At next week's RSS conference I'll be presenting a poster (a first for me...it's about time!) "Tetraplot displays of UK General Election results" shows how to graph GE 2024 vote shares across 4 parties in a useful way. Full PDF poster at: github.com/DavidFirth/t...

Poster, and #rstats package for drawing tetraplots, are at github.com/DavidFirth/t...

GitHub - DavidFirth/tplots: R package for making ternary plots and tetraplots

R package for making ternary plots and tetraplots. Contribute to DavidFirth/tplots development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Martyn Plummer@martynplummer.bsky.social · 11mo ago

At the RSS conference in Edinburgh where @firthstat.bsky.social is presenting his new tetraplots for displaying 4-way results in UK elections. Wooden tetrahedron by @warwickstats.bsky.social woodworker-in-residence Nick Tawn.

Following the dismissal of Erika McEntarfer as US Commissioner of Labor Statistics, we've released a statement of concern. At a time of global economic uncertainty, we stress the importance of the independence of statistical institutions and the protection of the integrity of official statistics.

A statement from the Royal Statistical Society on the dismissal of the Commissioner of Labor Statis

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Last book I read was the eminently enjoyable "Three Shades of Blue" by James Kaplan. Been years since I read a Miles biography sonice to get back to all this--with superb related context about all this jazz. And #chicago folks: This Friday Fitzgeralds in Forest Park has a 'Kind of Blue' tribute.

Lalo Schifrin (June 21, 1932 – June 26, 2025)

I am very happy to share our new paper "Consistent and Scalable Composite Likelihood Estimation of Probit Models with Crossed Random Effects" with Ruggero Bellio, Swarnadip Ghosh and Art Owen. Thrilled that the paper will be published in the prestigious Biometrika academic.oup.com/biomet/artic...

Consistent and Scalable Composite Likelihood Estimation of Probit Models with Crossed Random Effects

Abstract. Estimation of crossed random effects models commonly requires computational costs that grow faster than linearly in the sample size N, often as f

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"Il nostro paese, negli ultimi anni, ha fatto grandi passi avanti, peccato che tutti gli altri vanno in macchina."

Ah, muoiono più donne? Ma dai!

NPR@npr.org · last yr.

Since abortion became almost entirely illegal in Texas in 2021, the state has seen a significant rise in the number of women who die in pregnancy or after giving birth. A new bill aims to change that.

Ever wondered why some charts are more effective and engaging than others? I’ll be going through all the theory, evidence and principles behind compelling data storytelling from this Wednesday. Free to watch for anyone who is interested: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-fundam...

On this date. Richard Feynman born 1918 in New York. “Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”

One of my favourite #ggplot tricks is wrapping long axis labels so they don't take up so much space on your chart Image 1 - Without wrapping Image 2 - With wrapping Image 3 - Code #rstats

Miles Davis, backstage at Shrine Auditorium, 1950

lol who did this

Libertà!

#rstats folks: If you have a habit of updating your library after an R upgrade by copying the old one and run update.packages(). --> DON'T DO THAT <-- Especially not with 4.5.0. You will overwrite base packages with ones from a previous version and as these are not on CRAN, things go bad.

The Economist is into counting remaining days too:

Dirk Eddelbuettel@eddelbuettel.com · last yr.

Three months down. This last one felt like a year. Leaves 1371 days. One day at a time.