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Flexible Imputation of Missing Data, Second Edition

Some resources that might have what you're looking for.

Flexible Imputation of Missing Data (van Buuren) stefvanbuuren.name/fimd/
{mice} vignette on sensitivity analysis (Vink, van Buuren) www.gerkovink.com/miceVignette...
R-miss-tastic - general resource site rmisstastic.netlify.app

Why do the Japanese like their buns askew (2026)

A Unified Dashboard and Orchestrator for Quality Checks¶ Unit tests · Data validation · Linting · Spelling Run every quality check on your project using a single command: unit tests, data validation, linters, spell checkers. Scrutin watches for edits, figures out which checks are affected, and re-runs them in parallel. Drill into a failure to see the expected and actual values, as well as the relevant source code. Use quick keystrokes to fix linting and spelling issues, or to open files in your editor of choice.

🚨 #RStats and #PyData devs!

I'm looking for β testers for this thing I just built: A unified dashboard + orchestrator for code and data quality checks.

It has lots of neat features and I'm super eager for feedback and bug reports.

Check out the video demo:

vincentarelbundock.github.io/scrutin/

Excellent tweetorial by @ericjpedersen.bsky.social on Simon Wood’s new Neighborhood Cross Validation smoothness selection method, which is especially useful when fitting data with temporal and spatial dependence among observations

I've been working with NCV this last week; it's a powerful tool for modelling data with dependencies that are poorly/inefficiently modelled via stochastic process priors like cov functions or low-rank smoothers. However, it's a complex topic, so I thought I'd summarize the key ideas in a thread 1/n

"We rate dogs. This is obviously a large golden squirrel. While this squirrel does have impressive oral capacity, please send only dogs."

Yup. That's it. Thanks!

I think I'm wrong. I must've been thinking of "When good pseudorandom numbers go bad" but that's not really what you're looking at.

I feel like this topic got the @djnavarro.net treatment, but I can't find the article. Maybe I'm misremembering.

I don't think so, but perhaps {dm} (dm.cynkra.com) or {DBmaps} (cran.r-project.org/web/packages...) can do something similar (i.e. entity-relationship modeling).

Good. Hopefully he identifies one or two that could take over next season. Then he can take some of that qb-allotted cash and spread it over this recruiting class.

The "C" styling just about ruins anything they can come up with. It's just an eyesore that's hard to get past.

🗺️ Bivariate choropleth maps blend two colour scales to show the spatial relationship between two variables. It easier now with improved support in tmap -- see a blog post by David O’Sullivan.

geospatialstuff.com/posts/2026/0...

#RStats #RSpatial #DataViz

Hard core #Rstats parents

He had a pretty strong reverse split last season. Playing him mostly against lefties doesn't make a lot sense if that's what they're doing.
vs R: 244 AB,13 HR, 16 2B,.275 AVG
vs L: 95 AB, 1 HR, 1 2B, .232 AVG

A macOS desktop showing two windows side by side. On the left, a Finder window displays the contents of a "portable-r-4.5.3-macos-arm64" folder, with a directory tree expanded under "library" revealing subfolders like base, boot, class, cluster, codetools, compiler, datasets, foreign, graphics, grDevices, grid, and jsonlite (which is expanded to show CITATION, DESCRIPTION, doc, help, and html items). On the right, a Terminal window (zsh shell) shows commands for downloading and extracting Portable R 4.5.3 for macOS ARM64 from GitHub using curl, verifying the R home directory with Rscript, and installing the jsonlite package. The terminal output confirms jsonlite was successfully downloaded (1.1 MB) and installed, with the final line printing {"portable":true} to verify the portable configuration is working.

Making #rstats portable on #macOS has been the community's Sisyphean boulder since 2009.

Now, download a tar.gz, extract, run from:

github.com/portable-r/p...

Signed, notarized, 4.3.0 - 4.5.3.

Blog: blog.thecoatlessprofessor.com/programming/...

Screenshot of a Windows 11 desktop showing portable R in action. A PowerShell terminal displays the full workflow: curl downloading the portable-r-4.5.3-win-x64.zip from GitHub, tar extracting it, R.home() returning C:/Users/ronin/Desktop/portable-r-4.5.3-win-x64, and install.packages successfully installing jsonlite with the output {"works":[true]}. Behind the terminal, two File Explorer windows show the portable-r-4.5.3-win-x64 folder on the Desktop alongside the zip file, and a second Explorer window browsing the library subfolder where the jsonlite package folder is highlighted among 31 installed packages.

Need #rstats on a #Windows machine where you can't run an installer? Locked-down workstation, USB drive, embedded app?

It's 2026. You just need a URL:

github.com/portable-r/p...

R 4.3.0 - 4.5.3, x64 + ARM64. install.packages() works.

Blog: blog.thecoatlessprofessor.com/programming/...

Screenshot of the Artemis II tracker showing the path it will take to get to the Moon and back

You can keep track of Artemis II's progress here: artemistracker.com

Explore live radio by rotating the globe Explore live radio by rotating the globe.

Your periodic reminder that there is a website that lets you listen to local radio stations anywhere in the world

This is honestly one of the coolest inventions ever, imo. Global access to hyper-local imagined communities

"the Hoosiers have nowhere to go but down after going 16-0"
Or they could stay the same 😈

Looks like he's going to need some diva taken out of him after all.

Seems a little bearish on my Reds. Your model doesn't seem to take into account the resurgence of McLain that's about to happen ;)

Also hyperparameter tuning; overview and guidance on performance metrics; and a couple on explainable AI

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
arxiv.org/abs/2412.10288
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
academic.oup.com/ehjdh/articl...

There's a 3 part series of papers on model evaluation that's available.
www.bmj.com/content/384/...
www.bmj.com/content/384/...
www.bmj.com/content/384/...

van Kesteren also has a nice coded (R and Python) walkthrough.
arxiv.org/abs/2509.11741

There was a data science contest a few years back on twitch that was awesome. One of the Robinson (dan, don?) brothers won a nice nvidia gpu. Not sure why it only went one year.

OH. MY. GAWD.

Screenshot of Kagi's translation tool translating "I got a new job" into "LinkedIn speak," producing an overly enthusiastic corporate-style announcement with superlatives, gratitude, and a rocket emoji.

Not sure how we went from plain, straightforward words to LinkedIn speak but now you can use Kagi Translate to fit right into that crowd:

translate.kagi.com?from=en&to=L...

There's an annoying bug in RStudio for markdown tables (default table creation method) in qmds. When opening qmd file in visual mode, it slightly changes the formatting each time causing git to detect a change. Hopefully this new way becomes the default method and the bug goes away.