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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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centre-mersenne.bsky.social @centre-mersenne.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The Journal of Statistical Ecology is an academic journal at the crossroads of ecology and statistics. jse.centre-mersenne.org The journal welcomes statistical methods development to answer ecological questions as well as rigorous and insightful applications of statistics to ecological datasets.

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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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WOMBAT 2026 @wombat.numbat.space · 31/07/2026

Our keynote speaker for #WOMBAT2026 will be the unusual Rob Hyndman on anomaly detection. You don't want to miss this outstanding event. wombat2026.numbat.space #Statistics #RStats #DataScience

WOMBAT 2026 Keynote.
Rob Hyndman.
Spotting the weird ones.
30 November - 1 December 2026
Naarm/Melbourne

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Jo Potts @analyticaledge.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I’m with you Peter! I find it bizarre anyone would treat their R subdirectory as root and then go upwards for navigation. Special cases aside, the work flow in general feels odd to me.

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Jo Potts @analyticaledge.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Good reminder re 'here' (I have seen but not used). That would be a good work around given how their code is set up. But still so curious to me they work from their R subfolder as root, rather than the parent directory.....

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Jo Potts @analyticaledge.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I like raw_dat and clean_dat!! Going to use this TY

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Jo Potts @analyticaledge.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Currently in New Caledonia (SPC) where energy security is a big topic. This from @freerangestats.info highlights how exposed the Pacific is. Much of the region relies *heavily* on diesel for electricity, in some cases the entire national grid. Global shocks (eg Iran conflict) hit hard and fast...

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Jo Potts @analyticaledge.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I know everyone codes differently, but this is new for me. Good (imo) folder structure: proj_name/ ├ dat/ ├ R/ ├ results/ But they work from R/, and navigate up-across-down back to their data/, e.g., load("../../data/obj.RData") Opinions? I code relative to the project root directory #rstats

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Jo Potts @analyticaledge.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

The Tjanpi award for Best Student Paper in Environmental Statistics for the Australia Statistics Society are open (due April 7th) #stats www.statsoc.org.au/Tjanpi-Award...

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Statistical Society of Australia - Tjanpi Award (Environmental Statistics)

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

Haha true, and fair to say there are many islands out there as well (but…. still…..!)

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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

I did recently see an echidna swimming in Richmond (Tas) and do know of a lonely wallaby once trapped in the northern end of bribie island but wow a 1km swim from Bribie to the mainland is hectic for a tiny echidna! Came for the political comics and stayed for the animal facts, it’s awesome :)

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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 · 29/12/2025

A tragic loss, first and foremost for her children and family, and secondly science, marine biology, science communication, the academic sector broadly 😢 www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

theage.com.au

‘Unfathomable loss’: University of Melbourne’s vice chancellor dies at 52

Professor Emma Johnston, the University of Melbourne’s first female vice chancellor, has died less than 12 months after taking the role.

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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 · 03/12/2025

Robodebt and robotax wasn’t terrible enough it seems…..

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

Thanks Cam! My talk seemed to resonate with old and young alike 🤣 it’s was a fun talk to deliver, and the feedback has been really positive. What a great conference!

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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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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Come and join the @significancemag.bsky.social editorial board!

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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

Yes I did wonder about using a downloaded button. I got a work around to not use any sf (eg coord_sf and use geom_path on a df instead of a shapefile) I suspect the download button might be more robust but presumably you lose plotly features like the zoom etc?

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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 nothing like proclaiming in a public space and then quickly finding solution 🤪 If anyone else is stuck on this, sf seems to not work with plotly. If you put your coords in as a df, and use geom_path to plot with geom_tile it renders (and saves output correctly with .png) #rstats soln next comment

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

Following on from this issue the SEAPODYM dashboard when downloading all the climate data has the same issue🫠 must be a shiny/ggplotly issue(?) or a Joanne-coding-issue(!!!) analyticaledge.shinyapps.io/tae-ofp-fema...

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SEAPODYM data explorer <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-4"> <div> <img src="spc27stars.png" height="60"/> </div> </div> <div class="col-sm-6" style=...

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

Good question - yes. In R, I can render the plot, click the 'camera' icon and it downloads and .png with the tiles. Must be something inside the shiny app then....? (I was thinking it was a plotly issue)

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

I've tried geom_raster... I render using plotlyOutput in the main page....and create output in the server using renderPlotly... Convinced the answer is something super straightforward (as usual!) but I can't work it out. Is this a plotly thing?

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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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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/10/2025

It's long past time for state and federal authorities alike to put an end to Stephen Miller's jerkoff fantasy of masked thugs kidnapping people of color off the street with impunity. Yes, there are Americans who want this. But they are a woefully small minority. Why are we still letting it happen?

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Jo Potts @analyticaledge.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Case_when() really does deserve its own appreciation society #rstats

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Posit @posit.co · 16/10/2025

Quarto 1.8 is available! 💡 New features include integrated Axe-core checks for HTML documents, access to environment variables via code cells, light/dark mode logos and colors, and Brand Extensions for sharing your org's brand. Learn more: quarto.org/docs/blog/po... #Quarto #Python #RStats

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Quarto 1.8 – Quarto

Quarto 1.8 improves brand support, introduces brand extensions, adds HTML accessibility checks, and gives access to execution context.

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Nick Tierney @njtierney.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Missing Values were dropped; Mean Imputation was applied; Data available on request; Code available on request; #rstats

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Jo Potts @analyticaledge.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

It’s really not the best infographic hey

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Jo Potts @analyticaledge.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

💯. How anyone can claim this was not anticipated is lying or living on another planet

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Calum Cunningham @calxcunningham.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

It's bizarre. I can think of at least 3 scientific publications that predict (i.e., model) the uncontrolled explosion of deer across Tas. None of them were referred to in the report. weirdddd

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Dr Lucy Rycroft-Smith @ljrycroftsmith.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Are you a #maths teacher? We are delighted to share a brand new set of materials for teaching #statistics for students aged 11-16, and we'd love your feedback on them! #ITeachMath #MathsWeekScot rss.org.uk/resources/ed...

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Nick Tierney @njtierney.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Hey #rstats friends! 👋 Only one week to go until my "Introduction to R Packages" tutorial at #WOMBAT2025! This is a gentle introduction to making R packages, going from initial code to `devtools::check()` Still plenty of spots available :) Sign up at: wombat2025.numbat.space

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WOMBAT 2025

The Annual Workshop Organised by the Monash Business Analytics Team will be held on the 29th and 30th September 2025 at Monash University (downtown), Melbourne, Australia.

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Cameron Patrick @cameronpat.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

eight years as a statistical consultant and ecologists still manage to collect weird data that I'm not immediately sure what to do with (it's fun though!)

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Théo Michelot @theomichelot.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

The hmmTMB paper is finally out in the Journal of Statistical Software! An R package for hidden Markov models with random effects, flexible spline-based covariate effects, and fast inference using TMB or Stan. Check out the GIthub repository for more examples. doi.org/10.18637/jss...

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hmmTMB: Hidden Markov Models with Flexible Covariate Effects in R by Théo Michelot

<p>Hidden Markov models (HMMs) are widely applied in studies where a discrete-valued process of interest is observed indirectly. They have for example been used to model behavior from human and animal...

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Adam L @adam-lg.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Simon Wood, the GOAT of generalized additive models & creator of the mgcv #rstats package, has an Annual Review of Statistics essay on GAMs, available open access #statssky #mlsky www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

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Jo Potts @analyticaledge.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

This looks like a great further education opportunity #rstats #stats ONE-YEAR MSC (RESEARCH) SCHOLARSHIPS IN SPATIAL STATISTICS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO statsoc.org.au/forum-job-va...

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Statistical Society of Australia - One-year MSc (Research) Scholarships in Spatial Statistics at the University of Otago

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mr dog @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Hello book fans - the charming @annabelcrabb has written the definitive guide to democracy for young people and I have illustrated it - it's out September 30! www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/...

A book entitled There's a prawn in parliament house - with annabel crabb, parliament house and a prawn on the cover -

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

(I acknowledge most of us might naturally prefer pdf output but SPC prefer powerpoint)

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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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WOMBAT 2026 @wombat.numbat.space · 08/09/2025

Want to attend #WOMBAT2025 but #Melbourne is a bit too far for you? We've got you covered with hybrid tutorials! * Fundamentals of Forecasting. * Reproducible Reporting with #QuartoDev. * Visualising Uncertainty * Regression Analysis in #RStats 📅 Program and registration wombat2025.numbat.space

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WOMBAT 2025

The Annual Workshop Organised by the Monash Business Analytics Team will be held on the 29th and 30th September 2025 at Monash University (downtown), Melbourne, Australia.

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

Not possible without support from SPC, Vanuatu fisheries, and awesome co hosts Tiffany Vidal and Marino Wichman ☺️

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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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