Reposted by Kim CressmanTim Osborne Photography 🍁 @timosborne.ca · 30/04/2026Got up early in hopes of catching this photo before work this morning. There's only a few days each year where it's cool enough in the morning to make this shot possible. Thankfully, today was one of those days! #wildlife #birds 507175862914
Reposted by Kim CressmanCrystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 29/04/2026I was asked to speak with a graduate class today about research data management. I was asked, "How do people become convinced that beginning data management early on in a project is worth it?" Me: "Suffering. They usual have to suffer first." 😅 1855183
Kim Cressman @kimcressman.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Just found the @planetmoney.bsky.social book in the wild, and wow is it nice! 000
Reposted by Kim Cressmancait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 07/03/2026there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for 87224396814
Reposted by Kim CressmanAlberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 05/03/2026A reminder that we are adding a new course to the Open Visualization Academy per month. We'll release 'The Craft of Building Stories with Data' by @chartwaali.bsky.social TOMORROW. (We have 12+ courses at different stages of production!) #dataViz #dataVisualization #infographics #dataJournalism 13212
Reposted by Kim CressmanCrystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 05/03/2026My birthday is in June, in case anyone is wondering..... Thanks for sharing @emilyafarris.bsky.social 😄 www.etsy.com/listing/1728... 2212
Kim Cressman @kimcressman.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Coworker and I were discussing colorblind palettes and grayscale, and I made a blog post with some #rstats resources: cmep-ms.github.io/blog/posts/2...cmep-ms.github.ioTools to check for colorblind- and grayscale-friendliness – CMEP coding blog 191
Reposted by Kim CressmanGavin Simpson @gsimpson.bsky.social · 03/03/2026🎉 It's livestream day 🎉 Join me at 1700 (CET; 1600 UCT) today for two hours of GAM goodness 🤤 📽️ Youtube: youtube.com/live/A9U8e1K... Hit the Notify me 🔔 to get a reminder when I go live #RStats #mgcv #statistics #GAMs #DataScience 🧪lnkd.inLinkedInThis link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn 23820
Reposted by Kim CressmanRichard McElreath 🐈⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 03/03/2026good morning everyone project your personal imposter syndrome onto this gif ur welcome 613533
Reposted by Kim CressmanMerriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 21/02/2026Cleopatra lived closer in time to 'yeet' being in the dictionary than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza. 271878463
Reposted by Kim CressmanTheIneptBirder @theineptbirder.bsky.social · 21/02/2026For those of you who can’t get outside today, here’s some armchair birding for you—fabulous duck edition. It was a great week for ducks around here (Ohio), as the ice thawed and everyone had some self-care. 🪶 511927
Kim Cressman @kimcressman.bsky.social · 21/02/2026Part 2 of Feline Book Recommendations: An Immense World by @edyong209.bsky.social makes an excellent pillow. (It is also a great read for the humans in the household; highly recommend.) 110
Reposted by Kim CressmanCrystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 14/02/2026I have continued to update my Data Consultants table. It currently includes 96 businesses. So if you are looking for help with data wrangling, visualization, analysis, reporting, dashboarding, training, and more, consider checking out these consultants! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...docs.google.comData Consultants 2287
Reposted by Kim CressmanAlberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 30/01/2026The Open Visualization Academy (OVA) IS LIVE! openvisualizationacademy.org Thread follows #dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism #dataVisualization 8240106
Reposted by Kim CressmanMerriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 11/11/2025‘Nickname’ is not ‘nick’ + ‘name.’ It was originally ‘ekename.’ ‘Eke’ was the Middle English word for “also” or “in addition.” Since ‘ekename’ began with a vowel, people used ‘an’ before it. Over time, 'an ekename' became 'a nickname.' 301578358
Kim Cressman @kimcressman.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Some in my household like @stephenbheard.bsky.social 's book for the contents; others prefer the taste and texture of the cover. 1152
Reposted by Kim CressmanCarlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 16/10/2025Quarto friends! I need your help: We are implementing a new QMD parser in Quarto. It will be super nice. But it's a big change, and we want to minimize the impact. 1. Can you share a link to your Quarto project at github.com/quarto-dev/q... 2. repost this and let your Quarto friends know too?github.comEpic: are we production yet · Issue #63 · quarto-dev/quarto-markdownWe need to check against many large sites to get a good sense for the impact of this new syntax in practice. autogenerated qmd quartodoc-generated sites (tbd meet with @machow) sites quarto.org Shi... 53233
Reposted by Kim CressmanCrystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 14/10/2025Over the last 3 years I've been collecting resources to share with people interested in data freelancing. I've recently compiled those resources in a GitHub Repository. If you are interested in data freelancing, these resources may help you navigate that transition. github.com/Cghlewis/fre...github.comGitHub - Cghlewis/freelancing_resources: Resources for data freelancersResources for data freelancers. Contribute to Cghlewis/freelancing_resources development by creating an account on GitHub. 15214
Kim Cressman @kimcressman.bsky.social · 20/09/2025When I read in bed tonight, it will be for the 2500th night in a row. 🧵 , with some favorites at the end. 1/10 220
Reposted by Kim CressmanMark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Some lovely specimens of the earliest vascular land plants collected last weekend with the Mid Wales Fossil Group from forestry track exposures near Bishops Castle. We think there are probably 2 Cooksonia species here in the Silurian rocks. There were also tiny fragments of Eurypterids #FossilFriday 15313
Reposted by Kim CressmanBluesky @bsky.app · 08/09/2025If you've been using a 📌 emoji to bookmark posts, @rafael.my and @samuel.bsky.team cooked up a special tool you can use to migrate them to your Saved Posts. Try it here: pin2saved.vercel.apppin2saved.vercel.apppin2saved for BlueskyMigrate your Bluesky 📌 replies to saved posts. 41170352715
Reposted by Kim CressmanIOIII - Tom Schillinger @pxnd.bsky.social · 29/08/2025Apex predator Great Horned Owl A7RV - 300mm f2.8 + 2x TC #birds 🪶🦉 524729
Reposted by Kim CressmanPatrick Vallely @pjvphotography.bsky.social · 28/08/2025"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika. 6404366510930
Kim Cressman @kimcressman.bsky.social · 22/08/2025Andrew Heiss puts together and shares a lot of really great things. And we benefit! 010
Reposted by Kim CressmanRandy Au @randyau.com · 20/08/2025Data Behind the Scenes Conference free registration is open! Wed Sept 24, ~10am-5pm EDT. Online-only, single track. Join data folks as they share experiences with how data work is done in production, thorns & disturbing hacks and all! (Pls help get the word out 📈) ti.to/databsconf/d... #dataBSti.toDataBS Conf"Data, Behind the Scenes" is a free-to-attend online-only, single track conference centered on the real stories of data work from the folks in the trenches. We’re not here for the latest AI hype, perf... 22211
Reposted by Kim CressmanRebecca Heisman @rheisman.bsky.social · 19/08/2025Currently reading: The Feather Detective by Chris Sweeney. You guys this book is SO GOOD. A quirky, badass woman scientist AND arcane tales of the development of ornithological methods? I LOVE IT. www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Fe...simonandschuster.comThe Feather Detective“A biography that reads like a novel.” —The Wall Street Journal • “Laybourne was a badass.” —Los Angeles Times • “Sweeney’s biography must be read ... 1165
Reposted by Kim CressmanMatthew Kay @mjskay.com · 18/04/2025Dotplots With good defaulta it beats the obvious alternatives, scales better than people think (like 10000+ data points) and isn't as sensitive to binwidth or bandwidth estimators Density? Nope dotplot Histogram? Nope dotplot Violin? Nope dotplot 69820
Reposted by Kim CressmanKelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 09/08/2025This morning at #useR2025, some nice insights from Simon Urbanek about the ways #rstats is optimized for different goals than a general-purpose programming language. Always a special treat to hear from R Core members! 🥰 Some of my favorite takeaways... 🧵 3204
Reposted by Kim CressmanRaffi_RC @raffic.bsky.social · 09/08/2025🌟 legendary astronaut James Lovell who led two moon missions has died, at age 97. in 1970 my father, the renowned portrait photographer Cavouk, took this beautiful photograph of Lovell in his Toronto studio. 936764
Kim Cressman @kimcressman.bsky.social · 07/08/2025Pro-tip - when you're reusing code (say, code from precipitation data, applied to temperature data), remember to update any unit conversions you're doing. Otherwise you'll be very confused trying to figure out why the maximum monthly temperature in your 30-year period is 1.13. 110
Reposted by Kim CressmanMitchell O'Hara-Wild @mitchelloharawild.com · 04/08/2025There's so many parallel sessions at #JSM2025 that it's hard to choose where to go, so I web-scraped the schedule and made a chatbot to help. I've made it public, so hopefully it can help you too - try it out 👉 shiny.mitchelloharawild.com/jsm2025/ 4198
Reposted by Kim CressmanAmy N-K @aankphd.bsky.social · 02/08/2025I installed a camera to see what was going on with our water feature that kept being taken apart at night (I recently filled it with rocks with a central fountain so it wouldn’t be constantly muddy), figuring I’d see a raccoon. I hadn’t expected an all-night pool party! 😂 Mystery solved! ⛲️🦝🦝🦝🦝 261288248
Reposted by Kim CressmanParanormal Pandy 🎃 @thatbrenna.bsky.social · 23/07/2025Host: Let's play Wheel Of Ornithology! Me: Are there any jays? Host: No sorry Me: I'd like to buy an owl 351274366
Reposted by Kim CressmanKingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 26/07/2025Fiiiine, apparently half my readers enjoy an info dump, so here we go! Grasslands Sequester Carbon Too or “Why trees are not the be-all and end-all.” Ahem. *takes a sip of water* 662232594
Reposted by Kim CressmanAndreas Filser @filsa.bsky.social · 25/07/2025Friday #rstats #ggplot2 tip for anyone - like me - who’s spent hours trying to get the formatting of their exported plot right 📉🛠️🎨 2246
Reposted by Kim CressmanKim Cressman @kimcressman.bsky.social · 24/07/2025Had a headache with legend alignment of {tmap} output when using 'view' mode in rendered html. Fixed with css. Blogged it. Is this really the only way? {tmap} is great, even so. #rstats #tmap cmep-ms.github.io/blog/posts/2...cmep-ms.github.ioAligning legend items in tmap ‘view’ mode – CMEP coding blog 011
Kim Cressman @kimcressman.bsky.social · 24/07/2025Had a headache with legend alignment of {tmap} output when using 'view' mode in rendered html. Fixed with css. Blogged it. Is this really the only way? {tmap} is great, even so. #rstats #tmap cmep-ms.github.io/blog/posts/2...cmep-ms.github.ioAligning legend items in tmap ‘view’ mode – CMEP coding blog 011
Reposted by Kim CressmanEmily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 21/07/2025I have deleted the data that were in the database and which you were probably saving for production Forgive me I was panicked So artificial And so intelligent 211123
Reposted by Kim CressmanGlen Grambo 🇨🇦 @glengrambo.bsky.social · 07/07/2025“ Punch it mom! We’re leaving Gary in our dust!” A few days ago the Horned Grebes were still occasionally riding on their parents’ backs. This little one seemed quite please to be zooming ahead of its sibling🤣 #Birds #photography #wildlife 🪶 361225141
Reposted by Kim CressmanGlen Grambo 🇨🇦 @glengrambo.bsky.social · 19/07/2025I don’t know about all grebes but I can speak for this one. This Horned Grebe does not tolerate other birds in his area of the marsh. And his area, is all the water. All of it. I believe he has spied a duck. #Birds #photography #wildlife 🪶 59100389
Reposted by Kim CressmanKim Cressman @kimcressman.bsky.social · 11/07/2025I recently started working part-time at the Mississippi Sound Estuary Program, and have found myself working with a lot of geospatial data. In #rstats . Here's a brain dump of some things I've learned along the way. cmep-ms.github.io/blog/posts/2...cmep-ms.github.ioThings I’ve learned lately, working with spatial data in R – CMEP coding blog 062