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Cristiano Varin
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Professor of Statistics at Ca' Foscari University (Venice). Jazz Lover.
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David Firth @firthstat.bsky.social · Aug 26
At next week's RSS conference I'll be presenting a poster (a first for me...it's about time!)

"Tetraplot displays of UK General Election results" shows how to graph GE 2024 vote shares across 4 parties in a useful way.

Full PDF poster at:
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Image of a poster to be presented at the Royal Statistical Society conference in Edinburgh, September 2025. The main point is to generalize the idea of a ternary plot to handle 4-part compositions, by showing views through the triangular faces of a tetrahedron. The data shown are vote counts from England, Scotland and Wales in the UK General Election of July 2024.
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David Firth @firthstat.bsky.social · Sep 4
Poster, and #rstats package for drawing tetraplots, are at github.com/DavidFirth/t...
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Royal Statistical Society @royalstatsoc.bsky.social · Aug 5
Following the dismissal of Erika McEntarfer as US Commissioner of Labor Statistics, we've released a statement of concern.

At a time of global economic uncertainty, we stress the importance of the independence of statistical institutions and the protection of the integrity of official statistics.
A statement from the Royal Statistical Society on the dismissal of the Commissioner of Labor Statis
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Dirk Eddelbuettel @eddelbuettel.com · Jul 20
Last book I read was the eminently enjoyable "Three Shades of Blue" by James Kaplan. Been years since I read a Miles biography sonice to get back to all this--with superb related context about all this jazz.

And #chicago folks: This Friday Fitzgeralds in Forest Park has a 'Kind of Blue' tribute.
Cover of the book "Three Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans and the lost empire of cool" by James Kaplan with a cool nightime picture of a dressed-to-the-nines Miles Davis smoking under a streetlight.
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Nina @nina-75.bsky.social · Jul 15
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R.Messinese @scrivoperte.bsky.social · Jul 15
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Cristiano Varin @crisvarin.bsky.social · Jun 27
Lalo Schifrin (June 21, 1932 – June 26, 2025)
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Cristiano Varin @crisvarin.bsky.social · Jun 22
My first jazz listening! was among my dad's records, the only jazz in his collection. Blue 7 still gives me the shivers today
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Cristiano Varin @crisvarin.bsky.social · May 26
I am very happy to share our new paper "Consistent and Scalable Composite Likelihood Estimation of Probit Models with Crossed Random Effects" with Ruggero Bellio, Swarnadip Ghosh and Art Owen. Thrilled that the paper will be published in the prestigious Biometrika academic.oup.com/biomet/artic...
Consistent and Scalable Composite Likelihood Estimation of Probit Models with Crossed Random Effects
Abstract. Estimation of crossed random effects models commonly requires computational costs that grow faster than linearly in the sample size N, often as f
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Cristiano Varin @crisvarin.bsky.social · May 17
"Il nostro paese, negli ultimi anni, ha fatto grandi passi avanti, peccato che tutti gli altri vanno in macchina."
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Matteo Bordone @matteobordone.bsky.social · May 16
Ah, muoiono più donne? Ma dai!
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NPR @npr.org · May 15
Since abortion became almost entirely illegal in Texas in 2021, the state has seen a significant rise in the number of women who die in pregnancy or after giving birth. A new bill aims to change that.
A Texas abortion ban sponsor aims to clarify when doctors can do the procedure
Since abortion became almost entirely illegal in Texas in 2021, the state has seen a significant rise in the number of women who die in pregnancy or after giving birth. A new bill aims to change that.
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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · May 12
Ever wondered why some charts are more effective and engaging than others?

I’ll be going through all the theory, evidence and principles behind compelling data storytelling from this Wednesday.

Free to watch for anyone who is interested: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-fundam...
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · May 10
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Cristiano Varin @crisvarin.bsky.social · May 11
On this date. Richard Feynman born 1918 in New York.

“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”
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Ben Harrap @bharrap.bsky.social · May 6
One of my favourite #ggplot tricks is wrapping long axis labels so they don't take up so much space on your chart

Image 1 - Without wrapping
Image 2 - With wrapping
Image 3 - Code

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A graph with rodent names on the y-axis, where the labels are all on one line A graph with rodent names on the y-axis, where the longer labels are spread over two lines R code used to generate the graph with the labels spread over two lines msleep |> filter(order == "Soricomorpha") |> ggplot(aes(x = sleep_total, y = name)) + geom_point() + scale_y_discrete(labels = function(x) str_wrap(x, width = 18)) + theme_bw()
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𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐡𝐞𝟗𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 @topofthe9ines.bsky.social · May 3
Miles Davis, backstage at Shrine Auditorium, 1950
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