Stephanie Zimmer (she/her) @statsteph.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Wordle 1,873 4/6 🟨⬛⬛🟨⬛ 🟨⬛🟨⬛⬛ 🟨🟨🟨🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 110
Stephanie Zimmer (she/her) @statsteph.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Started playing with this a bit using the R package. My use case is that I read large csv files into a temp duckdb instance and then want to make a plot. I don't quite see how to do this in R. I see mostly references to `duckdb_reader()` and not using the other in-memory database I've already made 010
Stephanie Zimmer (she/her) @statsteph.bsky.social · 18/06/2026On LinkedIn, Juan Pablo Ferreira shared this new R package he's working on. It brings a tidy style approach to survey weight adjustment. It's pipeable and the API is like tidymodels. I'll be checking it out! jpferreira33.github.io/weightflow/jpferreira33.github.ioDeclarative API for Staged Survey WeightsBuilds survey weights from design base weights by applying hierarchical adjustments (unknown eligibility, nonresponse and calibration) through a declarative, pipeable, tidymodels-style API. It compute... 140
Reposted by Stephanie Zimmer (she/her)RLadies+ @rladies.org · 11/05/2026We listened. We reflected. We evolved. Meet RLadies+. A more inclusive identity for our global community. Because belonging matters. 🔗 Read more about the rebrand: rladies.org/news/2026/re... 07731
Stephanie Zimmer (she/her) @statsteph.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Context: I often work in an environment without access to the cloud and online LLMs due to data security 200
Stephanie Zimmer (she/her) @statsteph.bsky.social · 08/05/2026@sara-altman.bsky.social @simonpcouch.com it's been more than a year since you wrote about local LLMs and the landscape is rapidly changing. Any thoughts on using them now? posit.co/blog/local-m...posit.coLocal models are not there (yet)LLMs that can run on your laptop are not yet capable enough to drive coding agents. 250
Reposted by Stephanie Zimmer (she/her)useR! - The R User Conference @user-conf.bsky.social · 06/04/2026🚀 Early bird tickets for useR! 2026 are live until April 20! Join the global R community in Warsaw, hosted by SGH Warsaw School of Economics, University of Warsaw & Warsaw University of Technology. 📅 July 6–9, 2026 • Talks, workshops, networking. Link in first comment 👇 054
Reposted by Stephanie Zimmer (she/her)Ahmadou Dicko @ahmadoudicko.com · 18/02/2026I love R for everything statistics, but I've always been a little jealous of statisticians using SPSS Complex Samples or SAS SURVEYSELECT to design their samples. So I decided to build samplyr, a tidy and pipe-friendly grammar for survey sampling design in #rstats. dickoa.gitlab.io/samplyr/inde...github.comGitHub - dickoa/samplyr: A Tidy Grammar for Survey SamplingA Tidy Grammar for Survey Sampling. Contribute to dickoa/samplyr development by creating an account on GitHub. 511023
Stephanie Zimmer (she/her) @statsteph.bsky.social · 30/10/2025I'm looking forward to this talk! Thanks for the invite for this great conference 082
Stephanie Zimmer (she/her) @statsteph.bsky.social · 27/09/2025New package alert. Something we've been working on at RTI to develop a package for sampling including Chromy's PPS sequential method. rtiinternational.github.io/SampleSelect... #rstatsrtiinternational.github.ioRandomly select samples for various probability-based methodsRandomly select samples with SRS, systematic, and various PPS methods. Also includes functionality to select within strata and allocate sample sizes. 080
Stephanie Zimmer (she/her) @statsteph.bsky.social · 12/08/2025Are you a R user and want to analyze this data? We have loads of examples for the ANES 2020 that you can adapt for this data! #rstats github.com/tidy-survey-...github.comGitHub - tidy-survey-r/site: Website for webinars and course materials related to Exploring Complex Survey Data Analysis Using RWebsite for webinars and course materials related to Exploring Complex Survey Data Analysis Using R - tidy-survey-r/site 0112
Reposted by Stephanie Zimmer (she/her)useR! - The R User Conference @user-conf.bsky.social · 31/07/2025Ticket Sales end on August 1st! Register for in-person and virtual events: user2025.r-project.org/register useR! 2025 will be held from Friday, August 8th to Sunday, August 10th, Duke University in Durham, NC, USA. #rstats #useR2025 046
Stephanie Zimmer (she/her) @statsteph.bsky.social · 16/07/2025@ivelasq3.bsky.social, Rebecca Powell, and I will be doing a tutorial on Survey Analysis in R. Tutorials (workshops) are included with registration! 092
Stephanie Zimmer (she/her) @statsteph.bsky.social · 17/06/2025I can't recommend a person individually but just saying we're doing a lot of this at my work. My colleague Carlos Petzold will be speaking at the useR conference on Day 3. user2025.r-project.org/program/in-p...user2025.r-project.orgIn-person conference program – useR! 2025 100
Reposted by Stephanie Zimmer (she/her)Isabella Velásquez @ivelasq3.bsky.social · 10/06/2025I'm excited to go to my first @user-conf.bsky.social and give a workshop with @statsteph.bsky.social and RJP! We'll be doing a tutorial on survey analysis in #RStats. Tutorials are included in the cost of the conference. Then, two days of stunning talks 🤩 Join us! user2025.r-project.org/register 1147
Reposted by Stephanie Zimmer (she/her)useR! - The R User Conference @user-conf.bsky.social · 31/05/2025Join this gathering of leaders in industry, academia, and the government to network while you increase your expertise in R. Register for in-person and virtual events: user2025.r-project.org/register useR! 2025 will be held Friday, August 8th to Sunday, August 10th at Duke University. #RStats 0118
Stephanie Zimmer (she/her) @statsteph.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Non-Government Career Paths for U.S. Federal Data Scientists ropensci.org/events/datas... Less than half an hour!ropensci.orgNon-Government Career Paths for U.S. Federal Data ScientistsA community support and networking event hosted by rOpenSci and Openscapes 020
Stephanie Zimmer (she/her) @statsteph.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Today is the last day to register with early bird pricing! Hope to see you in Durham - I live here and its a great place. Plus what looks to be a good conference 022
Reposted by Stephanie Zimmer (she/her)useR! - The R User Conference @user-conf.bsky.social · 28/04/2025REMINDER!!! Early Bird Registration for useR! 2025 is open until April 30th! Join this gathering of leaders in industry, academia, and the government to network while you increase your expertise in #R. user2025.r-project.org/register #useR2025 #RStats #coding #statistics #coding #data 01313
Reposted by Stephanie Zimmer (she/her)Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Everyone who works for PRAMS (the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System) at CDC was terminated today. That appears to be the end of a critical program which monitored infant and maternal health nationwide across pregnancy, childbirth & postpartum. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/prams...talkingpointsmemo.comPRAMS Shuttered for GoodIn the first weeks of the administration I wrote a number of... 33045842406
Reposted by Stephanie Zimmer (she/her)RLadies+ @rladies.org · 14/03/2025In order to better align with our mission to support all underrepresented genders in the R community, R-Ladies is re-branding to R-Ladies+! 💜 🌈 🏳️⚧️ ⚧️ ✨ R-Ladies is rebranding to R-Ladies+ rladies.org/news/rebrand... ✨ Rebranding Call For Proposal rladies.org/news/rebrand... #rstats #rladiesrladies.orgR-Ladies is rebranding to R-Ladies+ - R-Ladies GlobalR-Ladies is a world-wide organization to promote gender diversity in the R community 010032
Reposted by Stephanie Zimmer (she/her)Hannah Recht @hannahrecht.bsky.social · 06/03/2025🎉 Census + #rstats users: A new version of the censusapi package is now on CRAN 📦 Highlights: - Using an API key is no longer required - New metadata function options - Improved handling of numeric data `install.packages("censusapi")` to update Full release notes at www.hrecht.com/censusapi/ne...hrecht.comChangelog 1115
Reposted by Stephanie Zimmer (she/her)Waylin Yu @waylinyu.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Please share! NC science networking event in Raleigh on 3/16. All are welcome - academia, industry, government, or just support the sciences - come have a beer, meet local researchers, & show solidarity for the sciences. Triangle State of Science Social March 16 @ 12 pm Trophy Brewing (Maywood) 031
Reposted by Stephanie Zimmer (she/her)Usama Bilal @usamabilal.bsky.social · 31/01/2025If you need access to the CDC’s Social Vulnerability Index, folks here had created the findSVI R package to reconstruct it using the Census API (which still works): cran.r-project.org/web/packages...cran.r-project.orgfindSVI: Calculate Social Vulnerability Index for CommunitiesDeveloped by CDC/ATSDR (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/ Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry), Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) serves as a tool to assess the resilience of com... 4129
Reposted by Stephanie Zimmer (she/her)We Are RLadies+ @weare.rladies.org · 05/02/2025🔈 Join @rladiesamsterdam.bsky.social & #RLadies RTP for a session on Analyzing Complex Survey Data in #Rstats 📆 25 Feb @ 12 PM ET/6 PM CET 🎤 @statsteph.bsky.social, @ivelasq3.bsky.social & Rebecca Powell 🔗 tinyurl.com/2cr6b9k6 Learn how to use {srvyr} & {tidyverse} for weighted survey analysis. 0178
Reposted by Stephanie Zimmer (she/her)American Statistical Association Office of Science Policy @asa-scipol.bsky.social · 01/02/2025Ron Wasserstein, E.D. of the American Statistical Association, has just posted a statement regarding yesterday's shutdown of the US Census website and the removal more broadly of data collected with taxpayer funding from federal websites. www.linkedin.com/posts/ron-wa... @amstatnews.bsky.sociallinkedin.comRon Wasserstein on LinkedIn: Census.gov | U.S. Census Bureau HomepageWithout explanation, the U.S. Census Bureau's website (census.gov) was taken offline for two hours on January 31, 2025, raising serious concerns about access… 03424
Reposted by Stephanie Zimmer (she/her)COPAFS @copafs.bsky.social · 04/02/2025SIGN-ON Letter to Congressional leadership expressing concern about the recent incidents involving federal data being selectively removed from agency websites. Please consider signing on. Thank you. We are accepting signatures until noon (ET), Friday, February 7. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...docs.google.comProtecting and Preserving Public Access to Federal DataFebruary **, 2025 Re: Protecting and Preserving Public Access to Federal Data Dear Majority Leader Thune, Minority Leader Schumer, Speaker Johnson, and Minority Leader Jeffries, We write to express o... 01117
Reposted by Stephanie Zimmer (she/her)American Association for Public Opinion Research @aapor.bsky.social · 04/02/2025AAPOR releases a statement on access to federal data. Read more: bit.ly/aapordataaccess 03724
Reposted by Stephanie Zimmer (she/her)Kyle Walker @kylewalker.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Unfortunately, all Census TIGER/Line and cartographic boundary shapefiles are down as of this evening. This means that the tigris #rstats and pygris #Python packages will not work, and geometry support in tidycensus will also fail. The Census API, for now, is still up. 38046
Reposted by Stephanie Zimmer (she/her)Fresca Husky @frescahusky.bsky.social · 01/02/2025The ACLU is looking for trans individuals effected by the recent transphobic Executive Order in order to bring a lawsuit against it. Here is a form if you are comfortable submitting your info to potentially be represented by the ACLU to fight this EO. www.aclu.org/transpasspor...aclu.orgMicrosoft Forms 6492467
Stephanie Zimmer (she/her) @statsteph.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Call for Proposals for useR 2025 is open! Come learn about R and what's going on and see my awesome city of Durham 140
Reposted by Stephanie Zimmer (she/her)Theresa Gaffney @theresagaff.bsky.social · 31/01/2025BREAKING: Vital, nationally-representative data has been removed from the CDC website. "Everyone I know in public health and science more broadly is freaking out right now,” @albeccia.bsky.social told me. Read: www.statnews.com/2025/01/31/c...statnews.comCDC removes data on sexual orientation, gender identity from websiteData from an expansive federal survey on youth behavioral habits, including their sexual orientation and gender identity, have been removed from the website of the CDC. 5269161
Reposted by Stephanie Zimmer (she/her)Nsikan Akpan @monscience.bsky.social · 31/01/2025The CDC has begun purging data. Example: The youth risk behavior survey... 66947
Stephanie Zimmer (she/her) @statsteph.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Very excited for this talk. Come and get an overview of survey analysis in R! Have you ever noticed weights on a survey data set and not used them? Well... we'll talk a bit about why you shouldn't ignore them and how to use them. 080
Reposted by Stephanie Zimmer (she/her)useR! - The R User Conference @user-conf.bsky.social · 21/01/2025The useR! 2025 site is live! You can check out the key dates to get a head start on writing your submission or travel planning. Who is looking forward to visiting North Carolina? The area should be beautiful in August for sure! #rstats user2025.r-project.orguser2025.r-project.orguseR! 2025 15019
Reposted by Stephanie Zimmer (she/her)The Women In Science Archive @wisarchive.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Statistician Gertrude Mary Cox was born 125 years ago today! Her 1950 text Experimental Design was for years a standard reference for how to design experiments that are statistically meaningful and replicable, and she co-founded the Biometric Society. #WomenInSTEM #HistSci #Statistics 🧮 0207
Stephanie Zimmer (she/her) @statsteph.bsky.social · 29/12/2024SAVE THE DATES!!! Great news: useR 2025 will take place at Duke University, in Durham, NC, USA, August 8-10! More details to announced shortly, so stay tuned via duke-university-ocmd.read.axioshq.com/signup/user_... www.linkedin.com/posts/user-c...linkedin.comuseR! - The R User Conference on LinkedIn: #rstats #datascience #coding #rlanguage #statistics #computing #opensource…SAVE THE DATES!!! Great news: useR 2025 will take place at Duke University, in Durham, NC, USA, August 8-10! More details to announced shortly, so stay tuned… 02716
Stephanie Zimmer (she/her) @statsteph.bsky.social · 24/12/2024For Christmas Eve, my family always has bratwurst and potato salad (lemon, parsley, garlic, and olive oil). A perfect mix of my maternal grandparents (German and Palestinian). No other holiday do we have a set menu. What holiday food traditions do you have? The potato salad is ready and marinating! 140
Stephanie Zimmer (she/her) @statsteph.bsky.social · 22/12/2024Use an electric kettle, add to pot. 100
Stephanie Zimmer (she/her) @statsteph.bsky.social · 14/12/2024How can I add the concatenation of comments in the same step? 100
Stephanie Zimmer (she/her) @statsteph.bsky.social · 14/12/2024I'm trying to learn data.table and it's a struggle! The syntax is not coming naturally to me. I miss things like across and tidyselect from tidyverse. Any thoughts on my current struggle? forum.posit.co/t/multiple-s... #rstats @rdatatable.bsky.socialforum.posit.coMultiple summaries in data.table with .SDcols on some summariesI'm trying to learn data.table and apply to a large dataset. I can easily approach this problem in tidyverse but struggling in data.table without running the analysis twice. This is a very large datas... 540
Stephanie Zimmer (she/her) @statsteph.bsky.social · 08/12/2024It's work by @allisonhorst.bsky.social - she was great to work with! 010
Stephanie Zimmer (she/her) @statsteph.bsky.social · 07/12/2024Finally got a delivery at 11 pm that I've been waiting for a long time. 6563
Stephanie Zimmer (she/her) @statsteph.bsky.social · 02/12/2024ASA has posted a list of 2025 internship statistics and data science opportunities. stattrak.amstat.org/2024/12/02/2... Thanks @amstatnews.bsky.social !stattrak.amstat.org2025 InternshipsThese companies are looking for interns in 2025. If you are interested in gaining new experiences, working in a collaborative environment, and improving your programming skills, apply for one of these... 043
Stephanie Zimmer (she/her) @statsteph.bsky.social · 30/11/2024www.eventbrite.com/e/2024-washi...eventbrite.com2024 Washington Statistical Society (WSS) Holiday PartyEventbrite - Washington Statistical Society presents 2024 Washington Statistical Society (WSS) Holiday Party - Tuesday, December 3, 2024 at Wunder Garten, Washington, DC. Find event and ticket informa... 000
Stephanie Zimmer (she/her) @statsteph.bsky.social · 30/11/2024I'll be in DC 12/3 and at the WSS holiday party. Let me know if you want to meet up there or afterwards. 130
Stephanie Zimmer (she/her) @statsteph.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Thanks! This is a program with NCSSM for students in the state who aren't in NC. I saw NCSSM on your bio. Go Unis! 010
Stephanie Zimmer (she/her) @statsteph.bsky.social · 22/11/2024I'm doing a virtual mentoring program with STEM curious teens in underserved areas of NC. Do you have suggested data or programming related activities for this age group? #stats #STEMeducation #MathEducation 431