“For services to Statistic”…. Yeah, but which statistic?

This photo gives complete @untitledgoosegame.bsky.social vibes

Leslie Molson@ladymolson.com · 4mo ago

Whatever you do,

According to Netlify's logs my tiny little blog in March registered 1GB in bandwith and ~28k in page requests. A blog that I've not updated in ~2 years and which I don't expect many real world humans have read.

I have somehow ended up in the "Fantasy Premier League Community" cluster… which its very funny given that as very much a non-footballer/fan for many years I resisted the requests of my boss to join the work FPL group and make pics based solely on the stats.

Theo Sanderson@theo.io · 6mo ago

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

Broke: "May the Fourth be with you" Woke: "The Fourth May with you be" Excel: "5-April"

"Llamas can't tell the truth" apparently means that somebody is being "exceptionally honest"

Streeting said he's abolishing the "biggest quango in the world"... perhaps, but definitions matter. And I'm not convinced that NHS England qualifies as the UK's biggest quango let alone the world's.

I wondered when I’d think Bluesky had “made it”… I can now doomscroll effectively and have had my first follows from female presenting OnlyFans-promoting scam-bots. So yeah I think that means Bluesky has made it.

"Abandon all hope, ye who enter here" #rstats Yes is a bit brain melty at first, but it demonstrates how fundamentally flexible R actually is. I wonder in how many other languages it would be this easy to change array indexing.

James Balamuta@coatless.bsky.social · last yr.

I've found the perfect way to make #rstats programmers scream in existential terror. Behold zero-indexed R! Redefining reality with <15 lines of code is so hot right now. Now watch as I calmly refer to v[0] while maintaining direct eye contact. #cursedcode

Typically my little bot project just posts pictures of bridges, boats, wildlife and industrial heritage… sometimes it finds interesting insights into modern life.

narrowbotr@narrowbotr.bsky.social · last yr.

📍: Bridge 202, North Hyde Bridge ℹ️: road bridge 🗺: https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=51.4948832715971&mlon=-0.387524850811192#map=17/51.4948832715971/-0.387524850811192 📸: Photo by Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Govt on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/28937515@N02/7894009748

Most humans wouldn’t use a dictionary to calculate the area of a square. Yet this pretty much what this example is doing.

Joseph Howley@illdottore.bsky.social · last yr.

you fucked up a perfectly good computer is what you did. look at it. it's got innumeracy

For the avoidance of doubt, I'm firmly Team Clippy 📎📎📎

Matt Kerlogue@matt.kerlogue.co.uk · last yr.

You can't mention #rstats documentation without mentioning Clippy-gate in the {writexl} package github.com/ropensci/wri...

One of my favourite things about #rstats is the joyous things you get in R ecosystem documentation.

If they're combining Norfolk (i.e. north folk) with Suffolk (i.e. south folk)... shouldn't the new combined entity just be called Folk or maybe something like Allfolk, Twafolk (Twa being Old English for two), or Bathfolk/Batfolk/Bahfolk (baþe being Old English for both).

James Moules@jamesmoules.bsky.social · 2y ago

Six areas have been added to the government’s Devolution Priority Programme - paving the way for more mayor-led authorities. They are: • Cumbria • Cheshire & Warrington • Norfolk & Suffolk • Greater Essex • Sussex & Brighton • Hampshire & Solent

While I'm on a posting spree... Have you ever thought "My feed could do with more pictures of the canal network of England and Wales?"... Is that a "yes" I hear? Well then, I'm behind the @narrowbotr.bsky.social bot which does exactly that!

I can't promise I'll post that much here. But by way of #introduction, I do data/analysis things mainly in #rstats, largely on helping public organisations work better.

Hello my tiny bsky following! Tomorrow I'm speaking at Data Bites #52 hosted by @gavinfreeguard.bsky.social and @publicdigital.bsky.social about the Blavatnik Index of Public Administration 2024 from @blavatnikschool.bsky.social

Gavin Freeguard@gavinfreeguard.com · 2y ago

Happy Data Bites week! Join @publicdigital.bsky.social & me at 6pm on Thurs, in person (Broadway House, nr St James's Park tube) or online Hear from: - Laura Gilbert, ex-10DS/i.AI - Scottish Govt - David Canning on the digital heap - @mattkerlogue.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/data-bites...