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erincoo-psych.bsky.social
Our team developed a scale to measure subjective perceptions of one's own status as it relates to the perceived racial economic hierarchy. We think there are a lot of interesting research questions that could be asked with this measure! authors.elsevier.com/a/1kxIg-CmV5...
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👋Happy to do it for free if I can make it double as a lab/project for our students! Last semester we scraped recipes from the web to automate my grocery lists and make recipe cards. It'd be nice to have a more meaningful example. Email the details! 8]
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chadtopaz.bsky.social
It's today! Please join me for a broadly accessible talk—Counting on Justice: Data, Race, and the Criminal Legal System—online at 2:30 ET. Abstract is in screenshot below and full deets are at:

math.msu.edu/events/semin...

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Tens of millions of people in the United States have been directly impacted by the criminal legal system, with nearly half the population affected through close familial or social ties. Beyond its direct harm, the system’s opacity makes it difficult to pinpoint where that harm occurs. Echoing civil rights pioneer Ida B. Wells—who stated, “The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them”—this talk will demonstrate how data science can support racial justice. It will feature case studies spanning various scales and stages of the criminal justice system, including policing in Williamstown, Massachusetts; the use of criminal risk algorithms, such as those in Broward County, Florida; and criminal sentencing in federal district courts, including the first known analysis of sentencing patterns among Trump-appointed judges. These examples highlight the critical role of data science in fostering transparency and advancing justice.
datascicollab.bsky.social
Why not just add HTML output? You can create the HTML as a character object and output it that way. shiny.posit.co/r/reference/...
datascicollab.bsky.social
Some of this was already recommended, but atchwork, rayshader (@tylermorganwall.bsky.social), and gganimate would be good! Also, it could be interesting to do some mapping using tidycensus (‪@kylewalker.bsky.social)!
datascicollab.bsky.social
Do you have a source for the data? This would make a cool example plot for our ggplot shiny app that supports bubble plot!
shiny.colgate.edu/apps/Collabo...
datascicollab.bsky.social
This is cool! We're working on a suite of shiny tools for standard statistical approaches. We'd love to hear what you think!
shiny.colgate.edu/resources.html
datascicollab.bsky.social
We find that using our data summary app can help create a really good starting ggplot that can be polished further (using the underlying R code which is available in the app). This is especially true for things like doughnut or mosaic plots. shiny.colgate.edu/resources.html
datascicollab.bsky.social
We provide an easy-to-use shiny app that helps users create such plots without the steep learning curve of a new programming language! See that and our other resources here: shiny.colgate.edu/resources.html
datascicollab.bsky.social
Maybe I'm grumpy because I use rcpp often and switching back and forth in the same code is not fun!
datascicollab.bsky.social
You can use mathjax to present LaTeX and that should work. If you have a service you use (like digital ocean), it's not too hard to build out your own shiny server to do whatever you want using tutorials like this: www.digitalocean.com/community/tu...
datascicollab.bsky.social
How has no one said that it starts indexing at 1 instead of 0?
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chadtopaz.bsky.social
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datascicollab.bsky.social
Are the data publicly available? I didn't see a file in the preview at the journal article. We're always looking for good examples!
datascicollab.bsky.social
Are you comparing patients and clinicians or just one altogether? Our summarizing data app can do either. Try out a bar plot, mosaic plot, or doughnut plot!
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chadtopaz.bsky.social
It’s tomorrow!!! It’s justice-y! It’s quant-y! It’s communit-y! It’s free-y! Please attend and share!! #EduSky #AcademicSky #iteachnath #rstats #mtbos
chadtopaz.bsky.social
To educators in math, stats, data science, comp sci, or related fields: You asked how to incorporate social justice into your courses. We’re answering. Join our drop-in hours starting Tuesday, Nov 19. Sign in with an institutional email. Zoom link in the first comment. Spread the word!
Flyer titled 'Teaching Math & Data Science with Social Justice' with QSide co-founders Jude Higdon and Chad Topaz. It invites educators interested in integrating social justice topics into math, data science, and other quantitative classes to drop-in sessions. These sessions are held on Zoom every Tuesday from 2-3pm ET and every Friday from 11am-12pm ET. The flyer encourages participants to join with an institutional email, and a Zoom link is provided in the description.
datascicollab.bsky.social
We love Rayshader! What a great package!
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While y'all are at it, check out Adam Cunningham's probability playground (www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~adamcunn/pr...).

Self-plug: We have two workable apps for probability: one for doing probability computations and one for resampling/sampling distributions (shiny.colgate.edu/resources.html).