uh oh @downround.bsky.social
Posts by Will Mackey
oh no i just rewatched it because of this. 10/10 cannot recommend.
So much to love in the scrollytelling — the ternary plot, the depth of the data, the findings — but my favourite part is the explanation and the text in general. 📊
Remember, a chart doesn't have to be understood in 3 seconds. It should reward the effort you put into understanding it.
joey why do you hate geom_step
Hey #rstats! There's space in my courses this Thurs & Fri in Brisbane!
Quarto for Scientists
- The art & science of reproducibility, "getting unstuck in R"
- statsoc.org.au/event-6132307
R Package Essentials:
- Function fundamentals, write a package from scratch!
- statsoc.org.au/event-6132303
these are stunning
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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...
in R it is day one. but python day zero. hope this helps
this is such a beautiful story (with beautiful paintings!) by @joshnicholas.com. makes me love Melbourne all over again
that’s right
oh did i say billion? i meant gazillions of rows
(doing grouped window functions on 8 billion rows of data with 16gb RAM from within an #rstats script is wild)
pretty sure i’m becoming a @duckdb.org in R guy
really like this
Hi #rstats friends!
I'm starting consulting! I've had a great journey in academia working with brilliant people, and while it's bittersweet (and a bit scary!), I'm excited for this next step. I'll still be maintaining {greta} and am hoping to be even more involved with the R community.
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I’ve been using the new gradients and patterns in #rstats and #ggplot2 quite a bit for recent package, so here’s a deep dive! Everything from the basics of using gradients in your plots through to sophisticated visual effects.
jamesgoldie.dev/writing/stac...
this is really cool
It is not a rigorous benchmark, but I was curious on how #duckdb duckplyr compares to other data wrangling packages in #Rstats. Turns out, it is pretty pretty fast 🚀.
blog post: blog.schochastics.net/posts/2025-0...
Toad-in-the-hole? ⛳🐸🏌️♂️
Cane toads in Queensland love their local golf course. ⛳
Some golfers take this as a serendipitous chance to drive 🏌️♂️ down their numbers.
Thanks to the {galah} package team for easy access observation data! @rowdynerd.bsky.social @daxkellie.bsky.social. #rstats
that’s coming in 2-4 months. he’ll get his revenge
love parenting
louse up? what the shit is that
you’re Keys’ good luck charm at this point
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incredible
all turned around for Swiatek just as i posted that
👀