As a reminder, you can export data frames to individual spreadsheet tabs using the {openxlsx} package! #rstats

A new version (v1.6) of #tidycensus, your #rstats package for working with U.S. Census Bureau demographic / geographic data, is now up on CRAN! Highlights include: 📊 Full support for the 2022 ACS data, including the 2018-2022 5-year ACS PUMS (just released today!); 📊 Support

If you like my work and think we could learn from each other and have fun doing research together, Marie Curie postdoctoral applications will soon open and my university has wonderful support for writing one. Write me a mail explaining your idea and why we'd match! 1/

New podcast episode on #AI and the #brain. Watch at youtu.be/KA3Vpacfx3I. Thanks to Invisible Machines and UX Magazine.

Are you a current grad student in the Social Sciences looking for internships outside of academia? Here are some paid internships I encountered that could be of interest: linkedin.com/feed/update/ur… #phdlife #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter

It took a few *years* for this to get written and accepted … but it’s a great paper and you should read and recommend it!

Can't believe I get to share this news: #WhyWeRemember has landed on the New York Times Books #bestsellers list in its first week. Thank you again to everyone who made this dream come true!

Study from UC Davis reveals new take on visual development in babies. #NEIfunded Watch the video and read more: bit.ly/3vbKIRs

Infants & toddlers & preschoolers, oh my! Come check out my poster today (P3-150) at #CDS2024 to find out more about what 4-48-month-olds are looking at in naturalistic scenes and how it is changing over age. See below for our published findings on the infant data!

✨New paper co-led w/ Monica Ellwood-Lowe out now! Here we bridge the emerging strength-based science of poverty to developmental cognitive neuroscience, and ultimately towards more humanistic, sensitive, & respectful policies that foster children’s thriving.🪡 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

The hardest part of my job transition so far has been adjusting to my Windows computer. 😭

dplyr::anti_join(), always there to help me quickly figure out who is missing from a dataset.🌟 #rstats

I have added this opinion that power analysis is meaningless to my quick checks if someone lacks expertise in statistics (another quick check is not knowing how p-values are distributed under the null). We power for the smallest effect we care about online.ucpress.edu/collabra/artic…

I would love to organize a symposium for #SRCD25 ! I’m thinking it will be focused on diverse language experiences + cognitive development, broadly speaking. This can include bilingual environments (sign and spoken). Anyone interested let me know 🤩

Looking for a standardized list of steps for cleaning data for the purposes of data sharing? I've got a checklist for you! Each step explained in detail here: datamgmtinedresearch.com/clean#clean-ch…

Introducing Meta Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2) — the first unified model for real-time, promptable object segmentation in images & videos. SAM 2 is available today under Apache 2.0 so that anyone can use it to build their own experiences Details ➡️ go.fb.me/p749s5

🚨 New paper out in Child Development! “Delay of gratification and adult outcomes: The marshmallow test does not reliably predict adult functioning” 🧵 doi.org/10.1111/cdev.1…

Do you like hip hop, data science, or both? If the answer to any of these questions is “yes”, you should check out my first blog post. My goal in starting up this blog is to have fun, flex my data science skills, learn and teach R, and seek answers to real-world questions that

#RStats people, we gotta reign in these package names. It’s difficult enough to explain to a 70+ y/o government IT employee why I need to install a benign R package, it’s harder when the name of that package is {juicyjuice} 🤦‍♂️

I can't remember the last time I renamed variables manually in #rstats. I always use my data dictionary for renaming! That way, if I ever need to update names in the future, I'm only updating once in my data dictionary, not in both my data dictionary and script. 🙌