Reposted by LaraUCL Department of Statistical Science @statisticsucl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Prof. Terry Soo arranged a re-union of present and past Heads for the Department of Statistical Science. Epic picture! 042
Reposted by LaraMåns Thulin @mansthulin.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Looking for a book that covers both statistics and R programming? Check out my book Modern Statistics with R! Coding, visualisation, regression, ML & more. 📖 Read it for free: www.modernstatisticswithr.com 📚 Get printed copies: tinyurl.com/mswrbook #Rstats #statistics #datascience #machinelearning 3427
Reposted by LaraJakub Nowosad @nowosad.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026Working with spatial data in R? The terra cheat sheet is a quick reference for raster/vector operations, projections, plotting, and more. Check it at rspatial.org/_static/terra_cheatshe… #rstats #GISchat #rspatial 097
Reposted by LaraKonsta Happonen @konsta.happonen.eu · 24/08/2026Off to #ESAWarsaw2026. Boat ride from Helsinki to Tallinn done, now on the train to Vilnius. Tomorrow the final train to Warsaw! Good thing I brought something to pass the time with. #statssky 2121
Reposted by LaraJill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Interested in narrative data visualisation? We're looking for a PhD candidate to join our team at the Center for Digital Narrative, with me and @lauragarrison.bsky.social as supervisors. Apply by 30 August! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...jobbnorge.noPhD Research Fellowship in Narrative Data Visualisation (303954) | University of BergenJob title: PhD Research Fellowship in Narrative Data Visualisation (303954), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Sunday, August 30, 2026 12021
Reposted by LaraKyle Walker @kylewalker.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Mapped: % of US-born adults, by PUMA (~100k-200k people), born in their current state of residence. Lots to unpack in this one. Explore the interactive map: walker-data.com/maps/born-in... For those so inclined, the source code is here: gist.github.com/walkerke/875... 192
Reposted by LaraPaul Naish @paulnaish.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Look! The @tandfresearch.bsky.social stand is ready for #JSM26 tomorrow. Literally the best stand in the Expo so a must-visit if you’re there! 183
Reposted by LaraBrady West @bradytwest.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Live shot of me buying a hard copy of @vincentab.bsky.social’s new book (see hand on pink book near bookshelf) 😂 232
Reposted by LaraOsvaldo Martin @aloctavodia.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Look what was waiting on my desk this morning! It's so great to finally see #BayesianWorkflow in print. 0302
Reposted by LaraRichard McElreath 🐈⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 28/07/2026I see now we missed an opportunity by not entitling our book "Bayesian Odyssey" instead of "Bayesian Workflow". The priors are polytropic! Still all the case studies are online avehtari.github.io/Bayesian-Wor... (and python translations arviz-devs.github.io/bayesian-wor...) for your adventure 6593
Reposted by LaraThomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Watch @nrennie.bsky.social's Ihaka Lecture about data viz and creativity on YouTube if you missed the live/streamed version tonight youtube.com/live/fAiyiE8...youtube.comIhaka Lecture Series 2026 #2 - When Creativity Meets CodeYouTube video by University of Auckland | Waipapa Taumata Rau 03110
Reposted by LaraMichael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Nominations are now open for the Rousseeuw Prize, the most prestigious in Statistics. Akin to Fields Medal Prize: $1 million! Deadline: Feb 26 Categories for 2026: 🔵computational statistics & data science 🔵statistics in physical sciences 🔵statistics in economics & humanities rousseeuwprize.orgrousseeuwprize.orgThe Rousseeuw Prize for StatisticsThe Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics is a biennial prize to celebrate outstanding contributions to statistics research. 0101
Reposted by LaraNicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 12/01/2026👀 New blog post! 👀 Ever made a *spaghetti* line chart and wondered how you can make it more accessible and more aesthetically pleasing at the same time? 📈 Read this blog post: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/accessi... #DataViz #RStatsnrennie.rbind.ioHow to create a more accessible line chart – Nicola RennieThe default settings for chart software are not guaranteed to be accessible, and often need to be adapted for your own chart. In this blog post, we’ll transform a line chart to make it more accessible... 29425
Reposted by LaraRichard McElreath 🐈⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Some 15 years ago my colleague Parry Clarke said to me, "Dude stop complaining and write your own stats book!" So I did. It definitely changed my life, and I'm glad it has had a positive impact on others. 1918
Reposted by LaraAmstat-American Statistical Association @amstatnews.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Since 2013, “Stats + Stories” has explored the stats behind the stories & the stories behind the stats—from sports to pop culture, health, and more. The podcast was recently featured in “Behind the Mic: Meet the Minds of the ‘Stats + Stories’ Podcast.” tinyurl.com/39nbf82d @johnbailer.bsky.socialtinyurl.comBehind the mic: Meet the minds of the ‘Stats + Stories’ podcastAfter nearly 400 episodes, “Stats + Stories” has become a podcast where statisticians, journalists and the curious can listen in to make sense of the world around them. 052
Reposted by LaraPaul Naish @paulnaish.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Dirac's equation, quantum electrodynamics, atomic and molecular structure @tandfresearch.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 021
Reposted by LaraNicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 18/12/2025Can you guess the UK city just from the streets, the buildings, and the contours? 📊 #RStats #DataViz 0103
Reposted by LaraNicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 10/12/2025Here's a little round up of my 2025 year in #DataViz featuring 💜 Some of my favourite #RStats charts 💜 A look back at 5 years of #TidyTuesday 💜 Links to cool #QuartoPub and visualisation things I've seen this year Link: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/year-in...nrennie.rbind.ioMy year in data visualisation – Nicola RennieA round up of my projects this year, highlighting some of my favourite charts from 2025, and looking back on five years of TidyTuesday contributions. 1335
Reposted by LaraAlexandre Médina @a-lex-map.bsky.social · 30/11/2025#30daymapchallenge · Jour 30 · Relooking 🌍 Europe · Europa · Ευρώπη · Європа 🔍 Zoomez pour découvrir les villes d'Europe dans leur langue. 🔽 L'ancienne carte, en commentaire, utilisait un texte de substitution, réalisée pour le #30daymapchallenge 2024. #cartographie #map #europe #europa 35319
Reposted by LaraAmstat-American Statistical Association @amstatnews.bsky.social · 24/11/2025The editor of the ASA’s journal "Statistics and Data Science in Imaging" invites submissions for a special issue on spatial statistics in imaging with the support of the ASA Statistics and the Environment and Statistics in Epidemiology sections. Learn more: magazine.amstat.org/... 032
Reposted by LaraJakub Nowosad @jakubnowosad.com · 17/11/2025🚀 Excited to speak at the Rome R User Group Thu, Nov 27 (6PM CET)! I’ll show practical workflows for geospatial predictive mapping in R — including tools to avoid spatial bias and improve prediction reliability. More info: www.meetup.com/rome-r-users... #RStats #Geospatial #GISchat #RSpatial 0134
Reposted by LaraAlex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 25/09/2025In honour of today being the second-most-popular day to be birthed, here's my second-favourite birthday distribution chart 10376
Lara @laracrc.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Lovely to see all the books from the series💚 @clairemkbowen.bsky.social @johnbailer.bsky.social 040
Reposted by LaraNicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 09/09/2025There was lots of data to play with for #TidyTuesday this week where we're looking at the power of different passports! ✈️ I decided to try out the idea of using small multiples and highlighting to untangle a spaghetti chart with lots of lines 📊 #RStats #DataViz #ggplot2 810716
Reposted by LaraCédric Vidonne @cvidonne.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Inspired by @nrennie.bsky.social excellent #TidyTuesday plot on the power of passports, I adapted the idea to look at refugee origins. This chart ranks countries of origin of refugees, asylum-seekers, and others in need of international protection, grouped by region. #RStats #ggplot2 #Refugees 3359
Reposted by Lara𝚖𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚊 𝚜𝚣𝚎𝚌𝚑𝚗𝚘 @mackaszechno.bsky.social · 04/09/2025My personal library's looking healthy 😁 1183
Reposted by LaraUCL Innovative Clinical Trials Unit @innovative-ctu.bsky.social · 01/09/2025September is #GynaecologicalCancerAwarenessMonth. #OvarianCancer is the most devastating gynaecological cancer in the UK. The UKCTOCS trial involved over 200,000 women to explore if screening could save lives, but it wasn’t without challenges. 🎧 Discover the insights in this #TrialTalk episode:buff.lyLessons from UKCTOCS, a large-scale trial in ovarian cancer screeningUKCTOCS (UK Collaborative Trial of Ovarian Cancer Screening) is one of the largest screening trials in ovarian cancer. More than 200,000 women from England, Wales and Northern Ireland took part in it, 031
Reposted by LaraNicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 26/08/2025I'm really looking forward to this session! Some of the things I'll be talking about include: 📖 Writing about #RStats with #QuartoPub ✍️ Working with @laracrc.bsky.social at CRC Press 📊 How it all started with some #TidyTuesday charts! #StatsEd #DataViz 062
Reposted by LaraNicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 26/08/2025At @royalstatsoc.bsky.social conference next week, I'll be talking in the 'Book Publication as a Scholarly Activity for Statisticians' session @ 11.30 on Thu 4 Sep - which I'm really excited about! (Very subtle announcement that there's a #DataViz book from me coming soon!) #StatsEd #RSS2025Conf 1243
Reposted by LaraNicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 27/08/2025For this week's #TidyTuesday data about Billboard Hot 100 Number Ones, I decided to make a sheet music-themed chart 📊 - that will probably manage to annoy #DataViz people as much as music people! 🎶 Thanks to @jenrichmondphd.bsky.social for curating the data! #RStats #ggplot2 12417
Reposted by LaraJohn Bailer @johnbailer.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Just in time for the start of a new school year - a podcast discussion of evaluating student success. Also check out other Stats+Stories education-related #podcast episodes #EduSky statsandstories.net/educationstatsandstories.netEducation — Stats + Stories 032
Reposted by LaraNicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 18/08/2025If you're interested in learning #JuliaLang and are currently an #RStats user (or even if you're not!), then here's a little introduction to getting started! 📊 Blog post: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/introdu... #QuartoPub #Julia @tidierjl.bsky.socialnrennie.rbind.ioIntroduction to Julia for R users – Nicola RennieThis blog post will give R users an overview of what Julia is and why they might want to use it, introduce some data processing Julia packages, and show how they can incorporate Julia into existing R ... 512944
Reposted by LaraMichael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social · 19/08/2025CRAN: "thanks, package heplots_1.7.8.tar.gz is on its way to CRAN!" Added a distancePlot(), a very nice diagnostic plot for multivariate linear models.Shows leverage & outliers together in a way that shows both problems. See: friendly.github.io/heplots/ 093
Lara @laracrc.bsky.social · 15/08/2025Happy Friday 🌍! We are giving away one copy of 'Spatial Linear Models for Environmental Data'. To enter, simply follow me and re-post this by the end of Sunday, August 17. #spatial #environment # #data #StatsSky routledge.com/9780367183349 not associated with bsky 178
Reposted by LaraEmil Hvitfeldt @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · 12/08/2025some light teasing for an upcoming quarto revealjs plugin I have been working on 7619
Reposted by LaraPaul Naish @paulnaish.bsky.social · 07/08/2025Taylor 🐿️ & Francis 🦔 are enjoying hanging out at their booth at #MathFest2025! @joinmaa.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social 062
Reposted by LaraJakub Nowosad @nowosad.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 23/06/2025📍 Registration is open for Spatial Data Science across Languages (SDSL) 2025 – Sept 17–18 (+19), Salzburg, Austria. Connect R, Python, Julia & more in spatial science. 🔗 forms.gle/E9fpG88V2VQQKmjk9 -- Apply for on-site by mid-July – limited spots […] [Original post on fosstodon.org] 0119
Reposted by LaraPaul Naish @paulnaish.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Beauty in/of mathematics: tessellations and their formulas @tandfresearch.bsky.social #mathart #tessellations www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 0112
Reposted by LaraPaul Naish @paulnaish.bsky.social · 19/06/2025NSF@75: Advancing Statistical Science for a Data‑Driven World (Free Conference) instats.org/seminar/nsfa...instats.orgNSF@75: Advancing Statistical Science for a Data‑Driven World (Free Conference) - Live-streaming:This Instats seminar on NSF@75: Advancing Statistical Science for a Data‑Driven World (Free Conference) taught by American Statistical Association will help you take your research to the next leve... 021
Reposted by LaraRoyal Statistical Society @royalstatsoc.bsky.social · 19/05/2025📣 Call for discussion papers We are inviting submissions of papers on the innovative usages of causal natural experiments in statistics and data science 📆 Submit your abstract by 6 June rss.org.uk/news-publica... 074
Reposted by LaraNicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 14/05/2025There's still time to sign up for tomorrow's @EdinbR.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy event! 📅 Thursday 15 May 2025, 6.00PM - 7.00PM 📍 2.11 Appleton Tower, Edinburgh ❔ Interactive charts (me!) 📊, and fast Bayesian inference (Jordan Richards) Register: www.meetup.com/edinbr/event... #RStats #DataVizmeetup.comMay 2025: Interactive charts and fast Bayesian inference, Thu, May 15, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup\* Title: May 2025: Interactive charts and fast Bayesian inference \* Date: Thursday 15 May 2025, 6.00PM - 7.00PM \* Location: 2.11 Appleton Tower (https://www.accessable.c 063
Reposted by LaraJon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 12/05/2025Curator: @libbyheeren.bsky.social @dslc.io welcomes you to week 19 of #TidyTuesday! We're exploring Seismic Events at Mount Vesuvius! 📂 tidytues.day/2025/2025-05-13 🗞️ www.ingv.it/somma-vesuvio #RStats #PyData #JuliaLang #DataViz #tidyverse #r4ds 2143
Lara @laracrc.bsky.social · 30/04/2025If you are at #SDSS2025 this week, please stop by and check out this collection of our fabulous (if I say so myself) books and journals @amstatnews.bsky.social @paulnaish.bsky.social #rstats #datascience 121
Reposted by LaraPaul Naish @paulnaish.bsky.social · 25/04/2025Symmetry classification and enumeration of square-tile sikku kolams www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 031
Reposted by LaraIsabella Velásquez @ivelasq3.bsky.social · 15/04/2025We had a great time with @rladiesamsterdam.bsky.social and R-Ladies RTP discussing "Tidy Data, Weighted Insights: Analyzing Complex Survey Data with #RStats"! Recording is here: youtu.be/ip78qoxoZGc?... Interested in more? We're presenting a workshop at useR! Register here: user2025.r-project.orgyoutu.beR-Ladies RTP (English) - Tidy Data, Weighted Insights: Analyzing Complex Survey Data in RYouTube video by R-Ladies Global 0164
Reposted by LaraAmstat-American Statistical Association @amstatnews.bsky.social · 14/04/2025In celebration of Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month, the "Practical Significance" podcast is featuring a special guest: Claire Bowen from the Urban Institute, who shares her journey into the world of statistics. magazine.amstat.org/podcast-2/ 032
Reposted by LaraRoyal Statistical Society @royalstatsoc.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Do you work in UK health and care analytics using data to deliver better outcomes for patients? Why not enter our Florence Nightingale Award supported by @healthfoundation.bsky.social Enter by 30 April: rss.org.uk/training-eve... 047
Reposted by LaraPaul Naish @paulnaish.bsky.social · 09/04/2025CHANCE, Volume 38, Issue 1 (2025) @amstatnews.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 053
Reposted by LaraPaul Naish @paulnaish.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Great to hear that 𝘿𝙖𝙩𝙖 𝙎𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙎𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 has been accepted into Scopus!! An excellent new journal, worth checking out! @tandfresearch.bsky.social @amstatnews.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/journals/uds... 0205
Reposted by LaraPaul Naish @paulnaish.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Book Review: Nonparametric Statistical Methods Using R, 2nd ed. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comNonparametric Statistical Methods Using R, 2nd ed.Published in The American Statistician (Just accepted, 2025) 011