Matt Kerlogue
@mattkerlogue.bsky.social
Freelance data/numbers/pretty charts, typically in #rstats.
He/him, alphabet mafia type 🏳️🌈, SE London.
https://github.com/mattkerlogue
https://matt.kerlogue.co.uk
He/him, alphabet mafia type 🏳️🌈, SE London.
https://github.com/mattkerlogue
https://matt.kerlogue.co.uk
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I can't promise I'll post that much here. But by way of #introduction, I do data/analysis things mainly in #rstats, largely on helping public organisations work better.
Broke: "May the Fourth be with you"
Woke: "The Fourth May with you be"
Excel: "5-April"
Woke: "The Fourth May with you be"
Excel: "5-April"
May 4, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Broke: "May the Fourth be with you"
Woke: "The Fourth May with you be"
Excel: "5-April"
Woke: "The Fourth May with you be"
Excel: "5-April"
Reposted by Matt Kerlogue
"Llamas can't tell the truth" apparently means that somebody is being "exceptionally honest"
April 23, 2025 at 12:36 PM
"Llamas can't tell the truth" apparently means that somebody is being "exceptionally honest"
Streeting said he's abolishing the "biggest quango in the world"... perhaps, but definitions matter. And I'm not convinced that NHS England qualifies as the UK's biggest quango let alone the world's.
March 13, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Streeting said he's abolishing the "biggest quango in the world"... perhaps, but definitions matter. And I'm not convinced that NHS England qualifies as the UK's biggest quango let alone the world's.
I wondered when I’d think Bluesky had “made it”… I can now doomscroll effectively and have had my first follows from female presenting OnlyFans-promoting scam-bots. So yeah I think that means Bluesky has made it.
March 12, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I wondered when I’d think Bluesky had “made it”… I can now doomscroll effectively and have had my first follows from female presenting OnlyFans-promoting scam-bots. So yeah I think that means Bluesky has made it.
"Abandon all hope, ye who enter here" #rstats
Yes is a bit brain melty at first, but it demonstrates how fundamentally flexible R actually is. I wonder in how many other languages it would be this easy to change array indexing.
Yes is a bit brain melty at first, but it demonstrates how fundamentally flexible R actually is. I wonder in how many other languages it would be this easy to change array indexing.
I've found the perfect way to make #rstats programmers scream in existential terror. Behold zero-indexed R!
Redefining reality with <15 lines of code is so hot right now.
Now watch as I calmly refer to v[0] while maintaining direct eye contact.
#cursedcode
Redefining reality with <15 lines of code is so hot right now.
Now watch as I calmly refer to v[0] while maintaining direct eye contact.
#cursedcode
March 12, 2025 at 11:28 AM
"Abandon all hope, ye who enter here" #rstats
Yes is a bit brain melty at first, but it demonstrates how fundamentally flexible R actually is. I wonder in how many other languages it would be this easy to change array indexing.
Yes is a bit brain melty at first, but it demonstrates how fundamentally flexible R actually is. I wonder in how many other languages it would be this easy to change array indexing.
Typically my little bot project just posts pictures of bridges, boats, wildlife and industrial heritage… sometimes it finds interesting insights into modern life.
📍: Bridge 202, North Hyde Bridge
ℹ️: road bridge
🗺: https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=51.4948832715971&mlon=-0.387524850811192#map=17/51.4948832715971/-0.387524850811192
📸: Photo by Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Govt on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/28937515@N02/7894009748
ℹ️: road bridge
🗺: https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=51.4948832715971&mlon=-0.387524850811192#map=17/51.4948832715971/-0.387524850811192
📸: Photo by Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Govt on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/28937515@N02/7894009748
March 1, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Typically my little bot project just posts pictures of bridges, boats, wildlife and industrial heritage… sometimes it finds interesting insights into modern life.
Most humans wouldn’t use a dictionary to calculate the area of a square. Yet this pretty much what this example is doing.
you fucked up a perfectly good computer is what you did. look at it. it's got innumeracy
February 13, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Most humans wouldn’t use a dictionary to calculate the area of a square. Yet this pretty much what this example is doing.
For the avoidance of doubt, I'm firmly Team Clippy 📎📎📎
You can't mention #rstats documentation without mentioning Clippy-gate in the {writexl} package github.com/ropensci/wri...
Issues · ropensci/writexl
Portable, light-weight data frame to xlsx exporter for R - Issues · ropensci/writexl
github.com
February 13, 2025 at 6:02 PM
For the avoidance of doubt, I'm firmly Team Clippy 📎📎📎
If they're combining Norfolk (i.e. north folk) with Suffolk (i.e. south folk)... shouldn't the new combined entity just be called Folk or maybe something like Allfolk, Twafolk (Twa being Old English for two), or Bathfolk/Batfolk/Bahfolk (baþe being Old English for both).
Six areas have been added to the government’s Devolution Priority Programme - paving the way for more mayor-led authorities.
They are:
• Cumbria
• Cheshire & Warrington
• Norfolk & Suffolk
• Greater Essex
• Sussex & Brighton
• Hampshire & Solent
They are:
• Cumbria
• Cheshire & Warrington
• Norfolk & Suffolk
• Greater Essex
• Sussex & Brighton
• Hampshire & Solent
February 5, 2025 at 6:14 PM
If they're combining Norfolk (i.e. north folk) with Suffolk (i.e. south folk)... shouldn't the new combined entity just be called Folk or maybe something like Allfolk, Twafolk (Twa being Old English for two), or Bathfolk/Batfolk/Bahfolk (baþe being Old English for both).
While I'm on a posting spree...
Have you ever thought "My feed could do with more pictures of the canal network of England and Wales?"... Is that a "yes" I hear?
Well then, I'm behind the @narrowbotr.bsky.social bot which does exactly that!
Have you ever thought "My feed could do with more pictures of the canal network of England and Wales?"... Is that a "yes" I hear?
Well then, I'm behind the @narrowbotr.bsky.social bot which does exactly that!
February 5, 2025 at 1:59 PM
While I'm on a posting spree...
Have you ever thought "My feed could do with more pictures of the canal network of England and Wales?"... Is that a "yes" I hear?
Well then, I'm behind the @narrowbotr.bsky.social bot which does exactly that!
Have you ever thought "My feed could do with more pictures of the canal network of England and Wales?"... Is that a "yes" I hear?
Well then, I'm behind the @narrowbotr.bsky.social bot which does exactly that!
I can't promise I'll post that much here. But by way of #introduction, I do data/analysis things mainly in #rstats, largely on helping public organisations work better.
February 5, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I can't promise I'll post that much here. But by way of #introduction, I do data/analysis things mainly in #rstats, largely on helping public organisations work better.
Hello my tiny bsky following!
Tomorrow I'm speaking at Data Bites #52 hosted by @gavinfreeguard.bsky.social and @publicdigital.bsky.social about the Blavatnik Index of Public Administration 2024 from @blavatnikschool.bsky.social
Tomorrow I'm speaking at Data Bites #52 hosted by @gavinfreeguard.bsky.social and @publicdigital.bsky.social about the Blavatnik Index of Public Administration 2024 from @blavatnikschool.bsky.social
Happy Data Bites week!
Join @publicdigital.bsky.social & me at 6pm on Thurs, in person (Broadway House, nr St James's Park tube) or online
Hear from:
- Laura Gilbert, ex-10DS/i.AI
- Scottish Govt
- David Canning on the digital heap
- @mattkerlogue.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/data-bites...
Join @publicdigital.bsky.social & me at 6pm on Thurs, in person (Broadway House, nr St James's Park tube) or online
Hear from:
- Laura Gilbert, ex-10DS/i.AI
- Scottish Govt
- David Canning on the digital heap
- @mattkerlogue.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/data-bites...
Data Bites #52
Data Bites #52
www.eventbrite.co.uk
February 5, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Hello my tiny bsky following!
Tomorrow I'm speaking at Data Bites #52 hosted by @gavinfreeguard.bsky.social and @publicdigital.bsky.social about the Blavatnik Index of Public Administration 2024 from @blavatnikschool.bsky.social
Tomorrow I'm speaking at Data Bites #52 hosted by @gavinfreeguard.bsky.social and @publicdigital.bsky.social about the Blavatnik Index of Public Administration 2024 from @blavatnikschool.bsky.social