatisierter Datenübermittlung.
📌 Mehr: wiki.gematik.de/display/DSKB...
Das stärkt die integrierte genomische Surveillance #IGS – für eine schnellere Erkennung von Infektionsketten und Ausbrüchen dank einer automatisierter Datenübermittlung.
📌 Mehr: wiki.gematik.de/display/DSKB...
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For the German election we wanted to use a cartogram of German election districts but didn't find anything good, so we created our own. Here's a little nerd thread how the final algorithm worked 🤓 🧵 #gis #cartogram #election #datavis #cartography
February 27, 2025 at 4:48 PM
For the German election we wanted to use a cartogram of German election districts but didn't find anything good, so we created our own. Here's a little nerd thread how the final algorithm worked 🤓 🧵 #gis #cartogram #election #datavis #cartography
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"An application of nowcasting methods: Cases of norovirus during the winter 2023/2024 in England | PLOS Computational Biology" from a team at UKHSA
community.epinowcast.org/t/nowcasting...
community.epinowcast.org/t/nowcasting...
Nowcasting norovirus cases (shameless self plug)
My team at UKHSA’s paper on nowcasting norovirus methods has now been published here: An application of nowcasting methods: Cases of norovirus during the winter 2023/2024 in England | PLOS Computatio...
community.epinowcast.org
February 27, 2025 at 10:23 AM
"An application of nowcasting methods: Cases of norovirus during the winter 2023/2024 in England | PLOS Computational Biology" from a team at UKHSA
community.epinowcast.org/t/nowcasting...
community.epinowcast.org/t/nowcasting...
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On the erosion of trust in doctors
www.wsj.com/health/welln...
www.wsj.com/health/welln...
February 26, 2025 at 2:57 PM
On the erosion of trust in doctors
www.wsj.com/health/welln...
www.wsj.com/health/welln...
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I really liked this idea of using a histogram as a legend in a choropleth map (since land isn't unemployed; people are), so I made a little guide to doing it with #rstats, {ggplot2}, and {patchwork}
www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/02...
www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/02...
February 19, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I really liked this idea of using a histogram as a legend in a choropleth map (since land isn't unemployed; people are), so I made a little guide to doing it with #rstats, {ggplot2}, and {patchwork}
www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/02...
www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/02...