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Nelson Amaya Durán @nelsonamayad.bsky.social · 28d

Bravo Brazil!

Nelson Amaya Durán @nelsonamayad.bsky.social · Sep 10

Awesome forthcoming 2026, not sold on the cover.

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Nelson Amaya Durán @nelsonamayad.bsky.social · Sep 3

I've been waiting years for somebody to put this together, all the pieces were already there.
This is amazing and this team deserves an applause.

John Paul Helveston @jhelvy.bsky.social · Aug 29

Excited to announce that our paper with @pingfanhu.bsky.social and Bogdan Bunea on our #rstats package {surveydown} is now published in @plosone.org

The paper compares the benefits of using a code-based approach to survey design, leveraging #quarto and #shiny

journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

surveydown: An open-source, markdown-based platform for programmable and reproducible surveys

This paper introduces the surveydown survey platform. With surveydown, researchers can create surveys that are programmable and reproducible using markdown and R code, leveraging the Quarto publicatio...

journals.plos.org

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Nelson Amaya Durán @nelsonamayad.bsky.social · Aug 18

LLMs are killing the consulting industry, which should tell you everything you need to know about both.

Nelson Amaya Durán @nelsonamayad.bsky.social · Aug 13

I love how junior psychologists are not even trained on simple logistic regression but are expected to analyse multiple ordinal variables at once.

Nelson Amaya Durán @nelsonamayad.bsky.social · Aug 3

Just finished @tomchivers.bsky.social “Everything is predictable”.

5 stars because it manages history of science and intuition better than any other book on Bayesian analysis.

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Nelson Amaya Durán @nelsonamayad.bsky.social · Jul 18

Exactly what I was looking for! Thanks Sharon :)

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Nelson Amaya Durán @nelsonamayad.bsky.social · Jul 18

So Colbert is out in May 2026? So many interesting possibilities.

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Nelson Amaya Durán @nelsonamayad.bsky.social · Jul 17

Great Tomasz, thanks!

Nelson Amaya Durán @nelsonamayad.bsky.social · Jul 17

@t-kalinowski.bsky.social how does ragnar work inside of shiny? I'm playing around with ellmer, querychat and ragnar but can't seem to get the chat to properly call the tool registered when deployed to the shinyapps.io server.

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Nelson Amaya Durán @nelsonamayad.bsky.social · Jul 15

Awesome, ragnar is very very cool and will surely get even better in the future.

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Nelson Amaya Durán @nelsonamayad.bsky.social · Jul 11

“Art 11. Las firmas encuestadoras deberán cumplir con las leyes de la estadística. Si no lo hicieren, responderán civil y penalmente por sus actos cuando corresponda.”

Lawmakers in Colombia think the law of large numbers is a law, that if not followed, can lead to a pollster to prison.

Nelson Amaya Durán @nelsonamayad.bsky.social · Jul 11

The partner senator of presidential candidate in Colombia just passed a law banning all presidential polling for the next elections. How on earth is this legal?

Nelson Amaya Durán @nelsonamayad.bsky.social · Jul 7

I just made a querychat+ellmer+ragnar+shiny dashboard to parse through a database. This combo will be a very big deal soon.

Nelson Amaya Durán @nelsonamayad.bsky.social · Jul 5

😔

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Nelson Amaya Durán @nelsonamayad.bsky.social · Jul 5

Ese señor Saade está loco.

Nelson Amaya Durán @nelsonamayad.bsky.social · Jul 3

I can almost see the Calvin & Hobbes 3-grid panel

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Nelson Amaya Durán @nelsonamayad.bsky.social · Jul 1

Called it statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu

Nelson Amaya Durán @nelsonamayad.bsky.social · Jun 9

Qué desolación ese atentado, difícil no sentir desesperanza de que todo se revierta.

Nelson Amaya Durán @nelsonamayad.bsky.social · Jun 7

Increíble esta señora sola con 3 por 5 horas en un tren, todo bajo control. Se merece un aplauso.

Nelson Amaya Durán @nelsonamayad.bsky.social · Jun 4

This:

Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · Jun 4

Amazing account of ChatGPT's sycophancy and confabulation on steroids.

amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...

Diabolus Ex Machina

This Is Not An Essay

amandaguinzburg.substack.com

Nelson Amaya Durán @nelsonamayad.bsky.social · Jun 3

love it! Very nice, traceable and clean display

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Nelson Amaya Durán @nelsonamayad.bsky.social · Jun 3

very cool, how does the table in the sidebar work? Does it take the chat input in the text option of the ragnar_retrieve function and then wrangle a table?

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Nelson Amaya Durán @nelsonamayad.bsky.social · Jun 2

We were just parameters all along.

Nelson Amaya Durán @nelsonamayad.bsky.social · May 31

Have more Wayne Coyne in your life