Wow, the rate of preprints being added to CrimRxiv is really high - amazing to see so much open criminology from across the world. Well done people!

Great talk by Nicolas Trajtenberg 🐝 on the importance of diversity in the data we use to teach statistics given at the UoM Open Research conference. See below paper for more details

Very cool to see the CrimRxiv poster and meet Jessie Shepperd at the UoM Open Research Conference 2024. Well done David Buil-Gil and team
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Department of Criminology celebrates exceptional Teaching Assistants for their outstanding contributions
CriminologyUoM Nic Fox Laura McCulloch Borja Álvarez
manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/…

Our inaugural Open Research Conference will be taking place next week, Wednesday 24th April. We're looking forward to seeing many of you there!

Use #UoMORC24 to follow and share updates on the day!

See the event programme here:figshare.manchester.ac.uk/articles/confe….

Make sure you don't miss this special #methodsNW taster session.

Remember we also have a creative #academic #writing #summerschool course with Helen Kara 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine - you can find more details here: new.express.adobe.com/webpage/bqLRxn…

Calling researchers & experts in #DataScience & #AI ! Join us for the Advances in Data Science & AI conference at Hyatt Hotels Manchester to explore The University of Manchester’s pioneering research: idsai.manchester.ac.uk/connect/events… UoM Biology, Medicine and Health UoM Science and Engineering UoM Humanities #UoM200 #adsai2024

What's new on CrimRxiv? 👀

Too risky yet not risky enough: the intersecting characteristics, vulnerabilities, harm indicators and guardianship issues associated with seriously harmed missing children
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Last month I gave a talk: can chatGPT pass my statistics module? exploring how we might use GPT's data analyst in teaching stats. I've now written that up in a blog post: rekadata.net/blog/2024-04-1… I am no expert, only a curious novice, so feedback and alternative opinions welcome!

A fantastic meeting today to discuss all things to do with place-based measures of fear of crime. Thanks to Karl Kronkvist and Alexander Engström for organising

Celebrating three decades of quantitative criminology at Manchester CriminologyUoM UoM School of Social Sciences
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What a great way to spend a keep in touch day! Well done to the organisers for putting together this amazing event 👏

Fab to see this out in print 🤩 some excellent chapters in here!

Happy book-post day to me (so much nicer than energy bills...)

Daily traffic on Budapest bridges by type of vehicle. In Budapest, 1945

Many congratulations Dr Acevedo Sebastian Acevedo really well deserved!! 🎉🎉

3/ The second ethics in/of geographical research paper in this issue is by reka s (@OfficialUoM) et al.:

'Privacy challenges in geodata and open data' #areajournal #openaccess

doi.org/10.1111/area.1…

Are you writing a book in #statistics , #datascience or #Econometrics either with R Markdown or by other means? If so, I would be interested in chatting with you about publishing with CRC. You can leave your online book up for free. #rstats #econtwitter CRC Press Data Science, Stats, and Math Books

This is the most inspirational thing I've listened to possibly ever. Take 7 minutes to listen to this lovely interview with Nobel prize winner Katalin Kariko 🤗 What an incredible woman and scientist. youtu.be/514nzDeT7WM?fe…

📢 Pleased to share our paper is finally out at the #rstats Journal!

'Non-Parametric Analysis of Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Point Patterns'

Paper & reproducible code 👉journal.r-project.org/articles/RJ-20…

Congratulations to my collaborator Jonatan A. González for a fantastic job! 💪🎉

If you want to know more about...
'Adjustment Methods for Data Quality Problems: Missing Data, Measurement Error and Misclassification',
join Albert Varela and me in our 2-day NCRM short course, the 10th and 11th of January at Leeds.
ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.…