BREAKING: New City data shows #RoadSafety changes on #BloorStreet West are working! 1. 75% fewer serious injuries & deaths 2. Less speeding 3. Only 25-60 seconds delay per km 4. Delays are down since 2024! 5. Over 150% more people cycling www.toronto.ca/wp-content/u... #BikeTO #TOPoli #OnPoli

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It's here, it's here! DATA BY DESIGN is here in my hands, and it is beautiful!!! So much gratitude to @mitpress.bsky.social @chronictanvi.bsky.social and the (not on bluesky) rest of the team for making this book a reality!

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Any #rstats font experts or friends out there? I'm looking for fonts to use to try to reproduce the famous 1D dotplot of Michael Florent van Langren (1664), using common R font tools-- showtext 📦... There seem to be at least 2 fonts-- the SmallCaps one used for most labels, script one for names

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And so after a very brief hiatus, version 0.7.0 of "learning statistics with R" exists. Full rebuild in quarto, stylistic fixes, "epilogues from 2026" to comment on how the world changed since original publication, and as an added bonus, no longer misgenders the author learningstatisticswithr.com

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Can Posit please hand over the tidyverse to some other organization that doesn't put 95% of its effort into LLM stuff?

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