Look what was waiting on my desk this morning! It's so great to finally see #BayesianWorkflow in print.

I see now we missed an opportunity by not entitling our book "Bayesian Odyssey" instead of "Bayesian Workflow". The priors are polytropic! Still all the case studies are online avehtari.github.io/Bayesian-Wor... (and python translations arviz-devs.github.io/bayesian-wor...) for your adventure

Watch @nrennie.bsky.social's Ihaka Lecture about data viz and creativity on YouTube if you missed the live/streamed version tonight youtube.com/live/fAiyiE8...

Ihaka Lecture Series 2026 #2 - When Creativity Meets Code

YouTube video by University of Auckland | Waipapa Taumata Rau

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Nominations are now open for the Rousseeuw Prize, the most prestigious in Statistics. Akin to Fields Medal Prize: $1 million! Deadline: Feb 26 Categories for 2026: 🔵computational statistics & data science 🔵statistics in physical sciences 🔵statistics in economics & humanities rousseeuwprize.org

👀 New blog post! 👀 Ever made a *spaghetti* line chart and wondered how you can make it more accessible and more aesthetically pleasing at the same time? 📈 Read this blog post: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/accessi... #DataViz #RStats

How to create a more accessible line chart – Nicola Rennie

The default settings for chart software are not guaranteed to be accessible, and often need to be adapted for your own chart. In this blog post, we’ll transform a line chart to make it more accessible...

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Some 15 years ago my colleague Parry Clarke said to me, "Dude stop complaining and write your own stats book!" So I did. It definitely changed my life, and I'm glad it has had a positive impact on others.

Yasir@neuroyasir.bsky.social · 7mo ago

One of my aims at the time was to make sure we can show this relationship in simulated data, inspired by @rmcelreath.bsky.social's approach to statistics. Statistical Rethinking is a life-changing book, this paper wouldn't be the way it is now without it. Very grateful to McElreath!

Since 2013, “Stats + Stories” has explored the stats behind the stories & the stories behind the stats—from sports to pop culture, health, and more. The podcast was recently featured in “Behind the Mic: Meet the Minds of the ‘Stats + Stories’ Podcast.” tinyurl.com/39nbf82d @johnbailer.bsky.social

Behind the mic: Meet the minds of the ‘Stats + Stories’ podcast

After nearly 400 episodes, “Stats + Stories” has become a podcast where statisticians, journalists and the curious can listen in to make sense of the world around them.

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Dirac's equation, quantum electrodynamics, atomic and molecular structure @tandfresearch.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Can you guess the UK city just from the streets, the buildings, and the contours? 📊 #RStats #DataViz

Here's a little round up of my 2025 year in #DataViz featuring 💜 Some of my favourite #RStats charts 💜 A look back at 5 years of #TidyTuesday 💜 Links to cool #QuartoPub and visualisation things I've seen this year Link: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/year-in...

My year in data visualisation – Nicola Rennie

A round up of my projects this year, highlighting some of my favourite charts from 2025, and looking back on five years of TidyTuesday contributions.

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#30daymapchallenge · Jour 30 · Relooking 🌍 Europe · Europa · Ευρώπη · Європа 🔍 Zoomez pour découvrir les villes d'Europe dans leur langue. 🔽 L'ancienne carte, en commentaire, utilisait un texte de substitution, réalisée pour le #30daymapchallenge 2024. #cartographie #map #europe #europa

The editor of the ASA’s journal "Statistics and Data Science in Imaging" invites submissions for a special issue on spatial statistics in imaging with the support of the ASA Statistics and the Environment and Statistics in Epidemiology sections. Learn more: magazine.amstat.org/...

🚀 Excited to speak at the Rome R User Group Thu, Nov 27 (6PM CET)! I’ll show practical workflows for geospatial predictive mapping in R — including tools to avoid spatial bias and improve prediction reliability. More info: www.meetup.com/rome-r-users... #RStats #Geospatial #GISchat #RSpatial

In honour of today being the second-most-popular day to be birthed, here's my second-favourite birthday distribution chart

Lovely to see all the books from the series💚 @clairemkbowen.bsky.social @johnbailer.bsky.social

Amstat-American Statistical Association@amstatnews.bsky.social · 11mo ago

ASA’s Ron Wasserstein shares exciting news from ASA headquarters—new titles in the ASA-CRC Series on Statistical Reasoning in Science and Society have arrived! Watch his video to learn more and then explore these books that show how statistics shapes our world: tinyurl.com/4psncp6b

There was lots of data to play with for #TidyTuesday this week where we're looking at the power of different passports! ✈️ I decided to try out the idea of using small multiples and highlighting to untangle a spaghetti chart with lots of lines 📊 #RStats #DataViz #ggplot2

Inspired by @nrennie.bsky.social excellent #TidyTuesday plot on the power of passports, I adapted the idea to look at refugee origins. This chart ranks countries of origin of refugees, asylum-seekers, and others in need of international protection, grouped by region. #RStats #ggplot2 #Refugees

My personal library's looking healthy 😁

September is #GynaecologicalCancerAwarenessMonth. #OvarianCancer is the most devastating gynaecological cancer in the UK. The UKCTOCS trial involved over 200,000 women to explore if screening could save lives, but it wasn’t without challenges. 🎧 Discover the insights in this #TrialTalk episode:

Lessons from UKCTOCS, a large-scale trial in ovarian cancer screening

UKCTOCS (UK Collaborative Trial of Ovarian Cancer Screening) is one of the largest screening trials in ovarian cancer. More than 200,000 women from England, Wales and Northern Ireland took part in it,

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I'm really looking forward to this session! Some of the things I'll be talking about include: 📖 Writing about #RStats with #QuartoPub ✍️ Working with @laracrc.bsky.social at CRC Press 📊 How it all started with some #TidyTuesday charts! #StatsEd #DataViz

Prof Andy Field@profandyfield.com · 11mo ago

Excited to participate in 'Book Publication as a Scholarly Activity for Statisticians ...' @ 11.30 on Thurs 4 Sept @royalstatsoc.bsky.social conference with Margaret MacDougall, @nrennie.bsky.social and Rhys Jones. We'll be sharing publication experiences & answering Q's! @rss-teach.bsky.social

At @royalstatsoc.bsky.social conference next week, I'll be talking in the 'Book Publication as a Scholarly Activity for Statisticians' session @ 11.30 on Thu 4 Sep - which I'm really excited about! (Very subtle announcement that there's a #DataViz book from me coming soon!) #StatsEd #RSS2025Conf

For this week's #TidyTuesday data about Billboard Hot 100 Number Ones, I decided to make a sheet music-themed chart 📊 - that will probably manage to annoy #DataViz people as much as music people! 🎶 Thanks to @jenrichmondphd.bsky.social for curating the data! #RStats #ggplot2

Just in time for the start of a new school year - a podcast discussion of evaluating student success. Also check out other Stats+Stories education-related #podcast episodes #EduSky statsandstories.net/education

Education — Stats + Stories

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Amstat-American Statistical Association@amstatnews.bsky.social · 12mo ago

How can data help schools go beyond test scores? In this archived episode of “Stats + Stories,” education researchers share how districts are using data on both academics and social and emotional learning to support students and teachers. tinyurl.com/589mspsm #statsky @johnbailer.bsky.social

If you're interested in learning #JuliaLang and are currently an #RStats user (or even if you're not!), then here's a little introduction to getting started! 📊 Blog post: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/introdu... #QuartoPub #Julia @tidierjl.bsky.social

Introduction to Julia for R users – Nicola Rennie

This blog post will give R users an overview of what Julia is and why they might want to use it, introduce some data processing Julia packages, and show how they can incorporate Julia into existing R ...

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CRAN: "thanks, package heplots_1.7.8.tar.gz is on its way to CRAN!" Added a distancePlot(), a very nice diagnostic plot for multivariate linear models.Shows leverage & outliers together in a way that shows both problems. See: friendly.github.io/heplots/

Michael Friendly@datavisfriendly.bsky.social · 12mo ago

#rstats #dataviz #writing Crazy day! Writing a section for my book, made a graph from one of my packages. Didn't look good. ☹️ Switch to dev mode, edit the package. Back & forth, back & forth for a while til all looks good. 😂 Document changes Submit new release to CRAN. PHEW!

Happy Friday 🌍! We are giving away one copy of 'Spatial Linear Models for Environmental Data'. To enter, simply follow me and re-post this by the end of Sunday, August 17. #spatial #environment # #data #StatsSky routledge.com/9780367183349 not associated with bsky

some light teasing for an upcoming quarto revealjs plugin I have been working on

Taylor 🐿️ & Francis 🦔 are enjoying hanging out at their booth at #MathFest2025! @joinmaa.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social

📍 Registration is open for Spatial Data Science across Languages (SDSL) 2025 – Sept 17–18 (+19), Salzburg, Austria. Connect R, Python, Julia & more in spatial science. 🔗 https://forms.gle/E9fpG88V2VQQKmjk9 -- Apply for on-site by mid-July – limited spots […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Beauty in/of mathematics: tessellations and their formulas @tandfresearch.bsky.social #mathart #tessellations www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....