Craig Van Pay

Best Practices for Data Visualisation Insights, advice, and examples (with code) to make data outputs more readable, accessible, and impactful

📊 Best Practices for Data Visualisation

By Andreas Krause, Nicola Rennie & Brian Tarran — A fantastic guide from the Royal Statistical Society on making clear, accessible, and impactful data visuals.

🔗 Read the guide: buff.ly/JEPX0Cb

More R resources 👉 buff.ly/MSQa1kh

#RStats #DataViz

CONSORT 2025 Statement This Special Communication introduces the updated Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) 2025 statement, which includes substantive and structural changes to account for recent methodolo...

New RCT reporting guidelines jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

I knew this was coming, but wasn't ready for it.

Sorry to all, but especially those early career scholars that worked so hard for their first federal grant (NIH or NSF, or other) and lost it. 😢

Bar chart showing the states and school systems that rely the most on federal aid for K-12 schools, based on a Pew Research Center analysis. Mississippi, South Dakota, Montana, Alaska, Arkansas and North Carolina top the list of states.

Chart: The states and school systems that rely the most on federal K-12 educational aid

In Mississippi, South Dakota, Montana, Alaska, Arkansas and North Carolina, more than 20% of school funding comes from federal sources.

www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

The information you include in a data dictionary (a collection of names, definitions, and attributes about variables in a dataset), depends on your data and how you plan to use the document.

Some ideas of fields to consider including. 👇

Data dictionary template and example are here: osf.io/ynqcu

All of these data management practices are beneficial, but if you don't document your data management decisions, and provide future users with background information on the who, what, where, when, why, as well as how to use your data, then your data is ultimately not useful.

I have migrated to this platform, but my whole feed is panic inducing.

What good things have happened in your life this week?

Perfect.

The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here.

HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻

archive.org/details/2025...

If you conduct research with federal data of any kind I strongly suggest you spend this weekend downloading copies of everything you use.

Loving this paper, Getting Started with Data Sharing: Advice for Researchers in Education! #datamgmt #edresearch #datasharing

@cmwhite.bsky.social @sestrera.bsky.social @schotz.bsky.social and Sara Hart
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