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Data management is worth the effort. 🙌

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

It always amazes me how much effort goes into making something "simple".

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When you prepare a dataset to share with others, ask yourself: Will other people be able to fully understand this data and be able to use it accurately based on what I've provided to them?

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TIL! ☠️

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

Botany valentine. Another from years past. New one on Monday!

submitted 20 days ago • 47 comments

Look what showed up in front of one of our intertidal cameras. Yes, this is a section of the shore where you can walk during low tide 😀

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

I've been struggling this week with actionButtons in #rstats #shiny. This article unlocked it all for me. Hope it helps someone else out there! shiny.posit.co/r/articles/b...

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Good morning! 🪶

submitted 41 days ago • 13 comments

#rstats and #QuartoPub PSA: @vincentab.bsky.social's {tinytable} is the absolute best table making package out there for LaTeX output (it natively supports tabularray!), and it's phenomenal for HTML. It has fully replaced {gt} and {kableExtra} for me vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/

submitted 47 days ago • 9 comments

Questions about the word "subset", #dataBS 1. You can (and do) use it as a verb, right? 2. What is the past tense?

submitted 71 days ago • 2 comments

life is one giant nested if then statement and then you else

submitted 78 days ago • 12 comments

Had not realized that R (>=4.0, per StackOverflow) provides selective function loading. Nice way to avoid naming conflicts. Instead of barfing a package's entire namespace into your environment when you don't need to: library(stringr, include.only = c("str_extract", "str_remove")) #rstats

submitted 78 days ago • 7 comments

The viridis palettes are great perceptually uniform color maps for #dataviz, but sometimes at the extremes they're too pale/dark. With ggplot and #rstats, though, you can truncate the palette to avoid the paler colors. I wrote a little guide for how datavizf24.classes.andrewheiss.com/news/2024-12...

submitted 85 days ago • 10 comments

There's lots of writing advice out there. How do you know what's good advice and what's just opinionated ranting? scientistseessquirre...

submitted 86 days ago • 2 comments

Reminder for newcomers that bioRxiv has Bluesky accounts in every subject category - great way to keep up (please re-skeet) connect.biorxiv.org/news/2023/09...

submitted 109 days ago • 6 comments

That time I captured a badger flying through the air like Super Man, officially getting more hang time in one leap than all of the other badgers I've ever seen, combined.

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

I would love love love to connect to more Research Software Engineers! This is quite #rstats heavy currently, but is open to all of any level! go.bsky.app/4kfWypW

submitted 99 days ago • 26 comments

Trying something new: A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?" It's lots of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social 🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...

submitted 99 days ago • 79 comments

Zotero is great and I think that anyone who needs to organise and cite more than a handful of references should be using it. Here's an intro to Zotero that I made for my undergrad students (but the info is relevant for anyone new to Zotero). Full vid [13 mins]: youtu.be/SlUHjOqVCyU Preview ⬇️

submitted 104 days ago • 27 comments

I make a lot of silly data management memes so I decided to drop them all in a github repository, in case anyone ever wants to use them. 🙃 github.com/Cghlewis/dat...

submitted 105 days ago • 3 comments

In clinical research, you will often receive feedback on study design, stats, and/or data analysis from an editor or reviewer that is simply wrong. Here is a list of common "statistical myths" and references you can use to push back. discourse.datamethods.org/t/reference-...

submitted 107 days ago • 48 comments

#rstats #stats 📊 A new delightful #dataviz ggplot-based graphics book just dropped: Antony Unwin's _Getting (more out of) Graphics_, bit.ly/4hzmfc6.

submitted 113 days ago • 0 comments

Also, the trick to having an interesting bluesky experience is to follow people from all sorts of time zones because otherwise you get these disappointing waves of people becoming inactive at certain points of the day

submitted 116 days ago • 6 comments

Caturday. (We're not the only people who just toss packing paper into a pile for the cats to play in, right?)

submitted 117 days ago • 1 comment

THE SIMPSONS PARADOX

submitted 120 days ago • 5 comments

I heard data people are actually congregating here now! Nice to see all you folks!

submitted 121 days ago • 0 comments

And while I'm at it -- did I mention that I run an #rstats feed collecting all posts (excluding replies) from everyone on the site containing the words "rstats", "rladies", or "rspatial"? It works most of the time! bsky.app/profile/did:...

submitted 470 days ago • 1 comment

Just had somebody reviewing some of my code say "the documentation is impeccable" and honestly that's such an amazing compliment 🤗

submitted 489 days ago • 1 comment

Very exciting: I'm far enough along with my newest (co-written!) book that I can share some details. "Helping Students Write: Strategies for Mentoring Early Career Writers in the Sciences" - coming your way soon! scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2023/10/10/h...

submitted 506 days ago • 3 comments

Wisdom. Just get the rough ideas out. It’s much easier to revise. Almost no one can spew out perfection. And be prepared to throw out entire sections. Don’t be one too attached to your writing.

submitted 515 days ago • 1 comment