Brandon P. Labbree

Hello #dataBS! I'm facilitating a new free @dslc.io Advanced #RStats adv-r.hadley.nz cohort soon! It's been 5+ years since I read this excellent book by @hadley.nz, so I'm giving it a re-read. Let's learn to embrace {{ tidy evaluation }}, purrr::reduce() repetition, and count S/R #OOP systems!

Science Counters Educational Inequality Psychological research identifies how academic disparities arise and proposes ways to reduce them.

Psychological research identifies how academic disparities arise and proposes ways to reduce them. @runnerteal.bsky.social 

🚨Call for reading recommendations🚨

I’m developing a course on how social science interventions can(not) help address societal crises (e.g., climate, war, pandemics, inflation, polarization, so-called “migrant crisis” (or how societies deal with it)). Pls share your fav reads (self-rec welcome!!) 🙏

Free course previews:

- Working with Rows: statisticsglobe.com/online-cours...
- Violin Plots: statisticsglobe.com/online-cours...
- Sampling Methods: statisticsglobe.com/online-cours...
- PCA in R: statisticsglobe.com/online-cours...

#rstats #statistics #datascience #rstudio #dataviz

Keep a Collection of Sparkly Data Resources Tools to get and maintain a data repository from third-party data providers.

There's a lot of packages out there to download specific datasets, we wrote a framework to spider data on the internet, dry run to return the file list, and download 👇 it or sync 🫱 it to object storage

docs.ropensci.org/bowerbird/

#rstats handles auth, virtual links, thredds, all kinds

Excited to share my new publication in the Journal of Environmental Psychology, co-authored with Johannes Koomen, Bryony Buck, John Betts, Ana-Maria Bliuc, and Rebecca Koomen, PhD. | Richardt Hansen Excited to share my new publication in the Journal of Environmental Psychology, co-authored with Johannes Koomen, Bryony Buck, John Betts, Ana-Maria Bliuc, and Rebecca Koomen, PhD. Read it here: http...

www.linkedin.com/posts/richar...

Hi #rstats! Does anyone know of any good free online self-paced comprehensive R video courses for complete beginners? Ideally, with interactive exercises that would be automatically checked, and the ability to gain certificates. Thanks!

For those who do data/statistical analysis (esp. in social/behavioral sciences or data sciences) what do you use to do your analyses in?

1️⃣ MS Excel or similar spreadsheet program
2️⃣️ R/RStudio or Python
3️⃣ STATA/SAS/MPlus/SPSS
4️⃣ Another Method

📅 Ends: June 5, 2025, 10:47 AM UTC

📊 Show results

Automating Netlify Redirects in Quarto Using Lua – Paul Johnson Save yourself from yourself by generating website redirects using a Lua script.

I figured out how to automate the generation of redirects for a Quarto website.

paulrjohnson.net/blog/2025-06...

For those who use another method, could you let me know what you use? (Just wondering).

For those who do data/statistical analysis (esp. in social/behavioral sciences or data sciences) what do you use to do your analyses in?

1️⃣ MS Excel or similar spreadsheet program
2️⃣️ R/RStudio or Python
3️⃣ STATA/SAS/MPlus/SPSS
4️⃣ Another Method

📅 Ends: June 5, 2025, 10:47 AM UTC

📊 Show results

Agreed. I have literally been asked to make videos "Like 3Blue1Brown".

‘We are not going anywhere’: Transgender Day of Visibility Rally to be held on National Mall WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — The Christopher Street Project is inviting everybody to its Transgender Day of Visibility Rally on Monday. The rally will be held at the National Mall between 3rd a…

Massive TDOV rally expected today from 4:00-6:00 at the National Mall between 3rd and 4th streets.

Go there, I know many who will be there. Be with community and show your support for transgender people.

www.dcnewsnow.com/news/local-n...

Can Trump run for a third term? The 22nd Amendment flatly prevents it. Trump suggested he has “methods” for seeking a third presidential term. Constitutional law scholars are skeptical.

President Donald Trump has suggested that “methods” exist by which he could attempt to serve a third term in the White House, an act that is barred by the 22nd Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

Constitutional law scholars are skeptical.

Bumping this now so it doesn't look like I'm throwing shade next week. If you finish early, it doesn't matter how bad your talk is. Everyone will love you.

a yellow sign that says we 're hiring ALT: a yellow sign that says we 're hiring

Hello, #psychology friends! Want to make science inclusive? We are hiring a new full-time recruitment coordinator for our Duke Child Studies group! Priority consideration if you apply by 4/18 but we will keep reviewing after that until the position is filled!

academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29865

Blog post image

Create a specific feed in your Jekyll blog

https://thierrymoudiki.github.io/blog/2020/02/21/misc/create-feed-jekyll-blog

#Techtonique #DataScience #Python #rstats #MachineLearning

dockitect is possibly the coolest #Rstats package I’ve seen in a long time. We’re definitely going to consider adding it as a critical step in our #rshiny app deployments!

We often use the terms internal and external validity in trials, but are we really clear what those terms mean? 1/9
#MethodologyMonday #114

30Days of Charts starts tomorrow, and I'm excited to join #30DayChartChallenge again!

This year, I’m aiming for 10 charts throughout the month.
To stay efficient, I’ll set a 60-minute timer for each chart—otherwise, I tend to spend way too long fine-tuning the details.

💻 Master while loops in R! Learn how to optimize performance, avoid common pitfalls, and write cleaner code. This guide is perfect for R programmers looking to enhance their skills. 🎯 Check it out: The Complete Guide to While Loops in R here: https://www.spsanderson.com/steveondata/posts/2025-03-31/ #R #RStats #Programming #Data #Code #Blog #RProgramming

💻 Master while loops in R! Learn how to optimize performance, avoid common pitfalls, and write cleaner code. This guide is perfect for R programmers looking to enhance their skills.

🎯 Check it out: www.spsanderson.com/steveondata/...

#R #RStats #Programming #Data #Code #Blog #RProgramming

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.

Image shows faceted scatterplots of pokemon dataset. Attack is on the x-axis, and defense is on the y-axis. The primary pokemon color is indicated with the color of the points, and the charts are faceted by pokemon type. The breakdown highlights a somewhat linear relationship between attack and defense for most pokemon types. For the most part, they are correlated, with defense and attack increasing together. There is less variance between the two variables when type is "dragon", "electric", or "normal". Noticeable types that break this trend are "rock" type pokemon. In addition, there are a few outliers, such as a "bug" type with a near-zero attack and defense above 200 hp.

@dslc.io welcomes you to week 13 of #TidyTuesday! We're exploring Pokemon!

📁 https://tidytues.day/2025/2025-04-01
📰 https://medium.com/@hanahshih46/pokemon-data-visualization-and-analysis-with-r-60970c8e37f4

#RStats #PyData #JuliaLang #DataViz #tidyverse #r4ds

The cost of messy data and the hours spent on data cleaning frequently comes up in conversation in data science circles.

It's so often the same cost figures and percentages, but... are there any good, recent academic papers on the cost of messy data that #StatsSky could share with me?

#rstats

Sam Sommers hooked me on the field of social psychology my sophomore year of college and was a mentor and role model ever since. His combination of scholarly gravitas and personal warmth and humor is all too rare, and I will miss him dearly.

Text Mining with R by Julia Silge and David Robinson
#RStats
https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/text%20analysis.html#text-mining-with-r

So disappointing that Harvard is terminating ongoing faculty searches. You'd think that with their resources they could complete these searches and then pause future searches. Apart from the huge waste of everyone's time, it's devastating for the candidates. My heart goes out to them.

Very nice short piece about how siloed research is insufficient (and inappropriate!) to solve the problems that need solving. We need more transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches, and more thinking about the 'so what' rather than just the 'why' or 'what'. 🧪

Government Advances in Statistical Programming conference, 25-26 June 2025
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/02/22/g...

Statement from the SANS Executive Board:

Supporting Scientific Integrity for Advancing Social and Affective Neuroscience

(Image for convenience, text in quoted thread.)

New research led by @zhpinkman.bsky.social investigating the impact of LLMs on the reduction of linguistic diversity and its societal implications.

"We're getting the language into its final shape - the shape it's going to have when nobody speaks anything else." George Orwell, 1984