This might be my biggest achievement for the entire year
Jo Potts
@analyticaledge.bsky.social
Statistician (she/her) | #rstats | Posts primarily about statistical ecology and fisheries (and pet chickens)
Our keynote speaker for #WOMBAT2026 will be the unusual Rob Hyndman on anomaly detection. You don't want to miss this outstanding event. wombat2026.numbat.space #Statistics #RStats #DataScience
Currently in New Caledonia (SPC) where energy security is a big topic. This from @freerangestats.info highlights how exposed the Pacific is. Much of the region relies *heavily* on diesel for electricity, in some cases the entire national grid. Global shocks (eg Iran conflict) hit hard and fast...
Peter Ellis@freerangestats.info · 4mo agoPacific island countries are *extremely* dependent on oil and gas products - particularly diesel - for electricity generation. Brief blog with #rstats code at freerangestats.info/blog/2026/03... 1/2
I know everyone codes differently, but this is new for me. Good (imo) folder structure: proj_name/ ├ dat/ ├ R/ ├ results/ But they work from R/, and navigate up-across-down back to their data/, e.g., load("../../data/obj.RData") Opinions? I code relative to the project root directory #rstats
The Tjanpi award for Best Student Paper in Environmental Statistics for the Australia Statistics Society are open (due April 7th) #stats www.statsoc.org.au/Tjanpi-Award...
Statistical Society of Australia - Tjanpi Award (Environmental Statistics)
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TIL my dad has me stored in his phone as Dr Joanne Potts. I think he’s the only person that might use my (official) title 😂 proud dad!
My 2026 office calendar is up! Thanks @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social (Pride and place underneath a tapa painting gifted to me from Vanuatu during a visit)
A tragic loss, first and foremost for her children and family, and secondly science, marine biology, science communication, the academic sector broadly 😢 www.theage.com.au/national/vic...
‘Unfathomable loss’: University of Melbourne’s vice chancellor dies at 52
Professor Emma Johnston, the University of Melbourne’s first female vice chancellor, has died less than 12 months after taking the role.
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At the recent Aust stats conference @bharrap.bsky.social showed me some cool ridge plots and I am very very amused (perhaps more than I should publicly admit) that predictive text turns ggridges to grudges.... #rstats #ggplot
how did I get this old and not know about reverse assignment in R? #rstats (arguably if I have lasted this long... maybe it isn't that useful!?)
OK nothing like proclaiming in a public space and then quickly finding solution 🤪 If anyone else is stuck on this, sf seems to not work with plotly. If you put your coords in as a df, and use geom_path to plot with geom_tile it renders (and saves output correctly with .png) #rstats soln next comment
Jo Potts@analyticaledge.bsky.social · 9mo agoOk #rstats #shiny hive mind. When rendering geom_tile to a plotly in shiny, and press the download button the resulting .png is missing the tiles? What gives! Any advice gratefully received (These data are fake!)
It's long past time for state and federal authorities alike to put an end to Stephen Miller's jerkoff fantasy of masked thugs kidnapping people of color off the street with impunity. Yes, there are Americans who want this. But they are a woefully small minority. Why are we still letting it happen?
Chicago Tribune@chicagotribune.com · 9mo agoA Naperville man was hauled away by federal immigration agents Thursday morning as his two sons watched, the older boy begging them not to hurt his father and tearfully asking for a chance to speak to him before they left.
Case_when() really does deserve its own appreciation society #rstats
Nick Tierney@njtierney.bsky.social · 10mo agoImportant discussions were had about R function interfaces, we all saw the creation of case_when() and sighed a huge sigh to never need to nest ifelse() forever. Everyone was friendly and trying to help everyone get better. It wasn’t perfect, but there was enough real people to balance out the bad.
Quarto 1.8 is available! 💡 New features include integrated Axe-core checks for HTML documents, access to environment variables via code cells, light/dark mode logos and colors, and Brand Extensions for sharing your org's brand. Learn more: quarto.org/docs/blog/po... #Quarto #Python #RStats
Quarto 1.8 – Quarto
Quarto 1.8 improves brand support, introduces brand extensions, adds HTML accessibility checks, and gives access to execution context.
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Missing Values were dropped; Mean Imputation was applied; Data available on request; Code available on request; #rstats
🏰meg⚔️@impavid.us · 10mo agoIn honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
It's bizarre. I can think of at least 3 scientific publications that predict (i.e., model) the uncontrolled explosion of deer across Tas. None of them were referred to in the report. weirdddd
“No anticipated” except by all of us that have been saying for ever that the #feral #deer management plan is pathetic. 🌎 #wildoz www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
'Not anticipated': New survey shows deer population boom in Tasmania
The first survey for feral deer in Tasmania in five years reveals an unanticipated increase of nearly 20,000 to the population.
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Are you a #maths teacher? We are delighted to share a brand new set of materials for teaching #statistics for students aged 11-16, and we'd love your feedback on them! #ITeachMath #MathsWeekScot rss.org.uk/resources/ed...
Hey #rstats friends! 👋 Only one week to go until my "Introduction to R Packages" tutorial at #WOMBAT2025! This is a gentle introduction to making R packages, going from initial code to `devtools::check()` Still plenty of spots available :) Sign up at: wombat2025.numbat.space
WOMBAT 2025
The Annual Workshop Organised by the Monash Business Analytics Team will be held on the 29th and 30th September 2025 at Monash University (downtown), Melbourne, Australia.
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Nick Tierney@njtierney.bsky.social · 12mo agoHey #rstats friends! Early-bird pricing for Monash's WOMBAT2025 ends on 31st August (This Sunday)! wombat2025.numbat.space Day 1 has tutorials! I'm going to teach about one of my favourite things, How to Make an R package. You can sign up here: wombat2025.numbat.space/program/tuto...
eight years as a statistical consultant and ecologists still manage to collect weird data that I'm not immediately sure what to do with (it's fun though!)
The hmmTMB paper is finally out in the Journal of Statistical Software! An R package for hidden Markov models with random effects, flexible spline-based covariate effects, and fast inference using TMB or Stan. Check out the GIthub repository for more examples. doi.org/10.18637/jss...
hmmTMB: Hidden Markov Models with Flexible Covariate Effects in R by Théo Michelot
<p>Hidden Markov models (HMMs) are widely applied in studies where a discrete-valued process of interest is observed indirectly. They have for example been used to model behavior from human and animal...
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Simon Wood, the GOAT of generalized additive models & creator of the mgcv #rstats package, has an Annual Review of Statistics essay on GAMs, available open access #statssky #mlsky www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
This looks like a great further education opportunity #rstats #stats ONE-YEAR MSC (RESEARCH) SCHOLARSHIPS IN SPATIAL STATISTICS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO statsoc.org.au/forum-job-va...
Statistical Society of Australia - One-year MSc (Research) Scholarships in Spatial Statistics at the University of Otago
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Hello book fans - the charming @annabelcrabb has written the definitive guide to democracy for young people and I have illustrated it - it's out September 30! www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/...
Want to attend #WOMBAT2025 but #Melbourne is a bit too far for you? We've got you covered with hybrid tutorials! * Fundamentals of Forecasting. * Reproducible Reporting with #QuartoDev. * Visualising Uncertainty * Regression Analysis in #RStats 📅 Program and registration wombat2025.numbat.space
WOMBAT 2025
The Annual Workshop Organised by the Monash Business Analytics Team will be held on the 29th and 30th September 2025 at Monash University (downtown), Melbourne, Australia.
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Great to be back home after spending a week in Vanuatu teaching #Rstats to these awesome #fisheries managers, a wonderfully productive workshop. One participant was rendering her analysis written in #Quarto to a PowerPoint presentation that she writes annually for catch data in the outer islands!
🚨Early bird registration for the Australian Statistical Conference ends on the 31st of August🚨 If you've had an abstract accepted (or are just attending anyway!), make sure you register now to save some $$$ #statssky #ASC2025 www.asc2025.net/registration
Registration — ASC 2025
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