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Jo Potts @analyticaledge.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What feels like the best use ever of my #rstats skills, I made a #shiny app to organise my crochet granny squares 🧶 😂 Patterns are from granny squares academy 1 & 2 by Shelley Husband

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Jo Potts @analyticaledge.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

This might be my biggest achievement for the entire year

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Jo Potts @analyticaledge.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

TIL my dad has me stored in his phone as Dr Joanne Potts. I think he’s the only person that might use my (official) title 😂 proud dad!

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Jo Potts @analyticaledge.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

My 2026 office calendar is up! Thanks @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social (Pride and place underneath a tapa painting gifted to me from Vanuatu during a visit)

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Jo Potts @analyticaledge.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

At the recent Aust stats conference @bharrap.bsky.social showed me some cool ridge plots and I am very very amused (perhaps more than I should publicly admit) that predictive text turns ggridges to grudges.... #rstats #ggplot

ggridges turns to grudges for predictive text

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Jo Potts @analyticaledge.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Big day! Keynote at the Australian Statistics Conference in Perth, talking about my journey and future of stats in the age of AI. Feeling nervous but have my favourite dress on #ASC2025 #stats

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Jo Potts @analyticaledge.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

how did I get this old and not know about reverse assignment in R? #rstats (arguably if I have lasted this long... maybe it isn't that useful!?)

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Jo Potts @analyticaledge.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

I am not 100% convinced this is a general issue, rather than a me-issue, but anyways, it seems ok now!

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Jo Potts @analyticaledge.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Ok #rstats #shiny hive mind. When rendering geom_tile to a plotly in shiny, and press the download button the resulting .png is missing the tiles? What gives! Any advice gratefully received (These data are fake!)

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Jo Potts @analyticaledge.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

it's great because depending on chunk options, etc. you can show students code and output e.g.,

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Jo Potts @analyticaledge.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

I set up in the YAML and include organisation style file e.g.,

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Jo Potts @analyticaledge.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Great to be back home after spending a week in Vanuatu teaching #Rstats to these awesome #fisheries managers, a wonderfully productive workshop. One participant was rendering her analysis written in #Quarto to a PowerPoint presentation that she writes annually for catch data in the outer islands!

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Jo Potts @analyticaledge.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Delving in to the world of Beaker St science festival. What is your p(doom)? Is AI going to save us, enslave us, or just write all our event descriptions? Even have “the krill” cocktail given my date for the afternoon!

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Jo Potts @analyticaledge.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

TFW you log in to what looks like a fabulous seminar (Integrated Species Distribution Models: an application to fisheries abundance data, by Quan Vu, ANU) and find out you didn’t get the memo it started an hour earlier due to a room issue 😭

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Jo Potts @analyticaledge.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

I like David! (Spotted in the Kingborough Chronicle) #taspol #auspol

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Jo Potts @analyticaledge.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

So the Statistical Computing and Visualisation section of the (wonderful) Aust #stats society are running “C study Group for R Contributors” atm. Having never ever ever programmed in C before I felt daunted!! Now I have made a function for Mario and feel overwhelmingly proud at my productive Monday!

# is blocks, when height is entered by the user, pyramid of blocks is formed with a gap for Mario to jump over

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Jo Potts @analyticaledge.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

On the topic of my PhD, I was interviewed recently about the time Clay DeGayner and I found the first Burmese python in Florida Keys, it had eaten one of the radio collared woodrats we were tracking. Had to dig deep in the memory, it was 18 years ago! (I’m still deeply scared of 🐍!)

L to R, Jim Duquesnel holding Burmese python, Joanne Potts (center), Clay DeGayner (right) after capturing Burmese python that had consumed radio collared Key Largo woodrat

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Jo Potts @analyticaledge.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

I found an old file on my computer from my PhD, my thesis was (broadly) on detectability of woodrats, named “WR detection curse.jpg” and I was *very* amused 🤣

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Jo Potts @analyticaledge.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

TIL what the vinculum is (courtesy of grade 6 homework). Amazing how I got through life until now! #maths

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Jo Potts @analyticaledge.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

I’ve had the terrible experience of DVT lately, which among other things, has set of a chain reaction of doctors appts and specialists. Here is a pre-visit specialist survey form and it reminds me survey design is a whole profession for a reason #stats

Survey design with inconsistent scale between questions

Another survey question about heart rates

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Jo Potts @analyticaledge.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

These kinds of catchy statistics leave me with more questions…. Why swap from 2 in 5 to percentages, and what happened to the other 18%? Just find it opaque and a bit pointless. Space filler in the magazine #stats

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Jo Potts @analyticaledge.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

I love read Friday Barnes to our 11yo daughter we find it hilarious, but does someone need to check on R.A.Sprat? Academic trauma? #PhDlife #AcademicSky 😂

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Jo Potts @analyticaledge.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Penultimate day of teaching our intro #rstats course, maths dress and Fiji beer. Big week!

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Jo Potts @analyticaledge.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Another nine chicks! How do they fit under her! 😍 #chickenclub

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Jo Potts @analyticaledge.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

So our chicken who decided a pot plant at the front door was a safe option to make her nest has hatched her chicks! Nine! #chickenclub

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Jo Potts @analyticaledge.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Yes! Thank you. We are indeed good here (England and off to Scotland shortly) I am getting much crochet done in the cold and dark 😆 hope you are having some relaxing time as well x

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Jo Potts @analyticaledge.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

✅ spatial capture recapture #scr #secr workshop ✅ visit to Samoa #fisheries for data visualisation #dataviz ✅ continuous time movement modelling workshop #ctmm What a trip! Now flying home in my favourite #maths dress

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Jo Potts @analyticaledge.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Honestly Microsoft I dunno, when I receive these emails it makes me feel discombobulated: “If you didn’t request this code, you can safely ignore this email. Someone may have typed your email address by mistake. Thanks, #Microsoft”

If you didn’t request this code, you can safely ignore this email. Someone may have typed your email address by mistake. Thanks, Microsoft

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Jo Potts @analyticaledge.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Visit to #Samoa done! #Fisheries dept certainly know how to do Friday night beers (& I didn’t make a total fool of myself at pool either!). Amazing lightning storm one night! Hopefully next trip will have more down time to explore the beautiful countryside, this week was hectic

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Jo Potts @analyticaledge.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Workshop done! Many lovely local gins in Freo to celebrate (recommend Gimlet!) and Rottnest today. Next stop Samoa for some #dataviz discussions for #fisheries management

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Jo Potts @analyticaledge.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

This was fun, Ben and I went to the University of St Andrew’s Alumni “cocktail party” (generous description) in Perth (WA) tonight. Coincidence we were in town for their annual meet up! It was good fun, and view over Perth sunset was beautiful.

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Jo Potts @analyticaledge.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Current status: finishing up workshop material with my favourite beverage (g&t), complete with ice on my ankle after a sprain at basketball. What a way to spend Saturday night!

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Jo Potts @analyticaledge.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Epic few weeks ahead, first stop is Perth (WA) to teach spatial capture recapture workshop with Ben Stevenson (Auckland Uni) as part of Australian Wildlife Management Society Conference #secr #scr #rstats #awms going to be fueled by a fair bit of coffee in the coming weeks

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Jo Potts @analyticaledge.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Today I’m at the Early Career and Student Statistician conference (part of Stats Society of Australia). Russell Thomson’s keynote…. Relationship between age and musical preference (peaks at 15 yo)… given I was at Pearl Jam on Monday, to this…. I’m feeling seen 👀 #stats

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Jo Potts @analyticaledge.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Ok I’m killing airport time after being at Pearl Jam last night…. And instead of working, I used this time in a highly productive manner by setting up a #chickenclub feed! Follow if you too like showing us your chicken-pets

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Jo Potts @analyticaledge.bsky.social · 13/07/2024

Hey biology-ecology-marine-BlueSky! In Fiji and wondering what might have created this beauty out of sand? 🌏 🧪 🐠

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Jo Potts @analyticaledge.bsky.social · 15/04/2024

Base R using barplot is pretty ugly? 📊

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Jo Potts @analyticaledge.bsky.social · 15/04/2024

Hey #rstats hive mind, I am trying to make a TERRIBLE bar plot to demonstrate how a non-zero baseline is extremely misleading, as the ratio of bar height does not match the ratio in the values on the y-axis. However, ggplot (rightly) cuts out the bars when the data range is there. Any hints? Base R?

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Jo Potts @analyticaledge.bsky.social · 21/11/2023

Perth (WA). You are very very very hot for this Tasmanian/Scottish acclimatised human!

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Jo Potts @analyticaledge.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

And our state premier just posted this:

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Jo Potts @analyticaledge.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

Alas it hasn't, but I've gone down a rabbit hole of coords, to margins to aspect.ratio to now fixing layout dimensions directly via ggplotly(map, height = 900, width = 800) It's not terrible for a screen (can scroll down) but not flexible. Hopefully someone has better suggestion! TY tho :)

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Jo Potts @analyticaledge.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

Bluesky #rstats #rshiny hivemind! I am making a #fisheries bycatch data explorer dashboard. When mapping where bycatch get caught, maps are squished! I'm using ggplot for the map, and then renderPlotly(). I thought it was an aspect issue but adding coord_fixed() doesn't help. Any hints please?

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Jo Potts @analyticaledge.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

Anyone would be right to think I do a bit of abundance/spatial/density estimation work... on what? fisheries, seabirds, krill, bycatch, feral species, woodrats, cats! Bit of fun for a Friday!

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Jo Potts @analyticaledge.bsky.social · 10/09/2023

The Pacific Dataviz Challenge starts today! Wonderful to watch the opening presentation, five talented women #womenInSTEM 📊 Recording of presentations will be available on the website later on: dataviz.pacificdata.org

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Jo Potts @analyticaledge.bsky.social · 07/08/2023

Oh dear. Another day, another #rstats user falling in to a trap of using 'aictab' to compare AIC in model selection without realising the data sets for each model differed due to missingness. AICs are not comparable when your data sets differ! A friendly reminder :) #stats

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