Jack Kennedy 🐀 @_jcken@social.cleverlibre.org

Our first #DataScience career profile is up @rwdatasci. #DataScientists - if you want to share your career story (so far), do get in touch.

https://realworlddatascience.net/careers/career-profiles/posts/03/28/tamanna-haque.html

It is time for #TidyTuesday somewhere.

Code: https://github.com/mvbloois/tidytuesday

#dataviz #rstats

⏰ | #TidyTuesday

Local time of most countries is ahead of solar time (especially in the northern hemisphere). Countries behind the sun are mostly around the equator.

🔗to #Rstats code at https://github.com/BjnNowak/TidyTuesday/blob/main/SC_TimeZone.R

{ggsound} first prototype

ggplot(mtcars) +
geom_point(aes(mpg, wt)) +
theme_sound_basic()

#RStats #soundon

What's good practice these days for testing #rstats packages before submitting to CRAN? R-hub and Winbuilder are great but don't always run successfully and aren't reproducing some errors reported by CRAN.

A reminder that this is happening today! 🎨 🎨 🎨

Join me and R-Ladies Cambridge to talk about colour palettes in #RStats!

Register: https://www.meetup.com/rladies-cambridge/events/291905265/

#RLadies

If you use #RStats in your research, making sure your research is reproducible is really important 💡💡💡

These slides from Etienne Bacher about good practices to improve reproducibility will be very useful!

https://www.good-practices.etiennebacher.com/#/title-slide

It's time for #TidyTuesday again! Thanks to @jmcastagnetto for sharing the data this week from the Programming Language DataBase 💻💻

I plotted the lifespan of the top 10 languages for 3 different ways of writing comments!

Code: https://github.com/nrennie/tidytuesday/tree/main/2023/2023-03-21

#RStats #R4DS #DataViz

#MapPromptMonday inspired by Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures album cover

Maps show that the population is more concentrated in the capital, Paris, in France than in other countries

#RStats code : https://github.com/BjnNowak/TidyTuesday/blob/main/SC_Joyplot.R

📢 The March North East #DataScience meetup is here! 📢

Tomorrow (March 16th) we'll be welcoming Rebecca Bristow (Oliver Wyman) and Giacamo Bergami (Newcastle University) to the Catalyst, and look forward to a whirlwind tour of ggplot2 workshop from Keith Newman!

https://meetup.com/newcastle-upon-tyne-data-science-meetup/events/291615728/

#RStats

The bests stats commentary category for this year's Journalism Awards recognises excellent statistical contributions to the public debate by non-journalists.

Other awards (for #journalists) are:
Data Visualisation #DataViz
Explaining the facts
Investigative Journalism

✍️Nominate by 20 March - either self, or of someone else's work!
Work published in 2022, in English anywhere in the world. (2000 words/10 mins max)
Info: https://rss.org.uk/training-events/events/excellence-awards/journalism-awards/

#RoyalStatisticalSociety #RSSJournalismAwards.

Mixing #TidyTuesday with vegetation index from multispectral images (the kind of data I use most frequently at work!) to test if numbats distribution is related to vegetation, at national and local scale. Answer in plot below...

#RStats code https://github.com/BjnNowak/TidyTuesday/blob/main/SC_numbats.R

@_jcken @mcmc_stan There seems to be a lot of use of Stan in the industry. The first two examples that come to my mind are Pharmacometrics ---we have some examples in Section 1.1 of this paper (https://ascpt.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/psp4.12812); and forecasting in tech, notably via the software Prophet (https://facebook.github.io/prophet/) built on top of Stan.

Ethiopian Language Sentiment analysis for #TidyTuesday : religious terms are mostly tweeted in a positive way, whereas the opinion of others is poorly considered...

#RStats code at https://github.com/BjnNowak/TidyTuesday/blob/main/SC_language.R