Hey #rstats, #statsky and #devsky

I'm looking for some short-term advisors with expertise in:
- survey design and administration;
- propensity score matching (PSM); and
- Regression discontinuity design (RDD).

If this is you feel free to share your profile via DM / here.

#Syria | Communities are facing overlapping shocks—conflict, displacement, wildfires—eroding coping capacities. The situation is especially severe in Rural Damascus, Lattakia & Tartous.

Read full report: tinyurl.com/5msa4dfj

TIL you can create and customize ggplot2 visualizations using your voice alone. #Rstats

AI to map hope for refugees with UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency

Counting lives saved is difficult, but it can show us the great difference some people have made—

Scientists can make an enormous difference in the world.

Five more Palestinians have died from starvation in Gaza, due to Israel’s restrictions on aid, bringing the total to 217 since the war began, including 100 children, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/1490et

Introducing the Data Explorer in Positron!

Quickly view raw data files (CSV, Parquet, etc.) or dataframes from your #Python / #RStats sessions with a data grid, summary panel, and filter bar.

Learn more: positron.posit.co/data-explore... #Positron

Satellite images show how receiving aid in Gaza became so deadly
economist.com/interactive/...
from The Economist

🚨🚨 Please read our report, commissioned by Pope Francis, out today on how to manage sovereign debt in a productive way that does not debilitate countries and their citizens. With @martinguzman.bsky.social and more than 30 leading economists. @ipdcolumbia.bsky.social ipdcolumbia.org/publication/...

We’re seeing historic cuts to development budgets — a 7% decrease in 2024, most likely a further 25(ish)% decrease this year. Happens at the same time as needs are increasing. Urgent need to rethink and refocus!

www.norad.no/en/news/news...

🚨 OUT NOW: Global Report on Internal Displacement 2025
A record 83.4 million people were living in internal displacement at the end of 2024. Over the past six years alone, this number has doubled.

Explore the data, trends & insights from #GRID2025 👇
bit.ly/3YIDHTP

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊
💀May 1, 1772 Gottfried Achenwall died in Göttingen, Germany 🇩🇪

1748: First use of the term "statistik,'' meaning numbers of the state. Some call him the 'father of statistics'
bit.ly/4m2w3O8

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #OTD 📊
🎂Apr 30, 1777 Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss born in Braunschweig, Germany 🇩🇪

Discoverer ~1800 of least squares method (w/ Legndre) & connection with the normal (Gaussian) distribution;
later extended to the Gauss-Markov theorem: LS gives best linear unbiased estimate.

For this week's #TidyTuesday I share a map on armed conflict in the Lake Chad Basin
#humanitarian #conflict #rstats

Hello Bluesky and #Rstats Community! 🌍
My first post ever is for #TidyTuesday! I created a waffle chart to visualize the distribution of disease outbreaks around the world in 2024.