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terence @tterence.bsky.social · Jun 10

A visualisation of the wine regions of New Zealand three ways.

#rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

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terence @tterence.bsky.social · Jun 4

Shiretoko National Park, Hokkaidō. In lines.

#ggplot2 adventures, an #rstats tale

A visualisation of Shiretoko National Park, Hokkaido, Japan as a series of lines

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terence @tterence.bsky.social · Jun 3

A visualisation of the wine regions of Spain.

#rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · Apr 24

Hive mind, please help me out!

I need a more informative and explicit subtitle for my upcoming #RStats book "Model to Meaning"

The premise is that analysts should often transform coefficient estimates into more meaningful / interpretable quantities like predictions, risk differences, slopes, etc.

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · Mar 20

I’ve long used FiveThirtyEight’s interactive “Hack Your Way To Scientific Glory” to illustrate the idea of p-hacking when I teach statistics. But ABC/Disney killed the site earlier this month :(

So I made my own with #rstats and Observable and #QuartoPub ! stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way/

Screenshot of the linked Quarto website, with input checkboxes to change different conditions for a regression model that predicts economic performance based on US political party, with a reported p-value

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Julian Hoffmann Anton @julianhoffmann.bsky.social · Feb 11

Excited to announce my hands-on & in person workshop: "Introduction to 3D maps and data visualisation with Blender". You will learn how to create memorable 3D visualisations that stand out. #dataviz
Register here: lu.ma/gtg2elht

London Data Visualisation February - Blender Workshop · Luma

If you feel inspired by the visual journalism of the New York Times, winners of the Information is Beautiful awards or the wonderfully crafted graphics of…

lu.ma

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terence @tterence.bsky.social · Feb 12

Retro world map.

#rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

A visualisation of country borders in a 1980s retro style of illuminated green lines

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Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · Jan 27

I've been working on a history of the tidyverse for an upcoming special issue of the Australia/New Zealand Journal of Statistics celebrating 25 years of R. I'd love to get your feedback! What have I missed?

hadley.github.io/25-tidyverse...

#rstats

A personal history of the tidyverse

hadley.github.io

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terence @tterence.bsky.social · Feb 7

Thanks, it's here: zenodo.org/records/7369...

Open database on global coal and metal mine production

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terence @tterence.bsky.social · Feb 7

Yes, I keep forgetting. It's here: zenodo.org/records/7369...

Open database on global coal and metal mine production

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terence @tterence.bsky.social · Feb 7

Mines of India.

#rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

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terence @tterence.bsky.social · Feb 6

Mines of the Americas.

#rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

A visualisation of the mines of the Americas

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · Feb 3

The data at USAID's ForeignAssistance dot gov was removed over the weekend, but it seems to be back (for now). As a backup, I've uploaded the data both as static CSV files and a queryable API

- Details: andrewheiss.github.io/foreignassis...
- API: foreignassistance-data.andrewheiss.com

Screenshot from my backup ForeignAssistance dot gov site, with links to different USAID datasets

Screenshot from a live map that uses data from the backup API

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terence @tterence.bsky.social · Feb 3

A reminder that {modelsummary}, {tinytable}, and {marginaleffects} are Canadian so if you're an American researcher, you'll have to increase your citations of those #rstats packages by 25%, err, next month.

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Daniel Huffman @pinakographos.bsky.social · Jan 29

You know what I haven't done in almost 900 days? A livestream! Join me on YouTube on January 31st at 2pm Central (UTC - 6), where I'll walk through / break down some monochrome maps I made for a forthcoming book.

(And I'll try to remember how live streaming works).

youtube.com/live/KK5rayw...

A video title screen, showing a few snippets of greyscale maps, and giving the video title: Live Carto #18. Project Walkthrough: Maps for Into the Ice. January 31, 2025, 2pm Central.

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Lucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · Jan 31

a bit more #Severance data
please enjoy all analyses equally

👉 lucymcgowan.github.io/mdr-website/

and for my #rstats friends:
👉 lucymcgowan.github.io/mdr/

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terence @tterence.bsky.social · Jan 31

Faros de Canarias.

#rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

A visualisation of the lighthouses of the Canary Islands, Spain

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terence @tterence.bsky.social · Jan 30

Illuminated contours of the Gulf of México.

#rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

A visualisation of the Gulf of México as illuminated contours

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terence @tterence.bsky.social · Jan 30

Happy Lunar New Year!

#rayrender adventures, an #rstats tale

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Anja Neundorf @anjaneundorf.bsky.social · Jan 24

How do autocrats stay in power?

Our new research dives into the strategies of political control—repression, co-optation, and indoctrination—used across 229 autocracies from 1946 to 2010. What we found will change the way you think about authoritarian resilience. 🧵👇

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terence @tterence.bsky.social · Jan 17

Yep, you need at least three windows of 100+ tabs

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terence @tterence.bsky.social · Jan 15

Welcome, Helen!

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helenmakesmaps @helenmakesmaps.bsky.social · Jan 15

Hi I'm Helen and I don't know how Bluesky works! I'll be sharing maps & dataviz that I make and love - as well as tutorials on how to recreate them!

These will likely be interspersed with photos of my enormous cat and/or lunch.

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terence @tterence.bsky.social · Jan 14

Agreed. Kids do love being able to print the photos they take though.

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terence @tterence.bsky.social · Jan 14

Salty dude from ESRI uses popularity to judge the utility of tools. Also fails my freshman methods course with what he thinks science is (hint: it ain't because you use hard objects like pipettes and calipers).

Half-baked trolling attempt; 1.5 out of 5.

A screenshot of a tweet by Joshua Stevens that says:

"R is a niche language and belongs in the past. It perpetuated through academia (largely poli sci and soft sciences), not by virtue of its innate qualities.

The tragedy of R is that many wonderful devs created fantastic libraries, all of which should have been in Python."

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