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Noah Greifer @noahgreifer.bsky.social · Apr 24

Thinking about odds ratios...

An odds is a ratio of events to non-events. For example, if the event is survival, the odds of survival is the number of survivors per death. If the event is getting a disease, the odds is the number of diseased individuals per healthy individual.

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Peter EJ Kemp @peterejkemp.bsky.social · 12d

they trained 7,400. But unclear where they are

Peter EJ Kemp @peterejkemp.bsky.social · 14d

A lot of global variables in a function called setup using: <<-

Peter EJ Kemp @peterejkemp.bsky.social · 14d

+1 I use message!

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Peter EJ Kemp @peterejkemp.bsky.social · 16d

surely number of adherents aren't important here? There are many examples of majorities that don't have power or agency.

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Jess Hamer @drjessicahamer.bsky.social · 21d

New paper: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Children’s Perception of the World of Technology: Through the Lens of Heidegger - Philosophy & Technology

Analysis of student engagement with technology has mainly focused on physical and mental health, predominantly overlooking deeper philosophical issues. Through the analysis of four focus groups (child...

link.springer.com

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Peter EJ Kemp @peterejkemp.bsky.social · 20d

New article: Children’s Perception of the World of Technology: Through the Lens of Heidegger

Children found technology distracted them from connecting with nature, relating to others and themselves

@drjessicahamer.bsky.social
supported by @nuffieldfoundation.org
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Children’s Perception of the World of Technology: Through the Lens of Heidegger - Philosophy & Technology

Analysis of student engagement with technology has mainly focused on physical and mental health, predominantly overlooking deeper philosophical issues. Through the analysis of four focus groups (child...

link.springer.com

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Kathryn Boast @kathrynboast.bsky.social · 27d

Teachers! Send us your computing girls!

Online - so all welcome
Please share 👇
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/unloc...

@crestem.bsky.social @peterejkemp.bsky.social @drjessicahamer.bsky.social @jobrodie.bsky.social

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Peter EJ Kemp @peterejkemp.bsky.social · 26d

is it easier in flextable that gt?

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 27d

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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Peter EJ Kemp @peterejkemp.bsky.social · 28d

The figures include ICT, but yes, the computer driving license would explain some of this. It's odd though, as the subject is a foundational one, alongside PE, so you'd expect some general provision for all kids, which seems to have completely disappeared.

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Peter EJ Kemp @peterejkemp.bsky.social · Sep 8

Depends on the subject, KS3 computing has seen a 20% decline in hours, from from 4.3% of curriculum time to 3.1%. Did @beckyfrancis.bsky.social mention computing? KS4, far far worse.
scari.sites.er.kcl.ac.uk/cpre/chapter...

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · Aug 25

If you are preparing your bachelor statistics course and would like to add optional material for students to better understand statistics on a conceptual level (see topics in the screenshot) my free textbook provides a state of the art overview. lakens.github.io/statistical_...

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · Aug 25

Like this?

# Main text

```{r}
#| label: appendix-thing
#| eval: false
#| include: false

# Here's some plot that I make up in the text, but don't want to show yet

plot(1:10)
```

# Supplemental material

Now I'll show the plot:

```{r}
#| label: thing-shown-later
#| ref.label: appendix-thing
```

Rendered version of that qmd with a plot shown later in the document

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Peter EJ Kemp @peterejkemp.bsky.social · Aug 25

Thanks for getting back, Sharon. Do you have the code to share?

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Peter EJ Kemp @peterejkemp.bsky.social · Aug 23

This is really interesting! Can you add a weekly trend line? Looks like a slight decline. But bsky is down across the board iirc

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Prof Andy Field @profandyfield.com · Aug 20

I’m about halfway through this update (first 11 tutorials are done). I think they’re a lot better. Using a consistent @easystats.github.io workflow throughout will - I think - massively reduce the cognitive load for students. Looking forward to road testing in autumn term.

Prof Andy Field @profandyfield.com · Feb 10

Probably no-one except me uses my R tutorials in their teaching, but if you do, I'm re-writing them over the next 6-9 months. My goal is to streamline them based on 5 years of using them in class, but if you have (polite) requests/suggestsions let me have them. www.discovr.rocks/discovr/

discovr: a package of interactive tutorials | discovr

Statistics education

www.discovr.rocks

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Daniel Gutierrez @ddgutierrez.bsky.social · Aug 12

When teaching at UCLA, I always start with this principle: “All models are wrong, but some are useful.” The key is knowing how a model is wrong—bias, variance, scope—and when it still adds value.

#DataScience #MachineLearning #AI #RStats

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Mid terms are November 3rd 2026. Go register voters. @randvegan.bsky.social · Aug 6

Today is my annual reminder that read_csv() is vectorized and you can just pass a vector of file paths and it will read and append the datasets.

No need to use map or for loops to read in multiple files.

#rstats

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Peter EJ Kemp @peterejkemp.bsky.social · Jul 28

US CS degrees 1964-2022, female uptake getting better for bachelor degrees (peak 1984), MA and PhD have never been as well balanced as now (from a low base) #rstats #DataScience #python #csed #edusky

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Jul 24

when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet

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Ewan Carr @ewancarr.bsky.social · Jul 24

Running a workshop tomorrow on reproducible workflows in R at the King's Open Research Summer School.

📽️ Slides: ewancarr.github.io/reproducible-r
👩‍💻 Practical: ewancarr.github.io/reproducible-r/practical

Mildly terrified that Git on Windows will be my downfall—but we'll see. 😅

#rstats #opensci

Reproducible workflows in R

ewancarr.github.io

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Peter EJ Kemp @peterejkemp.bsky.social · Jul 24

For beginner programmers tidyverse seems to be a much easier starting point.

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Peter EJ Kemp @peterejkemp.bsky.social · Jul 10

Copilot integration in rstudio is really helpful when you can never remember how to rotate the text on the X axis of a ggplot!

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Charlie Gao @shikokuchuo.net · Jul 10

#tidyverse purrr 1.1.0 is out - now with parallel processing!

Scale your #rstats map operations reliably and efficiently across multiple cores and even distributed systems.

Powered by the mirai framework, this unlocks new levels of performance.

Read more at:
www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/07...

Parallel processing in purrr 1.1.0

The functional programming toolkit for R gains new capabilities for parallel processing and distributed computing using mirai.

www.tidyverse.org

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