Tyson Barrett
@healthandstats.bsky.social
Husband | Father | Manager Advanced Analytics | PhD | Research Scientist | Meditator | he/him | #rstats #rdatatable #openscience 🏳️🌈 🧗♂️ tysonbarrett.com
Latest version of Positron can open xlsx files in the data viewer(!) and it has a dropdown menu now for previewing different formats of #QuartoPub documents And—most importantly, but also from a few weeks ago, so less new—the plots panel can pick up dimensions from chunk options!!!! #rstats
We've never been able to find a validated person-reported measure of conversational success. So our team created one. Developed and validated with help from over 900 participants. Can be used in both research and clinical settings. Check it out! rdcu.be/fnFs0 @healthandstats.bsky.social
The Person-Reported Outcome of Conversational Success (PROCS): Tool development and psychometric validation
rdcu.be
migrated a note about plotting probability allocations from ordinal regression models www.tjmahr.com/notes/2022-0...
Visualizing ordinal model probabilities with ribbons
Here is a ggplot2 recipe for plotting cumulative probabilities from ordinal regression models.
tjmahr.com
Happy to see that `jgd` is now up on CRAN. An alternative #rstats graphics device that's fast and lightweight (mostly pure C). Try it out with our VS Code extension or Deno server. More details: github.com/grantmcdermo... Joint work with the indefatigable @eitsupi.bsky.social.
A question for the #RStats hivemind! Assuming you know the basics of parameterised reporting with #QuartoPub, what would you want to know about that topic next? What took a while to get your head around? What still doesn't make sense about Quarto?
yesss this rules #rstats
Tyler Morgan-Wall@tylermw.com · 4mo agoIntroducing 🌳tarborist: a VS Code extension providing tree-sitter powered static analysis of {targets} pipelines with target info on hover, tar_map() autocompletion, cycle detection, and upstream/downstream info/links #RStats Github: github.com/tylermorganw... OpenVSX: open-vsx.org/vscode/item?...
Woohoo this essentially replaces my whole hacky workaround here! www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/07...
Use Positron to run R inside a Docker image through SSH | Andrew Heiss
Running R in Docker containers is great for reproducible projects, but writing and running code in the container can be a hassle. Use Positron to SSH into local Docker containers instead!
andrewheiss.com
Libby Heeren@libbyheeren.bsky.social · 4mo agoHow dare I prioritize giving you useful links without actually adding any hashtags that would make this entire post findable 🫠 honestly, sometimes i forget how BlueSky works, y'all #rstats #databs #python #pydata
Finally got around to adding fancy links to my different interactive teaching websites for showing things like p-hacking, p-value interpretations, and (still-in-draft-form) DAGs at www.andrewheiss.com/teaching/ #rstats #QuartoPub #statsky
“Dolly Parton Children’s Hospital did not share how much Parton donated as part of the naming announcement. But Matt Schaefer, its president and CEO, said her support would ensure ‘every child who walks through our doors receives the treatment they deserve.’” GOD BLESS DOLLY PARTON
A children's hospital is renamed for Dolly Parton and hopes to transform pediatric care in Tennessee
Dolly Parton’s name might inspire full-throated sing-a-longs to her working woman’s anthem “9 to 5,” or evoke memories of thrilling days spent at her Dollywood theme park.
telegraphherald.com
Users of survey data, lovers of DAGs, and general methodological enthusiasts, gather round! I'm so excited to share this new paper, joint work with my brilliant colleagues @rjsilverwood.bsky.social, @pwgtennant.bsky.social, and Liam Wright. 🧵
How can the use of different modes of survey data collection introduce bias? An introduction to mode effects using directed acyclic graphs (DAGs)
Abstract. Survey data are self-reported data collected directly from respondents by a questionnaire or an interview and are commonly used in epidemiology.
academic.oup.com
Anthropic: We lost a contract because we refuse to build Skynet. OpenAI: We'll do it
Mike Masnick@masnick.com · 6mo agoMy goodness.
In my time at Princeton, we've had several Army officers in our doctoral program. They've all done excellent work. When this former Princeton undergrad says we're actually teaching them "the enemy's wicked ideology" I have no idea what the hell he's talking about but, of course, neither does he.
David Burbach 🇺🇸@dburbach.bsky.social · 6mo agoSecretary Hegseth announced this afternoon that DOD will cease ALL graduate study by military personnel at universities including MIT, all the Ivies, Stanford, etc because such schools teach "the enemy's wicked ideology" to officers. thehill.com/policy/defen...
Wow, Bugonia was such a fascinating movie. If you are looking for something beautifully unique with incredible performances and a great score, watch it
The federal government is executing American citizens in the middle of the street for exercising their constitutional right to freedom of speech. This is tyranny. No free people can accept this kind of government. We need to bring an end to the Trump regime.
Evergreen: “The men who were less-skilled at the game and performing worse relative peers—made frequent, nasty comments to female gamers. In other words, sexist dudes are literally losers.” www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-int...
Men who harass women online are quite literally losers, new study finds
Researchers watched how men treated women during 163 plays of the video game Halo 3.
washingtonpost.com
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 7mo agoimagine letting these people run anything more consequential than a lemonade stand www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Please share: Pew Research Center will provide $3,000 each for 19 new papers using our recent global datasets. We encourage reuse of our Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures data! https://www.pewresearch.org/2026/01/16/seeking-research-using-recent-pew-templeton-global-religious-futures-datasets/
Either Causal Inference in R www.r-causal.org or The Effect! www.theeffectbook.net/index.html
if you put this in a script even erin brockovitch would be like “too on the nose, dial it back”
Appreciate #strangerthings for distracting me from the other stuff in life for a few hours tonight. Really likes how they wrapped it all up
Question: But the president’s statements that he believed the election was rife with fraud—those are statements protected by the First Amendment, correct? Smith: Absolutely not. If they are made to target a lawful government function and are made with knowing falsity, then no, they are not.
DOGE was A LOT less likely to cancel contracts from companies that donated money to Republicans than companies that donated to Democrats.
Noticed that the {revdepcheck} package no longer has the "not being actively maintained" message (looks like it was removed a year ago, just didn't notice). This is such a nice package, thanks to @gaborcsardi.org @hadley.nz and co for keeping it alive 🎉
New, at Can We Still Govern? Poverty is not some insurmountable problem, we can fix it. A group of National Academies of Science researchers review the temporary expansion of the Child Tax Credit during the pandemic, showing it cut child poverty in half. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-have-...
What have we learned about child poverty in America?
Members of a National Academy of Sciences committee share insights
donmoynihan.substack.com
"we'll give you $3,000 to stop contributing to our economy"
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 8mo agoKristi Noem makes an announcement on Fox & Friends: "We are saying that if you voluntarily want to go home now to your country, if you're in the US illegally, we'll give you $3,000 through the holidays to send you home. We'll buy you a ticket, give you $3,000 to go home."
I don't know how I've missed it because it's *right on the documentation home page*, but if you use {glue} for nice string interpolation in #rstats and you have {stringr} loaded (likely through the tidyverse), you can use str_glue() instead of glue::glue() or loading library(glue) glue.tidyverse.org
This is a very good paper (focused on infectious diseases and DiD) that looks at how DiD handles different specifications. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Joe Fish@sadbusdriver.bsky.social · 9mo agohonestly, in this case, i think we'd end up being fooled by naive causal inference. these are the trends in log-levels over a longer horizon. they track each other pretty well! maybe the takeaway is people should also try to estimate a mechanism in addition to an effect?
Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
