Nicholas Vietto
@nvietto.bsky.social
Data visualization enthusiast 📈 with a background in quantitative methods in criminology | #Rstats website: https://nvietto.rbind.io/
‘There’s biological treasure here’: Chile’s endemic seals gain protection with new marine park
‘There’s biological treasure here’: Chile’s endemic seals gain protection with new marine park
Sixty years after the discovery of a colony of Juan Fernández fur seals, previously thought to be extinct, a landmark agreement extends ‘no take’ zone around the wildlife-rich archipelago
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We're looking at cars in Qatar for #TidyTuesday this week - "an international and modern version of the now-ancient `mtcars`" data! 📊 ➡️ 9 ways to visualise the distribution of a variable Thanks to @andrew.heiss.phd for curating this week's dataset! #RStats #DataViz
Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp.... genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
GitHub - hadley/genzplyr: dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap
dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap. Contribute to hadley/genzplyr development by creating an account on GitHub.
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#TidyTuesday Week 38 - FIDE Took what I know about ELO ratings and made a beeswarm 🐝 to compare Masters and players (like me) near the 1000 ELO mark. Also added a reference section to my script to 'cite' what scripts I looked at. Maybe it'll catch on #Rstats #dataviz Code github.com/nvietto/Tidy...
The Pac-Man Rule should be adopted at all conferences and meetups - it's so much more welcoming! Also an excellent use of a pie chart! 📊
Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 11mo agoRemember the Pac-Man Rule! Leave a gap for people to join your conversation! #PositConf2024 #RStats
I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats
ggplot2 4.0.0
A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.
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Excited to share my newest quarto revealjs plugin: imagemover Easily reposition and resize images directly in your quarto revealjs slides for a much smoother slidecrafting experience github.com/EmilHvitfeld... #quarto
I’ve long used FiveThirtyEight’s interactive “Hack Your Way To Scientific Glory” to illustrate the idea of p-hacking when I teach statistics. But ABC/Disney killed the site earlier this month :( So I made my own with #rstats and Observable and #QuartoPub ! stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way/
Here’s a fun extra credit assignment I made that uses R/Posit Cloud for generative art with {aRtsy}. I’ve used it in stats, methods, even crim theory. Students love it. I do a mini art show before the final lecture lol. Feel free to use it! #academicsky #rstats nvietto.quarto.pub/extra-credit...
Extra Credit - Generative Art with {aRtsy}
nvietto.quarto.pub
I’ve been using the new gradients and patterns in #rstats and #ggplot2 quite a bit for recent package, so here’s a deep dive! Everything from the basics of using gradients in your plots through to sophisticated visual effects. jamesgoldie.dev/writing/stac...
The guide to gradients in R and ggplot2 – James Goldie
Visualising data and building things for fun and for change. #climatehealth → #datajournalism
jamesgoldie.dev
Curator: @jonthegeek.com @dslc.io welcomes you to week 10 of #TidyTuesday! We're exploring Pixar Films! 📁 https://tidytues.day/2025/2025-03-11 🗞️ https://erictleung.com/pixarfilms/articles/pixar_film_ratings.html #RStats #PyData #JuliaLang #DataViz #tidyverse #r4ds
I'm currently working through a dissertation section that involves describing gradient descent, and Josh Starmer's explanation is by far the clearest I've come across. And I had a great ML teacher, but his explanation is a simple and straightforward, highly recommend. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDv4...
Gradient Descent, Step-by-Step
YouTube video by StatQuest with Josh Starmer
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Got this in my email today from DrivenData, seems like a useful resource if you're looking for data science positions that center on helping fix social and environmental problems. #datascience #dataBS drivendata.co/blog/where-t...
Where to find a data job for a good cause
Finding data jobs for good causes can be difficult. Learn strategies, job lists, and tips to find organizations with open positions working on causes you care about.
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New pub up! We examined how associations between measures of the autonomic nervous system and psychopathic traits differ across stress tasks. Thank you to everyone who helped us recruit participants for this study! Data and code: github.com/nvietto/Repl... www.crimrxiv.com/pub/q7z2nfny...
Differences in Associations Between Autonomic Nervous System Activity and Psychopathic Traits Across Stress Paradigms and Measures
Vietto, N., Armstrong, T.A., Schroll, D.M. et al. Differences in Associations Between Autonomic Nervous System Activity and Psychopathic Traits Across Stress Paradigms and Measures. J Psychopathol Beh...
crimrxiv.com
As A24 re-releases the Colman Domingo Oscar contender #SingSing in movie theaters this week, the indie studio is also making the film available to nearly a million incarcerated people across the U.S. bit.ly/4hfud9f
#genuary5 prompt: Isometric art. It's game of life. History goes down. I've seen a visualization like this last year and wanted to recreate it. Made with #PyScript: ambv.pyscriptapps.com/genuary-prom... #genuary2025 #genuary #GenerativeArt #CreativeCoding #WebGL #Python
#TidyTuesday Week 51 - Dungeons and Dragons Spells Couldn't pass up the chance to do a D&D TidyTuesday. Thanks @jonthegeek.com for curating this dataset! Code: github.com/nvietto/Tidy... #Rstats #dataviz
Very proud to announce that @posit.co has joined the opensourcepledge.com. We're committing to spending $2000 / developer / year to support open source software that we use (but don't develop): posit.co/blog/posit-p... #rstats #pydata
Open Source Pledge
Our companies feast year after year at the Open Source table. It's time to settle up.
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@dslc.io welcomes you to week 51 of #TidyTuesday! We're exploring Dungeons and Dragons Spells (2024)! 📁 https://tidytues.day/2024/2024-12-17 🗞️ https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1804-start-playing-today-with-the-2024-d-d-free-rules #RStats #PyData #JuliaLang #DataViz #tidyverse #r4ds
New R package up - {samplezoo}. I designed it to allow educators to focus on teaching statistical concepts instead of getting stuck in the setup process. There's still a lot I want/need to add but for now it's a useful tool for discussing distributions and such. nvietto.rbind.io/blog/samplez...
Introducing {samplezoo} | Nicholas Vietto
A quick way to generate samples that contain a variety of probability distributions
nvietto.rbind.io
Kinnnda looks like Omaha a bit with downtown on the right and midtown on the left, lol. Nevertheless, a fun way to view your GitHub contributions this year. 3D Image here: github.com/nvietto/nvie... Learn how to do yours here: github.blog/changelog/20... #GitHubSkyline
We are excited to announce posit::conf(2025)! Join fellow data enthusiasts & developers for an unforgettable three days of learning, connection, and inspiration. Learn more and register at posit.co/blog/positco... #datascience #rstats #pydata #quarto #tidyverse #posit
