"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 just ignore packges without a detailed README or vignette, no matter what they promise in the DESCRIPTION.
Beautifully done!! Kudos 👍
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...
But history tells us this was once the default in the time of Playfair. X was always time. You could use several Ys to show how wages were related to the price of wheat, annotations to show wars and monarchs…
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...
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
Michael Friendly
Michael Friendly
Michael Friendly
Michael Friendly
Andrew Heiss
Michael Friendly
Michael Friendly
Michael Friendly
Jon Harmon (he/him/his)
In May, 40 of the 323 new CRAN packages had no README file, no vignettes, and no URL linking to a repository 🤔
Just how bad is a dual y-axis chart? I’m trying to explain that it’s one of the strongest rules in #dataviz but haven’t gotten further than the relative scaling is arbitrary & it implies correlation that may not be there.
✨ 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 💚