Matthew Kay
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Matthew Kay
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Assoc Prof Computer Science and Communication Studies at Northwestern. Infovis, HCI. Author of tidybayes & ggdist R pkgs. he/him. 🏳️‍🌈 https://mjskay.com/

Co-director https://mucollective.northwestern.edu

Co-founder https://journalovi.org
Thanks for this! Looks very useful - will look more in depth later this week. Worth noting the method for weighted quantiles in my blog post you cited is not the same as the version in ggdist (never updated it b/c I wanted to do more testing first, so this is quite welcome)
November 6, 2025 at 7:17 AM
add the jalepenos to the roll
November 5, 2025 at 4:09 PM
oh yeah shacket it is
October 30, 2025 at 4:59 PM
do we call this a shacket or a jirt
October 30, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Sure but it's not just trolling. There are people who vote like this.

Where did the global post-covid collapse of incumbents come from? Sadies who don't understand the relationship between policy and outcomes but who vote for the incumbent when times are good and against them when times are bad.
October 29, 2025 at 10:07 PM
I could imagine picking people to show based on difficulty to answer, like folks where a model of vote preferences gives party probability closest to 1/2 (or dem/rep/no vote closest to 1/3)

call it "maximum entropy stupidity detection"
October 29, 2025 at 5:35 PM
like, fuck, anyone voting based on policy decided who they're voting for before the campaign began

nominate someone exciting and popular who can win on vibes
October 29, 2025 at 3:57 PM