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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social · 14d

#rstats #meme
Sometimes, all I want is a histogram....

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Jun Yang @jun-yang.bsky.social · Sep 4

PhD openings at University of Copenhagen (statistics and maths of insurance and econ, deadline Nov 15th)
employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...

PhD stipends in Statistics and the mathematics of Insurance and Economics at the Department of Mathematical Sciences

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Johan Larsson @jolars.co · Aug 15

I have turned qualpal, which generates qualitative color palettes for categorical data, into a web app! It has support for multiple inputs, supports extending existing palettes, and provides analysis of the results.

Please try it out at qualpal.cc!

#qualpal #color-palettes #cpp #r #cli

Qualpal

Automatic generation of qualitative color palettes

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Mathurin Massias @mathurinmassias.bsky.social · Jun 18

New paper on the generalization of Flow Matching www.arxiv.org/abs/2506.03719

🤯 Why does flow matching generalize? Did you know that the flow matching target you're trying to learn *can only generate training points*?

w @quentinbertrand.bsky.social @annegnx.bsky.social @remiemonet.bsky.social 👇👇👇

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Typst @typst.app · Jun 3

We want to thank Posit for their support! With Posit’s help, we were able to grow our team by one full time engineer, committed to make the Typst compiler even better ❤️

Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · Jun 3

At Posit, we love @typst.app:

⚡ Make PDFs in milliseconds, not minutes
✨ The power of LaTeX with today's technologies
✍️ Modern typography (including emojis!)
🧠 Clear mental model

So I'm thrilled to announce that we're now supporting its development: posit.co/blog/posit-a...

#rstats

Posit

We’re happy to announce that we’re supporting Typst by funding one of their full-time engineers.

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Mathurin Massias @mathurinmassias.bsky.social · Apr 14

I had a blast giving a summer school on generative models at AI Hub Senegal, in particular flow matching, with @quentinbertrand.bsky.social and @remiemonet.bsky.social

Our material is publicly available !!! github.com/QB3/SenHubIA...

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · Apr 8

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

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hi, no thanks @hmmvryintrstng.bsky.social · Apr 2

james surowiecki has discovered where the completely fabricated trump tariff rate has come from for each country

"...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."

Just figured out where these fake tariff rates come from. They didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us.

So we have a $17.9 billion trade deficit with Indonesia. Its exports to us are $28 billion. $17.9/$28 = 64%, which Trump claims is the tariff rate Indonesia charges us. What extraordinary nonsense this is.

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Johan Larsson @jolars.co · Mar 28

www.lusem.lu.se/article/luse... 🥳

LUSEM’s best thesis award 2024 goes to Johan Larsson

Lund University. Selected by the College of Doctoral Studies, this recognition highlights the exceptional quality and impact of Johan Larsson's research. The award, which includes a monetary prize of ...

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Neovim @neovim.io · Mar 26

#neovim 0.11 is out!

- List of notable changes since 0.10: neovim.io/doc/user/new...
- Summary blog post: gpanders.com/blog/whats-n...
- Release binaries: github.com/neovim/neovi...

Thank you all for the support! More things to come in 0.12!

News-0.11 - Neovim docsNeovim

Neovim user documentation

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Johan Larsson @jolars.co · Mar 26

My old department at Lund University is hiring a PhD student in statistics! The department is small but filled with lots of nice people.

lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

PhD position at the Department of Statistics

The Department of Statistics employs about 15 researchers, teachers, doctoral students and other staff. We conduct research in several areas: analysis of high-dimensional data, Bayesian methods, spati

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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social · Mar 25

The perennial #maps vs #charts debate rages on
(New Yorker 03-24-25)

"We have too few treasure maps and far too many org charts"

Pirates standing around a table with a chart displayed. Caption: "We have too few treasure maps and far too many org charts"

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Johan Larsson @jolars.co · Mar 18

Excited to be part of the Cramér Society’s virtual mini-conference next Monday (13:00–16:00), alongside @marfig.bsky.social, @mathurinmassias.bsky.social, @mansmag.bsky.social, and Ulrike Schneider! Hope you’ll join us!

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#statsky #statistics

Mini-conference on "Optimization and algorithms in sparse regression" | Statistikfrämjandet

This years winner of the Cramér prize for best doctoral thesis in statistics/mathematical statistics is Johan Larsson (LU), with his thesis Optimizatio ...

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Bluesky @bsky.app · Mar 13

worldwithoutcaesars.com

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Frank Harrell @f2harrell.bsky.social · Mar 9

Dive into stat modeling&applications, relaxing assumptions, predictive accuracy, preserving information, imputation, model validation, Bayesian models, causal specification+many controversial topics: Regression Modeling Strategies course May 15-16, 19-20 hbiostat.org/doc/rms/4day.html #StatsSky

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Ben Casselman @bencasselman.bsky.social · Mar 4

UPDATE: The Commerce Department has terminated the Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee (FESAC) and several other outside committees that advised the statistical agencies. #EconSky

Ben Casselman @bencasselman.bsky.social · Mar 4

Comments from Howard Lutnick, the secretary of Commerce, and Elon Musk have renewed concerns that the Trump administration could interfere with federal economic statistics.
with @colbylsmith.bsky.social #EconSky
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/b...

Lutnick Remarks on Removing Government Spending in GDP Data Raises Fears (Gift Article)

Howard Lutnick, the commerce secretary, suggested government spending should be excluded from data about U.S. economic output.

www.nytimes.com

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Johan Larsson @jolars.co · Mar 4

I have been looking for something this to go along with release-please, great job! It would be great if this could be triggered by normal releases too.

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James Balamuta @coatless.bsky.social · Mar 4

Tired of manually submitting #rstats 📦 to CRAN?

Check out my experimental #GitHubActions workflow that automates submissions when you create a pre-release! Especially helpful for packages with compiled code.

Post: blog.thecoatlessprofessor.com/programming/...
Code: github.com/coatless-r-n...

GitHub release page for testpkg 0.1.0 marked as a pre-release, showing the repository assets including source code in zip and tar.gz formats. This is the "trigger" that kicks off the automated GitHub Action workflow responsible for submitting the R package to CRAN.

Once CRAN accepts the package, switch the pre-release to a full release. (Note, this will NOT cause a re-submission of the package!)

GitHub Issue Ticket showing the status of the release from the GitHub Actions release and next steps.

Email confirmation from CRAN for the testpkg 0.1.0 submission that was automatically submitted with a GitHub Action workflow, containing a confirmation link and submission details for the package maintainer.

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Johan Larsson @jolars.co · Mar 4

Finally a fast formatter for R!

Davis Vaughan @davisvaughan.bsky.social · Mar 4

Air (our extremely fast R formatter!) now has official documentation for both Neovim and Helix, thanks to our awesome community (Tamás Plaszkó, Philippe Massicotte, @mmuecke.bsky.social, and Tymoteusz Makowski)!

Neovim: posit-dev.github.io/air/editor-n...
Helix: posit-dev.github.io/air/editor-h...

Davis Vaughan @davisvaughan.bsky.social · Feb 21

@lionelhenry.bsky.social and I are so excited to finally announce Air - an extremely fast R code formatter! 🎉

With Air, you'll never need to worry about styling your #rstats code ever again. All you need to do is save, and Air takes care of the rest.

www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/02...

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Peter Dalgaard @pdalgd.bsky.social · Feb 28

R version 4.4.3 "Trophy Case" (source version) has been released. (You can find it in cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-4/, or wait for CRAN to be updated.)

This coincides with as-close-as-we-can-get-to 25 years since the release of R 1.0.0.
#rstats

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Charlie Gao @shikokuchuo.net · Feb 19

Momentous occasion for mirai! After @hadley.nz merged the PR that makes mirai power parallel purrrr in the tidyverse a week or so ago, it's just been added as an official cluster type in base R (4.5) 😲. #rstats

github.com/wch/r-source...

Add 'mirai' as a cluster 'type' for makeCluster(). From Charlie Gao in · wch/r-source@453e768

PR18587 git-svn-id: https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk@87757 00db46b3-68df-0310-9c12-caf00c1e9a41

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · Feb 16

I like that he posted a picture of a print-out of the email.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Feb 16

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · Feb 10

I didn't watch but it is my understanding that Drake lost the Super Bowl

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Julien Mairal @jmairal.bsky.social · Feb 11

Two particularly inspiring figures were present at the AI & Democracy event organized by Make.org yesterday: Svetlana Tikhanovskaïa, a leading opponent of dictator Lukashenko, and Audrey TANG, Taiwan’s cyber ambassador and former minister of digital affairs. The entire room was blown away.

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Johan Larsson @jolars.co · Feb 5

I won an award for best PhD thesis in statistics in 2024 (in Sweden)! 🥳

(Link is in Swedish, but I've written about the thesis before here: jolars.co/blog/2024-05...)

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#statistics

Cramérpriset 2025 går till Johan Larsson | Statistikfrämjandet

Cramérpriset utdelas årligen för bästa doktorsavhandling till en person som disputerat i statistik/matematisk statistik under det gångna kalenderåret. Detta ...

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