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Finally getting back around to a proper implementation of blurry dotplots on an experimental branch of ggdist #rstats
11 views
Last two things: quantile-based breaks on histograms are now supported, and its now easier to create legends for `stat_spike()` by using `after_stat(at)`
5/5
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Where-ish is the MU Collective at #chi2024? We've got 2 workshops, 9 papers (4 honorable mentions + 1 best paper), and a SIG --- on topics including vis literacy, human-AI interaction, uncertainty vis, multiverse analysis, vis for public policy, data sonification, and new ways of publishing in #HCI! https://mucollective.northwestern.edu/
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Yeah yeah this is also the version with the goofy blurry dotplots, but --- hey! --- you can make them with intervals too
(the point here is to force people to confront the reliability of quantile estimates....)
https://mjskay.github.io/ggdist/articles/dotsinterval.html#dotplots-with-monte-carlo-standard-error
4/5
📊 Post engagement
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Avg engagement / post
0.6%
Engagement vs followers
Oct 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: Merry Distmas! A new version of #ggdist (3.3.2) just hit CRAN · 32 likes + reposts
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0.33 / week
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Mostly images
Recent: 6 text · 6 image · 0 video.
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Oh hey y'all I don't post as much here anymore (too many social networks!!), but I still miss folks from on here, especially in #rstats... do me a favor if your wanna connect? Follow my bluesky account from within mastodon by following *bo…
Where-ish is the MU Collective at #chi2024? We've got 2 workshops, 9 papers (4 honorable mentions + 1 best paper), and a SIG --- on topics including vis literacy, human-AI interaction, uncertainty vis, multiverse analysis, vis for public p…
hmmmmmm the existence of Rf_applyClosure is very interesting information to me
Me, working on an #rstats package: hmm this part of the API design is mildly annoying
My brain, every time: hmm yes the best solution to this problem is to completely rewrite R's function call semantics
Me: uhhhhh
This was a fun paper to work on with Abhraneel Sarma @xpu Eli Brown and @Birdbassador, though it took us a looong time to get there.
Is visual EDA totally broken? Maybe / maybe not, but perhaps not as bad as some say if you actually incen…
Last two things: quantile-based breaks on histograms are now supported, and its now easier to create legends for `stat_spike()` by using `after_stat(at)`
5/5
Yeah yeah this is also the version with the goofy blurry dotplots, but --- hey! --- you can make them with intervals too
(the point here is to force people to confront the reliability of quantile estimates....)
https://mjskay.github.io/ggd…
The `weight` aesthetic is now supported in all distribution calculations (density, CDF, quantiles, points, intervals)
This also lays the foundation for weighted rvars, coming soon to {posterior}... https://github.com/stan-dev/posterior/pu…
The slab and dots geoms can now use "sub-guides", so you can accurately label densities and (drum roll please) ... dot counts!!!
That's right, the longstanding wishlist item of dotplots with labeled counts is finally here!
2/5
oh hi #hci peeps it's time for your official annual survey: does #ACM TAPS still suck?
#sigchi #chi @sigchi @chi
Finally getting back around to a proper implementation of blurry dotplots on an experimental branch of ggdist #rstats
Where-ish is the MU Collective at #chi2024? We've got 2 workshops, 9 papers (4 honorable mentions + 1 best paper), and a SIG --- on topics including vis literacy, human-AI interaction, uncertainty vis, multiverse analysis, vis for public p…
hmmmmmm the existence of Rf_applyClosure is very interesting information to me
Me, working on an #rstats package: hmm this part of the API design is mildly annoying
My brain, every time: hmm yes the best solution to this problem is to completely rewrite R's function call semantics
Me: uhhhhh
This was a fun paper to work on with Abhraneel Sarma @xpu Eli Brown and @Birdbassador, though it took us a looong time to get there.
Is visual EDA totally broken? Maybe / maybe not, but perhaps not as bad as some say if you actually incen…
Last two things: quantile-based breaks on histograms are now supported, and its now easier to create legends for `stat_spike()` by using `after_stat(at)`
5/5
Yeah yeah this is also the version with the goofy blurry dotplots, but --- hey! --- you can make them with intervals too
(the point here is to force people to confront the reliability of quantile estimates....)
https://mjskay.github.io/ggd…
The `weight` aesthetic is now supported in all distribution calculations (density, CDF, quantiles, points, intervals)
This also lays the foundation for weighted rvars, coming soon to {posterior}... https://github.com/stan-dev/posterior/pu…
The slab and dots geoms can now use "sub-guides", so you can accurately label densities and (drum roll please) ... dot counts!!!
That's right, the longstanding wishlist item of dotplots with labeled counts is finally here!
2/5
oh hi #hci peeps it's time for your official annual survey: does #ACM TAPS still suck?
#sigchi #chi @sigchi @chi
Finally getting back around to a proper implementation of blurry dotplots on an experimental branch of ggdist #rstats
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Oct 2022
Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.
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🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 11 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.3× per week.
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Estimated75/100
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Credibility score
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Real audience
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- Est. 92% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~0.6% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
- Verified account.
- Established account (3+ years old).
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About
Associate Professor at Northwestern in Computer Science and Communication Studies
Research in infovis, uncertainty vis, HCI, usable stats. Co-director https://mucollective.northwestern.edu. Co-founder https://www.journalovi.org.
Author of #tidybayes, #ggdist, & #ggblend #rstats packages.
he/him. 🏳️🌈
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