ASA Fellow; #rstats developer of graphical methods for categorical and multivariate data; #datavis history of data visualization; #historicaldatavis; Milestones project
Web: www.datavis.ca
GitHub: github.com/friendly
Michael Friendly
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I'm on holiday, Leucate Plage 🇫🇷, my favourite spot in the universe.
Decided to write some blog posts on Beach Science: lying on a beach towel, considering interesting scientific questions.
Here's the first:
friendly.github.io/blog/posts/2...
A new post in the Beach Science series: Warm-Up Exercises for the Beach Scientist
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Before any good Beach Science can begin, the researcher must calibrate. Four exercises for becoming properly horizontal, attentive, and curious.
The practice of lying on a beach towel and allowing fundamental scientific questions to bubble up from the sand and sea around you.
friendly.github.io
"Yankee Doodle" was a ditty (Roud 4501) that predated the American Revolution & was adapted by both British and Americans to mock one another. To mark the 250th anniversary, Trump birthday & #NoKings protest we've made a 2026 arrangement, where you can find the lyrics: themarshfamily.bandcamp.com 🎶
I recently had to make a static photo gallery with #QuartoPub and used PhotoSwipe (which is neat!) so I decided to plugin-ize it to make it easier to use elsewhere, so behold, quarto-static-photo-gallery! andrewheiss.github.io/quarto-stati...
And a joyous read!
Michael Friendly
Here's a #statsmeme I sometimes use to talk about simplistic, uncritical outlier rejection rules
But there's another size of the coin: Sometimes the unusual data is a true discovery
The Marsh Family
I just ignore packges without a detailed README or vignette, no matter what they promise in the DESCRIPTION.
Michael Friendly
I wrote detailed guidelines for acceptable / not AI use for my #psy6136 grad course on Categorical Data Analysis.
I was generally quite pleased with the results.
friendly.github.io/psy6136/assi...
Michael Friendly
Michael Friendly
Andrew Heiss
This makes me SO HAPPY! This is what I want people to do! See tidytuesdayR on CRAN for relatively easy dataset submissions! dslc-io.github.io/tidytuesdayR...
In May, 40 of the 323 new CRAN packages had no README file, no vignettes, and no URL linking to a repository 🤔
In the newsletter: "Twenty years of Hans Rosling's famous TED talk": openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/twenty-yea...
#dataViz #infographics #DataVisualization #dataJournalism
openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com
Celebrating the transformative power of joy and epiphany
✨ New project! ✨
Mapping the hidden infrastructure which connects to >70% of plants, extends root networks up to 100x and reaches a length of 1 BILLION times the distance to the sun 🤯
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi!
Learn all about them here:
a-hidden-infrastructure.spun.earth
w/ @spun.earth 💚
It’s time to start thinking about how to change my MSc data skills assessments for next year. Last year they did 4 output reproductions (write code to make an output given raw data) of increasing complexity. The marking was too much and AI use prevents learning.
psyteachr.github.io/reprores-v5/
