Opening for a tenure track position in statistical computing:
wirtschaftsuniversitaet-wien-portal.rexx-systems.com/Assistant-Pr...
As dept chair, R Core member Kurt Hornik invites applications from people who could make substantial contributions to #RStats, including base R.
Deadline Mar 18!
Can one build a community around vibe coded projects?
Likely to be interpreted differently by different people :)
The r project template built around modern tooling now includes air and jarl pre-commit hooks #rstats
github.com/novica/r-pro...
good morning everyone project your personal imposter syndrome onto this gif ur welcome
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#funfact in Macedonian there is only one word for both turtle and tortoise.
We live in a magical time for #dataviz. This map is just a static html page served on GitHub pages 🤯
It uses the incredible {pmtiles} #rstats package by @kylewalker.bsky.social to quickly filter through ~21M rows of data hosted on Cloudflare
vehicletrends.github.io/hhi-map/
oh I remember this thread.
box for two reasons. one, I wanted to see if it can be done :)
two, I think for many things the modular approach has some benefits: like importing just a 'module' instead of a whole package.
Pinging some people that may be interested @rpodcast.bsky.social @etiennebacher.bsky.social @libbyheeren.bsky.social @usrbinr.bsky.social @jonthegeek.com @tanho.ca @ivelasq3.bsky.social
Would love to hear some feedback, and suggestions for improvement.
What is missing, what can be done better, given the existing limitations of R?
Small blog post: discindo.org/posts/2026-0...
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Hey #rstats, for people who want to try a modular code development with box, coupled with a bunch of new tools like: #rv, #air, #jarl, and vscode-first coding environment (probably would work with #positron), I made this template repo: github.com/novica/r-pro...
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Oh, JavaScript wizard :)
Which jurisdiction is that? I would think that organizations such as softwarefreedom.org would have something to share or assist with.
Are you shipping a derivative work of R?
If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle.
It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get.
www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...
Then there is this: lwn.net/Articles/759... :) imagine someone from the R project resigning over the introduction of the tibble :)
I watched this couple of weeks ago: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pDq... and the reactions to React being released initially were much stronger than the tibble vs. data.frame debate :)
If I am making a quarto presentation, it means I have a very good reason to go on that side quest :)
Powerpoint with a provided template and the built-in designer (if that is what it is called) gets me to the end faster fo any usual/everyday work-related presentation.
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the concrete is raw but the chicken is fried
To paraphrase George Box:
"All LLMs are bad, but some are useful."
hey @rpodcast.bsky.social did you catch this for rweekly: tgerke.github.io/ducklake-r/ ? :)
Difference in time use between working parents of small children vs working non parents. Areas above zero are activities parents do more of; areas below are what they give up. Compiled by analyzing the Census Bureau’s American Time Use Survey. Analysis and chart by Aziz Sunderji, https://homeeconomics.substack.com/p/where-do-parents-find-the-time
Where do parents find the time to parent? Less sleep, work and screens.
Amazing chart feat. in @alphaville.ft.com Further Reading.
homeeconomics.substack.com/p/where-do-p...
📣 NEW! I’ve just released the BIGGEST and perhaps most creative project I’ve ever worked on!
“Searching for Birds” searchingforbirds.visualcinnamon.com 🐤
A project, an article, an exploration that dives into the data that connects humans with birds, by looking at how we search for birds.
It must be very hard to publish null results Publication practices in the social sciences act as a filter that favors statistically significant results over null findings. While the problem of selection on significance (SoS) is well-known in theory, it has been difficult to measure its scope empirically, and it has been challenging to determine how selection varies across contexts. In this article, we use large language models to extract granular and validated data on about 100,000 articles published in over 150 political science journals from 2010 to 2024. We show that fewer than 2% of articles that rely on statistical methods report null-only findings in their abstracts, while over 90% of papers highlight significant results. To put these findings in perspective, we develop and calibrate a simple model of publication bias. Across a range of plausible assumptions, we find that statistically significant results are estimated to be one to two orders of magnitude more likely to enter the published record than null results. Leveraging metadata extracted from individual articles, we show that the pattern of strong SoS holds across subfields, journals, methods, and time periods. However, a few factors such as pre-registration and randomized experiments correlate with greater acceptance of null results. We conclude by discussing implications for the field and the potential of our new dataset for investigating other questions about political science.
I have a new paper. We look at ~all stats articles in political science post-2010 & show that 94% have abstracts that claim to reject a null. Only 2% present only null results. This is hard to explain unless the research process has a filter that only lets rejections through.
Awesome stuff. Thanks!
I would say not really git for data. :) That could be another project - github.com/dolthub/dolt
Released {ducklake}: an R package for DuckLake data lakehouses 🦆
I like to think of DuckLake like git for data. The package supports:
- Automatic versioning
- Time travel
- ACID transactions
- Audit trails
- tidyverse-like interface
Feedback most welcome!
tgerke.github.io/ducklake-r/
#rstats
Screenshot of "colorize.languages" to add color highlighting for .yaml files in Positron
You can use the colorize extension:
open-vsx.org/extension/ka... and then add "yaml" to colorize.languages in your settings.
is that a css? in css it is on by default.
