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Corey Sparks

@coreysparks1.bsky.social
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Demographer, Professor #academic #rstats coreysparks.github.io/appdem_Book

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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New paper out with @monjalexander.bsky.social and @rohanalexander.bsky.social using Kitagawa decomposition to examine the rate and composition components of the non-Hispanic Black/white racial disparity in US infant mortality, 2003-2024 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Decomposition of Black and White Infant Mortality Rates
This cross-sectional study uses 22 years of mortality data to quantify gestational age distribution and mortality rates in infants born to Black mothers compared with infants born to White mothers.
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Corey Sparks @coreysparks1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I’m recruiting a PhD student to come work with me at UT San Antonio. I have 3 years of support, so this would be good for someone with a masters degree. If you’re interested in working on Bayesian methods in demographic research, spatial analysis, and using AI tools for social science research
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Corey Sparks @coreysparks1.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I am extremely excited that I will be rejoining The University of Texas at San Antonio beginning this fall as full professor in the Department of Sociology and Demography. Working in the private sector, and in nonprofits have given me a wealth of new perspectives to bring back to the academic world.
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Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 20/03/2026
We have summer internships y'all! Come work at Posit on the PyData, tidymodels, shiny, or Connect teams: grnh.se/tigz810a3us. You will have an awesome time, learn a ton, and help advance our open source and pro tools 🧰 #rstats #pydata
Kermit the frog screaming with excitement
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
When reporters would ask me about "how will the public see the effects of DOGE?" my answer was pretty unsatisfying. 1. Performance declines in orgs that deliver direct and measurable services (e.g. IRS, VA, SSA) 2. Emergencies reveal lack of expertise when you need it. The Iran war is a #2 case.
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Corey Sparks @coreysparks1.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
I’m excited to share a new County Health Explorer, an interactive R #Shiny application for #mapping and analyzing public health data across U.S. counties. lnkd.in/dbMHnVid The app integrates two national datasets: County Health Rankings & Roadmaps and CDC Code is on GitHub at lnkd.in/dmY5NJYD
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LinkedIn
This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn
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Corey Sparks @coreysparks1.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I saw a post on LInkedin yesterday using @usbls.bsky.social JOLTS data, so I made a #Shiny app to display the monthly employment and hiring data for states, and for all states in a map. The app is here: corey-sparks.shinyapps.io/jolts_state_... and the code is on github github.com/coreysparks/...
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JOLTS State Explorer
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Quantitude the Podcast @quantitude.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Coming tomorrow. It’s almost that time of year…
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Antonino Polizzi @polizzan.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
✍️ Just out: Annette Baudisch & I delve into the formal demography of fertility, birth, & reproduction timing. 👶 We use methods from mortality research to summarize when in the parental life course children are born. 📆 1/n doi.org/10.1080/0032... @sdu.dk @oxforddemsci.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social
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Fertility, birth, reproduction: Connecting formal demographic frameworks
The conventional framework of fertility research conceptualizes childbirth from the mother’s perspective. From her perspective, birth is an uncertain and potentially recurring event. In contrast, t...
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Corey Sparks @coreysparks1.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
For those of you interested in accessing U.S. Census Bureau data from data.census.gov during the government shutdown, the Census APIs are still working. Here is an example of how to access the Census API using both #Rstats and #Python coreysparks.quarto.pub/accessing-th...
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Corey Sparks @coreysparks1.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
ok, dumb #rstats question. I'm using #quarto and i want to print some inline R code in my HTML report, but I DON'T want it to actually run the code I want it to be like this in the report: `r mean(1:10)`
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Corey Sparks @coreysparks1.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Question for the group. If you are in a job and there is basically no way of moving upwards in your organization, what would you do? #jobs #work
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Cédric Scherer @cedricscherer.com · 23/05/2025
New bonus lesson out now! 🎉 "A Quick Introduction to R" is for all course members that are new to #rstats or need a refresher 🧑‍💻 ➕ 7 exercises and lots of in-browser code examples Part of our interactive workshop #ggplot2 [un]charted 💙 Get access 👉 www.ggplot2-uncharted.com #dataviz #datascience
A screenshot of the bonus lesson "Getting Started: A Quick Introduction to R" with the title, a short intro and the first part on "Executing R Code". Also shows the first code examples which members can execute inside their browser thanks to our sandboxes.
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Solomon Kurz @solomonkurz.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
The 1.2.0 version of my #brms + #tidyverse translation of Kruschke’s "Doing Bayesian data analysis" is up! bookdown.org/content/3686/ 1/3 #rstats
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Doing Bayesian Data Analysis in brms and the tidyverse
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Quantitude the Podcast @quantitude.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Taking your analyses to the necks level tomorrow…
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Corey Sparks @coreysparks1.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Hey #rstats and #quarto folks, I'm building a quarto dashboard and using a gt table to show a reactive dataframe. The problem is that when I select the filter, the table keeps getting large and larger, has anyone else seen this? TIA
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Antony 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (He/They) @remylebeau-uk.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
If fellow BlueSkyers were like me and used to love TweetDeck back in the day, I'd really recommend @deck.blue to bring back that column view and general vibe.
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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Are you a #student who is interested in #Demography and #DataScience & you have no plans for ☀️☀️☀️#summer 2025☀️☀️☀️☀️ yet? Look no more! @mpidr.bsky.social has just the program for you: Population and Social Data Science Summer Incubator Program! Apply until Jan 8, 2025 demogr.mpg.de/go/Incubator...
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Carl Schmertmann @cschmert.bsky.social · 25/08/2024
My first try at a Demography "Starter Pack". There's a limit of 50 contacts, so this is definitely partial. go.bsky.app/FqXNjEh
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Corey Sparks @coreysparks1.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Just deactivated my Twitter account, it was a really productive and fun place a few years ago, now it's a dumpster fire
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Sophia Rini @sophiarini.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
During trump 1.0, we had to pull down all of the climate change pages off the EPA website. Start archiving shit now, document, backup, photograph, whatever you need to do.
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Jeremy Allen @jeremy-data.bsky.social · 26/10/2024
My fav starter packs so far, a thread: stats: go.bsky.app/Ki7PjpS stats: go.bsky.app/7TBN5rX causal inference: go.bsky.app/FdemGAZ package devs: go.bsky.app/N1569Qh data peeps: go.bsky.app/8TdEfdK medical stats: go.bsky.app/ArqEz36 bioinformatics: go.bsky.app/Ha64Gmv r-ladies: go.bsky.app/Vgxwa2F
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