What do you buy the data expert who has everything?
Ta-da!
Individual print/online subscriptions to Significance available here: ow.ly/yx5t50WUoUl
21.11.2025 13:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
You say "ridge regression", I say "weight decay (L2 regularisation)"...
Are statistics and data science speaking the same language?
ow.ly/efK950XsSWq #freetoread #stats #data
17.11.2025 15:08 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
All Significance issues become FREE TO READ one year after publication! That means everyone can enjoy the entirety of last year's November issue right now, including articles on Amazonia, Arnold Schwarzenegger and the state lottery:
academic.oup.com/jrssig/issue...
12.11.2025 11:19 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
This is a really nice article talking about secondary data analyses and the (often overstated) headlines they can lead to, with studies about ultra-processed foods as an example:
"That doesn’t mean that all the research you can do with this secondary data is necessarily very useful."
11.11.2025 15:49 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Bowl containing multi-coloured breakfast cereal
Is there a link between ultra-processed foods and human health? Hard to tell, given some of the bad stats out there...
academic.oup.com/jrssig/artic... #freetoread
11.11.2025 15:40 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
One for the art-loving statisticians (and stats-loving art fans)...
How many overlooked or misattributed Modigliani paintings might there be in the world?
ow.ly/mHM250Xq0g1 #freetoread
11.11.2025 15:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In a crisis, do you gamble on fast but imperfect data?
Principles for statisticians under pressure: significancemagazine.com/statistics-u...
24.10.2025 14:00 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
🎲 Working in a bingo hall as a boy, #AusHSI Prof @aidybarnett.bsky.social is well-versed in the game of chance. In @significancemag.bsky.social, learn about the #lottery for #researchfunding he now runs for the @britishacademy.bsky.social and how it works.
🔗 bit.ly/3J7689t | 🔓 bit.ly/47HTlDH
28.10.2025 22:29 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
There's quite a few nice #DataViz examples in this month's double issue of @significancemag.bsky.social! 📊
21.10.2025 13:57 — 👍 18 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
So proud of @ashleymullan.bsky.social -- featured on the cover of @significancemag.bsky.social! Check out her beautiful interrupted time series plot 😍
21.10.2025 16:13 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
In a crisis, do you gamble on fast but imperfect data?
Principles for statisticians under pressure: significancemagazine.com/statistics-u...
24.10.2025 14:00 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
The red-hot November issue of Significance is now published - and it's a double issue!
academic.oup.com/jrssig/issue
(Want it but not an RSS/ASA/SSA member? academic.oup.com/jrssig/subsc...)
21.10.2025 11:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Barcode style plot with twelve rows of data, and no axis labels or title which obscures what the data is.
A little bit of data art 🎨 Can you guess the data? 📊
#RStats #Rtistry #DataViz #ggplot2
20.10.2025 10:54 — 👍 24 🔁 3 💬 4 📌 1
On this #WorldStatisticsDay, read all about the vital role of statistics in every aspect of our lives: both on the Significance website significancemagazine.com and in tonnes of free-to-read back issues (Dec 2015-Nov 2024) at academic.oup.com/jrssig
20.10.2025 10:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The cover of Significance magazine wtih a colorful illustration of Africa on it, on a green and gold background.
The September issue of “Significance” highlights African statisticians using data to tackle food insecurity, improve education, and advance AI, bringing local voices to the global stage. #Statsky #DataScience #Africa #SignificanceMagazine magazine.amstat.org/blog/2025/10...
15.10.2025 15:05 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The "kiss effect" on TV - what happens to ratings when a will-they-won't-they couple finally gets together?
Also: bad stats around UPFs, agriculture + climate, and the best time for a coffee break...
All this and heaps more in the November double issue: ow.ly/6RTO50XcgRF
16.10.2025 09:33 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 3
"Technology is not deterministic in the world of music, but it has a large, quiet impact"
Read more about data, pop music and the risks of AI, in our interview with author Chris Dalla Riva - new and free to read on the website now: ow.ly/oHJN50X5EQR
10.10.2025 09:50 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
"Technology is not deterministic in the world of music, but it has a large, quiet impact"
Read more about data, pop music and the risks of AI, in our interview with author Chris Dalla Riva - new and free to read on the website now: ow.ly/oHJN50X5EQR
10.10.2025 09:50 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Statistician at UW developing methods for demography, climate change, cluster analysis, model selection & averaging.
Professor of Statistics @ ESSEC Business School Asia-Pacific campus Singapore 🇸🇬
https://pierrealquier.github.io/
Previously: RIKEN AIP 🇯🇵 ENSAE Paris 🇫🇷 🇪🇺 UCD Dublin 🇮🇪 🇪🇺
Random posts about stats/maths/ML/AI, poor jokes & birds photo 🌈
Senior data scientist @instituteforgovernment.org.uk • Words and numbers on what the govt is up to, edu policy, doing data at a thinktank • Bilingual: 🐍/SQL • Sign up to the IfG newsletter: http://bit.ly/3xDINTz
Commissioning and publishing philosophy books at Routledge and running Routledge Classics.
Professor of Sociology at UCL.
http://profalices.co.uk/
Epidemiologist & statistician ;
Interested in spatial/temporal patterns and how evidence -> decision-making ;
#episky #biostatistics
Lecturer in Statistics and O. R at @uvigo, @SidorUvigo Research Group, Mentoring Inspira STEAM project, Co-Founder @WiMLDS_Galicia. http://noramvillanueva.github.io
https://portalcientifico.uvigo.gal/investigadores/1092745/detalle
Associate Professor and Co-Head of MISCH Biostatistics & Epidemiology Node at University of Melbourne, Australia.
Passionate about #biostatistics, #consultancy, #communication and #mentoring.
Love literature, theatre, gigs and horror movies.
Senior data officer at Dogs Trust Research. All about R, data viz, stats, and a whole host of other nerdy pursuits!
Statistician in Public Health @ UKHSA 🎲🩺
Part time musician 🎹
Full time curious 🔍
Assistant Professor at UFSCar | @CMU_Stats PhD | Statistics | Machine Learning | Data Science | @CNPq_Oficial Research Fellow | Dad
https://rafaelizbicki.com/
M.A Statistics (spec. ML/DL) @UCBerkeley
"I’ll trade loss functions for tuning curves, and chase meaning where noise is the signal"✨
Professor of Neuroimaging Statistics
Oxford Big Data Institute
Nuffield Department of Population Health
University of Oxford
Biostatistician working on quantitative methods for studying environment, climate, and health at Harvard School of Public Health
infectious diseases / epidemiology / microbial ecology
https://motionlab.site
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Biostatistician, genomics, bioinformatics, Great Lakes fan
Postdoctoral Biostatistician at Murdoch Children's Research Institute and University of Melbourne
The super friendly conference at the interface between statistics and ecology - happening in Mérida, México, on 8-15 January, 2027
https://statisticalecology.org
Header: Chichen Itza by User:Dronepicr is licensed under CC BY 3.0.
Data/govt etc freelancer gavinfreeguard.com
Starting sotf.org.uk
@connectedbydata.org, Data Bites @publicdigital.bsky.social, @instituteforgovernment.org.uk, Think Digital Partners, @kinship.works, @transformgovtalks.bsky.social
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