Randy Boyes
@randy.pub
Analytics at presagegroup.com | PhD Epidemiology | #julialang #rstats | publications at www.randy.pub | GitHub @rdboyes, currently working on https://github.com/TidierOrg/TidierPlots.jl | 🐦@randyboyes
I assume the reviewers didn’t like the original title, “oh no: we have to throw out all survey data collected in the last 1,084 days”
new paper by Sean Westwood:
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
November 18, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I assume the reviewers didn’t like the original title, “oh no: we have to throw out all survey data collected in the last 1,084 days”
accidentally opening the app formerly known as twitter
a group of star wars characters standing next to each other with a robot in the background
ALT: a group of star wars characters standing next to each other with a robot in the background
media.tenor.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:29 PM
accidentally opening the app formerly known as twitter
Reposted by Randy Boyes
I am giving 2 talks abt making your data analysis outputs into polished products with the power of #RStats and #Python pkgs + my pkg {brandthis}.
Talk 1: DevFest 2025. Register here: wedevfest.com
Talk 2: R+AI 2025 organized by R Consortium. Register here: rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_webs...
Talk 1: DevFest 2025. Register here: wedevfest.com
Talk 2: R+AI 2025 organized by R Consortium. Register here: rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_webs...
October 20, 2025 at 3:43 AM
I am giving 2 talks abt making your data analysis outputs into polished products with the power of #RStats and #Python pkgs + my pkg {brandthis}.
Talk 1: DevFest 2025. Register here: wedevfest.com
Talk 2: R+AI 2025 organized by R Consortium. Register here: rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_webs...
Talk 1: DevFest 2025. Register here: wedevfest.com
Talk 2: R+AI 2025 organized by R Consortium. Register here: rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_webs...
Reposted by Randy Boyes
This may just be the best CS paper I’ve read this year. Just read the abstract and first para of the intro! The rest of the intro is really wild too, but very very good:
dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
October 14, 2025 at 1:12 PM
This may just be the best CS paper I’ve read this year. Just read the abstract and first para of the intro! The rest of the intro is really wild too, but very very good:
dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
Exploring some ideas for how to create a macro-free (or macro-light) implementation of the tidyverse in #julialang (get out the jolly roger 🏴☠️): www.randy.pub/posts/piracy/
You wouldn't pirate a type
www.randy.pub
October 12, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Exploring some ideas for how to create a macro-free (or macro-light) implementation of the tidyverse in #julialang (get out the jolly roger 🏴☠️): www.randy.pub/posts/piracy/
I’m doing my honest best to listen to this with an open mind but hooiiioill
There are so many words said that have absolutely no bearing on the facts of the case
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...
There are so many words said that have absolutely no bearing on the facts of the case
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...
The Law, such as it is
Government Podcast · Monthly Series · An exploration of a broken, if beautiful, institution, the law, and tradition, America. Season one told the story of a case, LESSIG v. NYT. Season two begins the ...
podcasts.apple.com
September 26, 2025 at 9:41 PM
I’m doing my honest best to listen to this with an open mind but hooiiioill
There are so many words said that have absolutely no bearing on the facts of the case
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...
There are so many words said that have absolutely no bearing on the facts of the case
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...
I miss being able to just buy a thing and have it, I hate paying for subscriptions
i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?
September 19, 2025 at 2:12 AM
I miss being able to just buy a thing and have it, I hate paying for subscriptions
Am I the only one who thinks Liquid Glass actually looks kinda good
September 18, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Am I the only one who thinks Liquid Glass actually looks kinda good
Reposted by Randy Boyes
I really enjoyed giving a brief introduction to Julia for statisticians yesterday - thanks to Jake Grainger and Charles Dufour for organising such a great session!
Slides: nrennie.rbind.io/talks/rss-in...
#RStats #JuliaLang #ggplot2 #RSS2025Conf @tidierjl.bsky.social
Slides: nrennie.rbind.io/talks/rss-in...
#RStats #JuliaLang #ggplot2 #RSS2025Conf @tidierjl.bsky.social
September 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I really enjoyed giving a brief introduction to Julia for statisticians yesterday - thanks to Jake Grainger and Charles Dufour for organising such a great session!
Slides: nrennie.rbind.io/talks/rss-in...
#RStats #JuliaLang #ggplot2 #RSS2025Conf @tidierjl.bsky.social
Slides: nrennie.rbind.io/talks/rss-in...
#RStats #JuliaLang #ggplot2 #RSS2025Conf @tidierjl.bsky.social
No wonder they were having a blast
August 21, 2025 at 4:17 PM
No wonder they were having a blast
Nutrition research continues to fill the library’s hexagonal galleries
Someone just sent me this study, and all I can say is that I don't understand why anyone would bother investigating this question. 1/n
August 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Nutrition research continues to fill the library’s hexagonal galleries
Another #juliacon in the books! Check out my talk on TidierPlots.jl here: www.youtube.com/live/HMdBi9L... and the State of Tidier.jl (by Daniel Rizk) here: www.youtube.com/live/_Uf2KQX... to see what's been going on with @tidierjl.bsky.social in #julialang
JuliaCon Global 2025 | Else Room | Day 2
YouTube video by The Julia Programming Language
www.youtube.com
July 26, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Another #juliacon in the books! Check out my talk on TidierPlots.jl here: www.youtube.com/live/HMdBi9L... and the State of Tidier.jl (by Daniel Rizk) here: www.youtube.com/live/_Uf2KQX... to see what's been going on with @tidierjl.bsky.social in #julialang
These values are required to do science - acting like this is a problem is like saying that CEOs valuing “professionalism” or “punctuality” more than the average person means they aren’t value-aligned with the average person
There’s a big gap on *values* (not facts) between scientific experts and the mass public, which is driving a lot of the crisis of confidence in institutions and expertise.
www.slowboring.com/p/the-crisis...
www.slowboring.com/p/the-crisis...
July 20, 2025 at 12:32 PM
These values are required to do science - acting like this is a problem is like saying that CEOs valuing “professionalism” or “punctuality” more than the average person means they aren’t value-aligned with the average person
Easily GOTY so far, and it’s hard to imagine anything knocking it out of that spot
After 2 months of work, the Clair Obscur Expedition 33 video is here. I interviewed most of the game's senior leadership team asking one simple question: how did you do this? Their answers were inspiring and moving, and it's no surprise that COE33 is as remarkable as it is: youtu.be/mXLOLgC2V2Q?...
The impossible (true) stories behind the making of Clair Obscur Expedition 33
YouTube video by Skill Up
youtu.be
June 22, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Easily GOTY so far, and it’s hard to imagine anything knocking it out of that spot
Oxygen not included
AoE 2
SSBM
AoE 2
SSBM
Name 3 Videogames you've played for 200 hours.
June 20, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Oxygen not included
AoE 2
SSBM
AoE 2
SSBM
The spectrum between “guy who occasionally plays an hour or two of video games with his kids” and “guy who still plays WoW 8 hours/night” is so vast here that it’s essentially two different ideas
If playing video games drives away neonazi antivaxxers women like Third-Wheeler, than I am going to increase my playing time.
June 17, 2025 at 12:35 PM
The spectrum between “guy who occasionally plays an hour or two of video games with his kids” and “guy who still plays WoW 8 hours/night” is so vast here that it’s essentially two different ideas
Not dead, but:
- no growth in the last 3 years
- almost half of all users are students (summer user decline), and they’re not staying after grad - at least not in enough numbers to increase overall use
Counterpoint: Positron use may be growing? I personally switched and don’t use RStudio anymore
- no growth in the last 3 years
- almost half of all users are students (summer user decline), and they’re not staying after grad - at least not in enough numbers to increase overall use
Counterpoint: Positron use may be growing? I personally switched and don’t use RStudio anymore
June 11, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Not dead, but:
- no growth in the last 3 years
- almost half of all users are students (summer user decline), and they’re not staying after grad - at least not in enough numbers to increase overall use
Counterpoint: Positron use may be growing? I personally switched and don’t use RStudio anymore
- no growth in the last 3 years
- almost half of all users are students (summer user decline), and they’re not staying after grad - at least not in enough numbers to increase overall use
Counterpoint: Positron use may be growing? I personally switched and don’t use RStudio anymore
Trying out some old Vizz Buzz challenges in TidierPlots - is there any way in #makie to easily add small images? The original version had flags as labels...
![Code to recreate a data visualization showing the medal progress at the 2018 olympics, reproduced below:
using TidierPlots, TidierFiles, TidierData, DataFrames, Dates
wo = read_csv("data/bump (1).csv")
wo_plot = @chain wo begin
@mutate total = gold + silver + bronze
transform(:date => ByRow(x -> 1 + (x-Date("2018-02-10")).value) => :day)
@group_by date
@mutate rank = 1:n()
@ungroup
end
top5 = @chain wo_plot begin
@filter country in ["NED", "GER", "CAN", "USA", "NOR"]
end
final = @chain top5 begin
@filter day == 16
end
ggplot(wo_plot) +
geom_point(@aes(x = day, y = rank, group = country), alpha = .4, size = 15, color = :lightgrey) +
geom_line(@aes(x = day, y = rank, group = country), alpha = .4, linewidth = 6, color = :lightgrey) +
geom_point(data = top5, @aes(x = day, y = rank, color = country), size = 15, alpha = 0.5) +
geom_line(data = top5, @aes(x = day, y = rank, color = country), linewidth = 6, alpha = 0.5) +
geom_point(data = top5, @aes(x = day, y = rank), color = :white, size = 5) +
scale_y_reverse() +
lims(y = c(0.5, 10.5), x = c(0, 18)) +
labs(title = "Pyongchang 2018 Olympic Winter Games",
subtitle = "Countries ranked by overall medals after each competition day",
x = "Competition Days with Medals", y = "Rank") +
scale_color_manual(values = c(:red, :black, :orange, :green, :blue)) +
guides(color = :none) +
theme_minimal() +
theme(
xgridstyle = :solid,
xgridcolor = :lightgray,
xgridvisible = true,
xticks = 1:16,
yticks = 1:10,
leftspinevisible = false,
bottomspinevisible = false,
titlealign = :left,
titlesize = 24,
subtitlesize = 16
)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2h5e6whhbk5vnnerqqoi256k/bafkreiducjpjc7n2rtbbuho42y6qnlcvqpex6kwnosctssvssqemvsb4zy@jpeg)
June 4, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Trying out some old Vizz Buzz challenges in TidierPlots - is there any way in #makie to easily add small images? The original version had flags as labels...
Accidentally installed monokai pro, I’ll pay for winzip before I pay for your hexcodes bro
May 22, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Accidentally installed monokai pro, I’ll pay for winzip before I pay for your hexcodes bro
Reposted by Randy Boyes
Participating in #TidyTuesday with Julia has never been easier!
#Tidier
#TidierTuesday
@tidierjl.bsky.social
@jonthegeek.com
#Tidier
#TidierTuesday
@tidierjl.bsky.social
@jonthegeek.com
April 23, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Participating in #TidyTuesday with Julia has never been easier!
#Tidier
#TidierTuesday
@tidierjl.bsky.social
@jonthegeek.com
#Tidier
#TidierTuesday
@tidierjl.bsky.social
@jonthegeek.com
The one piece of good news in the portfolio today
April 10, 2025 at 8:56 PM
The one piece of good news in the portfolio today
If we can’t right-assign, we should just use =
please_dont_do() -> this
#rstats
#rstats
April 9, 2025 at 10:38 PM
If we can’t right-assign, we should just use =
Because this is a little annoying to set up, here's a simple example in the form of a blog post: www.randy.pub/posts/multif...
March 31, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Because this is a little annoying to set up, here's a simple example in the form of a blog post: www.randy.pub/posts/multif...
Reposted by Randy Boyes
Tidier.jl brings modern data science workflows into #julialang. Batteries included.
✅ Logging data transformations
✅ Unnesting database tables with SQL
✅ Same syntax for dataframes and databases (supporting 12 flavors of SQL)
✅ Customizable grammar of graphics for plotting
…and many more features.
✅ Logging data transformations
✅ Unnesting database tables with SQL
✅ Same syntax for dataframes and databases (supporting 12 flavors of SQL)
✅ Customizable grammar of graphics for plotting
…and many more features.
March 27, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Tidier.jl brings modern data science workflows into #julialang. Batteries included.
✅ Logging data transformations
✅ Unnesting database tables with SQL
✅ Same syntax for dataframes and databases (supporting 12 flavors of SQL)
✅ Customizable grammar of graphics for plotting
…and many more features.
✅ Logging data transformations
✅ Unnesting database tables with SQL
✅ Same syntax for dataframes and databases (supporting 12 flavors of SQL)
✅ Customizable grammar of graphics for plotting
…and many more features.
Reposted by Randy Boyes
March 25, 2025 at 2:07 AM