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Corey Sparks

@coreysparks1.bsky.social

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Demographer, Research Scientist at The Coleridge Initiative, reformed #academic #rstats https://coreysparks.github.io/appdem_Book/

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Antonino Polizzi @polizzan.bsky.social · 3d

✍️ Just out: Annette Baudisch & I delve into the formal demography of fertility, birth, & reproduction timing. 👶 We use methods from mortality research to summarize when in the parental life course children are born. 📆 1/n
doi.org/10.1080/0032...
@sdu.dk @oxforddemsci.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social

Fertility, birth, reproduction: Connecting formal demographic frameworks

The conventional framework of fertility research conceptualizes childbirth from the mother’s perspective. From her perspective, birth is an uncertain and potentially recurring event. In contrast, t...

doi.org

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Corey Sparks @coreysparks1.bsky.social · 7d

For those of you interested in accessing U.S. Census Bureau data from data.census.gov during the government shutdown, the Census APIs are still working.

Here is an example of how to access the Census API using both #Rstats and #Python

coreysparks.quarto.pub/accessing-th...

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Corey Sparks @coreysparks1.bsky.social · Sep 6

I was just excited that somebody responded. after the heyday of Twitter a few years ago, where this type of thing happened every single day I was worried that the community wasn’t really around anymore.

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Corey Sparks @coreysparks1.bsky.social · Sep 6

I typically enjoy a janky solution but this is for a project where I'm trying to teach new R users, so may not this time

Corey Sparks @coreysparks1.bsky.social · Sep 5

The purpose is to show the r for the inline expression

Corey Sparks @coreysparks1.bsky.social · Sep 5

ah, duh, i'd put it in a chunk, that works too!

Corey Sparks @coreysparks1.bsky.social · Sep 5

that does it!

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Corey Sparks @coreysparks1.bsky.social · Sep 5

this puts the vector notation in front of the output, and adds an extra r in there

knitr::inline_expr('r mean(1:10)', "md")

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Corey Sparks @coreysparks1.bsky.social · Sep 5

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Corey Sparks @coreysparks1.bsky.social · Sep 5

even better!

Corey Sparks @coreysparks1.bsky.social · Sep 5

hideous, but beautiful too?
ytb @ivelasq3.bsky.social

Corey Sparks @coreysparks1.bsky.social · Sep 5

yup, I get

Corey Sparks @coreysparks1.bsky.social · Sep 5

that prints 5.5 in the report

Corey Sparks @coreysparks1.bsky.social · Sep 5

That did it, thanks @ercbk.bsky.social
``{r} mean(1:10) ``
gave me

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Corey Sparks @coreysparks1.bsky.social · Sep 5

Close! if I use
`{{r}} r mean(1:10)`

I get this:
{r} r mean(1:10)

but what I want is

r mean(1:10)

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Corey Sparks @coreysparks1.bsky.social · Sep 5

NOT just be
5.5

Corey Sparks @coreysparks1.bsky.social · Sep 5

ok, dumb #rstats question. I'm using #quarto and i want to print some inline R code in my HTML report, but I DON'T want it to actually run the code

I want it to be like this in the report:
`r mean(1:10)`

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Corey Sparks @coreysparks1.bsky.social · Aug 29

Question for the group.
If you are in a job and there is basically no way of moving upwards in your organization, what would you do?
#jobs #work

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Cédric Scherer @cedricscherer.com · May 23

New bonus lesson out now! 🎉

"A Quick Introduction to R" is for all course members that are new to #rstats or need a refresher 🧑‍💻

➕ 7 exercises and lots of in-browser code examples

Part of our interactive workshop #ggplot2 [un]charted 💙
Get access 👉 www.ggplot2-uncharted.com

#dataviz #datascience

A screenshot of the bonus lesson "Getting Started: A Quick Introduction to R" with the title, a short intro and the first part on "Executing R Code". Also shows the first code examples which members can execute inside their browser thanks to our sandboxes.

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Corey Sparks @coreysparks1.bsky.social · Apr 15

I'm listening to this episode and would highly recommend it to those who've never thought about count variable models, BUT!! Where's the denominator?? I'm seriously jonesing for a discussion of offsets in these models, and yes it's because I'm a #demographer coreysparks.github.io/appdem_Book/...

Applied Demographic Data Analysis - 4 Macrodemographic Analysis of Places

coreysparks.github.io

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Solomon Kurz @solomonkurz.bsky.social · Apr 14

The 1.2.0 version of my #brms + #tidyverse translation of Kruschke’s "Doing Bayesian data analysis" is up!

bookdown.org/content/3686/

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#rstats

Doing Bayesian Data Analysis in brms and the tidyverse

bookdown.org

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Quantitude the Podcast @quantitude.bsky.social · Mar 31

Taking your analyses to the necks level tomorrow…

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Corey Sparks @coreysparks1.bsky.social · Mar 28

The whatever is the fun part

Corey Sparks @coreysparks1.bsky.social · Mar 28

There are a lot of useful keyboard shortcuts

support.apple.com/en-us/102650

Mac keyboard shortcuts - Apple Support

By pressing certain key combinations, you can do things that normally need a mouse, trackpad, or other input device.

support.apple.com

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Corey Sparks @coreysparks1.bsky.social · Jan 31

Without public data, Trump can say whatever he wants, his administration is effectively removing the ability for the public to have any factual basis to the health and socioeconomic conditions of his great america. If you are a public data user, archive whatever you can. #resist #publicdata

Corey Sparks, Ph.D. on LinkedIn: #resist #publicdata

Without public data, Trump can say whatever he wants, his administration is effectively removing the ability for the public to have any factual basis to the…

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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · Nov 14

Are you a #student who is interested in #Demography and #DataScience & you have no plans for ☀️☀️☀️#summer 2025☀️☀️☀️☀️ yet? Look no more! @mpidr.bsky.social has just the program for you: Population and Social Data Science Summer Incubator Program! Apply until Jan 8, 2025 demogr.mpg.de/go/Incubator...

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Corey Sparks @coreysparks1.bsky.social · Dec 5

Hey #rstats and #quarto folks, I'm building a quarto dashboard and using a gt table to show a reactive dataframe. The problem is that when I select the filter, the table keeps getting large and larger, has anyone else seen this? TIA

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Antony 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (He/They) @remylebeau.co.uk · Nov 18

If fellow BlueSkyers were like me and used to love TweetDeck back in the day, I'd really recommend @deck.blue to bring back that column view and general vibe.

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Corey Sparks @coreysparks1.bsky.social · Nov 16

Also curious about the large book of spells in the foreground....

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Corey Sparks @coreysparks1.bsky.social · Nov 16

Just deactivated my Twitter account, it was a really productive and fun place a few years ago, now it's a dumpster fire