Ben Harrap

IPC scale to rank global food insecurity, includes five phases: 1. Minimal 2. Stress 3. Crisis 4. Urgence (Emergency) 5. Famine

For Gaza, 54.05% of its population, are in phase 4 (Urgence).

And 100% of the population is in phases 3 and above, meaning everyone needs urgent humanitarian assistance.

The Box-Cox power exponential distribution – Notes from a data witch This is so obviously a prequel post to something else that I want to write about GAMLSS models

I regret to inform you that she has, yet again, written more words than are necessary on a topic you don't care about

sidrar: An Interface to IBGE's SIDRA API Allows the user to connect with IBGE's (Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatistica, see &lt;<a href="https://www.ibge.gov.br/" target="_top">https://www.ibge.gov.br/</a>&gt; for more information)...

Brazil 🇧🇷 has a tremendous R community. Check out {sidrar} for the Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatistica (IBGE) and follow @viniciusoike.bsky.social (and while you‘re at it, follow @beatrizgietner.bsky.social)!
#rstats #econsky #stats

cran.r-project.org/package=sidrar

Very disappointing that UseR continues to invite speakers affiliated with Russian state universities that openly support the Russian invasion of Ukraine. I expected better from the #RStats community...

Screenshot the New York Times Spelling Bee puzzle with the letter d-p-l-y-r typed above the 7-letter grid.

It's not going to accept it, but in a good world, it would.

#dplyr #RStats

Join us on September 29th for amazing workshops followed by great talks on September 30th about new and classic #RStats packages, insightful use cases and discussions on how to to best communicate your results.

#DataScience #Statistics #Analytics

wombat2025.numbat.space

Irrespective of the legality, does nobody remember the fiasco that was My Health Record?

Or are we all resigned to the apparent fact that we have no control over our own data an more?

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grand theft eigenvalue might be the best stats-pun username I've ever seen

A response from the Claude LLM after being instructed to respond like an aggressive New Yorker: Alright, alright, you want a function that strips ALL the whitespace, including those sneaky unicode characters? No problem, I got you covered. Here ya go - this'll handle everything from your basic spaces to those weird unicode whitespace characters that like to hide in your data: There ya have it! I gave you THREE versions because I'm thorough like that: Basic version - Uses \\s+ which catches 99% of whitespace including unicode. The perl = TRUE makes sure it handles unicode properly. Stringr version - Same thing but uses stringr if you're one of those tidyverse people. Comprehensive version - This bad boy explicitly targets specific unicode whitespace characters that sometimes slip through. I'm talking non-breaking spaces, em spaces, figure spaces - the whole gang. The \\s+ pattern is your friend here - it matches ANY whitespace character (spaces, tabs, newlines, unicode whitespace) and the + means it'll grab consecutive whitespace characters all at once. Just paste whichever version works for your situation and boom - no more whitespace problems. You need anything else or we good here?

lmao would recommend

Can you tell it to speak to you like an aggressive New Yorker instead?

Thanks for this thread, I wasn't aware of these issues! I've got some checking to do tomorrow of some Stata datasets I've made with haven 😬

Canada, France and the UK are set to recognise a Palestinian state.

Where is Australia?

WTF is wrong with the Northern Territory government!?

Reinstating the use of SPIT HOODS is utterly grotesque 🤬🤬🤬

I wrote a similar post a few months back, which might be helpful too!

benharrap.com/post/2024-11...

Read and write Stata DTA files — read_dta Currently haven can read and write logical, integer, numeric, character and factors. See labelled() for how labelled variables in Stata are handled in R. Character vectors will be stored as strL if an...

I'd be curious to see what happens with longer col names when using write_dta()

Does it just truncate?

haven.tidyverse.org/reference/re...

Wow it didn't take long

bsky.app/profile/bhar...

Aw nuts, well there's a new feature request then - disable functions from appearing in the outline!

a young boy in a blue shirt is typing on a laptop computer . ALT: a young boy in a blue shirt is typing on a laptop computer .

What's the hackiest data thing you did recently?

I had to change the colour of some boxes in a SEM diagram but the code wouldn't run

So I opened the .svg file in a text editor and did find/replace for the RGB values instead

#rstats #databs

Why don't statisticians like getting feedback?

Because they spend all their time E[x̄]

#statssky

Thanks Di, I've added them :)

@huizezhangsherry.bsky.social @weihaolipatrick.bsky.social
@jayanigamage.bsky.social if you prefer not to be on the list let me know!

I'm sure very few people actually care about this, it's just something I noticed having reformatted a bunch of code to be very explicit about what is what

A shortcut I like to use is calling multiple geoms in an lapply() call, since this automatically generates a list. Works well for investigating plotting variations, e.g. ggplot(diamonds, aes(carat)) + lapply(c(50,200), function(b) geom_histogram(bins=b, alpha=0.3))

ggplot(diamonds, aes(carat)) + lapply( X = c(50, 200), FUN = function(b) geom_histogram(bins = b, alpha = 0.3) )

However, @gmcd.bsky.social's original post contains a genius idea! 💡Use lapply() to plot histograms with different bin sizes on top of each other!
#rstats #econsky #dataviz
Code in ALT

It's been a while since I last shared my starter pack

If you're a stats/data person in or from the Pacific region (not just Australia or Aotearoa) and would like to be included, please let me know!

#statssky #episky #databs #rstats #python

As an aside, it would be a nice QOL feature for {tidyverse} functions if the function arguments had the same name:

purrr::map(.x, .f)
dplyr::across(.cols, .fns)
dplyr::rename_with(.fn, .cols)

Maybe there's a reason I'm missing though #rstats

Sure, see the video

I've realised that it isn't the curly braces alone that cause the anonymous function to appear in the bookmarks - it only appears when the .fns argument is named (same for `.f =` in `map` and `.fn = ` in `rename_with`)

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I used to have nightmares where I was in the center of a dark, scary forest, and I had to code to escape, each coding success taking me closer to the edge and freedom. If I had an error, I'd appear back at the center and have to start over. I never got out. #rstats #databs

If the crime involves chaos and destruction of any kind, sulfur-crested cockatoos would need no convincing

I wonder if there's an option to exclude functions from the bookmarks though, that'd be another option

I've also been meaning to rave about air!

I started using it last week in RStudio and it is excellent, would highly recommend #rstats

My only gripe the insistence of adding curly brackets to anonymous functions and clogging up my bookmarks. It's probably just a setting I need to change!