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Caucus for Women in Statistics and Data Science @cwstat.bsky.social · 1d

IDWSDS Keynote Speaker Feature: Bonnie Ghosh Dastidar of RAND Corporation, United States. SESSION- Tuesday, October 14 00:30UTC. Topic: K1 - The Three Rs: Reliable, Rigorous and Robust --- Register now for this FREE conference! tinyurl.com/DastidarTalk

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Caucus for Women in Statistics and Data Science @cwstat.bsky.social · Jul 15

The International Day of Women in Statistics & Data Science (IDWSDS) Conference is approaching soon!

⭐️ When? October 14th!
⭐️ Where? Online!
⭐️ How much? Completely Free!

Sign up now to stay updated about the program and learn about networking opportunities.

www.idwsds.org

IDWSDS

www.idwsds.org

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James Curran @profjamescurran.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks to @visnut.bsky.social, I can now offer recreations (in non-original colours) of the useR! Conference Attendee shirt from Brisbane (2018). They are cheaper than the Aalborg ones because they only have a logo on the front. All profits will go to the R Foundation #Rstats

tinyurl.com/3zf3dwmz

useR! 2018 Conference Attendee Shirt - Blue Logo useR! Store

The artwork is displayed using the R Logo blue (#2369be)

tinyurl.com

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Dr Di Cook @visnut.bsky.social · 13d

I have it. Will send tomorrow

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Dr Di Cook @visnut.bsky.social · 24d

This package has data that can be used instead of nycflights13 to teach joins, and also to look at temporal trends and draw maps. It has to coolest hexsticker vahdatjavad.github.io/ecotourism/ and cute creatures: mantarays, gouldian finches, glow worms and orchids

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Nick Tierney @njtierney.bsky.social · 24d

Hey #rstats friends! 👋

Only one week to go until my "Introduction to R Packages" tutorial at #WOMBAT2025!

This is a gentle introduction to making R packages, going from initial code to `devtools::check()`

Still plenty of spots available :)

Sign up at: wombat2025.numbat.space

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Dr Di Cook @visnut.bsky.social · 24d

The Department of Statistics at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln is under threat of closure, with tenured faculty facing dismissal. This is a small but globally impactful department.
Please consider writing a letter of support. Your voice could make a real difference.

letter from the statistics department chair at UNL

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Susan Vanderplas @srvanderplas.bsky.social · 29d

At any rate, if you know of any good stats departments that are looking for someone with a new #NSF #CAREER award starting Oct 1, let me know. I do #datavis and #forensics research and teach #statcomputing with #rstats and #python. I have a 2-body problem but open to many different locations anyways

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Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · Sep 5

The problem is that the study has no ability to tell whether using a smartphone on the toilet increases the risk of hemorrhoids, or having hemorrhoids increases the chance that you’ll use a smartphone on the toilet, or that something else affects both things.
www.rnz.co.nz/life/wellbei...

Scrolling on the toilet increases your risk of haemorrhoids, new study shows

Too much time on the porcelain throne can make you nearly 50 percent more likely to develop haemorrhoids, scientists confirmed this week.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Dr Di Cook @visnut.bsky.social · Aug 23

Love my useR! 2025 👩🏻‍💻Thanks to @jayanigamage.bsky.social #rstats #user2025

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Yani Bellini Saibene @yabellini.bsky.social · Aug 12

Not an open challenge, but in our visualization course we had the “ugliest chart” contest.
The students really enjoyed it 🤭😁. Here some contest’s plots:

2020: diplodatosunab.github.io/visualizacio...

2021: diplodatosunab.github.io/visualizacio...

2022: diplodatosunab.github.io/visualizacio...

Cohorte 2020

https://diplodatosunab.github.io/visualizacion/cohorte2020.html#Concurso_el_gráfico_más_feo

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Mitchell O'Hara-Wild @handle.invalid · Aug 10

Day 1 at #useR2025 was a blast! It's awesome meeting new #rstats users and catching up with familiar faces.

I was amazed to see the hex-sticker map of North Carolina, made with code I wrote for useR! 2018 in Australia. See how maps like this are made in R here: mitchelloharawild.com/blog/user-20...

Me standing in front of the use R 2025 hexagon sticker map of North Carolina.

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WOMBAT 2025 @wombat.numbat.space · Aug 7

Registrations for the annual #WOMBAT2025 workshop are open! 🎉
Register before August 31 to get the early bird discount!

🔗 Registration & Info: wombat2025.numbat.space

#DataScience #OpenSource #BusinessAnalytics #DataDrivenDecisions #RStats

WOMBAT 2025 (Workshop Organised by the Monash Business Analytics Team). 29-30 September in Naarm/Melbourne. Registration now open! Early bird discount ends Aug31. wombat2025.numbat.space

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useR! - The R User Conference @user-conf.bsky.social · Jul 30

Ticket Sales end on August 1st!

Register for in-person and virtual events:
user2025.r-project.org/register

useR! 2025 will be held from Friday, August 8th to Sunday, August 10th, Duke University in Durham, NC, USA.
#rstats #useR2025

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R-Ladies Melbourne @rladiesmelb.bsky.social · Jul 31

🎉 Join us for the first R-Ladies Social Night!
Whether you're new or a regular, come connect, unwind, and build community. #Rstats #Rladies

📍 Father’s Office
🕕 August 14, 6pm
🍻 Arrive on time for happy hour!

www.meetup.com/rladies-melb...

R-Ladies Social Night, Thu, Aug 14, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup

Come unwind and connect with like-minded people at our first R-Ladies Social Night! Whether you’ve been to one of our events in the past or you’re just starting out, this e

www.meetup.com

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Dr Di Cook @visnut.bsky.social · Jul 31

Activities to join; a messaging system to communicate in the fly; a collaboration space.

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Fonti Kar @fontikar.bsky.social · Jul 31

What are the attributes of a welcoming and sustainable online community? Asking for ideas 💡

a brown and white dog is laying on a person 's arm and looking at the camera

ALT: a brown and white dog is laying on a person 's arm and looking at the camera

media.tenor.com

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Dr Di Cook @visnut.bsky.social · Jul 30

Yes potentially, but it should be possible to use this function with cartograms or hex grid transformed geography. Might be good to post some thoughts on the GitHub repo issues.

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Dr Di Cook @visnut.bsky.social · Jul 28

Maybe add @huizezhangsherry.bsky.social @weihaolipatrick.bsky.social @jayanigamage.bsky.social

bsky.app

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Dr Di Cook @visnut.bsky.social · Jul 28

Thanks Ben! Very helpful to have this list!

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Dr Di Cook @visnut.bsky.social · Jul 4

#rstats

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Dr Di Cook @visnut.bsky.social · Jul 4

New virtual workshop from our NUMBATs, on "Reproducible reporting, academic papers, presentations and theses with quarto" Jul 25, taught by Krisanat, Jayani and @janithwanni.bsky.social‬. More details can be found on www.statsoc.org.au/event-6250010

Statistical Society of Australia - CPD 207- Reproducible Reporting, Academic Papers, Presentations and Theses with Quarto

www.statsoc.org.au

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mdsumner @mdsumner.bsky.social · Jun 27

There's a lot of packages out there to download specific datasets, we wrote a framework to spider data on the internet, dry run to return the file list, and download 👇 it or sync 🫱 it to object storage

docs.ropensci.org/bowerbird/

#rstats handles auth, virtual links, thredds, all kinds

Keep a Collection of Sparkly Data Resources

Tools to get and maintain a data repository from third-party data providers.

docs.ropensci.org

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Dr Di Cook @visnut.bsky.social · Jun 17

The Summer Institute of Statistics early bird registration deadline is this Friday. Workshops on data wrangling, visualization, supervised and unsupervised learning, Jul 21-Aug 1. See details at si.biostat.washington.edu/institutes/s...

11th Annual Summer Institute in Statistics for Big Data (SISBID) | Summer Institutes

si.biostat.washington.edu

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Terry Christiani 👋 @terrychristiani.bsky.social · Jun 17

Hey there #rstats peeps! Check out another new webinar from the R Consortium! This one features the VA department of environmental quality and the work they are doing to improve and streamline water quality reporting! June 27th @ 1 PM Eastern.
r-consortium.org/webinars/fro...

From Paper to Pixels: Digitizing Water Quality Data Collection with Posit and Esri Integration – R Consortium

r-consortium.org

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