Any full professor (or equivalent) here who is a fan of my data visualization / GitHub efforts? I'm looking for someone to write me a support letter for visa purposes, specifically on data visualization & my GitHub repositories, e.g., "Friends don't let friends make bad graphs".

This is not a political twitter post. My voice is indeed too little, and, as an non-American, I have "no rights" in the US. I simply want to raise the awareness of current border control situation - It is excessively inhumane and barbaric, and the officers lack proper training.

Wow... This is the most un-American thing I have heard of...

Two cases already? #NAACL2024

Congratulations on the well-deserved retirement, John!

To honor and commemorate Jack Harrell Jr., a celebration of life service will be held this Saturday 7/20/24 at Victory Church in Lakeland, Florida. For more information on the service, donations, & to read Jack Jr.s full obituary, click the link below. …lobits.secure.tributecenteronline.com/obituaries/Jac…

The folks at ISBA tell me my book Statistical Rethinking has won the 2024 DeGroot Prize for its contributions to "statistical inference, decision theory and statistical applications". This is huge honor especially given the previous winners, who have influenced me so much

It took me SEVEN years to figure out that you can save a ggplot as a vectorized .svg file ggsave("file.svg"). The svg file can be opened on powerpoint and it will be completely vectorized, even text are still recognized as text boxes! No more recreating plots on illustrator!!!!!

Attn: #GolfCourseSuperintendents! Winter is just around the corner and that means it's time to sign up for #WinterTurf data collection. We need your help to better understand - and develop solutions to - winter turf injury. Learn more and sign up: winterturf.umn.edu/winterturf-dat…

NTEP and the University of Minnesota have been awarded a $297,000, two-year grant to improve the analysis and reporting of NTEP data. This allows us to build and improve upon the recently developed NTEP database & Turfgrass Trial Explorer search engine maps.umn.edu/ntep/#thetitle

Turns out that trade wars do hurt, and the pain can change public opinion, especially on the side that started it…

Minions: Stripe’s one-shot, end-to-end coding agents stripe.dev/blog/minions-s…

SnowShadow Tencent HY would you be up for helping out a bit, instead of driving my server costs into 5 digits?