When I saw the date on the original I almost fell off my ergonomic office chair 😭 m.youtube.com/watch?v=5anL...
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Ben Harrap
Профиль Vivelydoer of data things at Yardhura Walani vice president of statsoc.org.au I do #rstats, surveys, biostatistics, #IDSov on Ngunnawal and Ngambri lands not Indigenous, non-binary (they/them) benharrap.com
📢🇦🇺 Australian National University is recruiting a continuing Senior Data Scientist 👩💻🧑💻 Bring your statistical expertise and help turn data into meaningful university-wide insights 📊 📅 Apply by 23 Aug 2026 23:55 AEST #Statistics #StatsJobs jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/senior-...
I'm so happy to announce version 2.0.0 of my #Rstats package WeightIt is out on CRAN! New features: censoring weights, multilevel propensity scores, improved weights for continuous treatments, bias-reduced ordinal and multinomial models, M-estimation in subgroups Check out the website below!
On Thursday, I'm giving the last of the 2026 Ihaka lectures on "Spotting the weird ones" (about anomaly detection using #rstats). It's an honour to speak at something named after Ross Ihaka. It will be live-streamed for those who can't be there. www.auckland.ac.nz/en/science/a...
Ihaka Lecture Series – University of AucklandThe Ihaka Lecture Series is an annual event hosted by the Department of Statistics which presents the latest research about statistics and computer science.www.auckland.ac.nzOne of my pet peeves: People are obsessed with seeing/plotting error bars while also being confused about what they should represent. blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/the-error-...
there are a lot of philosophical concepts that get egregiously misused out of the seminar room (and in the seminar room, to be fair). but in terms of sheer pernicious misuse "social construct" has gotta be top 5 somewhere and it's not number 5
Scott BryanChannel 4 has announced documentary “The Great ADHD Myth?” It “seeks to determine whether ADHD is a genuine neurodevelopmental disorder, or a social construct.”
Our keynote speaker for #WOMBAT2026 will be the unusual Rob Hyndman on anomaly detection. You don't want to miss this outstanding event. wombat2026.numbat.space #Statistics #RStats #DataScience
Watch @nrennie.bsky.social's Ihaka Lecture about data viz and creativity on YouTube if you missed the live/streamed version tonight youtube.com/live/fAiyiE8...
The idea that there's an easy abundance of free resources to learn to code is laughable once you've done what I've done and been a VP of research at a company that helped thousands of people break into tech careers. There's an abundance of *beginner tutorials*
Recently graduated with your doctorate in statistics, econometrics, or a related discipline? Interested in being in an environment supportive of open source software? Then this position (careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...) might be for you, and we want you! #rstats 🐨🦘
Job Searchcareers.pageuppeople.com🎉 Delighted to be one of the 2026 Eureka Finalists! Huge congratulations to all other finalists! Thanks so much to my nominators for your support @nicolewhite.bsky.social, David Price, Lizzie Korevaar, @jesskasza.bsky.social, Julie Simpson, Sabine Braat and Ximena Camacho! @mischhub.bsky.social
Australian Museum Eureka PrizesToday is the day! The Australian Museum is proud to be celebrating 58 individuals and teams across Australia who are leading the way in research & innovation, leadership, science engagement and school science. #EurekaPrizes
He fit the same statistical models with three different software and got much different estimates. It’s another dimension of the multiverse. statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/07/27/5...
He fit the same statistical models with three different software and got much different estimates. It’s another dimension of the multiverse. | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Scie...statmodeling.stat.columbia.eduAre you referring to this? There's the creating citable articles part of the quarto docs. quarto.org/docs/authori...