canssi-incass.bsky.social
CANSSI supports training initiatives and interdisciplinary research collaborations led by members of Canada's statistical sciences community. We are funded by NSERC and member universities from across Canada and hosted at Simon Fraser University.
👤 Joined on 16 November 2024
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@canssi-incass.bsky.socialRobert Frost was certainly more familiar with iambic pentameter than he was with estimated parameters, but in 1942 he wrote a couplet that sounds very much like a poet's perception of a confidence interval: #statistics #statssky #academicsky
Show PostLooking for an overview of different #RStats packages for visualising spatial data? 📊 Here's a previous blog post of mine: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/r-packa... This blog post is almost three years old now, but all of the code still works! #DataViz #RSpatial #30DayMapChallenge
Show PostThursday, October 9, 2025 - 1:00 to 2:00pm ET "Working with Physicists on Quantum ML" NISS-CANSSI Webinar w/ Martin T. Wells (Cornell), Luca Candelori (Qognitive Inc.), & Emily Casleton (Los Alamos). See more and register at: www.niss.org/events/niss-... @canssi-incass.bsky.social
Show Post1/Interesting @canssi-incass.bsky.social lecture by Nancy Reid discussing an undergraduate first-year seminar she taught starting in the 90s titled "Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics" which mostly analyzed headlines of the day and underlying statistics. canssiontario.utoronto.ca/event/2025-d...
Show PostUnbelievable. A University shutting down a Department of Statistics in this day and age highlights the sheer incompetence of its governance. @amstatnews.bsky.social @instmathstat.bsky.social @canssi-incass.bsky.social My thought is with all the members of the Department in this difficult moment.
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