doer 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
Ben Harrap
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For context I'm trying to compile a list of my publications and print them in a pretty format on my quarto website.
ORCiD data is patchy, so I've been looking at ways to fill in the gaps.
Any #rstats or #databs people have experience sending DOIs to an API to get publication details back?
Curious if one service is particularly better than another, as I've been looking at ORCiD, crossref, datacite, but happy to hear about any
This is the essence of whiteness. We are *never* judged in light of the worst of us, while everyone else is. If you can't recognize that, wake up!
The eleventh commandment
Can we please stop using first name to infer author gender 😑
Gender isn't binary
Classification performance is worse for non-Anglo names
"Gender neutral" names with probability 0.5 are as likely to be wrong as not
Spending the morning preparing food. Grateful to be able to spend a couple of hours in the kitchen and have people to share the food with
Abstract submissions for the Australian Data Science Network Conference 2026 are open!
The conference is always a great demonstration of the diversity of data science applications - check out the examples
adsnconf2026.netlify.app/abstract
#datascience #statistics #MLAI
Ben Harrap
You probably saw `filter_out()` in {dplyr} 1.2.0 but did you notice `when_any()` and `when_all()`?
Not only is it easier to write conditions, but the usage of commas instead of | and & means formatters like air will align all conditions the same 🤩
#rstats
dplyr.tidyverse.org/reference/wh...
Go read the genderize.io docs! They even provide a case study applying different approaches to a dataset of olympic athletes
At best 1 in 20 assignments is wrong, at worst it's nearly 1 in 10!
Ben Harrap
Terry Tao @teorth.bsky.social has been awarded an AC 🎉(Companion of the Order of Australia) in the Kings Birthday Honours today “for eminent service to the mathematical sciences, to the global mathematics community, and to tertiary education and academia.”
