#StatsPubs No matter how many times you read it, this paper on hierarchical GAMs keeps giving. Clear model explanations together with R code (mgcv). So useful!
doi.org/10.7717/peer...
Thanks for writing @ericjpedersen.bsky.social, D. Miller, @gsimpson.bsky.social @noamross.net
Sooo #rstats, I built a thing...
Deploying R shiny to your own cloud server is still too hard in 2026.
Lightbulb.is is my answer - connect to your digital ocean account, click to create a server, and point it at a shiny GitHub repo.
That's it - spend the time you save making your customers happy!
Hi #stats folks! Curious about how GAMs work behind the scenes? I've put together a shiny app to demonstrate how changing the coefficients for basis functions for a smooth affects the final fitted smooth and the penalty. Looking for any feedback on the UI! 206.12.100.5/gam-basis-de...
While Congress ultimately sets budgets, the president's budget request is a signal of priorities - and unfortunately for the #GreatLakes, the current proposal would zero out several critical NOAA programs such as the Great Lakes Observing System (GLOS) www.interlochenpublicradio.org/ipr-news/202...
📣 Check out Great Lakes Aquatic Tissue Analysis Repository (GLATAR) - a repository containing energy density, proximate composition, stable isotope, thiamine, fatty acid, and contaminant data for fish and aquatic inverts in the Great Lakes and North America. Link below:
GLATAR.org
#ecology
#rstats
📣 the Great Lakes Aquatic Tissue and Analysis Repository (GLATAR) - a data repository containing energy density, proximate composition, stable isotope, thiamine, fatty acid, and contaminant data for fish and aquatic inverts in the Great Lakes and North America. Check it out at GLATAR.org
#ecology
A lot of folks aren’t distinguishing clearly between “AI figured X out” and “AI helped write code that enabled us to figure X out”. They are very very different.
The R install you never knew you needed
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Did #TidyTuesday this week for the first time in many years 🥹 and posted about it over on @weare.rladies.org!
I am excited beyond description to lift the veil on what we have been working on in 2026:
Please meet ggsql! A new extension of the SQL language for creating visualisations using the grammar of graphics. Read all about it in the blog post or visit the website at ggsql.org