#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊
🎂Dec 10, 1901 Edward H. Simpson born in Northern Ireland, UK

1946: Discovered the phenomenon now known as Simpson's Paradox while a graduate student at Cambridge

Getting a PhD is not easy.
clauswilke.substack.com/p/getting-a-...

#tidyverse purrr 1.1.0 is out - now with parallel processing!

Scale your #rstats map operations reliably and efficiently across multiple cores and even distributed systems.

Powered by the mirai framework, this unlocks new levels of performance.

Read more at:
www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/07...

About to go to school and tell students about the job of a scientist. I will appear competent as I managed to eat lunch at the screen and my shirt is still clean.

📣 rworkshop.uni.lu We're running an R tidyverse course Feb 10-13 2025 at the University of Luxembourg. It's a free, intermediate lvl course covering data transform and plotting.

I had a look at Trump's recent ambassadorial nominations. Among them:

Stacey Feinberg (Luxembourg) who "is committed to supporting women in launching their careers" - just like she did in daddy's business, & Art Fisher (Austria) bcs 🤷‍♀️ mountains?

Eye-watering qualifications.

rix v0.14.3 is on CRAN with many new features and improvements!

cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

Thanks to the many contributors for this release (credited in the DESCRIPTION file)

Here is a sneak peak of what awaits you:

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