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Rohan Alexander
@rohanalexander.bsky.social
I spend too much money on books. And too much time writing them. 🇦🇺🇨🇦.
https://rohanalexander.com
http://tellingstorieswithdata.com
There are three Toronto Data Workshop online talks coming up 12, 19, and 26 November, noon EST. This first is this Wednesday at noon on Zoom: utoronto.zoom.us/j/4784708970. All welcome.
November 11, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Happy new Helen DeWitt book day for those who celebrate (which in a just world would be everyone)!!!
November 9, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Enjoying these graphs.
October 30, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Got my own office coffee set-up (staff at L'Espresso were rude one too many times!)
October 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Number of unique speakers in the Australian parliament, by gender, 1998-2025. By Lindsay Katz and @inessadeangelis.bsky.social.
October 28, 2025 at 12:00 AM
GitHub Actions is my passion.
October 25, 2025 at 5:56 PM
October 25, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Funny that Dan Wang's book came out the same year Mokyr got the Nobel; while the one phrase review of Wang is engineers vs lawyers, the similarities between what he ways about US manufacturing and Mokyr on the industrial revolution is striking.
(Mokyr in the 4th image is from Anton Howes).
October 20, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Sunday morning trifecta: espresso, croissant, and NSERC.
October 19, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Amen
October 17, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Yay, a Nobel partly for econ history! (implicitly just a lot of careful data work)!
October 13, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Sure it's just one word in the README, but still did something to help ghostty - ghostty.org - the best terminal emulator out there!
October 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Great book 🇨🇦🥅🍁
October 11, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Fall's here
October 10, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Hilariously the senate and the reps disagree on when Richard Hartley Smith Abbott died! And you people wonder why I have data trust issues.
October 8, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Sure you might be a pedant, but are you a "finds mistakes in Hansard" level of pedant? (Feeney wasn't in parliament on this day). Lindsay Katz FTW!
October 8, 2025 at 3:40 PM
"Overcome Imposterism" "Manage Procrastination" "Tame Perfectionism". Real "tag yourself" moment in terms of which workshop you sign up to.
October 7, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Data scientists: “OMG we had to learn a new programming language for this project”
Anthropologists: “We literally learnt two languages”
October 5, 2025 at 12:25 AM
How early is too early for children to watch Margin Call?
September 24, 2025 at 11:05 PM
And now there are two on the ice!
September 20, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Going to be upset if William Sealy Gosset doesn’t get a guernsey.
September 20, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Preprint of “Prompting the Professoriate: A Qualitative Study of Instructor Perspectives on LLMs in Data Science Education” available: arxiv.org/abs/2509.12283

By Ana Elisa Lopez-Miranda (an exceptional undergrad!), @tiffanytimbers.bsky.social, and me.

Comments appreciated!
September 18, 2025 at 10:33 AM
As Canadian as possible under the circumstances.
September 16, 2025 at 9:06 PM
😢
September 12, 2025 at 7:41 PM
New notebook for September. Pretty sure this* will be the one that gets my life together!
*Leuchtturm Notebook Master Slim A4+ Hardcover Dotted, Forest Green
August 30, 2025 at 7:45 PM