Important post on the "cooptation of science reform by anti-science actors"
Jeff LockhartI wrote about science funding, science reform, and anti-science agendas. scatter.wordpress.com/2026/07/31/s...
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Michael Friendly
Профиль VivelyASA Fellow; #rstats developer of graphical methods for categorical and multivariate data; #datavis history of data visualization; #historicaldatavis; Milestones project Web: www.datavis.ca GitHub: github.com/friendly
#rstats My take: rownames(df) was the original mechanism for labeling obs. All base R knew this, so plot(lm(y~x, data=df)) did the right thing (outliers, influence plot) for obs. deserving to be noticed. tidyverse changed that, perhaps rightly so, but the auto-labeling aspect was largely lost.
Mid terms are November 3rd 2026. Go register voters.so anyone use the rownames attribute often in #rstats? curious if there are any advantages or conveniences that this attribute brings?
A recent post on the `gt` #rstats package helped me tweak the handling of multi-column stubs in color_table() in the {vcdExtra} package. Only on friendly.r-universe.dev for now. Before After
Strong claim here: "Ordinal models are virtually as efficient as parametric ones even when parametric model assumptions are met" What's not to like?: "In a CPM there are as many intercepts as there are distinct y-values, less one. " This deserves some serious study 👍
Frank HarrellAnother new blog article, elaborating on ordinal regression within the cumulative probability model family. One general model contains an amazing array of special cases used all the time. Do we need to keep teaching special cases&assuming so much? www.fharrell.com/post/cpm/ #Statistics #StatsSky
#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊 💀Jul 26, 2000 John W. Tukey died in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA 🇺🇸 It is hard to summarize Tukey's impacts on #dataviz, but also on statistical thinking. Looking at your data became COOL See my article: nightingaledvs.com/remembrances...
Remembrances of Things EDA, NightingalePublished for Tukey Day, June 16, the 107th anniversary of John Tukey's birth This article recounts the origins and influences of the movement in...nightingaledvs.comNew #rstats #quarto #dataviz blog post: how do you keep ~670 R code chunks in a book under control? I parsed my book's .qmd files as data to find chunks too wide, shouldn't be shown, or not earning their keep. ➡️Mind Your Chunks friendly.github.io/blog/posts/2... Part of Making of Vis-MLM series
Mind Your Chunks – Michael FriendlyTreating a book’s .qmd source files as data: parsing ~670 R code chunks into a queryable data frame to audit code-folding, and other problemsfriendly.github.ioNice mappy cutting board, but here is a lovely old cheese map of France. France, as it turns out, seems to have been designed for mapping types of cheese, bread, ...
Kenneth FieldDay 206 of #365DaysOfMaps. July 24th is National Wine and Cheese Day. I made a real cheese board a few years ago and filled it with cheese. Here's a digital twin. UK Cheese and Wine (206/365) mapdesign.icaci.org/2026/07/nati...
Snap up a copy at this bargain price!
Juuso Koponen📊 My and @jhilden.bsky.social’s book has been out of print for some time, as our publisher closed down its general publishing arm. We are working on a 2nd edition, but it is not going to be ready anytime soon, so we’re making the current edition available as an e-book for €9.90. payhip.com/b/zbl43
Looks interesting, but it doesn't beat the recordings of the depth of the Nile, Minia/Rawdah Nilometer records (A.D. 622–1921)
Mauricio DrelichmanNew article in early view at RHE-JILAEH! Together with David González-Agudo and Valentina Ramírez, we reconstruct the cost of housing in Toledo between 1489 and 1810. This is one of the longest such series in existence anywhere in the world. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...