Corey Sparks @coreysparks1.bsky.social · 16hstatic.klipy.comYou Can Do It! EncouragementALT: You Can Do It! Encouragement 110
Reposted by Corey SparksKatie Spoon @kspoon.bsky.social · 19hAs a PhD student designing my first survey, I added what I thought was a throwaway question at the end. To my surprise, thousands of academics answered it! The paper is out today: doi.org/10.1093/pnas... 561962640
Reposted by Corey SparksLeslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 22/09/2026New 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...jamanetwork.comDecomposition of Black and White Infant Mortality RatesThis 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. 1206
Corey Sparks @coreysparks1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I’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 0108
Corey Sparks @coreysparks1.bsky.social · 22/07/2026I 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. 040
Reposted by Corey SparksHadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 20/03/2026We 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 27245
Reposted by Corey SparksDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/03/2026When 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. 13741238
Corey Sparks @coreysparks1.bsky.social · 09/03/2026I’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/dmY5NJYDlnkd.inLinkedInThis link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn 082
Corey Sparks @coreysparks1.bsky.social · 04/03/2026I 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/...corey-sparks.shinyapps.ioJOLTS State Explorer 010
Reposted by Corey SparksQuantitude the Podcast @quantitude.bsky.social · 13/10/2025Coming tomorrow. It’s almost that time of year… 3146
Reposted by Corey SparksAntonino 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.socialdoi.orgFertility, birth, reproduction: Connecting formal demographic frameworksThe 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... 15416
Corey Sparks @coreysparks1.bsky.social · 03/10/2025For 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... 0108
Corey Sparks @coreysparks1.bsky.social · 06/09/2025I was just excited that somebody responded. after the heyday of Twitter a few years ago, where this type of thing happened every single day I was worried that the community wasn’t really around anymore. 110
Corey Sparks @coreysparks1.bsky.social · 06/09/2025I typically enjoy a janky solution but this is for a project where I'm trying to teach new R users, so may not this time 010
Corey Sparks @coreysparks1.bsky.social · 05/09/2025The purpose is to show the r for the inline expression 000
Corey Sparks @coreysparks1.bsky.social · 05/09/2025ah, duh, i'd put it in a chunk, that works too! 020
Corey Sparks @coreysparks1.bsky.social · 05/09/2025this puts the vector notation in front of the output, and adds an extra r in there knitr::inline_expr('r mean(1:10)', "md") 100
Corey Sparks @coreysparks1.bsky.social · 05/09/2025hideous, but beautiful too? ytb @ivelasq3.bsky.social 000
Corey Sparks @coreysparks1.bsky.social · 05/09/2025That did it, thanks @ercbk.bsky.social ``{r} mean(1:10) `` gave me 161
Corey Sparks @coreysparks1.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Close! if I use `{{r}} r mean(1:10)` I get this: {r} r mean(1:10) but what I want is r mean(1:10) 210
Corey Sparks @coreysparks1.bsky.social · 05/09/2025ok, 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)` 9101
Corey Sparks @coreysparks1.bsky.social · 29/08/2025Question 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 000
Reposted by Corey SparksCédric Scherer @cedricscherer.com · 23/05/2025New 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 1252
Reposted by Corey SparksSolomon Kurz @solomonkurz.bsky.social · 14/04/2025The 1.2.0 version of my #brms + #tidyverse translation of Kruschke’s "Doing Bayesian data analysis" is up! bookdown.org/content/3686/ 1/3 #rstatsbookdown.orgDoing Bayesian Data Analysis in brms and the tidyverse 25715
Reposted by Corey SparksQuantitude the Podcast @quantitude.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Taking your analyses to the necks level tomorrow… 4205
Corey Sparks @coreysparks1.bsky.social · 15/04/2025I'm listening to this episode and would highly recommend it to those who've never thought about count variable models, BUT!! Where's the denominator?? I'm seriously jonesing for a discussion of offsets in these models, and yes it's because I'm a #demographer coreysparks.github.io/appdem_Book/...coreysparks.github.ioApplied Demographic Data Analysis - 4 Macrodemographic Analysis of Places 150
Corey Sparks @coreysparks1.bsky.social · 28/03/2025There are a lot of useful keyboard shortcuts support.apple.com/en-us/102650support.apple.comMac keyboard shortcuts - Apple SupportBy pressing certain key combinations, you can do things that normally need a mouse, trackpad, or other input device. 160
Corey Sparks @coreysparks1.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Hey #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 011
Reposted by Corey SparksAntony 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ (He/They) @remylebeau-uk.bsky.social · 18/11/2024If 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. 05927
Reposted by Corey SparksMax Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Are 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... 35438
Corey Sparks @coreysparks1.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Also curious about the large book of spells in the foreground.... 110
Reposted by Corey SparksCarl Schmertmann @cschmert.bsky.social · 25/08/2024My first try at a Demography "Starter Pack". There's a limit of 50 contacts, so this is definitely partial. go.bsky.app/FqXNjEh 14636
Corey Sparks @coreysparks1.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Just deactivated my Twitter account, it was a really productive and fun place a few years ago, now it's a dumpster fire 050
Reposted by Corey SparksSophia Rini @sophiarini.bsky.social · 06/11/2024During 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. 3248652095
Reposted by Corey SparksJeremy Allen @jeremy-data.bsky.social · 26/10/2024My 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 18277132
