George G Vega Yon @gvegayon@qoto.org

@gabriel Have a look at @eddelbuettel fantastic R2U https://github.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/ It gives you R packages from CRAN as binaries. It’s blazingly fast!

Hey Mastodon! 👋 Here is our #introduction post: We are the Data Visualization Lab at Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. You can find more about our work here: https://vis.khoury.northeastern.edu/

We'd love to be connected to more folks and labs in the realms of #DataVisualization #HCI #xAI #AR #VR #VisualAnalytics #PhD #Research

Our lab has been applying visualization to domain areas like #accessibility #UAVs #Genetics #Privacy #Pedagogy #Networks #GraphTheory

Say hi!

CRAN apparently crossed the 20k barrier (even after accounting for duplicated entries for multiple versions):

> db <- tools::CRAN_package_db()
> dupes <- duplicated(db[,1])
> db <- db[!dupes,]
> nrow(db)
[1] 20013
>

#RStats #thankYouCRAN

Had a student email me after having missed several classes, and offered to send their medical records if I needed "proof" of them being absent. I had to assure them that I absolutely did not need to see those and that it was unreasonable that their other instructors have wanted it

Dear peoplr who require students to share those kinds of private information as part of an attendance policy or anything similar: stop doing cop shit

I will be giving a 2h workshop on Network Analysis in #rstats in the "Workshops for Ukraine" series.

📆 Thursday, October 26th, 18:00 - 20:00 CEST

more details here: https://sites.google.com/view/dariia-mykhailyshyna/main/r-workshops-for-ukraine#h.1vnvyiw9hmcy

We're looking for new editors at @joss #JOSS_TheOJ. Come join a great community who make it possible for academic publishing to recognize the overlooked scholarship underlying so much of modern science and engineering.
https://blog.joss.theoj.org/2023/10/call-for-editors

@Gargron in the supermarket today

"Long Covid cohorts are full of young people who only developed the disability on their third, fourth or fifth infection. Almost all of them had no idea it could or *would* happen to them. Where was the warning?"
#Covid19 #LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver
https://thespinoff.co.nz/science/03-10-2023/gambling-with-covid-repeat-infections-are-damaging-us

Just published in JOSS: 'epiworldR: Fast Agent-Based Epi Models' https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.05781

Python x R beef makes no sense because they're so similar it's only a matter of taste. Take updating all packages:

R
update.packages(ask = FALSE)

Python
pip --disable-pip-version-check list --outdated --format=json | python -c "import json, sys; print('\n'.join([x['name'] for x in json.load(sys.stdin)]))" | xargs -n1 pip install -U

#rstats

A great fortune for a mathematician!

Appl. Netw. Sci.: Differential network analysis between sex of the genes related to comorbidities of type 2 mellitus diabetes
https://appliednetsci.springeropen.com/articles/10.1007/s41109-023-00563-6

PLOS ONE: Complexity in the dengue spreading: A network analysis approach
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0289690

Police water cannons are yet again turned on the scientists. Today an estimated 10,000 peaceful protestors in the Hague, are demonstrating against Dutch government subsidies to the fossil fuel industry, totalling at least 37.5 billion euros a year.

What a fantastic program for this year's edition of @NetMob23: Official statistics, bias reduction, inequality, air pollution, economic prediction, and more incredible research/applications with mobile phone data. See you in Madrid this October!

https://netmob.org/program/

#r2u is breaking all the records today as two European data centers appear to do *a lot* of batch testing or building. It is midafternoon and we just broke *one million packages* for today which is orders of magnitude higher than usual.

#r2u: Fast. Easy. Reliable.

One of the biggest dangers in studying graph theory is that you might accidentally summon a daemon when all you want is a counterexample.

A Saudi man has been sentenced to death for criticizing the government on two anonymous twitter/X accounts with a total of ten followers.

www.npr.org/2023/08/31/1...

Gosh, NPR, I can't imagine how the Saudi authorities could have verified his identity on X.

Nat. Phys.: More is different in real-world multilayer networks
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-023-02132-1