Martine Jansen
@martinejansen.bsky.social
Institutional researcher for higher education , statistician, data scientist, and #rstats enthousiast
Please help me understand this. Does this imply anything for my excel macro's, and if so, how to handle it? Thanks! techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windows...
VBScript deprecation: Timelines and next steps | Windows IT Pro Blog
Learn about the deprecation of Visual Basic Scripting edition.
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Meta: “any mention of civil rights, feminism or social reform (topics that are central to Woolf’s work) are usually classified as ‘social topics’ by our automatic system” and are filtered out. “ www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they cover ‘social topics’
Facebook and Instagram ads mentioning ‘civil rights or feminism’ are filtered out, Meta tells theatre
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Slides and resources: nrennie.rbind.io/rss-2026-tid...
Developing your data skills
How to keep learning with TidyTuesday
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Nicola Rennie@nrennie.bsky.social · last mo.If you're at @royalstatsoc.bsky.social conference this week, come along on Tuesday morning at 9am for #TidyTuesday live! A workshop to help you develop your programming skills, ability to work with data, and be part of a wonderful data community! 📊 #RStats @rssannualconf.bsky.social
Another reminder that I'll be doing a 2 hour free online workshop about all things slidecrafting on August 12, 9:00 AM PDT! pos.it/slide-wrkshp #quarto #slidecrafting
Slidecrafting Workshop with Emil Hvitfeldt
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Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
There are genuinely no words to express how much I LOVE my public library and how HAPPY I am it exists and that some of my tax dollars go towards it🥹 What a beautiful thing to have not only books for FREE but a place to exist without paying for anything, a range of services, a place to meet! 🥰📚
Fluffy Persian Cat in a Library
ALT: Fluffy Persian Cat in a Library
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#rstats insight of the day (or even month ;) ): when using `stringr::str_c` to collapse a vector, I thought it would be nice if `c("a","b","c")` would become `"a, b and c". So I was thinking of writing a function to do that, would be super useful. A look in the help revealed the existence of ...
Come join me for a all new slidecrafting workshop! 2 hours of all new content, teaching you to go from zero to hero in quarto slides! It is free and open to anyone, very minimal quarto knowledge required, we are starting with the basics! pos.it/slide-wrkshp #quarto #slidecrafting
Slidecrafting Workshop with Emil Hvitfeldt
This will be a 2-hour workshop (with a short break) led by Emil Hvitfeldt all about making great slides in Quarto! Wed, Aug 12, 2026 12:00 PM EDT
pos.it
Thanks to @anndooms.bsky.social I read about the Rousseeuw prize for Statistics. Congratulations to the laureates of 2026: Brian Ripley, Martin Maechler, Kurt Hornik, Peter Dalgaard and Luke Tierney! #rstats rousseeuwprize.org/2026
The Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics
The Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics is a biennial prize to celebrate outstanding contributions to statistics research.
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Hello #rstats and #tidyverse lovers, learners, and teachers. We just released 5 additional chapters of Hello Data Science book, bringing the total to 10 chapters & completing the Exploratory Data Analysis portion. More to come on modeling and inference. hellodata.science
Hello Data Science
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Anyone a suggestion on how to reduce font size in an #rstats #tinytable notes? With `tinytable::style_tt(fontsize = 0.8)` the font size of the font in the table gets smaller, but not the notes. It is for in a #quarto to #typst. Thanks!
Day 12 of the #30DayChartChallenge, FlowingData Sankeyplot with gradient, made with #rstats , #ggplot2 and a function from my wisselstroom package. Where do havo graduates in the Netherlands continue their education, flows per profile and destination (type and sector). Data: duo.nl/open_onderwi...
Day 9 of the #30DayChartChallenge, Wealth Made with #rstats and #ggplot2. The chart is about drop out rates first year Dutch bachelor students in higher professional education related to parents income. Data from page 25 in www.onderwijsinspectie.nl/documenten/2....
Day 4 of the #30DayChartChallenge, Slope Made with #rstats and #ggplot2. The chart is about exam pass rates with data from opendata.cbs.nl. The nice {geomtextpath} allows the legend to be part of the lines.
Day 3 of the #30DayChartChallenge, Mosaic Made with #rstats and #ggplot2. The data is from duo.nl/open_onderwi... . The plot describes what the next step in education is for graduates from secondary education in the Netherlands.
Day 2 of the #30DayChartChallenge, Pictogram Made with #rstats and #ggplot2. The data is from duo.nl/open_onderwi..., p 154. I used `{showtext}` so I could have the cap via unicode \uf19d in a `geom_text()`.
Day 1 of the #30DayChartChallenge, Part-to-Whole Made with #rstats and #ggplot2. The data is from www.ocwincijfers.nl/sectoren/pri... . I got the fonts the way I wanted thanks to www.cararthompson.com/posts/2024-0..., the nice retro color palette is from www.schemecolor.com/retro-blue-a....
"Developers who fully delegated to AI produced working code but failed conceptual quizzes afterward. They couldn't debug what the AI had written for them. They had the output without the understanding."
Adults Lose Skills to AI. Children Never Build Them.
Discussions of cognitive offloading often miss a critical distinction: What AI does to a 45-year-old's brain is categorically different from what it does to a 14-year-old's.
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Are you ready for the next #30DayChartChallenge? 🚀 Only 2 weeks left until the 6th edition starts — it’s time to reveal this year's topics 🎉 1 prompt for each day of April across 5 categories to spark inspiration, experimentation, and learning 📊 Who’s in? 👀 #dataviz #datavisualization
About to start: Publiek Domeindag van oa de Koninklijke Bibliotheek
WE WANT YOU! 🫵 Our organiser @kylieainslie.bsky.social is leaving us to go Down Under. 🦘 We're looking for new organisers to continue with @josefina-bernardo.bsky.social to keep @rladiesamsterdam.bsky.social the wonderful community it is. If you're in NL and interested, please get in touch! 💜
Kylie Ainslie, PhD@kylieainslie.bsky.social · last yr.Last week marked the end of my time at @rivm-nl.bsky.social. I'm excited to be joining @thedohertyinst.bsky.social and The University of Melbourne as Modelling for Policy Lead!
I'll be teaching a short intro to Shiny workshop for @rladiesremote.bsky.social on February 17! Registration details are below, or you can register by going here: meetu.ps/e/PQt4g/ypHs... #shiny #rstats #databs
View the presentation recording on YouTube: youtu.be/Q8A5NEmRxyM?...
2026 Methods Series with Ellie Murray
YouTube video by CAUSALab at Harvard T.H. Chan
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We are responding to this call for evidence: ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet... Do you have concrete examples of the added value of #Rstats in the public or private sectors? Include the most important factors (risk, lock-in, security, innovation...) to assess the added value. Thanks!
European Commission - Have your say
European Commission - Have your say
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Statistical Rethinking 2026 Lecture B01 Multilevel Models is online. This is the first lecture of the "experienced" section, in which we start with multilevel models and venture into vast covariance spaces. Full lecture list still here: github.com/rmcelreath/s...
Statistical Rethinking 2026 - Lecture B01 - Multilevel Models
YouTube video by Richard McElreath
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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...
