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Credit Where Credit is Due: Mary Eleanor Spear Exploring the life and work of an overlooked mid-century dataviz pioneer who may have discovered the Box Plot 17 years before John Tukey.

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊
🎂Mar 4, 1897 Mary Eleanor Spear born in Jonesboro, Indiana, USA 🇺🇸

A data vis specialist at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, she pioneered the boxplot and wrote books on effective graphic techniques (done by hand!)
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I can relate ... 😞

Statistical Rethinking Lecture A09 - Modeling Events YouTube video by Richard McElreath

Lecture A09 - I get mildly ranty about the low quality of papers on discrimination and somehow also introduce generalized linear models for events and illustrate post-stratification. The theme continues next week with modeling sensitivity to unmeasured confounding. I will try to be less ranty.

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No doubt about it!

#rstats

The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics will be running a special issue commemorating the 25th anniversary of the official release of R. (The Univ. of Auckland was the birthplace of R.) They invited various people to contribute articles, including me. 🧵 1/

What NIH Staff Can’t Tell You—And Why That Matters The people who understand most clearly what is being lost at the NIH are also the people least able to say so.

Dr. Ginexi's latest blog states, "Constraint is not the same as consent." My colleagues and I move things. Maybe we move differently from before. Maybe we communicate differently. Please consider our safety. Keep talking with us. #NIHStrong #FEDstrong

Bowie is deeply missed...

Totally interested. I need to secure data for a city project I'm developing.

I might need it for a project, this looks promising.

In my country Costa Rica they did a lot of shady things, but I only remember the company next to my school giving us Chiquita stickers, we didn't know what it meant, just innocent kids playing with packing stickers :(

Statistical Rethinking 2026 Lecture B05 - Social Networks II YouTube video by Richard McElreath

Witness the power of this fully operational Bayesian latent space social relations model - Lecture B05 of Statistical Rethinking 2026. Incremental model construction and testing workflow for dyadic and generalized exchange networks, posterior network simulation, one dank Insane Clown Posse meme.

The uncritical adoption of AI technologies puts scientific integrity, diversity, sustainability, digital sovereignty and democracy at risk. We will discuss ways to resist this adoption in our Summer School “Critical AI literacies for Resisting and Reclaiming”

Cato Study: Immigrants Reduced Deficits by $14.5 Trillion Since 1994 The best way to balance the budget is to reduce spending—particularly on wealthy retirees—but rather than hinder our efforts to control deficits, immigrants are helping.

Immigrants are carrying this country on their backs while the right screams into the void.

Here’s the Cato Institute report:
www.cato.org/blog/cato-st...

I am doing a short workshop in this symposium (quoted below) for folks in and around Leipzig. Here's the abstract. I really indulged myself with this one.

A Guerilla Approach to Scientific Workflow:

Watching @rmcelreath.bsky.social's both A and B lectures feels like a watching a movie which jumps between two different time periods

Using R to extract results from Stata log files – Ben Harrap

Are you a #Stata user? Maybe you work with one?

Have you ever found yourself copy-pasting from the results window?

It's annoying as hell! And terrible practice. So I wrote a blog post on using #rstats to extract results from Stata log files

benharrap.com/post/2026-02...

#AcademicSky, I need suggestions. I am looking for a (university?) press that does good critical editions for literature, a press that is NOT Norton or Broadview. I'd also love if the critical editions in question had new scholarship as well as old, and archival materials included as well.

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Possums in your yard? News got you down? Fear not, I have made playlists for the A and B sections of my ongoing Statistical Rethinking course. Click the section of your choice, sit back, and forget the possums and decay of the international order while your brain updates. github.com/rmcelreath/s...

Statistical Rethinking Lecture B03 - Adventures in Covariance YouTube video by Richard McElreath

Adventures in Covariance - Lecture B03 of Statistical Rethinking 2026. Prelude about MCMC effective sample size, Multilevel varying slopes models with correlated features, non-centered parameterizations for covariance models, model expansion workflow. Next week is social networks.

Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95 ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

This is more important if you have international students in USA. International students cannot freelance or work Ina restaurant to get extra money, they can only get money from the sponsor institution (the university).

Agreed. And more important if you have PhD students whose salary is starving them. Then you need to focus on topics that return money in grants. Of course, the lab can always reduce the number of students but that's not a healthy solution sometimes.

extendr has crossed 1 MILLION 🎉 CRAN package downloads!

Using Rust 🦀 with R is cool (and easy!) I swear!

Do you have a package we're not tracking yet?
#rust #rstats
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Interested in doing a PhD in health psychology, focusing on topics such as health-related misinformation and AI-generated health advice? @univie.ac.at is advertising 40+ PhD positions in the social sciences and humanities, and I also act as supervisor. #BehSci
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European Alternatives for digital service products.

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Statistical Rethinking 2026 - Lecture B02 - Multilevel Model Expansion YouTube video by Richard McElreath

Lecture B02 of Statistical Rethinking 2026. Multilevel model expansion: workflow, cluster and feature engineering, non-centered parameterization, dank memes. Continues next week with models of population covariance and (if there is time) group-level confounding and "Mundlak machines".

Statistical Rethinking 2026 - Lecture A02 - Garden of Forking Data YouTube video by Richard McElreath

I biked to work in 3cm of slush this morning to deliver another lecture. Stat Rethinking A02: more Bayesian updating, points and intervals, posterior predictive distributions. Next week it's linear regression as Gauss intended. Full course schedule here: github.com/rmcelreath/s...