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Devan with a Ph

@dbecker7.bsky.social

Assistant professor of statistics/data science at Wilfrid Laurier University

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Thank you, that's very helpful!

19.08.2025 19:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You mention that using R and Julia gives a wider array of approaches -including Bayesian models. I'm curious what you mean by this - will Julia make my Bayesian models better/easier?

19.08.2025 02:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

I've tried for a while, but I couldn't get the REPL to work in a convenient way and there wasn't a way to build quarto with a key combo. I've gotten spoiled by R-specific editors.

22.06.2025 01:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And trees are made of what you breathe out!

29.12.2024 02:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I just thoughtlessly used the phrase "thoroughly thought through" in an email and I hate spelling.

11.12.2024 14:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I choose to use the terminal because I like it! For most of what I do (updates, moving files, running code) Kubuntu tries to make me use a GUI (I've disabled Discover updater so many times yet it keeps coming back). Otherwise my workflow could be gui-only if I weren't a cli masochist.

06.12.2024 18:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Are there any functions to "untidy" the data (i.e. pivot so that rows contain multiple observations), especially with prefixes or messy colnames only for the new columns? Although I guess this is pretty case-specific and I should just do this myself 😊

04.12.2024 14:53 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Why oh why did I only learn about this now, after teaching a whole course in data wrangling and visualization?!? This looks awesome!

04.12.2024 14:49 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you!

03.12.2024 23:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Wait, is there a reasoning behind the colours?

03.12.2024 20:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Ome-ome is actually one of the keywords!

26.11.2024 20:52 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I agree with this, but also please indent your R code well!

23.11.2024 03:14 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I switched to the "aes as layer" idea a couple months ago and I love it! As a corollary, it makes a lot of code "one line = one idea". The data is declared inside ggplot, then we declare the aes in a different line. It makes it super easy to scan the code and see exactly what variables are at play!

23.11.2024 03:10 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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