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Nicholas Vietto @nvietto.bsky.social · 16d

#TidyTuesday Week 38 - FIDE
Took what I know about ELO ratings and made a beeswarm 🐝 to compare Masters and players (like me) near the 1000 ELO mark. Also added a reference section to my script to 'cite' what scripts I looked at. Maybe it'll catch on
#Rstats #dataviz
Code github.com/nvietto/Tidy...

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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 21d

The Pac-Man Rule should be adopted at all conferences and meetups - it's so much more welcoming!

Also an excellent use of a pie chart! 📊

Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 22d

Remember the Pac-Man Rule! Leave a gap for people to join your conversation!

#PositConf2024 #RStats

Remember the Pac-Man Rule. Invite new people into your groups, make new friends, and build a community full of people who feel included.

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 28d

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN.

It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package.

Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

ggplot2 4.0.0

A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.

www.tidyverse.org

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Nicholas Vietto @nvietto.bsky.social · Aug 27

so cool

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Emil Hvitfeldt @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · Aug 13

Excited to share my newest quarto revealjs plugin: imagemover

Easily reposition and resize images directly in your quarto revealjs slides for a much smoother slidecrafting experience

github.com/EmilHvitfeld...
#quarto

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Nicholas Vietto @nvietto.bsky.social · Jul 31

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · Mar 20

I’ve long used FiveThirtyEight’s interactive “Hack Your Way To Scientific Glory” to illustrate the idea of p-hacking when I teach statistics. But ABC/Disney killed the site earlier this month :(

So I made my own with #rstats and Observable and #QuartoPub ! stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way/

Screenshot of the linked Quarto website, with input checkboxes to change different conditions for a regression model that predicts economic performance based on US political party, with a reported p-value

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Nicholas Vietto @nvietto.bsky.social · Mar 21

Here’s a fun extra credit assignment I made that uses R/Posit Cloud for generative art with {aRtsy}. I’ve used it in stats, methods, even crim theory. Students love it. I do a mini art show before the final lecture lol. Feel free to use it!

#academicsky #rstats

nvietto.quarto.pub/extra-credit...

Extra Credit - Generative Art with {aRtsy}

nvietto.quarto.pub

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James Goldie @jamesgoldie.dev · Mar 17

I’ve been using the new gradients and patterns in #rstats and #ggplot2 quite a bit for recent package, so here’s a deep dive! Everything from the basics of using gradients in your plots through to sophisticated visual effects.

jamesgoldie.dev/writing/stac...

The guide to gradients in R and ggplot2 – James Goldie

Visualising data and building things for fun and for change. #climatehealth → #datajournalism

jamesgoldie.dev

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · Mar 10

Curator: @jonthegeek.com
@dslc.io welcomes you to week 10 of #TidyTuesday! We're exploring Pixar Films!

📁 https://tidytues.day/2025/2025-03-11
🗞️ https://erictleung.com/pixarfilms/articles/pixar_film_ratings.html

#RStats #PyData #JuliaLang #DataViz #tidyverse #r4ds

TidyTuesday is a weekly social data project. All are welcome to participate! Please remember to share the code used to generate your results!
TidyTuesday is organized by the Data Science Learning Community. Join our Slack for free online help with R and other data-related topics, or to participate in a data-related book club!

How to Participate
Data is posted to social media every Monday morning. Follow the instructions in the new post for how to download the data.
Explore the data, watching out for interesting relationships. We would like to emphasize that you should not draw conclusions about causation in the data.
Create a visualization, a model, a shiny app, or some other piece of data-science-related output, using R or another programming language.
Share your output and the code used to generate it on social media with the #TidyTuesday hashtag.

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Nicholas Vietto @nvietto.bsky.social · Mar 9

Will start contributing regularaly to #tidytuesday again, once I finish this nightmare dissertation blah.

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Nicholas Vietto @nvietto.bsky.social · Mar 3

I'm currently working through a dissertation section that involves describing gradient descent, and Josh Starmer's explanation is by far the clearest I've come across. And I had a great ML teacher, but his explanation is a simple and straightforward, highly recommend.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDv4...

Gradient Descent, Step-by-Step

YouTube video by StatQuest with Josh Starmer

www.youtube.com

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Nicholas Vietto @nvietto.bsky.social · Feb 25

Got this in my email today from DrivenData, seems like a useful resource if you're looking for data science positions that center on helping fix social and environmental problems.

#datascience #dataBS

drivendata.co/blog/where-t...

Where to find a data job for a good cause

Finding data jobs for good causes can be difficult. Learn strategies, job lists, and tips to find organizations with open positions working on causes you care about.

drivendata.co

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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · Feb 12

tried downloading kafka’s diaries but there was a bug

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Nicholas Vietto @nvietto.bsky.social · Jan 22

New pub up! We examined how associations between measures of the autonomic nervous system and psychopathic traits differ across stress tasks.

Thank you to everyone who helped us recruit participants for this study!

Data and code:
github.com/nvietto/Repl...

www.crimrxiv.com/pub/q7z2nfny...

Differences in Associations Between Autonomic Nervous System Activity and Psychopathic Traits Across Stress Paradigms and Measures

Vietto, N., Armstrong, T.A., Schroll, D.M. et al. Differences in Associations Between Autonomic Nervous System Activity and Psychopathic Traits Across Stress Paradigms and Measures. J Psychopathol Beh...

www.crimrxiv.com

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The Hollywood Reporter @thr.com · Jan 14

As A24 re-releases the Colman Domingo Oscar contender #SingSing in movie theaters this week, the indie studio is also making the film available to nearly a million incarcerated people across the U.S. bit.ly/4hfud9f

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Łukasz Langa @lukasz.langa.pl · Jan 5

#genuary5 prompt: Isometric art.

It's game of life. History goes down. I've seen a visualization like this last year and wanted to recreate it.

Made with #PyScript:
ambv.pyscriptapps.com/genuary-prom...

#genuary2025 #genuary #GenerativeArt #CreativeCoding #WebGL #Python

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Detroit Lions @detroitlions.bsky.social · Jan 6

Back. To. Back.

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Nicholas Vietto @nvietto.bsky.social · Dec 21

Hmm. That could be pretty cool. I might have to give that a try next time around.

Nicholas Vietto @nvietto.bsky.social · Dec 21

#TidyTuesday Week 51 - Dungeons and Dragons Spells

Couldn't pass up the chance to do a D&D TidyTuesday. Thanks @jonthegeek.com for curating this dataset!

Code: github.com/nvietto/Tidy...

#Rstats #dataviz

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Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · Dec 19

Very proud to announce that @posit.co has joined the opensourcepledge.com. We're committing to spending $2000 / developer / year to support open source software that we use (but don't develop): posit.co/blog/posit-p... #rstats #pydata

Open Source Pledge

Our companies feast year after year at the Open Source table. It's time to settle up.

opensourcepledge.com

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Nicholas Vietto @nvietto.bsky.social · Dec 19

Oof. I'm late to the party here, but if you could add me I'd appreciate it. Thanks!

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · Dec 16

@dslc.io welcomes you to week 51 of #TidyTuesday! We're exploring Dungeons and Dragons Spells (2024)!

📁 https://tidytues.day/2024/2024-12-17
🗞️ https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1804-start-playing-today-with-the-2024-d-d-free-rules

#RStats #PyData #JuliaLang #DataViz #tidyverse #r4ds

The cover of the Dungeons and Dragons Free Rules from the website dndbeyond.com. The tagline at the top calls D&D the World's greatest roleplaying game. The image shows a wizard with white hair and a red robe casting a spell, with a pair of sword-wielding allies nearby. They're battling a wyvern, a dragon-like creature with a scorpion's tail.

A bar plot of D&D Spell Power. Number of spells available at each level for each class. Spells are counted by level, from cantrip, which is level 0, and then 1 through 9. Columns are grouped by class, with paladin having the fewest total spells available, and wizards having the most. Wizards have the most spells available at every level except for cantrips, where they're barely edged out by sorcerers. Only warlocks, clerics, druics, bard, sorcerors, and wizards have spells above level 5. Paladins and Rangers only have spells at levels 1 through 5.

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Nicholas Vietto @nvietto.bsky.social · Dec 13

This is happiness. Can't wait

IGN @ign.com · Dec 13

BREAKING: CD Projekt has unveiled The Witcher 4 with a six-minute trailer that confirms Ciri as protagonist. bit.ly/3Zy0WiX

#TheGameAwards