purrr 1.2.0 out now โ mostly removing long deprecated functions but a few small performance nad parallel processing improvements. Learn more at www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/11... #rstats
04.11.2025 14:10 โ ๐ 75 ๐ 15 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1@modonnell8.bsky.social
purrr 1.2.0 out now โ mostly removing long deprecated functions but a few small performance nad parallel processing improvements. Learn more at www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/11... #rstats
04.11.2025 14:10 โ ๐ 75 ๐ 15 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1And stringr 1.6.0 is out too: tidyverse.org/blog/2025/11.... A fairly small release but some handy improvements thanks to tidyverse dev day contributors! #rstats
04.11.2025 22:45 โ ๐ 53 ๐ 7 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1If a government tells you that you canโt call it authoritarian, itโs authoritarian.
25.09.2025 17:22 โ ๐ 35538 ๐ 8699 ๐ฌ 1021 ๐ 352Kirkโs โmemorialโ getting a live coverage on The Guardian is a great example of how the right gets automatically framed as the default political movement to be โunderstoodโ while the victims of that same movement never will never get the same amount of coverage
21.09.2025 20:14 โ ๐ 3033 ๐ 820 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 29This may seem cute but if you do this too much the cyclists may become reliant on cars feeding them, disrupting the delicate roadway ecosystem
19.09.2025 09:37 โ ๐ 11768 ๐ 3069 ๐ฌ 80 ๐ 102Fearful Americans Stockpiling Facts Before Federal Government Comes To Take Them Away
Fearful Americans Stockpiling Facts Before Federal Government Comes To Take Them Away https://theonion.com/fearful-americans-stockpiling-facts-before-federal-gove-1819579589/
19.09.2025 14:00 โ ๐ 10572 ๐ 2950 ๐ฌ 196 ๐ 215Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction ๐งช
From Edward Tufte & graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...
The โproblemโ with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
04.09.2025 19:44 โ ๐ 26818 ๐ 7838 ๐ฌ 581 ๐ 460Neil deGrass Tyson: "How sad it must be believing that scientists, historians, scholars, economists, journalists devoted their entire lives to deceiving you, but a reality-TV star proven in court to be a lying felon is your beacon of truth & honesty"
29.08.2025 10:59 โ ๐ 8567 ๐ 2329 ๐ฌ 138 ๐ 79Carl Sagan explains how the ancient Greeks knew the Earth was round and calculated its circumference over 2,000 years ago.
29.07.2025 15:14 โ ๐ 8162 ๐ 1922 ๐ฌ 210 ๐ 178May all your trains be crazy
22.07.2025 18:41 โ ๐ 4156 ๐ 412 ๐ฌ 61 ๐ 16This is how to have difficult conversations with vaccine sceptics
02.07.2025 15:07 โ ๐ 1272 ๐ 480 ๐ฌ 114 ๐ 34We were lucky enough to have our YouGov/The Economist poll in field when the US bombed Iranian nuclear facilities. You can see the partisan realignment in real time
27.06.2025 11:33 โ ๐ 643 ๐ 221 ๐ฌ 16 ๐ 73This is incredible
11.06.2025 13:34 โ ๐ 12959 ๐ 4529 ๐ฌ 49 ๐ 252buzzkill www.maps.com/snow-mistake...
09.06.2025 10:22 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 2The `datapasta` package by Miles McBain allows you to copy and paste data from anywhere into #rstats.
Check out the magic here โฆ
youtu.be/utQmq0M2jQ8
What do you use `datapasta` for?
A screenshot of the anthem (and the introductory text to understand the context): Again, ask yourself: Am I setting or mapping? Now, repeat with me... โโโโ๐ถ ๐ถโColumns inside, constants out โโ โThat's what aes() is all aboutโ๐ถ ๐ถโโโ
Working on the latest #ggplot2 [un]charted lesson about โHandling Caveats When Mapping Variables,โ I let loose a bit
The sections ended up fun โ yes, and maybe a bit silly at times ๐คก
Highlight:
a new #aesthetics anthem as a memorable mnemonic ๐ถ
Out now for members!
www.ggplot2-uncharted.com
Absolutely horrifying.
Note that at the end of the piece we learn that the UN staff member was reportedly beaten to death, not shot from a distance.
This past semester was the most stressful of my academic career. I had 180 students and about half cheated at some point in the semester
They submit weekly reflections where the questions are opinion-based, graded only on effort, don't care about grammar
SO MANY students submitted ChatGPT essays
South Korea gender divide update ๐ฒ
Young men lean right by 50 points
(74% conservative vs 24% centre-left)
Young women lean left by 22 points
(58% centre-left vs 36% cons)
This is actively bananas. LIGO is doing (literally) Nobel winning work, and you need both of them -- the second one is not a spare or a nice to have; this is like buying a fire engine, but deciding it doesn't need wheels on the left hand side...
31.05.2025 00:22 โ ๐ 550 ๐ 177 ๐ฌ 11 ๐ 3A set of eight rectangular cookies arranged on a square white plate against a dark wooden background. Each cookie is inspired by a wallpaper design by Morris & Co. The patterns represented feature different floral and leaf shapes in shades of baby blue, soft pink, leafy green, mustard yellow, cream, and dark grey.
Today is National Biscuit Day, and itโs about time that I populated this account with biscuit (cookie) sets from the past few years. Here are some of my favourites. ๐งต
First up, a set inspired by the delicious designs of William Morris and John Henry Dearle.
A Brief History of Young People Today Don't Want to Work
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This is extremely significant. Former ๐ฎ๐ฑ Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (2006-9) wrote in a May 22 Haaretz op-ed that Israel is:
๐ด intentionally waging a war of annihilation
๐ด premeditatedly adopting a policy of starvation
๐ด massacring civilians
๐ด making declarations of genocide
A thread:
This was a very well made film. Link here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
the best indicator of whether a player has what it takes, the mentality of a winner, is the aggregate wages of their teammate
05.05.2025 11:59 โ ๐ 78 ๐ 6 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The great Gordon Lightfoot, gone two years ago today.
โI have several songs that you would think I would get tired of playing,โ he once said, โbut the opposite is true. .. They have a way of expressing themselves each time, and that expression is automatic.โ #RIP ๐๐ผ
@benstiller.redhour.com