Matt Cooper
@nzcoops.bsky.social
Associate Professor - University of Western Australia Manager, Biostatistics - The Kids Research Institute Australia R User, study design and reproducibility enthusiast - all things sports (NFL, Rugby, Touch Football) https://the-kids-biostats.github.io/
It's ingenious if nothing else. They keep coming up with ways for the lower/middle class to funnel money up to the rich! Look out for the new "Early Trading Alerts Fee" being passed on to you on the next statement from your broker/superfund.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoThis is nuts: "Trump Media has unveiled a paid-for, licensed data feed that will give banks & trading firms 'the fastest' access to posts from influential Truth Social accounts Trump’s posts on the platform regularly move markets. High speed access to these could be very valuable to traders"
I'm a slow reader at the best of times and this has been on my reading list for far to long. I can see this being an extra long read. So far every page and example is fantastic - many educational/conversation points rattling around my head as I read/reread each part.
I will be 40 this year. This is the difference of temperature anomaly between my birthyear and this year in France. Data from @infoclimat.fr #Rstats #climate
The past two days at "Essential skills for statistics leadership in consultancy and research" were two of the most energising days I've had in (without aging myself) decades of research. Thank you @nicolewhite.bsky.social for reaching out to invite me and @kelamb.bsky.social for co-organising 🙌🏼🙏🏼
71% of Australians are in favour of a 25% tax on gas exports. Not sure why the govt is scared @skyelark.bsky.social thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
Am preparing a talk for medical researchers about the use of ai in statistics (in health research). In the context of assisting with their research as opposed to building an ai tool as part of a project. What are some 'must touch on' topics or stories?
Sample size calculations - that rush you get when someone comes back 18 months after you did a calculation for them for some "minor tweaks" and you find your documented notes and calculations code and screenshots 🎉 #RStats #Statistics #Statssky #DataScience
🚨 New blog post - API access to UN Population Projections (and other interesting data!) In this example we just extract and plot a couple of interesting variables (Youth and Older-age dependency ratios) as an introduction to using the (well, their) API. #RStats #Statistics #Statssky #DataScience
United Nations Population data | API extract and dependency plotting – The Kids Biostats
the-kids-biostats.github.io
You often hear from gas companies that "yeah but we pay state royalties!!!" Lol nope. WA drivers pay more in rego and licence fees than gas companies pay WA in royalties. Heck WA gamblers pay more tax. And that's incredible given WA does NOT have pokies in pubs and clubs
You'll often hear how the gas industry is vital for Australia because it's so big. But really the only thing big about it is its profits.
Like Wordle? How about some math based alternatives! Created by a friend of mine, four different games, my favourite is FloodFill. Have a go! www.mathislit.com/FloodFill/
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🚨 New blog post - Simplifying the path to tidy variable names with nice labels the-kids-biostats.github.io/posts/2026-0... Little by little we're trying to remove friction from OUR regular tasks/processes. We hope others might benefit from this along the way.
Efficiently Cleaning and Labelling Data Columns with thekidsbiostats – The Kids Biostats
the-kids-biostats.github.io
More on LLMs and plot interpretation: they do fine in normal conditions, but struggle when the plot conflicts strongly with their priors. @simonpcouch.com and I investigated why and what might help: posit.co/blog/llm-plo...
No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.
Wowzer! Not gonna lie, I've been straight up trying this every 6 months for about 15 years just waiting for this to drop!
Ben Harrap@bharrap.bsky.social · 8mo ago%notin% coming soon to an #rstats environment near you 🤩 developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/...
🚨 New blog post the-kids-biostats.github.io/posts/2025-1... This one looking at the use of the {readaihw} package and the value of the AIHW data it enables you to access, plus a peak behind the scenes of something we do to spur on a little water cooler talk in the office.
Here's to World Statistics Day 📊 Yes that's right, we've already got our eye on wrapping up 2025. #RStats #Statistics #Statssky #DataScience
Inflation in the past year was BELOW the RBA's target range in FIVE capital cities. And the only places it was above 2% were Brisbane and Perth, where the end of state-based energy rebates saw an abnormal jump in electricity prices. Time to wake up the RBA www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"Overall the country’s fertility rate, or children born per woman, was 1.51 in 2024, statistically similar to the 1.5 observed in 2023 ..." I wonder if someone was asked to statistically compare those two numbers? I wonder if the result of the test would have swayed one's thoughts on the numbers?
Birthrate falls in Australia’s biggest cities amid cost-of-living crisis, preliminary data shows
Outer-suburban and regional Australians increasingly likely to have more children per person than inner-city residents, report shows
theguardian.com
This is incredibly disappointing to read!
Greg Jericho@grogsgamut.bsky.social · last yr.This is very bad news - the ABS won't be releasing its Survey of Income and Housing. This is the survey that gives us the best detail on inequality of both wealth and income and it means we won't get one till 2027. The last one was in 2019-20 so it's already 5 years out of date
