Matt Cowgill

I am absolutely going to use this technique!

I think, against my better judgement, I’m about to do something I swore I’d never do again — submit an #Rstats package to CRAN

thank you, glad to hear it!

this is a disaster of world-historic proportions. Non-massive cars are extinct

no one believes me when I say I made the “days since 100 cases x-axis, log scale cases y-axis” chart first

finally, in my forties, I feel I am developing the ability to see someone be wrong on the internet and not reply to them

glad to hear it, thank you!

I started making this R package 6 years ago. I finally have it in a state I'm happy with, thanks to Claude Code #Rstats github.com/MattCowgill/...

haha I’ve got to try that as a prompt

I started making this R package 6 years ago. I finally have it in a state I'm happy with, thanks to Claude Code #Rstats github.com/MattCowgill/...

I had a heap of fried egg banh mi in Vietnam — bánh mì ốp la

it’s sort of pue-ah

Self recommending!

Note: I do not endorse Erin and Ben’s pronunciation of เพื่อไทย

as an FT subscriber, it’s really frustrating your newsletter is Premium only!

What is the workflow for getting comments and edits from the client? That’s what keeps me and many from going all-Quarto (until {redoc} is revived)

when making a new graph/chart/whatever you really have to ask yourself these two questions imo

1) is this chart/map better than a table
2) is this chart/map better than a bar chart

nope

want to compare two numbers? Bar chart. Add more numbers? Bar chart. Want to add another category of numbers to sit alongside the first? Believe it or not: bar chart.

want to compare two numbers? Bar chart. Add more numbers? Bar chart. Want to add another category of numbers to sit alongside the first? Believe it or not: bar chart.

the unfortunate truth re: data visualisation is that you really do gotta hand it to bar charts

Is the MLB pitch clock the greatest modern rule change of any professional sport?

dunno, but if you figure it out let me know

I’ve forgotten how to do those

that’s right, I’m back on Bluesky, you’re welcome

when did we decide, as a society, that “cohort” is just a synonym for “group” rather than specifically a group that shares some time-invariant characteristic(s)

you’re right, that is self-recommending

It was a post looking for pointers to AI critics and sceptics. I shouldn’t have ended it with a crack at Z*tr*n. I was not looking for a fight, I was looking for links.

I don’t, in fact, want a fight

great to make friends, online