Tom Goodale
@tomgoodale.bsky.social
Maths, Stats and IT tutor at Liverpool John Moores University. Lapsed computational physicist.
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Are you interested in adding alt text to your publications? It helps share your data visualisations with vision impaired readers. Try out github.com/numbats/auto... to get a reasonable first draft or maybe complete text. @r-forwards.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy @rladies.org @rconsortium.bsky.social
GitHub - numbats/autoAlt
Contribute to numbats/autoAlt development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Are you interested in adding alt text to your publications? It helps share your data visualisations with vision impaired readers. Try out github.com/numbats/auto... to get a reasonable first draft or maybe complete text. @r-forwards.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy @rladies.org @rconsortium.bsky.social
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RDM Weekly Issue 21 is out! 📬
- Project Structure slides @djnavarro.net
- AI TutoR @emilynordmann.bsky.social
- Data Documentation and Validation @lmu-osc.bsky.social
- Request for Reading Data @jessicatoste.bsky.social @emilyafarris.bsky.social
and more!
rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...
- Project Structure slides @djnavarro.net
- AI TutoR @emilynordmann.bsky.social
- Data Documentation and Validation @lmu-osc.bsky.social
- Request for Reading Data @jessicatoste.bsky.social @emilyafarris.bsky.social
and more!
rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...
RDM Weekly - Issue 021
A weekly roundup of Research Data Management resources.
rdmweekly.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
RDM Weekly Issue 21 is out! 📬
- Project Structure slides @djnavarro.net
- AI TutoR @emilynordmann.bsky.social
- Data Documentation and Validation @lmu-osc.bsky.social
- Request for Reading Data @jessicatoste.bsky.social @emilyafarris.bsky.social
and more!
rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...
- Project Structure slides @djnavarro.net
- AI TutoR @emilynordmann.bsky.social
- Data Documentation and Validation @lmu-osc.bsky.social
- Request for Reading Data @jessicatoste.bsky.social @emilyafarris.bsky.social
and more!
rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...
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Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
The value of public R&D
www.gov.uk
October 30, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
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There still seems to be a lot of confusion about significance testing in psych. No, p-values *don’t* become useless at large N. This flawed point also used to be framed as "too much power". But power isn't the problem – it's 1) unbalanced error rates and 2) the (lack of a) SESOI. 1/ >
October 31, 2025 at 8:13 AM
There still seems to be a lot of confusion about significance testing in psych. No, p-values *don’t* become useless at large N. This flawed point also used to be framed as "too much power". But power isn't the problem – it's 1) unbalanced error rates and 2) the (lack of a) SESOI. 1/ >
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Happy to announce that I'll give a talk on how we can make rigorous causal inference more mainstream 📈
You can sign up for the Zoom link here: tinyurl.com/CIIG-JuliaRo...
You can sign up for the Zoom link here: tinyurl.com/CIIG-JuliaRo...
October 6, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Happy to announce that I'll give a talk on how we can make rigorous causal inference more mainstream 📈
You can sign up for the Zoom link here: tinyurl.com/CIIG-JuliaRo...
You can sign up for the Zoom link here: tinyurl.com/CIIG-JuliaRo...
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❗️Our next workshop will be on Oct 16th, 6 pm CEST titled Structural Bayesian Techniques for Experimental and Behavioral Economics in R& Stan by @jamesbland.bsky.social
Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine!
Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S
Please share!
#AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats
Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine!
Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S
Please share!
#AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats
October 10, 2025 at 9:14 AM
❗️Our next workshop will be on Oct 16th, 6 pm CEST titled Structural Bayesian Techniques for Experimental and Behavioral Economics in R& Stan by @jamesbland.bsky.social
Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine!
Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S
Please share!
#AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats
Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine!
Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S
Please share!
#AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats
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Join us, and invite your siblings, as Quantitude gets Wild tomorrow…
October 6, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Join us, and invite your siblings, as Quantitude gets Wild tomorrow…
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Beginner's charm 😊
Want to do disruptive #science? Papers from #research teams with a substantial number of beginners are highly disruptive and innovative, a new study shows. www.nature.com/articles/d41... @nature.com #ScienceCareer
Want to do disruptive #science? Papers from #research teams with a substantial number of beginners are highly disruptive and innovative, a new study shows. www.nature.com/articles/d41... @nature.com #ScienceCareer
Rookie scientists make research teams more innovative
Papers from research teams with a substantial number of beginners are highly disruptive and innovative, study shows.
www.nature.com
September 30, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Beginner's charm 😊
Want to do disruptive #science? Papers from #research teams with a substantial number of beginners are highly disruptive and innovative, a new study shows. www.nature.com/articles/d41... @nature.com #ScienceCareer
Want to do disruptive #science? Papers from #research teams with a substantial number of beginners are highly disruptive and innovative, a new study shows. www.nature.com/articles/d41... @nature.com #ScienceCareer
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Popularity of the first name Bo correlates with Zimmer Biomet Holdings' stock price (ZBH) (r=0.918)
September 30, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Popularity of the first name Bo correlates with Zimmer Biomet Holdings' stock price (ZBH) (r=0.918)
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In chess, everyone understands that a new player starts by learning the basics like how the pieces move.
In education, the same is true - but it's much less well understood.
Latest on our Substack - 3 things education can learn from chess.
substack.nomoremarking.com/p/three-thin...
In education, the same is true - but it's much less well understood.
Latest on our Substack - 3 things education can learn from chess.
substack.nomoremarking.com/p/three-thin...
June 24, 2025 at 10:24 AM
In chess, everyone understands that a new player starts by learning the basics like how the pieces move.
In education, the same is true - but it's much less well understood.
Latest on our Substack - 3 things education can learn from chess.
substack.nomoremarking.com/p/three-thin...
In education, the same is true - but it's much less well understood.
Latest on our Substack - 3 things education can learn from chess.
substack.nomoremarking.com/p/three-thin...
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Sample: I'm so random *holds up spork*
Happy to discover that R.A. Fisher already relied on what one may refer to as "resolution by cope"
June 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Sample: I'm so random *holds up spork*
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Our vice-president for education & statistical literacy @sophiebays.bsky.social writes for OCR on why statistics is an essential life skill and why we need the curriculum updated to reflect this
Data skills are life skills: why we need stats in the classroom
www.ocr.org.uk
June 9, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Our vice-president for education & statistical literacy @sophiebays.bsky.social writes for OCR on why statistics is an essential life skill and why we need the curriculum updated to reflect this
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Chaining Bayesian inference with priors constructed from posterior draws
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/05/13/c...
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/05/13/c...
Chaining Bayesian inference with priors constructed from posterior draws | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
May 13, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Chaining Bayesian inference with priors constructed from posterior draws
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/05/13/c...
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/05/13/c...
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#OTD 1918 Frank Anscombe b (d 17 Oct 2001) UK. ASA Fellow 1956. BIL of John Tukey. Best known for Anscombe's quartet, the most compelling argument ever made why data should be plotted before analysis. /3
May 13, 2025 at 9:22 AM
#OTD 1918 Frank Anscombe b (d 17 Oct 2001) UK. ASA Fellow 1956. BIL of John Tukey. Best known for Anscombe's quartet, the most compelling argument ever made why data should be plotted before analysis. /3
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The ASA has a book club! Follow the group on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/sho... and connect with other statisticians who share your love of reading. Upcoming book is "Talking to Strangers" by Malcolm Gladwell. Sign up by May 23. lnkd.in/eh6ey7iQ
May 13, 2025 at 1:28 PM
The ASA has a book club! Follow the group on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/sho... and connect with other statisticians who share your love of reading. Upcoming book is "Talking to Strangers" by Malcolm Gladwell. Sign up by May 23. lnkd.in/eh6ey7iQ
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Google searches for 'matt levine' correlates with The number of college administrators in Ohio (r=0.952)
May 13, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Google searches for 'matt levine' correlates with The number of college administrators in Ohio (r=0.952)
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This is getting lots of attention - check the thread. I want to emphasize the basic problem: Just because you have randomized (or pseudo-randmized) a treatment, that doesn't mean you can reliably estimate interactions with that treatment. Which means post-strat prediction for population not possible
Thanks to everybody who chimed in!
I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist.
So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>
I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist.
So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>
May 12, 2025 at 7:03 AM
This is getting lots of attention - check the thread. I want to emphasize the basic problem: Just because you have randomized (or pseudo-randmized) a treatment, that doesn't mean you can reliably estimate interactions with that treatment. Which means post-strat prediction for population not possible
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This is really important. Do NOT use the AI summaries at the top of google searches. Ignore them. This is especially important if you don't have any prior knowledge about the topic, but also a good general rule.
Search sources, scrutinize them carefully and double-check with other sources.
Search sources, scrutinize them carefully and double-check with other sources.
Google’s AI Overviews will not only confirm that a gibberish idiom is a real saying, it will also tell you what it means and how it was derived -- often including reference links.
www.wired.com/story/google...
www.wired.com/story/google...
‘You Can’t Lick a Badger Twice’: Google Failures Highlight a Fundamental AI Flaw
Google’s AI Overviews feature credible-sounding explanations for completely made-up idioms.
www.wired.com
April 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
This is really important. Do NOT use the AI summaries at the top of google searches. Ignore them. This is especially important if you don't have any prior knowledge about the topic, but also a good general rule.
Search sources, scrutinize them carefully and double-check with other sources.
Search sources, scrutinize them carefully and double-check with other sources.
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The new issue of the "Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education" explores AI in teaching, experiential learning, Bayesian analysis in K–12, and more! Plus, a call for papers on AI in the classroom. www.tandfonline.com/toc/ujse20/c.... #DataScience #StatisticsEducation #AIinEducation
April 23, 2025 at 5:51 PM
The new issue of the "Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education" explores AI in teaching, experiential learning, Bayesian analysis in K–12, and more! Plus, a call for papers on AI in the classroom. www.tandfonline.com/toc/ujse20/c.... #DataScience #StatisticsEducation #AIinEducation
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📊 Best Practices for Data Visualisation
By Andreas Krause, Nicola Rennie & Brian Tarran — A fantastic guide from the Royal Statistical Society on making clear, accessible, and impactful data visuals.
🔗 Read the guide: buff.ly/JEPX0Cb
More R resources 👉 buff.ly/MSQa1kh
#RStats #DataViz
By Andreas Krause, Nicola Rennie & Brian Tarran — A fantastic guide from the Royal Statistical Society on making clear, accessible, and impactful data visuals.
🔗 Read the guide: buff.ly/JEPX0Cb
More R resources 👉 buff.ly/MSQa1kh
#RStats #DataViz
Best Practices for Data Visualisation
Insights, advice, and examples (with code) to make data outputs more readable, accessible, and impactful
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April 21, 2025 at 4:06 PM
📊 Best Practices for Data Visualisation
By Andreas Krause, Nicola Rennie & Brian Tarran — A fantastic guide from the Royal Statistical Society on making clear, accessible, and impactful data visuals.
🔗 Read the guide: buff.ly/JEPX0Cb
More R resources 👉 buff.ly/MSQa1kh
#RStats #DataViz
By Andreas Krause, Nicola Rennie & Brian Tarran — A fantastic guide from the Royal Statistical Society on making clear, accessible, and impactful data visuals.
🔗 Read the guide: buff.ly/JEPX0Cb
More R resources 👉 buff.ly/MSQa1kh
#RStats #DataViz
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👇 these workshops look great.
Dealing with Duplicate Data in R, April 25th
Smart Extraction: Converting PDF Tables into Usable Data with R, May 1st
Retrieving and Generating Data using LLMs in Python, May 8th
Dealing with Duplicate Data in R, April 25th
Smart Extraction: Converting PDF Tables into Usable Data with R, May 1st
Retrieving and Generating Data using LLMs in Python, May 8th
Here's our upcoming schedule of Workshops for Ukraine! Some great talks are coming up soon, so check it out & register!
Full schedule: bit.ly/3wBeY4S
#RStats #EconSky #AcademicSky
Full schedule: bit.ly/3wBeY4S
#RStats #EconSky #AcademicSky
April 19, 2025 at 12:53 PM
👇 these workshops look great.
Dealing with Duplicate Data in R, April 25th
Smart Extraction: Converting PDF Tables into Usable Data with R, May 1st
Retrieving and Generating Data using LLMs in Python, May 8th
Dealing with Duplicate Data in R, April 25th
Smart Extraction: Converting PDF Tables into Usable Data with R, May 1st
Retrieving and Generating Data using LLMs in Python, May 8th
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On June 13, we will have a workshop on Using LLMs by @hadley.nz
More info: bit.ly/4jmEAJW
Please share!
#RStats #EconSky #AcademicSky
More info: bit.ly/4jmEAJW
Please share!
#RStats #EconSky #AcademicSky
April 19, 2025 at 8:45 AM
On June 13, we will have a workshop on Using LLMs by @hadley.nz
More info: bit.ly/4jmEAJW
Please share!
#RStats #EconSky #AcademicSky
More info: bit.ly/4jmEAJW
Please share!
#RStats #EconSky #AcademicSky
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Last week on Wonkhe: Farhana Gokhool, Anthea Cowen and Julie Hulme argue that distinguishing typical maths apprehension from clinical anxiety enables more effective support and inclusive teaching
Rethinking our approach to maths anxiety
Farhana Gokhool, Anthea Cowen and Julie Hulme argue that distinguishing typical maths apprehension from clinical anxiety enables more effective support and inclusive teaching
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April 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Last week on Wonkhe: Farhana Gokhool, Anthea Cowen and Julie Hulme argue that distinguishing typical maths apprehension from clinical anxiety enables more effective support and inclusive teaching