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#computing
#stem
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@nuffieldfoundation.org @billybwong.bsky.social @drjessicahamer.bsky.social
#computing
#stem
#edusky
• Average uptake: computing framed as functional and career-oriented, often without inclusive/motivating narrative
💡 We introduce ‘curricular symbiosis’ capture how well formal curriculum aligns with informal offer (clubs, enrichment, trips, competitions) & why that alignment matters for inclusion.
🖥️ Patterns across school types:
• High girls’ uptake: computing framed as creative, collaborative and connected to realworld problems
• High uptake overall (but low girls’ participation): emphasis on advanced technical mastery often via competitions and coding camps position computing as specialist
🎯 New open access paper: What do school websites signal about computing and who it is for? Using document data (n = 960), we examine how schools frame computer science in public-facing materials, and what that might mean for gendered participation.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#adventofcode #rstats #day[2|3]
@cbokhove.bsky.social are you playing this year?
@rbrockphysics.bsky.social
Comparing Polars would also have been a good addition
an important book, and there do seem to be some clear improvements here, but worth adding some salt:
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Thinking about odds ratios...
An odds is a ratio of events to non-events. For example, if the event is survival, the odds of survival is the number of survivors per death. If the event is getting a disease, the odds is the number of diseased individuals per healthy individual.
they trained 7,400. But unclear where they are
A lot of global variables in a function called setup using: <<-
+1 I use message!
surely number of adherents aren't important here? There are many examples of majorities that don't have power or agency.
New article: Children’s Perception of the World of Technology: Through the Lens of Heidegger
Children found technology distracted them from connecting with nature, relating to others and themselves
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Teachers! Send us your computing girls!
Online - so all welcome
Please share 👇
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is it easier in flextable that gt?
I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN.
It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package.
Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats
The figures include ICT, but yes, the computer driving license would explain some of this. It's odd though, as the subject is a foundational one, alongside PE, so you'd expect some general provision for all kids, which seems to have completely disappeared.
Depends on the subject, KS3 computing has seen a 20% decline in hours, from from 4.3% of curriculum time to 3.1%. Did @beckyfrancis.bsky.social mention computing? KS4, far far worse.
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If you are preparing your bachelor statistics course and would like to add optional material for students to better understand statistics on a conceptual level (see topics in the screenshot) my free textbook provides a state of the art overview. lakens.github.io/statistical_...
# Main text ```{r} #| label: appendix-thing #| eval: false #| include: false # Here's some plot that I make up in the text, but don't want to show yet plot(1:10) ``` # Supplemental material Now I'll show the plot: ```{r} #| label: thing-shown-later #| ref.label: appendix-thing ```
Rendered version of that qmd with a plot shown later in the document
Like this?
Thanks for getting back, Sharon. Do you have the code to share?
This is really interesting! Can you add a weekly trend line? Looks like a slight decline. But bsky is down across the board iirc
I’m about halfway through this update (first 11 tutorials are done). I think they’re a lot better. Using a consistent @easystats.github.io workflow throughout will - I think - massively reduce the cognitive load for students. Looking forward to road testing in autumn term.
When teaching at UCLA, I always start with this principle: “All models are wrong, but some are useful.” The key is knowing how a model is wrong—bias, variance, scope—and when it still adds value.
#DataScience #MachineLearning #AI #RStats
Today is my annual reminder that read_csv() is vectorized and you can just pass a vector of file paths and it will read and append the datasets.
No need to use map or for loops to read in multiple files.
#rstats
US CS degrees 1964-2022, female uptake getting better for bachelor degrees (peak 1984), MA and PhD have never been as well balanced as now (from a low base) #rstats #DataScience #python #csed #edusky
when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet
