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Matthew Kay
@mjskay.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
Associate Professor at Northwestern in Computer Science and Communication Studies

Research in infovis, uncertainty vis, HCI, usable stats. Co-director https […]

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Oh hey y'all I don't post as much here anymore (too many social networks!!), but I still miss folks from on here, especially in #rstats... do me a favor if your wanna connect? Follow my bluesky account from within mastodon by following *both* @bsky.brid.gy (to enable the bridge to bluesky) and […]
Original post on fediscience.org
fediscience.org
October 27, 2024 at 6:01 PM
Reposted by Matthew Kay
It’s been almost one week since I made the RStats Starter Pack. The response was very positive, and we are all following each other much more closer now 🥳.

I have added more people to it, so give it another look and follow more great #RStats friends!

go.bsky.app/Ki7PjpS
October 25, 2024 at 8:05 PM
Reposted by Matthew Kay
I hereby publicly commit --- when I do finally write a function for cumulative fuzzy bar charts --- to break from the #rstats tradition of cumsum() and to *not* call it geom_cumbar() or geom_cumstack()

even though I could
I thought about this a bit more and realized a proper gradient bar implementation is slightly less annoying than I thought it would be (bottom of previous page: github.com/mjskay/uncer...)

Now I definitely need to wrap this in a geom
September 8, 2024 at 11:19 AM
Reposted by Matthew Kay
just got a comment from a rando on a months-old blog post accusing me of writing "hogwash" and not sufficiently valuing data visualization for some reason that is very funny to me
August 24, 2024 at 8:22 PM
Reposted by Matthew Kay
why do all cooking youtubers feel the need to show off the cross section of whatever sandwich or sandwich-like thing they are making? is it that deconstruction is necessarily for something to be legible to us? that we don't "believe" in the reality of the finished dish unless it has been […]
Original post on jorts.horse
jorts.horse
August 3, 2024 at 12:18 AM
Reposted by Matthew Kay
[uspol]

Never forget: The GOP (which is just MAGA now) embraced and cheered Kyle Rittenhouse's gleeful murdering of folks at protest for racial justice.

I'm not going to go on, as there are *dozens* of examples where there has been championed violence and regular calls for violence against […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
July 14, 2024 at 7:17 PM
Reposted by Matthew Kay
lol bought some lime juice and uh whoops

this might be one of the worst packaging failures I have seen
June 26, 2024 at 11:26 PM