Kevin Watanabe-Smith
watanabesmith.bsky.social
Kevin Watanabe-Smith
@watanabesmith.bsky.social
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Leukemia researcher, data scientist, unrepentant political junkie #dataviz #rstats
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Probably too late, but very comfortable with wrangling, analysis and viz using #Rstats, happy to help with this or other questions

Though my background is cancer biology, so quite distinct from this dataset
It's so bad, my three year old walks 30ft ahead of me on the sidewalk before I say "slow down a bit bud"
And as a "study Biology to disprove it" traveler, what stuck was listening to religious professors

"That progress didn’t come from outsiders or even nonpracticing Muslims like me; it came from scholars, thinkers and activists who argued for the compatibility of Islam and evolution."
Found this articulating a fear I've never been able to put my finger on:

"if we allow science to become just another tribe, we will be asking people to choose between their loved ones and abstract principles"
"asking them to pay an almost unimaginable price."

wapo.st/4nqIhQE (gift link)
Opinion | I’m a former creationist. Here’s why ‘follow the science’ failed.
The moment I finally admitted that Darwin was right didn’t feel liberating. It felt like grief.
www.washingtonpost.com
People focusing on the 65%, but how many *total* people would you "trust" in that definition?

I'd say the 8% is a bigger outlier, you know TWO Kevins you trust with your money? Pft, we're good
Gah, obviously good news but bittersweet
Sadly not with a -1.5, she's still reading clearly within 10ft
This looks a little disingenuous in framing. The most recent trading was in February by the 1W chart, and the market is already marked as resolved, so doesn't appear to be anything informed by recent events(?)
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Really enjoyed speaking to Cascadia R Conference today! Materials from my talk are at rfortherestofus.com/cascadia2025. #rstats
David Keyes @dgkeyes.com is giving an excellent keynote presentation about "25 Ways to Use R" at the Cascadia R Conference @cascadiarconf.bsky.social at OHSU @ohsunews.bsky.social in Portland, OR. R isn't just for stats! #R #Rstats #coding
A sequel where the acquitted painter finds her life in shambles and pieces it together at a local pub themed with HS geometry texts

The Geom Bar
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🚨 2 DAYS TO GO! 🚨

Cascadia R Conference kicks off this Friday in Portland!

Amazing talks, hands-on workshops, and a community that loves R as much as you do.

🗓️ June 20–21
📍 Portland, Oregon
🔗 cascadiarconf.org

Who’s ready?! #RStats #DataScience
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After setting up the required infrastructure on CRAN with several packages providing static libraries, I finally have some new #rayverse features on the way! Shown here: dynamic sky generation for a given lat/long and time of day, based on the Hosek-Wilkie radiance model.

#RStats #rayrender
As a cancer biologist, it's usually a red flag when someone leads with "I'm really into science"

Some combination of the broadest top-level word, the encapsulation of a colossal academic field into a hobby, you know something wild is coming next.
DM, I'm casting Detect Evil and Good within 30 feet of Miller. You have to tell me if he's an aberration, celestial, elemental, fey, fiend or undead
Who on earth pours a bottle with that grip?
Did people in 1908 have reversed elbows?
Research. Failing.
She left me funding by the stairs
Surprised the NIH still cares
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