Roland Krause

Illustration of Simpson's Paradox, using--- Simpsons characters. Overall there is a positive relationship, but the relation is negative within each group

B/W photo of Edward H. Simpson as a young man

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊
🎂Dec 10, 1901 Edward H. Simpson born in Northern Ireland, UK

1946: Discovered the phenomenon now known as Simpson's Paradox while a graduate student at Cambridge

Getting a PhD is not easy At least not if you do it right

Getting a PhD is not easy.
clauswilke.substack.com/p/getting-a-...

Parallel processing in purrr 1.1.0 The functional programming toolkit for R gains new capabilities for parallel processing and distributed computing using mirai.

#tidyverse purrr 1.1.0 is out - now with parallel processing!

Scale your #rstats map operations reliably and efficiently across multiple cores and even distributed systems.

Powered by the mirai framework, this unlocks new levels of performance.

Read more at:
www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/07...

About to go to school and tell students about the job of a scientist. I will appear competent as I managed to eat lunch at the screen and my shirt is still clean.

📣 rworkshop.uni.lu We're running an R tidyverse course Feb 10-13 2025 at the University of Luxembourg. It's a free, intermediate lvl course covering data transform and plotting.

Truth Details 220 replies Trending Donald J. Trump @realDonald Trump I am pleased to announce Stacey Feinberg will be our next United States Ambassador to Luxembourg. Stacy is a graduate of Northwestern University. After graduating, Stacey assisted her father at his pioneering Sports and Entertainment Law Firm. As a Producer of Broadway musicals, a motivational speaker, and a Board Member of the Women Founders Network, Stacey is committed to supporting women in launching their careers, and scaling their businesses to unprecedented success. Stacy will be GREAT, and make America proud! 3.07k ReTruths 15.3k Likes Dec 17, 2024, 12:29 AM

Truth Details 151 replies Trending Donald J. Trump @realDonald Trump I am pleased to announce that I will nominate Arthur Graham Fisher as the next United States Ambassador to the Republic of Austria. Art is President of Fisher Realty, a full service real estate firm founded in 1977, with three offices in the beautiful mountains of North Carolina. He has been consistently ranked as a top broker in the area, and the State of North Carolina, representing many of the most astute clients in America. Art has been a staunch supporter of America First Policies, and will make us proud in Austria! 2.95k ReTruths 14.7k Likes Dec 17, 2024, 12:29 AM

I had a look at Trump's recent ambassadorial nominations. Among them:

Stacey Feinberg (Luxembourg) who "is committed to supporting women in launching their careers" - just like she did in daddy's business, & Art Fisher (Austria) bcs 🤷‍♀️ mountains?

Eye-watering qualifications.

rix v0.14.3 is on CRAN with many new features and improvements!

cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

Thanks to the many contributors for this release (credited in the DESCRIPTION file)

Here is a sneak peak of what awaits you:

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