Ben Harrap

Used it for the first time today after remembering this post!!

All are welcome to the March @vicbiostat.bsky.social seminar.

Lee Kennedy-Shaffer from @yalesph.bsky.social will be presenting " #Estimands, Assumptions, and the Challenges of Evaluating Policies: Lessons from Staggered Adoption"

12 March, 9:30 AEDT online.
www.vicbiostat.org.au

#steppedwedge

90% of the time I feel like a god as I automate my reports using #quarto

The other 10% I wonder how I've managed to even turn on my computer as spend three hours trying to make the headings in my pdf bold

#rstats

I went to UseR! for the first time last year, and it was such an incredible event. You could feel the #Rstats love vibrating out of everybody 💓

I wish I could make it to Warsaw! I hope you are able to!

The Australasian Applied Statistics Conference 2026 website is now live! aasc2026.netlify.app
#AASC2026 #rstats #statsky

It starts with memes and ends with learning #rstats

The expression of binary, innate sex into innate binary gender norms is so strong, so inviolable, that we must at every step do absolutely everything in our power to enforce it.

Ah thanks for the recommendation both! Keen to check it out @emitanaka.org

Pro-tip: you almost certainly do not want the 10-cup rice maker, even if it’s only slightly more expensive than the 5 cup. I promise.

I was dithering on this choice and ultimately got the smaller option – I'm glad, because the most I've ever made was 3 cups!

I'm looking for a community town square-esque app, like Slack, but not Slack. Any suggestions?

Having channels and non-deleting chat history whilst being free or low-cost is the basic requirement

I was considering discord but reddit seems to be angry at it right now?

Truth!

I never act on reviewer comments on the day I read them, gotta decompress and process the emotions

Week 5 FAQs – Data Visualization with R Use R, ggplot2, and the principles of graphic design to create beautiful and truthful visualizations of data

This is the most current one! I'm on team {tinytable} for pretty much everything nowadays

lol tinytable is the 'loner' because it's dependency free!

a scene from "the breakfast club" with r package hexes superimposed on the five characters from left to right: the delinquent is a plain-text markdown table the jock is the janitor package the loner is the tinytable package the popular girl is the knitr package the nerd is the gt package the jock is the 'janitor' package, the

How it feels picking an #rstats package to make tables

With bookdown.org being decommissioned, I've been working on converting #rstats books from #bookdown to #quartopub. After spending a lot of time with Claude to get it right for my two books, here's a repo that might help you do the same (especially with Claude Code):

github.com/topepo/bookd...

Despite my preference to write #rstats code by myself, I am very happy to get LLMs to figure out LaTeX for me

I am not good at LaTeX but I do know what I want my documents to look like

Adaptively Weighted Audits of Instant-Runoff Voting Elections: AWAIRE An election audit is risk-limiting if the audit limits (to a pre-specified threshold) the chance that an erroneous electoral outcome will be certified. Extant methods for auditing instant-runoff votin...

This conversation makes me think of sequential testing, which I'm only notionally familiar with from:

arxiv.org/abs/2307.10972

and

damjan.vukcevic.net/2025/12/31/y...

A tray of roast chicken, pumpkin, mushroom, carrots and broccoli, alongside another tray of roast potatoes and Yorkshire puds and a tray of roast corn

Sunday roast time 🤤

Fantastic. Great move. Well done Angus

I have a dataset to submit but it won't be ready until June!

`dplyr::if_else()` and `dplyr::case_when()` are up to 30x faster dplyr 1.2.0 comes with much faster and more memory efficient `if_else()` and `case_when()` functions!

case_when() is my number 1 tidyverse function ❤️ this #rstats update

Very cool technical dive into how it works too, which I'm glad is consistent with how I explain case_when() conditions when I'm teaching it!

tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...

It should be a well known fact that you always cook pasta for at least one minute less than the suggested time!

We're in too deep 😂

Treatment heterogeneity feels like such an obvious thing to me I felt surprised to see it being presented as a novel thing - is it really not that common to consider in psychology?

Haha it's a work in progress, I'll have to add a SAP

The town hall auditorium is huge, so I'm going to need help to promote this event so the space doesn't echo. It's free. The line up is amazing. So please consider attending if you're in Adelaide that day.

"so what's your research question?"