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minedogucu.com • teaching stats & data science by day • reading and writing stories by night • she/they/o/او • views my own • datapedagogy.com • bayesrulesbook.com • ailurophile • bibliophile • cinephile 📍 Los Angeles
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📚Coming soon: Chapters from our open-access book "Hello Data Science," based on our intro courses across three institutions!

📦 Today, we’re releasing the early version of the #rstats package with datasets. Find it on GitHub (on its way to CRAN): github.com/hellodata-sc...
a hex shaped logo with green, pink, and yellow scatterplot points in the background. There is text that reads Hello Data Science
January 12, 2026 at 4:16 PM
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This week's vibes.
An XKCD cartoon of two stick figures talking to one another while sitting across one another at a desk, each one with their laptop. Figure A says "Answering email is the worst It just leads to getting more email". Figure B responds "Yeah, email is a trap". They continue on working and then Figure A says "I bet the reason the ancient romans got so much done was that they had no concept of inbox zero" Figure B "That explains it"
January 8, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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Now that I have finished my last book of the year I can share my year in books.
Goodreads 2025 Year in Books 10,637 pages read 41 books read Shortest Book 76 pages Longest Book 572 pages Average book length in 2025 259 pages. Most shelved book is Educated and least shelved book is biz ise yalnizca arabalardik My average rating in 2025 4.3 Highest Rated on Goodreads is the book Washing My Mother’s Body with 4.58 average
January 1, 2026 at 4:08 AM
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Finally got to buy my friend’s book. Looking forward to reading it.
Book cover that reads National Bestseller American Teenager. How Trans Kids are Surviving Hate and Finding Joy in a Turbulent Era. Nico Lang. “A necessary work of patient, dodged reportage.
December 30, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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I love finding random and unexpected vinyls. At the back it says “The music heard here, recorded in Anzahar, Olukman, and Tülünk villages in the province of Sivas in south-eastern Turkey...” 1972 USA release
Vinyl cover with an illustration of a man playing a traditional flute and two men playing two string instruments. They are sitting out in the fields with the village further away in the background. The text reads Turkish Village Music recorded in Turkey by Laxmi G. Tewari
November 24, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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It is a beautiful rainy day in LA.
November 14, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Today I paid for a time machine to take me to my teen years 🥹
Vinyl of The Cranberries called Stars the best of 1992-2002
November 9, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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I have lived in many places and have experienced many different traditions. The most meaningful for me has definitely been The Day of The Day. Thank you LA for bringing this tradition to our lives. Thinking of my mother, aunt, grandparents - today and always. Siempre en mi corazón 🫀
The Day of the Dead offerings decorated on the floor of a park. A painting with La Catrina (skeleton) on the backdrop. A large skull in the center on the floor with marigolds around it.
November 1, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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I know I am late to watching The Big Bang Theory but if anybody had told me that Sheldon Cooper is a Bayesian I might have done it sooner.
A projected scene that shows a man in front of a whiteboard which has the Bayes’ rule on it. The scene is paused and the information reads The Big Bang Theory S4 E2: The Cruciferous Vegetable Amplification.
October 31, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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If you are interested in #dataviz you might possibly like the winners of the @amstatnews.bsky.social K-12 poster competition. Some posters are so adorable!!!

🥇 K-3 winner!
📊 Screen Time Fun: Are Your Eyes Happy Too?
🔗 magazine.amstat.org/wp-content/u...

🏆: magazine.amstat.org/blog/2025/08...
October 18, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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#datascience folks might find this podcast episode interesting.

BBC Witness History episodes are also quite short!
September 29 The birth of the Excel spreadsheet Witness History
October 16, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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We got to listen to Mahler’s “Resurrection“ performed by LA Phil tonight. Mahler is one thing, Symphony No 2 is another thing, and LA Phil conducted by Dudamel is yet another thing. I will leave this quote by Mahler here for the night 🖤
"Why have you lived? Why have you suffered? Is it all some huge, awful joke? We have to answer these questions somehow if we are to go on living-indeed, even if we are only to go on dying!" These are the questions Mahler said were posed in the first movement of his Symphony No. 2, questions that he promised would be answered in the finale.
October 12, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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Last night I got to see Jafar Panahi after the screening of It Was Just An Accident. Thank you @amcinematheque.bsky.social.

We have the original movie poster of Panahi’s White Balloon from 1995 hanging on our living room wall. Big fan of him! Glad that his visa problem was resolved.
Jafar Panahi and his translator on stage, sitting on chairs and holding microphones.
October 8, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Mama’s Visit, Acrylic on paper, 30 x 22.5 in, 2025 by @mortkhakshoor.bsky.social

This one has a very special place in my heart.
A brown man with a mustache wearing a white shirt and dark pants has his hands in his pocket. The white fabric of the shirt has dark shades at every fold. There is a colorful hummingbird facing the man’s chest, almost his heart. The hummingbird has her wings wide open.
October 2, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Yes, I did buy a book solely based on its title.
First page of a book that reads I Married an Artist, Billy Button, The Ryerson Press Toronto Canada. There is an illustration of a woman sitting on a chair and holding her head while covering her face. It’s giving “what have i done?” Impression.
September 27, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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A billboard sign that reads Dear trans ppl, LA likes you very much ❤️
September 20, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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Buying a hummingbird feeder was definitely the best purchase of the summer. Why didn’t we do this earlier?!
An orange-brown hummingbird feeding off a red feeder An orange-brown hummingbird is just chilling on a feeder, looking up.
September 14, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Many years ago when I bought my first car, I only had one CD in it: Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra conducted by Gustavo Dudamel. We listened to the CD billion times. Years later we moved to LA and found Dudamel as the conductor of LA Phil. It is his final season in LA. He sure will be missed!
CD cover of young musicians wearing sportsy jackets with Venezuelan flag seated in an orchestra setting. Dudamel is the conductor. The cover reads Fiesta Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela Gustavo Dudamel Billboard that has a photo of Dudamel and reads Gracias Gustavo. Don’t Miss Dudamel’s Final Season.
September 14, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo as (half) depicted by Mohsen on this lovely Monday morning.
A orange cat laying down on a green oriental carpet. His body goes from lower right corner to the upper left corner with his paws pointed towards the upper left corner. He is fluffy, adorable, and super relaxed.
September 8, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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I came to the States in Aug 2005 for my bachelor’s. One of my first classes was a stats class. The prof asked us to ask our classmates how many states they visited & make a visualization of the distribution. Everyone was shocked to hear I’d only been to MA. “I just arrived last week” I kept saying.
August 18, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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The best bookstore in LA is truly The Iliad.
A cat on a short stool standing like an Egyptian statue.
August 14, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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For LA folks who might like a painting show. My partner has a few pieces (3?) in this group show and we will be at the opening on Aug 16 at 6 pm. Feel free to say hi if you happen to be at the opening and like that sort of interaction.

www.kohngallery.com/exhibitions-2
August 2, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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I spent about a minute subtracting 2007 from 2025 to prove Google Photos wrong when it reminded me that I was in India 18(!!!) years ago. Kerala is certainly one of the best places I have ever visited.
A woman drinking coconut juice from a fresh coconut. She is wearing a really bright orange and pink long skirt. There are two cars parked behind her on the sides of a road in the midst of a lot of greenery.
July 21, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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I need this as my email signature.
A post it note that says “Please hesitate to contact me”
July 16, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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1000th movie gets to be Coco on a tiny airplane screen.
July 14, 2025 at 3:23 PM