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My lab is going to be imminently looking for a computer scientist or a biologist with deep understanding of R to develop and give bioinformatic education to postdocs. This is perfect for someone who likes teaching. You'd need to be in the Pittsburgh area. Feel free to reach out with questions.

Icon of a calendar surrounded by the words "It has been 5 days since we last made a driver cry

#HungarianGrandPrix How can a race be so interesting and yet so disappointing (as a Ferrari fan) - fulltimesportsfan.wordpress.com/2025/08/08/f... #formula1

This bit was awesome

US election data nerds: Associated Press is hiring 3 election data analysts and an election data scientist in DC. I don't know more than seeing the listings.
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#ddj

YouTube video by Slicer Sabre 2025 Fencing World Championships: My Thoughts

youtube.com/watch?v=M61L... I don't always agree with Slicer Sabre, not least of all because I have to organise fencing competitions that he enters, but when he's right, he's very right

Want to easily scrape data from news media sites?

There's an R package for that!

paperboy

"paperboy offers writers of web scrap[ers] a clear path to publish their code & earn co-authorship on the package, while deliver[ing] news media data from many websites in a consistent format."

Formula 1 2025 – Belgian Grand Prix I can see why some people hate the rolling starts but Belgium, even more than many other circuits, is not somewhere where we want to risk people’s safety. Andrew Benson’s explanation on…

Sorry the #BelgianGrandPrix write up is so late - fulltimesportsfan.wordpress.com/2025/08/02/f...

The Hungarian Grand Prix write up will also be late but at least there isn't a race back to back with it. Won't someone think of the bloggers with these back to back races #Formula1

The distracted boyfriend meme. The text reads, from left to right, "Book I want to buy", "Me", "Book I own but have not read"

Shall I buy a new book?

Building notes: Sankey diagrams I don't like Sankey diagrams for visualizing job offers. One woman's attempt to visualize it to her taste and realize her abject failure.

I'm trying this thing where I write as I go on a tiny project. I thought I could make a better version of the Sankey diagram? (Spoiler: it did not work out)

#rstats #ggplot2

Current mood going into the weekend…

Look at this wiggly little guy.

The Kaplan Meier line for the 2025 Tour de France compared to previous races going back to 2020. 2025 (dark blue line) is the one with the fewest withdrawals, finishing with 0.875 still in (87.5%), 2023 (light blue) is the next highest at about 0.85, then 2020 (orange) at about 0.83, then 2024 (green) at 0.80, 2022 (grey) at about 0.78 then 2021 (mid blue) is the lowest at 0.76.

Looking at the withdrawals in the 2025 Tour de France - fulltimesportsfan.wordpress.com/2025/07/30/w...

There are some very interesting patterns.

#cycling #TourDeFrance #DataVisualisation

Which of the gym influencers (gymfluencers?) recently recommended hanging leg raises, because recently it's been harder to get on to the hanging leg raise torture device than to get time on the bench press benches. #gym

@andrewbensonf1.bsky.social Thank you for the exceptionally clear explanation of the dangers of Spa.

It was suggested to me by a friend. My apologies, especially to @amy.wrestlejoy.com
#AEW

Federal Court Rejects Trump Lawsuit Challenging Illinois Sanctuary Policies NA On July 25, federal district court Judge Lindsay C. Jenkins issued a ruling rejected the Trump Administration's lawsuit challenging…

Trump officials have rumbled about imprisoning Dem mayors and governors over so-called sanctuary policies. Here's the latest court opinion upholding states' right not to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement. (And note the Tenth Amendment/anti-commandeering angle.) [@ilyasomin.bsky.social]

Network graph of the two teams in the final. There are two large red circles representing England and Spain. Of the smaller paler circles, there is one very large one next to the bottom of the two large red circles. There are two more smaller, paler circles closer to the top of the two large red circles.

#Euro2025 network graph for the teams in the final - fulltimesportsfan.wordpress.com/2025/07/26/e...

#DataVisualisation #Gephi

Fauja Singh took up running somewhat late in life The world’s oldest marathon runner died on July 14th, probably aged 114

Until he was five, Fauja Singh could not walk at all. At 15, he could stumble no more than a mile. But at 100, he was running 10-15 miles a day. We remember his life

Off the track, she also won 56 caps for Ireland as a hockey international and an OBE for services to sport in the North.

Ar dheis Dé go raibh a hanam, the torchbearer of all torchbearers. (3/3)

Some equally scattershot thoughts about Fantastic Four, the new one (Mild spoilers for Thunderbolts and from that to Fantastic Four) I have more skin in this game than I did for Superman ( The coterie of comics fans I was in at high school were very much Marvel (an…

Some equally scattershot thoughts in advance of the new #Fantastic4 #film - fulltimesportsfan.wordpress.com/2025/07/24/s...

I fear I was the wrong right audience for #F1TheMovie I strongly admire it technically but am horribly aware of all the bits it got wrong.

Statistical Graphics and Comics: Parallel Histories of Visual Storytelling, Nightingale What do data visualization and comics have in common? One of these is used to communicate in science and journalism, and the other appears in fine art and...

📊 Uncover the unexpected connection between the world of illustrative comics and the precise realm of statistical graphics.

Andrew Gelman and Susan Kruglinski reveal the surprising parallel histories of these two powerful forms of visual storytelling.

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@nwhyte.bsky.social

Okay Barcelona have found a way of making me be nice about them - please look after Marcus Rashford. He deserves better than Utd.

Non-labelled version of the community view network graph. The larger circles stand for each national team. One of them, in mid-blue, is separated at the top, with very few connections to the other three. Two more are in the middle (green and pink) and then the fourth team is at the bottom and orange. The shape is an elongated diamond with curved edges. The team at the top has a smaller circle at its top left, a club team. There is another smaller circle at the top right of the leftmost one of the two national teams in the middle. There is one link from it to the national team at the top. Similarly, the national team at the bottom has one of the larger circles coming off it, bottom middle.

#Euro2025 semifinals network diagrams - there is a pleasing simplicity to the community views - fulltimesportsfan.wordpress.com/2025/07/21/e... #football #DataVisualisation #Gephi

Today's Transfer Flow features the best description of Bild ever (although if Grealish ends up at West Ham, L and I may have many arguments)

Greatest #DataViz hits cont! Did you know that creating a beautiful 3D visualization in #RStats is as simple as dropping an existing #ggplot into #rayshader? Rayshader automatically extrudes the color variable into the third dimension, so you don't need to learn an entirely new plotting interface!

This is brought to you by the department of I told you he was good when he was at Fulham

Red circle with a red line through. The text around it says Do Not Watch, Film Is Terrible

My Ad Astra review - fulltimesportsfan.wordpress.com/2025/07/16/f...

Ad Astra was terrible.

Bad science, bad plot, bad logic.

Although I will say it had good set design.

#films #ScienceFiction #review #AdAstra