The second edition of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, by myself and @chris.blue, is finished and sent off to the printers! Ebooks should be available in the next week, and print books in 3–4 weeks. Sigh of relief. 😅 (BTW, this is a good opportunity to support your favourite local bookshop!)

sqlfluff go brrr, now released! Open source, *now* rust-based sql linter and formatter! github.com/sqlfluff/sql...

Release [4.0.0] - 2026-01-15 · sqlfluff/sqlfluff

Highlights This major release brings support for internal rust optimisations. Rust support is still effectively in beta and is available on an opt in basis. To take advantage of these performance i...

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I'm teaching Statistical Rethinking again starting Jan 2026. This time with live lectures, divided into Beginner and Experienced sections. Will be a lot more work for me, but I hope much better for students. I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

New blog post! In which I explain the issue with mediation analysis and sketch out one way to deal with the underlying causal inference problem -- in just a bit over 1,000 words! If you have never found the time to read up on this, now is your chance. www.the100.ci/2025/03/20/r...

Reviewer notes: That’s a very nice mediation analysis you have there. It would be a shame if something happened to it.

Mediation analysis has gotten a lot of flak, including classic titles such as “Yes, but what’s the mechanism? (Don’t expect an easy answer)” (Bullock et al., 2010), “What mediation analysis can (not) ...

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Nice write up on working with missing data and matching, with lots of practical code that goes into detailed choices on _how_ to do it right!

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New blog up: solomonkurz.netlify.app/blog/2025-02... This time I dip my toes into causal inference for quasi-experiments using matching methods, and my use case has missing data complications. Many thanks to @dingdingpeng.the100.ci and @noahgreifer.bsky.social for their peer review! #RStats

Based on some folks’ responses in the the dbt slack, looks like a chunk of it will be in core!

I am delighted to share our latest piece of research: ‘A global cross-cultural analysis of string figures reveals evidence of deep transmission and innovation’. This was long in the works and is by far the largest project I’ve led to date. A thread: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

To celebrate this gem of a book by @statsteph.bsky.social, @ivelasq3.bsky.social and Rebecca Powell on complex survey data with #RStats and the #tidyverse, we are giving away one copy to a lucky winner. To enter, re-post this and follow me by Nov 24. Not affiliated with bsky.

Local registration for the 2024 round of my FREE OPEN ONLINE Statistical Rethinking course has begun. I'll open up registration on Sunday 3 December. See theatrical trailer below and other details on the course github page #stats 🧪 github.com/rmcelreath/s...

Statistical Rethinking 2022 - Theatrical Trailer

Montage of animations from the 2022 lectures. Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDcUM9US4XdMROZ57-OIRtIK0aOynbgZN

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