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Nicholas Vietto

@nvietto.bsky.social
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Data visualization enthusiast 📈 with a background in quantitative methods in criminology | #Rstats website: nvietto.rbind.io

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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
#rstats #datavis #historicaldatavis HistData 1.1.0 is now on CRAN -- three new datasets (Federalist Papers text analysis, Perozzo's population stereogram, Ebbinghaus forgetting-curve replications) and a new vignette: The HistData Challenge. friendly.github.io/HistData/
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Data Sets from the History of Statistics and Data Visualization
The HistData package provides a collection of small data sets that are interesting and important in the history of statistics and data visualization. The goal of the package is to make these available...
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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 24/08/2026
We've arrived on Bluesky! We hope you will follow along as we share inspiring, motivational and exciting content about the achievements and individuals that have been awarded a Nobel Prize. Stay tuned.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11/08/2026
The return of the caspian tiger: how a species feared extinct has come back to Kazakhstan
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The return of the caspian tiger: how a species feared extinct has come back to Kazakhstan
The wild capture and release of a female big cat into a nature reserve is the first step towards reintroducing a population that hasn’t been seen for 70 years
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Nicholas Vietto @nvietto.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
very cool
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turgut keskintürk @tkeskinturk.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
data visualization is my passion.
fox news showing weekly temperatures: 92, 92, 92, 94, 94, 92, 92, with a very strong gap between 94 and 92.
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terence @tterence.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Rivers and subbasins of the Great Lakes. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale
A visualisation of the rivers and subbasins of the Great Lakes
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Nicholas Vietto @nvietto.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
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a poster for the video game project hail mary shows a crab
ALT: a poster for the video game project hail mary shows a crab
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Nicholas Vietto @nvietto.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Station Eleven 2.0
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 23/03/2026
‘There’s biological treasure here’: Chile’s endemic seals gain protection with new marine park
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‘There’s biological treasure here’: Chile’s endemic seals gain protection with new marine park
Sixty years after the discovery of a colony of Juan Fernández fur seals, previously thought to be extinct, a landmark agreement extends ‘no take’ zone around the wildlife-rich archipelago
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Nicholas Vietto @nvietto.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Loved Train Dreams, Edgerton was masterful. That said, it's Hamnet for me by a mile.
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Nicholas Vietto @nvietto.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
this is the way
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
The perfect headline doesn’t exi…
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Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change
Google and others are committing $100 million to combat climate change.
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Nicholas Vietto @nvietto.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
RIP sonic and knuckles
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Nicholas Vietto @nvietto.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Collaboration. In my experience, many academic collaborators prefer PowerPoint, so that tends to drive the decision - even though I personally find working in Quarto more relaxing and use it for most of my projects.
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Matthew Highton @matthighton.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
If Bilbo had Chat GPT
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Nicholas Vietto @nvietto.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Detroit!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Nicholas Vietto @nvietto.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
For those who come after
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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
We're looking at cars in Qatar for #TidyTuesday this week - "an international and modern version of the now-ancient `mtcars`" data! 📊 ➡️ 9 ways to visualise the distribution of a variable Thanks to @andrew.heiss.phd for curating this week's dataset! #RStats #DataViz
A 3x3 grid of different ways to visualise the distribution of a variable, including histograms, density plots, gradient fills, and dots plots. The distribution shown is skewed with some outliers.
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Nicholas Vietto @nvietto.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
boooo
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Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 06/11/2025
Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp.... genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
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GitHub - hadley/genzplyr: dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap
dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap. Contribute to hadley/genzplyr development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Nicholas Vietto @nvietto.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
#TidyTuesday Week 38 - FIDE Took what I know about ELO ratings and made a beeswarm 🐝 to compare Masters and players (like me) near the 1000 ELO mark. Also added a reference section to my script to 'cite' what scripts I looked at. Maybe it'll catch on #Rstats #dataviz Code github.com/nvietto/Tidy...
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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
The Pac-Man Rule should be adopted at all conferences and meetups - it's so much more welcoming! Also an excellent use of a pie chart! 📊
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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 11/09/2025
I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats
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ggplot2 4.0.0
A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.
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Nicholas Vietto @nvietto.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
so cool
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Emil Hvitfeldt @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Excited to share my newest quarto revealjs plugin: imagemover Easily reposition and resize images directly in your quarto revealjs slides for a much smoother slidecrafting experience github.com/EmilHvitfeld... #quarto
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Nicholas Vietto @nvietto.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 20/03/2025
I’ve long used FiveThirtyEight’s interactive “Hack Your Way To Scientific Glory” to illustrate the idea of p-hacking when I teach statistics. But ABC/Disney killed the site earlier this month :( So I made my own with #rstats and Observable and #QuartoPub ! stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way/
Screenshot of the linked Quarto website, with input checkboxes to change different conditions for a regression model that predicts economic performance based on US political party, with a reported p-value
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Nicholas Vietto @nvietto.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Here’s a fun extra credit assignment I made that uses R/Posit Cloud for generative art with {aRtsy}. I’ve used it in stats, methods, even crim theory. Students love it. I do a mini art show before the final lecture lol. Feel free to use it! #academicsky #rstats nvietto.quarto.pub/extra-credit...
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Extra Credit - Generative Art with {aRtsy}
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James Goldie @jamesgoldie.dev · 17/03/2025
I’ve been using the new gradients and patterns in #rstats and #ggplot2 quite a bit for recent package, so here’s a deep dive! Everything from the basics of using gradients in your plots through to sophisticated visual effects. jamesgoldie.dev/writing/stac...
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The guide to gradients in R and ggplot2 – James Goldie
Visualising data and building things for fun and for change. #climatehealth → #datajournalism
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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 10/03/2025
Curator: @jonthegeek.com @dslc.io welcomes you to week 10 of #TidyTuesday! We're exploring Pixar Films! 📁 tidytues.day/2025/2025-03-11 🗞️ erictleung.com/pixarfilms/articles/… #RStats #PyData #JuliaLang #DataViz #tidyverse #r4ds
Logo for the #TidyTuesday Project. The words TidyTuesday, A weekly data project from the Data Science Learning Community (dslc.io) overlaying a black paint splash.TidyTuesday is a weekly social data project. All are welcome to participate! Please remember to share the code used to generate your results!
TidyTuesday is organized by the Data Science Learning Community. Join our Slack for free online help with R and other data-related topics, or to participate in a data-related book club!

 How to Participate
Data is posted to social media every Monday morning. Follow the instructions in the new post for how to download the data.
Explore the data, watching out for interesting relationships. We would like to emphasize that you should not draw conclusions about causation in the data.
Create a visualization, a model, a shiny app, or some other piece of data-science-related output, using R or another programming language.
Share your output and the code used to generate it on social media with the #TidyTuesday hashtag.A hex logo for the pixarfilms package. A light blue background inside a black hexagon, with the Pixar desk lamp in the center of the hexagon below the text pixarfilms.
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Nicholas Vietto @nvietto.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Will start contributing regularaly to #tidytuesday again, once I finish this nightmare dissertation blah.
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Nicholas Vietto @nvietto.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
I'm currently working through a dissertation section that involves describing gradient descent, and Josh Starmer's explanation is by far the clearest I've come across. And I had a great ML teacher, but his explanation is a simple and straightforward, highly recommend. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDv4...
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Gradient Descent, Step-by-Step
YouTube video by StatQuest with Josh Starmer
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Nicholas Vietto @nvietto.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Got this in my email today from DrivenData, seems like a useful resource if you're looking for data science positions that center on helping fix social and environmental problems. #datascience #dataBS drivendata.co/blog/where-t...
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Where to find a data job for a good cause
Finding data jobs for good causes can be difficult. Learn strategies, job lists, and tips to find organizations with open positions working on causes you care about.
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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
tried downloading kafka’s diaries but there was a bug
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Nicholas Vietto @nvietto.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
New pub up! We examined how associations between measures of the autonomic nervous system and psychopathic traits differ across stress tasks. Thank you to everyone who helped us recruit participants for this study! Data and code: github.com/nvietto/Repl... www.crimrxiv.com/pub/q7z2nfny...
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Differences in Associations Between Autonomic Nervous System Activity and Psychopathic Traits Across Stress Paradigms and Measures
Vietto, N., Armstrong, T.A., Schroll, D.M. et al. Differences in Associations Between Autonomic Nervous System Activity and Psychopathic Traits Across Stress Paradigms and Measures. J Psychopathol Beh...
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The Hollywood Reporter @thr.com · 14/01/2025
As A24 re-releases the Colman Domingo Oscar contender #SingSing in movie theaters this week, the indie studio is also making the film available to nearly a million incarcerated people across the U.S. bit.ly/4hfud9f
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Łukasz Langa @lukasz.langa.pl · 05/01/2025
#genuary5 prompt: Isometric art. It's game of life. History goes down. I've seen a visualization like this last year and wanted to recreate it. Made with #PyScript: ambv.pyscriptapps.com/genuary-prom... #genuary2025 #genuary #GenerativeArt #CreativeCoding #WebGL #Python
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Detroit Lions @detroitlions.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Back. To. Back.
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Nicholas Vietto @nvietto.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Hmm. That could be pretty cool. I might have to give that a try next time around.
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Nicholas Vietto @nvietto.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
#TidyTuesday Week 51 - Dungeons and Dragons Spells Couldn't pass up the chance to do a D&D TidyTuesday. Thanks @jonthegeek.com for curating this dataset! Code: github.com/nvietto/Tidy... #Rstats #dataviz
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Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 19/12/2024
Very proud to announce that @posit.co has joined the opensourcepledge.com. We're committing to spending $2000 / developer / year to support open source software that we use (but don't develop): posit.co/blog/posit-p... #rstats #pydata
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Open Source Pledge
Our companies feast year after year at the Open Source table. It's time to settle up.
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Nicholas Vietto @nvietto.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Oof. I'm late to the party here, but if you could add me I'd appreciate it. Thanks!
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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 16/12/2024
@dslc.io welcomes you to week 51 of #TidyTuesday! We're exploring Dungeons and Dragons Spells (2024)! 📁 tidytues.day/2024/2024-12-17 🗞️ www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1804-start-… #RStats #PyData #JuliaLang #DataViz #tidyverse #r4ds
Logo for the #TidyTuesday Project. The words TidyTuesday, A weekly data project from the Data Science Learning Community (dslc.io) overlaying a black paint splash.TidyTuesday is a weekly social data project. All are welcome to participate! Please remember to share the code used to generate your results!
TidyTuesday is organized by the Data Science Learning Community. Join our Slack for free online help with R and other data-related topics, or to participate in a data-related book club!

 How to Participate
Data is posted to social media every Monday morning. Follow the instructions in the new post for how to download the data.
Explore the data, watching out for interesting relationships. We would like to emphasize that you should not draw conclusions about causation in the data.
Create a visualization, a model, a shiny app, or some other piece of data-science-related output, using R or another programming language.
Share your output and the code used to generate it on social media with the #TidyTuesday hashtag.The cover of the Dungeons and Dragons Free Rules from the website dndbeyond.com. The tagline at the top calls D&D the World's greatest roleplaying game. The image shows a wizard with white hair and a red robe casting a spell, with a pair of sword-wielding allies nearby. They're battling a wyvern, a dragon-like creature with a scorpion's tail.
A bar plot of D&D Spell Power. Number of spells available at each level for each class. Spells are counted by level, from cantrip, which is level 0, and then 1 through 9. Columns are grouped by class, with paladin having the fewest total spells available, and wizards having the most. Wizards have the most spells available at every level except for cantrips, where they're barely edged out by sorcerers. Only warlocks, clerics, druics, bard, sorcerors, and wizards have spells above level 5. Paladins and Rangers only have spells at levels 1 through 5.
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Nicholas Vietto @nvietto.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
This is happiness. Can't wait
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Nicholas Vietto @nvietto.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Would appreciate being added. Thanks for putting this together!
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Nicholas Vietto @nvietto.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
New R package up - {samplezoo}. I designed it to allow educators to focus on teaching statistical concepts instead of getting stuck in the setup process. There's still a lot I want/need to add but for now it's a useful tool for discussing distributions and such. nvietto.rbind.io/blog/samplez...
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Introducing {samplezoo} | Nicholas Vietto
A quick way to generate samples that contain a variety of probability distributions
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Nicholas Vietto @nvietto.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Kinnnda looks like Omaha a bit with downtown on the right and midtown on the left, lol. Nevertheless, a fun way to view your GitHub contributions this year. 3D Image here: github.com/nvietto/nvie... Learn how to do yours here: github.blog/changelog/20... #GitHubSkyline
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Posit @posit.co · 06/12/2024
We are excited to announce posit::conf(2025)! Join fellow data enthusiasts & developers for an unforgettable three days of learning, connection, and inspiration. Learn more and register at posit.co/blog/positco... #datascience #rstats #pydata #quarto #tidyverse #posit
Registration for posit conference 2025 Now open. Atlanta, Sept 16-18
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Nicholas Vietto @nvietto.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
bsky.app/starter-pack...
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