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Nominations are now open for the Rousseeuw Prize, the most prestigious in Statistics. Akin to Fields Medal
Prize: $1 million! Deadline: Feb 26

Categories for 2026:
🔵computational statistics & data science
🔵statistics in physical sciences
🔵statistics in economics & humanities

rousseeuwprize.org

How to create a more accessible line chart – Nicola Rennie The default settings for chart software are not guaranteed to be accessible, and often need to be adapted for your own chart. In this blog post, we’ll transform a line chart to make it more accessible...

👀 New blog post! 👀

Ever made a *spaghetti* line chart and wondered how you can make it more accessible and more aesthetically pleasing at the same time? 📈

Read this blog post: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/accessi...

#DataViz #RStats

Some 15 years ago my colleague Parry Clarke said to me, "Dude stop complaining and write your own stats book!" So I did. It definitely changed my life, and I'm glad it has had a positive impact on others.

Behind the mic: Meet the minds of the ‘Stats + Stories’ podcast After nearly 400 episodes, “Stats + Stories” has become a podcast where statisticians, journalists and the curious can listen in to make sense of the world around them.

Since 2013, “Stats + Stories” has explored the stats behind the stories & the stories behind the stats—from sports to pop culture, health, and more. The podcast was recently featured in “Behind the Mic: Meet the Minds of the ‘Stats + Stories’ Podcast.” tinyurl.com/39nbf82d @johnbailer.bsky.social

Dirac's equation, quantum electrodynamics, atomic and molecular structure

@tandfresearch.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A map of all the buildings in a UK city centre cropped into a circle. There are lots of large buildings in the centre with a gap in the north east.

A map of all the elevation in a UK city centre cropped into a circle.

A map of all the streets in a UK city centre cropped into a circle. There are lots of densely packed streets, with a gap running south west to north east.

Can you guess the UK city just from the streets, the buildings, and the contours? 📊

#RStats #DataViz

My year in data visualisation – Nicola Rennie A round up of my projects this year, highlighting some of my favourite charts from 2025, and looking back on five years of TidyTuesday contributions.

Here's a little round up of my 2025 year in #DataViz featuring

💜 Some of my favourite #RStats charts
💜 A look back at 5 years of #TidyTuesday
💜 Links to cool #QuartoPub and visualisation things I've seen this year

Link: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/year-in...

#30daymapchallenge · Jour 30 · Relooking
🌍 Europe · Europa · Ευρώπη · Європа
🔍 Zoomez pour découvrir les villes d'Europe dans leur langue.

🔽 L'ancienne carte, en commentaire, utilisait un texte de substitution, réalisée pour le #30daymapchallenge 2024.

#cartographie #map #europe #europa

The editor of the ASA’s journal "Statistics and Data Science in Imaging" invites submissions for a special issue on spatial statistics in imaging with the support of the ASA Statistics and the Environment and Statistics in Epidemiology sections. Learn more: magazine.amstat.org/...

🚀 Excited to speak at the Rome R User Group Thu, Nov 27 (6PM CET)!

I’ll show practical workflows for geospatial predictive mapping in R — including tools to avoid spatial bias and improve prediction reliability.

More info: www.meetup.com/rome-r-users...

#RStats #Geospatial #GISchat #RSpatial

Line chart showing daily births. September 26th has the highest number, December 25th and 26th have the lowest. Source: ONS births in England and Wales data

In honour of today being the second-most-popular day to be birthed, here's my second-favourite birthday distribution chart

Lovely to see all the books from the series💚 @clairemkbowen.bsky.social @johnbailer.bsky.social

Chart showing how rankings of passports have changed over time, split by region with top one in each highlighted. European are ranked high, and UAE has had a dramatic rise.

There was lots of data to play with for #TidyTuesday this week where we're looking at the power of different passports! ✈️

I decided to try out the idea of using small multiples and highlighting to untangle a spaghetti chart with lots of lines 📊

#RStats #DataViz #ggplot2

Bump chart faceted by world regions showing the top countries of origin of refugees, asylum-seekers, and others in need of international protection. Asia and Africa rank consistently high, driven by long-term crises such as Afghanistan and Sudan. The Americas and Europe also appear high due to more recent crises in Venezuela and Ukraine.

Inspired by @nrennie.bsky.social excellent #TidyTuesday plot on the power of passports, I adapted the idea to look at refugee origins.

This chart ranks countries of origin of refugees, asylum-seekers, and others in need of international protection, grouped by region.

#RStats #ggplot2 #Refugees

collection of #rstats and #rspatial books

My personal library's looking healthy 😁

Lessons from UKCTOCS, a large-scale trial in ovarian cancer screening UKCTOCS (UK Collaborative Trial of Ovarian Cancer Screening) is one of the largest screening trials in ovarian cancer. More than 200,000 women from England, Wales and Northern Ireland took part in it,

September is #GynaecologicalCancerAwarenessMonth.

#OvarianCancer is the most devastating gynaecological cancer in the UK.

The UKCTOCS trial involved over 200,000 women to explore if screening could save lives, but it wasn’t without challenges.

🎧 Discover the insights in this #TrialTalk episode:

I'm really looking forward to this session!

Some of the things I'll be talking about include:

📖 Writing about #RStats with #QuartoPub
✍️ Working with @laracrc.bsky.social at CRC Press
📊 How it all started with some #TidyTuesday charts!

#StatsEd #DataViz

Screenshot of slides showing my first and a more recent TidyTuesday visualisation

At @royalstatsoc.bsky.social conference next week, I'll be talking in the 'Book Publication as a Scholarly Activity for Statisticians' session @ 11.30 on Thu 4 Sep - which I'm really excited about!

(Very subtle announcement that there's a #DataViz book from me coming soon!)

#StatsEd #RSS2025Conf

Chart styled to look like sheet music showing the happiness scores of funk and soul songs, by male/female/mixed songwriting teams. A cluster of happy songs by male songwriters is seen in the mid-1970s.

For this week's #TidyTuesday data about Billboard Hot 100 Number Ones, I decided to make a sheet music-themed chart 📊 - that will probably manage to annoy #DataViz people as much as music people! 🎶

Thanks to @jenrichmondphd.bsky.social for curating the data!

#RStats #ggplot2

Just in time for the start of a new school year - a podcast discussion of evaluating student success. Also check out other Stats+Stories education-related #podcast episodes #EduSky
statsandstories.net/education

Introduction to Julia for R users – Nicola Rennie This blog post will give R users an overview of what Julia is and why they might want to use it, introduce some data processing Julia packages, and show how they can incorporate Julia into existing R ...

If you're interested in learning #JuliaLang and are currently an #RStats user (or even if you're not!), then here's a little introduction to getting started! 📊

Blog post: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/introdu...

#QuartoPub #Julia @tidierjl.bsky.social

CRAN: "thanks, package heplots_1.7.8.tar.gz is on its way to CRAN!"

Added a distancePlot(), a very nice diagnostic plot for multivariate linear models.Shows leverage & outliers together
in a way that shows both problems.

See: friendly.github.io/heplots/

Book cover of Spatial Linear Models for Enviornmental Data, dark blue background with white pattern with a picture of caribou and data plots

Happy Friday 🌍! We are giving away one copy of 'Spatial Linear Models for Environmental Data'. To enter, simply follow me and re-post this by the end of Sunday, August 17. #spatial #environment # #data #StatsSky routledge.com/9780367183349 not associated with bsky

That's good to hear, I hope you enjoy the book (in full colour) :)

So sorry about that too - would you mind dropping me an email with the details (lara.spieker@tandf.co.uk) and I can look into getting a replacement copy for you?

So sorry to hear you got a faulty copy - could you please drop me an email (lara.spieker@tandf.co.uk) and I can get a replacement (colour!) copy sent out to you?

some light teasing for an upcoming quarto revealjs plugin I have been working on

Taylor 🐿️ & Francis 🦔 are enjoying hanging out at their booth at #MathFest2025!

@joinmaa.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social

📍 Registration is open for Spatial Data Science across Languages (SDSL) 2025 – Sept 17–18 (+19), Salzburg, Austria.

Connect R, Python, Julia & more in spatial science.

🔗 https://forms.gle/E9fpG88V2VQQKmjk9 -- Apply for on-site by mid-July – limited spots […]

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Beauty in/of mathematics: tessellations and their formulas

@tandfresearch.bsky.social #mathart #tessellations www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....