Muntasir Masum

Perhaps a new package idea!!!

New open tutorial:

Publication-ready tables in R using gtsummary + flextable, with real NHIS survey data.

Covers Table 1, weighted vs. unweighted, regression tables, Word export, and more.

🔗 muntasirmasum.github.io/table-tutorial/

#RStats #PublicHealth #Epidemiology #OpenScience #gtsummary

I’m excited to share a new County Health Explorer, an interactive R #Shiny application for #mapping and analyzing public health data across U.S. counties.

lnkd.in/dbMHnVid

The app integrates two national datasets:
County Health Rankings & Roadmaps and CDC

Code is on GitHub at
lnkd.in/dmY5NJYD

A Few Claude Skills for R Users – R Works The community has come together to create some great Claude Skills that you can try out today.

I rounded up a few Claude Skills for #RStats users.

Huge thanks to the creators who developed them. They share Skills for everything from tidyverse code to brand.yml files to learning while using AI.

Hope the list is useful, and please let me know what I missed! 🧡

rworks.dev/posts/claude...

Like 20s all over again!

I’ve now posted the National YRBS data, 2015-2023, here. I’ll add the state and district data soon.

www.datalumos.org/datalumos/pr...

I have a 99.8% snapshot of all zipped files from CDC Vital Statistics Online as of today. Documentation pdfs too. The one missing file was cut off part way 🤷‍♂️ will try again from time to time. Anyone needs anything reach out

100 Years of 100 Things: US Mortality Causes | The Brian Lehrer Show | WNYC As the centennial series continues with a look at the shifts in U.S. mortality statistics over the past 100 years.

At a point of potential transformation of America's public health policies, @mmather.bsky.social @prbdata.bsky.social on @thebrianlehrershow.bsky.social @wnyc.org speaks on the last hundred years of mortality shifts in the US. #Demography www.wnyc.org/story/100-ye...

I've turned my intro to R workshop into a free open-access book: The R Workshop 🌟 Perfect for R beginners, with more chapters coming soon! Check it out: www.r-workshop.org

Prefer live instruction? Join my 2-day virtual workshop Jan 15-16 via Instats. Details: instats.org/seminar/intr...

#rstats

Ever saw an impressive chart and wondered how to recreate it? Our latest guide shows how to replicate a New York Times chart on US mortgage rates, using geom_ribbon() to highlight gaps, add annotations, and geom_textpath() to label lines.

Check it out: https://buff.ly/4g0XW5a

#rstats #DataViz

🚀 Exciting update for #rstats enthusiasts!

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I've been working with a variety of #LLM / #GenAI interfaces in #Python, but I haven't found one that does exactly what I need in a streamlined way.

The new chatlas package from Posit may be just that. It supports multiple providers, structured data outputs, and more!

posit-dev.github.io/...

New methodological research in Demography. This study has been in the works for 5+ years! The paper demonstrates how population researchers can use more efficient web/mail approaches to conduct national surveys that replicate estimates from more costly FTF approaches.

doi.org/10.1215/0070...

If you teach epidemiology and might be interested in using my textbook (EPIDEMIOLOGY BY DESIGN) --

I will send you ALL MY TEACHING MATERIALS (lecture slides; practice problems; exercises; exams + keys; sample syllabi...).

Just ask! And also www.epidemiologybydesign.com