There is nothing that can beat R libraries hexagons... Also, a new R library 👇🏼 github.com/moodymudskip... #rstats

not literally about cocaine

A cocaine skeptic starts an unwise habit – Notes from a data witch

You will be shocked to learn that this is not actually a post about cocaine

blog.djnavarro.net

Here's something I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.

I try not to overdo this bit but ... my man is begging for it. Let's go.

PEIPolitical 🇨🇦@peipolitical.bsky.social · 3w ago

Miller: "It's not a coincidence that when you look at these violent Antifa demonstrations not one of the people that is demonstrating looks like a normal person. Not one looks normal. They're all deformed in some way in their appearance, in their dress, in their mannerism." #cdnpoli

When sharing data, does anyone package their dataset with an actual validation script? Something that a computer can run to confirm that column level attributes are met? So beyond a data dictionary, something like a JSON Schema or maybe a YAML file with validation code?

Update after the quarterfinals.

politicians want everyone to speak well of terrible people who died because many of them are terrible people who will die

Update after Switzerland defeat Colombia to complete the octofinals.

But jamelle have you considered that David Brooks is a deeply, deeply stupid man?

First, it was 1968 not 1964, get your facts right. Second, this is a reflection of a much larger problem in American politics: a simple lack of collective imagination for what a better system could look like

Matthew Connatser@matthewconnatser.net · 4w ago

Literally the inciting event as to why the primary process is the norm today is because people got so upset over the closed process that violence erupted during the 1964 Democratic convention.

I am begging my fellow Americans to learn how parties work *literally* every where else. Candidates are not more legitimate just because they were selected via a primary. Parties regularly select candidates and then voters, in an election, tell the party if they liked them or not.

Chris Murphy@chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 4w ago

Democrats have to win back the Senate if we’re going to stop Donald Trump’s daily, nuclear-grade corruption. The assault allegations against Graham Platner are disqualifying and he should be replaced as the nominee. But this can’t happen as a party insider backroom deal.

Do your thing, Bluesky, and provide all the datasets

Ben Hanowell@hanowell.me · 4w ago

Hey, folks. I'm looking for open access person-time datasets that represent a competing risks structure. I want to analyze these datasets and write about those analyses to help people understand competing risks analysis methods. Nearly all of the data sets I have used for this are closed source.

Poo-pooing polarization and lauding bipartisanship has never been the sophisticated stance its adherents claim, but it has long since passed from plausibly naive into willfully ignorant or straight up malicious

Petter Törnberg@pettertornberg.com · 4w ago

‘Polarization’ has become the master concept for diagnosing our current democratic crisis. But this is not polarization. It is the radicalization of the political right. By misdiagnosing it, we risk becoming complicit in the crisis. 🧵 Just out in Perspectives on Politics doi.org/10.1017/S153...

‘Polarization’ has become the master concept for diagnosing our current democratic crisis. But this is not polarization. It is the radicalization of the political right. By misdiagnosing it, we risk becoming complicit in the crisis. 🧵 Just out in Perspectives on Politics doi.org/10.1017/S153...

A big part of that is because his reelection *was* the cultural moment, even though much of the cause was unrelated (inflation, global anti-incumbency wave, etc). Then prominent people proclaimed it a massive cultural shift, and tried to impose that on everyone. It didn't work.

Mitch McConnell did as much to open the portal into our current hell- timeline as anyone. Before you post something mean about him, dig deep and find something even meaner to say once he dies. He earned it.

Oliver Willis@owillis.bsky.social · last mo.

Before the whitewash comes in, a reminder that because of Mitch Mconnell American women are dying and bleeding out because they were denied abortion care. Because of McConnell the Russians were free to interfere in our elections. Because of Mitch billionaires are coddled while kids get screwed over.

my contribution to this discourse: I did a CS major and fine art minor, and could have done a philosophy minor if I took 1 more philosophy class my friends were all art kids or STEM kids I met *through* art kids vanilla CS kids were boring and I didn't talk to philosophy kids

lowtax speedrun enjoyer@rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · last mo.

ai doesn’t work if you don’t know what the hell you’re talking about, episode 6 zillion or so, but i will say: before we do another round of stem vs humanities discourse, remember that all the worst people in silicon valley are humanities and social science majors

Update after Colombia defeat Ghana, completing the round of 32.

Update after Brazil defeat Japan.

🎉 We've just moved @ropensci.org on Bluesky to a fully independent account! We were previously bridged from our Mastodon account via Bridgy Fed. Same community, same content, fresh start. Give us a follow if you haven't already! 🦋 #RStats

I have a new version of my latent variable modeling/idealstan draft online👇 Even if you're not into the idealstan type of latent variable model, I think this is the most complete discussion of time series dynamics with measurement/latent variables. So perhaps worth a read! osf.io/preprints/os...

posterior R package has now JOSS paper you can cite, too joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21... with @paulbuerkner.com , Jonah Gabry, @mjskay.com

posterior: Tools for Working with Posterior Distributions in R

Bürkner et al., (2026). posterior: Tools for Working with Posterior Distributions in R. Journal of Open Source Software, 11(122), 10526, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.10526

joss.theoj.org

A new paper by @dominiquemakowski.bsky.social, @mattansb.msbstats.info, me and colleagues just out! We show how to choose informative priors in Bayesian regression models using a systematic simulation study and a practical step-by-step tutorial in #Rstats and #Stan! doi.org/10.3389/fpsy... >

editor says we should "turn on your brains" b/c some cites lack article numbers, says bibtex from a journal's website isn't good enough umm the journal's bibtex IS the canonical citation what persnickety fuckstick is wasting time manually adjusting what a journal thinks its own citation should be?

I fucking hate the things so good riddance, but the market really does need, on both ends, some kind of actually costly/credible 'no I actually care about this' signal tbh

@mjskay.com quantile dot frogs

A walking bat signal for @dieworkwear.bsky.social

Philip Bump@pbump.com · 2mo ago

I’m sorry, no. This is not the guy who did the reflecting pool. No. Come on. We’re just putting a hat on a hat here. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...

A massive congrats to R Core for this great honour. R has been the foundation of my career and it wouldn’t have been possible without years of work from them.

The R Foundation@r-foundation.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The 2026 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics has been awarded to the R Project. #RStats www.rousseeuwprize.org/2026

Really thrilled to announce that, in addition to our flagship Boston 🇺🇸 location, #ieeevis will have two satellites in Paris 🇫🇷 and Tianjin 🇨🇳 to mitigate issues folks face to attend conferences. I’m hopeful this will help grow and sustain the worldwide visualization.

IEEE VIS@ieeevis.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📢 Announcing Satellite Events in France and China 🌍 Connect through live-streamed sessions, recorded content, local networking, and selected remote presentation opportunities linked to the main conference in Boston. Learn more here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDqm...