Anna Fergusson
@annafergusson.bsky.social
Statistics & data science education researcher
At @statsuoa.bsky.social, we've been exploring scaffolded code interactions ("code blanks") to support positive first experiences with code while encouraging curiosity, tinkering, and exploration with data. For a short summary, watch my short #eCOTS video here 😀: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qIE...
Oh hey, I'm blogging again. The first of what is planned to be a multi-part series of posts about where to next for future-focused statistics and data science education at the high school level in Aotearoa New Zealand. teaching.statistics-is-awesome.org/integrating-....
⭐New issue of Statistics Education Research Journal! 📝Secondary teachers’ attitudes toward teaching probability 📝Preservice teachers interpreting students’ probability thinking 📝Grade 6 students on measures of central tendency 📝VR for enhancing data literacy 📖Read the articles: iase-pub.org/ojs/SERJ
Spent the day promoting Census at School Canada at a BC Math Teachers conference (BCAMT). Census at School is a program for K-12 students to take a survey & analyze data about themselves! Its free, easy to use & very engaging, making it fun for students & teachers (and parents). 🔗 censusatschool.ca
📢 R Dev Day @ New Zealand 2025 🏢 Auckland University 🌐 Remote, Americas / Asia-Pacific 📅 Tue 16 - Wed 17 Dec Registration deadline: Sunday 7 Dec pretix.eu/r-contributo... Attend this free event to collaborate on contributions to #RStats. #RDevDay #RSEng
R Dev Day @ New Zealand 2025
Dec. 16th – 17th, 2025
pretix.eu
I had a great time at #USCOTS (United States Conference on Teaching Statistics) earlier this month, attending in person for the first time. I was also grateful to give the keynote for the research satellite, about how I am trying to navigate the sea of statistics and data science education research.
At the USCOTS opening session, someone asked me if I know about the Reddit featuring maps without New Zealand. Next thing, someone shows a map showing where everyone has come from for the conference ….. guess what was missing 🤣🤣🤣
Click this link to learn more about this year's RoSE econference and to submit your own abstract: www.rose-network.org/events/rose-...
RoSE Network - RoSE eConference 2025
RoSE e-CONFERENCE 2025
rose-network.org
Maybe I should feature more dogs than cats in my research? Because my paper on using grayscale photos (of dogs) to introduce reasoning with digital image data won the 2024 ASA Jackie Dietz Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education Best Paper Award 🎉 www.tandfonline.com/journals/ujs...
I got to give a talk on our R package in the birthplace of #rstats 😊 Thank you for the opportunity @annafergusson.bsky.social Slides: mdogucu.github.io/auckland-2024/
I'm trying to finish my slides for a CAUSE webinar on using grayscale photos to introduce high school teachers to reasoning with digital image data (www.causeweb.org/cause/webina...), but my cat is not giving consent for his image to be used - lucky he can't read the paper! #statsed #datascied
@annafergusson.bsky.social asked students to draw what they thought data science looks like and I feel so simultaneously sympathetic and attacked by the person who drew Squidward #rstats 📊
Six years ago, I had just finished the first semester of designing and teaching a new intro statistics and data science course. One of the many new teaching activities I created was one using grayscale photos to introduce and reinforce concepts related to data distributions. 🐱 🐶 📊 💻
Do you like stats? Do you like cats? Chances are you might like this: teachwell.auckland.ac.nz/2024/03/28/s... 📊😻 #statscats
Has it ever been a thing that when a journal asks you to review a paper, that in addition to the abstract, they tell you how many pages it is? 😀
On the lookout for recent #biostats publications with (nice) open data for use in a postgrad biostats. Anything from (g)lm(m) to PCA, LDA... I have my usual data deps and journals to peruse but am keen to find more, esp. outside ecology and environment. #EduSky #TidyTuesday Suggestions and RP 🙏
