Northern lights from Lincoln, Nebraska right now

I'm super excited to announce that Anwyn Gatesy-Davis @anwyngd.bsky.social completed their Master's degree at #UNL! Well done and congratulations!

Interested in herding dogs? Stay tuned to find out what factors influence herding dog performance!

Collin Berke is a media research analyst, data enthusiast, and news, sports, and podcast aficionado. He uses data, audience measurement, and marketing research methods to answer questions on how to best reach and engage audiences to enrich lives and engage minds with public media content.

📢 Neb-RUG announcement! 📢
Collin Berke will describe challenges faced and hard truths learned by a small but scrappy data team for the next Nebraska R User Group talk:
Failing Upward with R
3:30-4:40pm CDT Tuesday, May 6
Register at www.meetup.com/neb-rug/even...

#RStats #DataScience

Yihui developed knitr, tinytex, xaringan, and many other R packages while a developer at @posit.co. Yihui embodies the classic xkcd cartoon on Dependency--a Nebraskan maintaining critical R packages that most of us use. Attend his talk to thank him for all of his hard work! (2/2)

#xkcd

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My colleagues in the Department of Ethology at Eötvös Loránd University (Hungary) are conducting a survey of dog owners. So if you are a dog owner, please consider completing their survey at tally.so/r/nPXKPb.
#dogs

Last week, the Nebraska R User Group hosted a presentation by Matt Waite (@mattwaite.bsky.social) on "Talking to LLMs through R". Check out a summary of the talk at neb-rug.github.io/posts/talkin....
#rstats #llms

Dropping my lab's @unlcchil.bsky.social 2024 Wrapped! 🥳🎉
Find out how many dogs enrolled in our database, how many participated in our studies, what our most common dog names and breeds were, and lots of other cool facts about our year!

#dogs #wrapped

📦 {flashr} 0.2.0 is out! ⚡
{flashr} creates flashcards for learning #RStats functions or other things. The new version can extract R functions from R Markdown and #QuartoPub documents, which can be used to create flashcard decks.

Blogpost: jeffreyrstevens.github.io/posts/flashr/

@quarto.org

Interested in upping your ggplot2 game? Check out a blog post on Dr. Heike Hofmann's talk "Extensions to ggplot2 are easy – right?" neb-rug.github.io/posts/ggplot...

This was the inaugural talk for the new Nebraska R User Group. Register for future talks at www.meetup.com/neb-rug/

#RStats #DataViz

📢 I'm excited to announce that my new R package {cocoon} is available on CRAN!

This package flexibly formats statistical output in a way that can be inserted into R Markdown or Quarto documents.

jeffreyrstevens.github.io/cocoon/

#RStats #Quarto @quarto.org

More photos (no cats though)

Northern lights outside of Lincoln Nebraska. Bonus: zoom in to the building roof to spot a mountain lion watching us! 😱

Are you an #RStats user in Nebraska? Join the Nebraska R User Group to meetup with like-minded R enthusiasts! Our kickoff meeting will be 4-5:30pm on Tues, Oct 29 in the Center for Brain, Biology & Behavior at University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Find out more at neb-rug.github.io.
#DataScience #Stats

Ever wonder what a dog is thinking? The ManyDogs Project is an international consortium of canine science researchers using big team science to understand dog behavior and cognition. Find out more at jeffreyrstevens.github.io/posts/manydo....
#dogs #BigTeamScience #OpenScience

🚨 New article 🚨

I'm super excited that our systematic review of impulsivity as a behavioral trait in dogs is out! 🐶

The article is freely available (for now) at doi.org/10.46867/ijc...
Learn more about it on my blog: jeffreyrstevens.github.io/posts/impuls...

#dogs #impulsivity #meta-analysis

Massive study of dog aging likely to lose funding
Organizers hope to save long-running project on canine aging and longevity
doi.org/10.1126/scie...