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Jorge Ruiz-Cabrejos @jruizcabrejos.bsky.social · 14h

"Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time I had an h-index of, like, 27"

@charliejgardner.bsky.social

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Jorge Ruiz-Cabrejos @jruizcabrejos.bsky.social · 7d

"The promotion and creation of good health, even more than the treatment of illness, demands that art and science work from and with each other."

Visualising relationships between the arts and health

The American photographer Irving Penn (1917–2009) described a good photograph as one “that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it”. This photo...

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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 27d

when the editor asks if you will revise and resubmit

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Jorge Ruiz-Cabrejos @jruizcabrejos.bsky.social · 28d

"I am not saying it is not causal though" is a great catchphrase I should use more often.

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 29d

A study in Nature Climate Change suggests that global warming may be associated with an increase in added sugar intake in the form of sugar-sweetened drinks and frozen desserts in the US, especially among more socioeconomically disadvantaged groups. go.nature.com/41Gch2u 🧪 🍎📃

This is figure 1, which shows the effects of temperature on added sugar consumption.

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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 29d

There was lots of data to play with for #TidyTuesday this week where we're looking at the power of different passports! ✈️

I decided to try out the idea of using small multiples and highlighting to untangle a spaghetti chart with lots of lines 📊

#RStats #DataViz #ggplot2

Chart showing how rankings of passports have changed over time, split by region with top one in each highlighted. European are ranked high, and UAE has had a dramatic rise.

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Jorge Ruiz-Cabrejos @jruizcabrejos.bsky.social · 29d

(They arrived like 2 weeks ago but I wasn't around to recieve them oops)

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Jorge Ruiz-Cabrejos @jruizcabrejos.bsky.social · 29d

The hex stickers have arrived! :)

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · Jan 8

TIL Microsoft Word still has fun patterned gradients that you can use in bar charts. This will improve my dataviz so much now!

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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social · Jul 30

📊 #rstats This seems to break new ground in uncertainty visualization. The map example is compelling, and extends to other area-based #dataviz.

There's a good graph perception study here for someone comparing this to other uncertainty vizzies like blurr, ...

Egor Kotov 🌐🏃‍♂️🚊🚋🚙 @ekotov.pro · Jul 29

The cool things you sometimes find in the CRAN submission queue. harriet-mason.github.io/ggdibbler/ a new package to visualize uncertainty. #rstats

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David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · Jul 28

It’s one manuscript, Michael. How many typos could be in it?

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Jorge Ruiz-Cabrejos @jruizcabrejos.bsky.social · Jul 25

"Consider getting more sleep"

Aman Bhargava @aman.bh · Jul 24

Can a README file become a "dashboard" with #dataviz? Maybe.

My web design module has students submitting daily journal entries as Github Issues, which means I can use the API and Github Actions to do all sorts of neat stuff. Simple processing and throw in some ASCII charts, you have a live dash.

A README file screenshot showing various headings. There is an 'Entries' list showing a list of days and topics. This is followed by a bar chart showing distributions of when entries are added, noting that students stay up much too late. A simple line chart below this section shows the "mood" of the class, with days on the X axis and a line showing the sentiment trend.

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Blas M. Benito @blasbenito.com · Jun 26

When you hate #ggplot

Tan G. @tangandhara.bsky.social · Jun 25

Just discovered SportsBall on Instagram, where the guy behind the account produces really interesting sports #dataviz. This one is about Faith Kipyegon’s attempt to break the 4-min mile tomorrow.

www.instagram.com/_sportsball

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The Economist @economist.com · Jul 19

America could suffer some 42,500 excess deaths annually by 2034 as a result of Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill, researchers estimate. That is more people than currently die of breast cancer

Quantifying Trumpcare

Researchers estimate the Big Beautiful Bill could result in 42,500 excess deaths a year

econ.st

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Jorge Ruiz-Cabrejos @jruizcabrejos.bsky.social · Jul 18

@perulainen.bsky.social

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Jorge Ruiz-Cabrejos @jruizcabrejos.bsky.social · Jul 18

My biggest complain with Obisidian markdown is that it handles images "differently", which makes it extremely annoying when sharing a markdown document with someone not using Obsidian :'(

You would think that a file being .md should work the same across platforms, but nope.

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🎃nisillos @onisillos.bsky.social · Jul 8

It is every researcher’s duty to use indirect prompt injection.

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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · Jun 27

me: there’s nothing worse than opening a blank document

microsoft word: hold my beer

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MetJam @metjam.co.uk · Jun 21

I believe I’ve won at #ShowYourStripes day

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Jorge Ruiz-Cabrejos @jruizcabrejos.bsky.social · May 15

"LARGE amount of the hundreds of millions of dollars that annually are spent for federal construction projects is wasted because the United States lacks adequate maps"

SCIENCE - July 22, 1938

www.science.org

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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · May 14

if we start dating now, we could be editing each other’s drafts by june

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · May 9

Folks, always share your code. It doesn’t have to be perfect to be helpful. And if you feel that it’s still too messy or not sufficiently clean to be shared, you shouldn’t submit yet. After all, there could be mistakes in your mess.

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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · May 9

www.theguardian.com/world/2021/j...
5 years on and we are living with unnecessary airborne infections. Patients are continuing to have elongated stays. Covid continues to cause deaths in vulnerable and each reinfection increases your risk of long covid. We need clean air in our hospitals urgently. 🧵

Cambridge hospital’s mask upgrade appears to eliminate Covid risk to staff

Hospital infection study shows use of FFP3 respirators at Addenbrooke’s ‘may have cut ward-based infection to zero’

www.theguardian.com

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Jorge Ruiz-Cabrejos @jruizcabrejos.bsky.social · May 9

Alright, hear me out:

Discord. The chance of the pope having discord aren't zero.

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