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Michał Wypych @mwypych.bsky.social · 7h

This is super nice when you are the only person in the team/lab who cares (be it about well founded causal inference, good stats, accesible dataviz or anything else). It can be pretty daunting and overwhelming to tackle these things alone!

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Michał Wypych @mwypych.bsky.social · 7h

I joined twitter fairly late (around 2020-2021) and I wasn't really active bu the great part was I could learn a ton just by following people. I still have some threads bookmarked and come back to them! I also loved that I could see there are people who care, are real experts and are very weloming

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Michał Wypych @mwypych.bsky.social · 2d

Of course made a typo in hashtag, #positron

Michał Wypych @mwypych.bsky.social · 2d

This happens specifically after update check in Positron.

If I close & open Positron everything works at first but it keeps checking for updates and asking to restart which is when extensions break. Restarting does not fix anything

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Michał Wypych @mwypych.bsky.social · 2d

Anyone had a similar issue after the latest positron update?

I updated positron to the latest version and keep getting issues with extensions: "Some extensions are disabled due to version incompatibility". The extensions affected are e.g. Air so I guess they should be working?

#rstats #postrion

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Michał Wypych @mwypych.bsky.social · 3d

There's also formr which is free and integrates nicely with R. You'd probably need to set up your own instance because their servers are already full bit they give detailed instructions: formr.org

formr - an online survey framework with live feedback

formr survey framework. chain simple surveys into long runs, use the power of R to generate pretty feedback and complex designs

formr.org

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Michał Wypych @mwypych.bsky.social · 5d

Basketball #tidytuesday

Adventures in {grid} part 2, tried to make a basketball court.

code: github.com/mic-wypych/t...

#rstats | #dataviz | #ggplot2

A plot showing eurobasket teams that made it to final four or won a title on plot styled as a basketbal lcourt

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Michał Wypych @mwypych.bsky.social · 12d

code: github.com/mic-wypych/t...

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Michał Wypych @mwypych.bsky.social · 12d

only a week late to #Tidytuesday!

I started learning {grid} and while it's great its. so. many. iterations. One thing I learned so far: always draw by hand before coding!

#rstats | #dataviz | #ggplot2

A combination of heatmap and stacked bar chart showing share of men & women chess players across games played and ranking in september 2025. Data from FIDE

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Michał Wypych @mwypych.bsky.social · 14d

But now you can administer your GAD-7 to Julius Caesar!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Large Language Models based on historical text could offer informative tools for behavioral science | PNAS

Large Language Models based on historical text could offer informative tools for behavioral science

www.pnas.org

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Michał Wypych @mwypych.bsky.social · Sep 3

#tidytuesday

I looked at most active frog spotters and made a hopping cumulative plot.

code: github.com/mic-wypych/t...

#rstats #dataviz #ggplot2

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Michał Wypych @mwypych.bsky.social · Aug 22

Moving to Mac has NOT been fun so far

Michał Wypych @mwypych.bsky.social · Aug 22

I just won a very unfair battle with {renv} and I'm really proud.
Only had to reinstall R, add 4 system level dependencies and a few other things along the way...
#rstats

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Michał Wypych @mwypych.bsky.social · Aug 15

Thanks, this is so nice of you! I already returned my copy and ordered a new one which is on its way to me 🙂

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Michał Wypych @mwypych.bsky.social · Aug 15

Thanks! 🙂 That's exactly what I did, the second book is already on its way. Hope it's twice the charm this time.

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Michał Wypych @mwypych.bsky.social · Aug 12

Thanks! Eventually I just returned my copy and ordered a new one.

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Michał Wypych @mwypych.bsky.social · Aug 9

Thanks! I hope they might better convey the message

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Michał Wypych @mwypych.bsky.social · Aug 9

I feel you :( I just got a different CRC book and it came B&W too.

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Michał Wypych @mwypych.bsky.social · Aug 8

Another #tidytuesday.

I looked at inequality data for Poland from 1986 to 2023.
This one was largely inspired by W.E.B. Du Bois.

code: github.com/mic-wypych/t...

I love {ggforce} and the myriad options it opens.

#rstats #dataviz #ggplot2

A plot showing gini coefficient in Poland from 1986 to 2023 and major events from Polish history from that period. Gini (tax adjusted) was generally around .3. The plot is red and black, in style inspired by W.E.B. Du Bois

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Michał Wypych @mwypych.bsky.social · Aug 7

Thanks! I was a little worried I bought some other version by accident.

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Michał Wypych @mwypych.bsky.social · Aug 7

Yes! Mine looks like this:

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Michał Wypych @mwypych.bsky.social · Aug 6

I just got my copy of "Chart Art" for which I was super excited! The book arrived... but it's all in black and white. I'm not sure if the book is actually black and white (the reviews seems to suggest its not?) or sth is wrong with my copy?

Has this happened to anyone?

#dataviz #datavisualization

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Michał Wypych @mwypych.bsky.social · Aug 4

Thanks! This looks super cool, and I do love good scrollytelling. I really like how they show why those songs are shorter and what they cut.

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Michał Wypych @mwypych.bsky.social · Aug 4

Thanks! Yea I don't think there is some "big reason" behind it. I just found it weird that it cuts so sharply at 60 hours. I would expect more shows with a little over 60. And those longer shows are probably mostly soap operas. E.g. those longest ones are all Colombian telenovelas.

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Michał Wypych @mwypych.bsky.social · Aug 3

#tidytuesday

Did shows on Netflix get longer with time? Not really but interestingly they cap at 60 hours with very few longer shows.

code: github.com/mic-wypych/t...

#rstats #ggplot2 #dataviz

a plot that shows runtime in hours vs release date of netflix shows. Just a few are longer than 60 hours but a lot are just under 60 hours with majority being much shorter (under 25 hours)

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