The canvas() function from the ggview R package is very useful for previewing/tweaking a ggplot into publication-ready format: it renders a plot "as it would appear if saved to a file with the specified dimensions".
cran.r-project.org/web/packages...
#RStats #ggplot #ggview
I started making this R package 6 years ago. I finally have it in a state I'm happy with, thanks to Claude Code #Rstats github.com/MattCowgill/...
It would be a lot of fun to go full-on causal machine learning with this. If anyone would be interested, reach out to me! I am not be able to do it alone, given the deadline
Why Risk it, When You Can {rix} it: A Tutorial for Computational Reproducibility Focused on Simulation Studies
May be of interest to the reproducibility folks: New tutorial on computational reproducibility for simulation studies just dropped! felipelfv.github.io/Why-risk-it-...
by @felipefv.bsky.social, Jason Geller & @brodriguesco.bsky.social
New blog post introducing Causion - a web app for causal inference teaching and learning: pedermisager.org/blog/causion....
📣 Our introduction to structural causal models in science studies is now published:
doi.org/10.1162/QSS....
@tklebel.bsky.social and I tried to make our introduction as accessible as possible. We illustrate the theory by three case studies based on a simulated model of Open Science. 🧵(1/6)
Researchers often treat ordinal variables as continuous. What if we could mimic this in an ordinal factor analysis/IRT model? We propose new identification constraints so that the latent variable goes from 1 to (# of ordered categories), with connections to treating ordinal variables as continuous.
This is an excellent group, and look at all those videos you can find online 👀 So much stuff to learn!
cls-data.github.io/CIIG/
Title page of syllabus: https://muellerstefan.net/teaching/2026-spring-qta.pdf
My updated syllabus for Quantitative Text Analysis is available online. As I previous years, I made quite a few changes and added recent literature. Part 1 (still) covers classic text-as-data approaches; Part 2 focuses on transformers and LLMs.
📄 muellerstefan.net/teaching/202... (PDF)
Sign up now for the Perspectives on Scientific Error Conference (PSE) on 11 - 13 Feb in Leiden, the Netherlands
We will be hosting a mentor-mentee lunch during the conference. Sign up, and you will be matched to another academic based on shared research interests!
Don't miss out! See you there 🙌
#rstats #dataviz #psy6136
Gave the first lecture for my course in Categorical Data Analysis
Slides: friendly.github.io/psy6136/lect...
Psychometrics: https://osf.io/qjpnk
After 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data.
If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition.
eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...
🚨My trainee Victoria Murphy, data architect Gabriel Mongefranco, and I are pleased to share 🌟EMA-CleanR: R code to pre-process, clean, and visualize ecological momentary assessment (EMA) data!
Documentation: teamdynamix.umich.edu/TDClient/210...
Code: github.com/DepressionCe...
This paper had a pretty shocking headline result (40% of voxels!), so I dug into it, and I think it is wrong. Essentially: they compare two noisy measures and find that about 40% of voxels have different sign between the two. I think this is just noise!
Was this email from UChicago? Just received the same email
Computational Social Scientists in the Nordics, unite!
🇩🇰🇫🇮🇳🇴🇸🇪🇮🇸
The brand new Nordic Society for CSS welcomes all researchers and practitioners based in the Nordics. The Society will promote student mobility, events, and education initiatives.
Join for free: nosocss.org/join.html.
Inspired by this post by @rmkubinec.bsky.social: What are your favorite project management tools for academic research? I mainly want to keep track of tasks and discussions, and I don't necessarily need file storage. So something that's free would be preferable. www.robertkubinec.com/post/notion/
“Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate."
― Edward Said
Angry? Do something about it. Find & gather into a group of other angry people with the aim to collectively do something about it. Read some literature on What Is To Be Done & arm that anger with knowledge. Remain angry, but don't remain unmoved.
You either live in a democracy, in which case you, as citizens, are responsible for the actions of your democratically elected leaders...or you have no choice in who gets elected, in which case you don't live in a democracy and you should definitely do something about that. The world is sick of hearing 350 million Americans say they're helpless and nothing is their fault
words from lexi alexander, who had been suspended from this platform for being palestinian
If "not untrue".... What's your point? If it's true then it's true. Trying to minimize the colonial history of USA is the problem. Maybe worth thinking twice what's on the line for all latin America, instead of debating if a true statement should be reposted.
"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"
The attack on Venuzela sovereignty is a straightforwardly condemnable act.
America is the thief of the world & the future. It is a bipartisan regime, built on indigenous blood & fueled by stolen oil. You pay taxes to rip apart countries for the sole benefit of CEOs & shareholders. Rip it up.
Mood
A lot of people forget how in 2004 the Bush regime kidnapped the democratically elected President of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and dumped him in Africa.
Read people
If you don't know why the map is reversed, you are also probably in an imperialist country. "Global south" etc. does not exist. Learn from Uruguay:
Did people skip the imperialism class? USA started this fascist project ages ago, and will probably continue this project with many other countries alongside them. Kick fascists in the mouth. Viva a América latina.
Two years ago, I had an idea, one that evolved over time as I kept reading and learning. Today, a major first part of that idea has just become my first PhD preprint, now publicly available on PsyArxiv.
Let me tell you a bit more about the story behind it... while I prepare the submission.
