Ahmadou Dicko

I am hiring! There are probably about ~12 people in the world who meet exactly what I'm looking for, so we're open to considering teaching a 13th person to do what I do provided they already have a strong background in Bayesian statistics (non-negotiable) docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Slides and resources: nrennie.rbind.io/rss-2026-tid...

We have written a statement in support of Ghent Uni's decision to suspend Nathan Cofnas. We resist attempts to frame this as a punishment for "whistleblowing" or censorship of "controversial research". We invite all academics who share our views to sign our letter. forms.gle/qwN8xzEM5C7Q...

There is now StanCon 2026 Uppsala playlist www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... At the moment talks by @mjskay.com, @aseyboldt.bsky.social, @paulbuerkner.com, @charlesm993.bsky.social are up, and we'll keep uploading more during the week

Reaching UNHCR used to mean long journeys and repeated visits. For 300,000 refugees across 7 countries, that's changing. The latest Data Spotlight looks at UNHCR's Digital Gateway. https://dataviz.unhcr.org/product-gallery/2026/08/digital-gateway-connecting-people-to-services/ #Dataviz #Refugees

New WP w/@melodyyhuang.bsky.social studying the success of BART models, which regularly win causal inference competitions! We argue that BART should be thought of as a random features approximation to a limiting GP. This view helps understand BART & apply it in more places arxiv.org/abs/2607.28844

R-universe now provides binaries and check results for Windows-ARM64 of all CRAN and BIOC packages: contributor.r-project.org/windows-arm64/

Watch @nrennie.bsky.social's Ihaka Lecture about data viz and creativity on YouTube if you missed the live/streamed version tonight youtube.com/live/fAiyiE8...

Recently graduated with your doctorate in statistics, econometrics, or a related discipline? Interested in being in an environment supportive of open source software? Then this position (careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...) might be for you, and we want you! #rstats 🐨🦘

New paper out now 🥳 When psychologists discuss generalisability, they often refer to vague notions of representativeness. We provide an accessible intro to the total survey error framework as a tool to reason about this more rigorously. w @taymalsalti.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci >

Who gets counted? Our new Data Spotlight looks at 25 years of data on refugee children, and asks what happens when millions are invisible in the data. dataviz.unhcr.org/product-gall... #DataViz #Refugees

🚨New Paper in PNAS: "Refugee Labor Market Integration at Scale: Evidence from Germany’s Fast-Track Employment Program" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Ungated preprint osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/px9ew_v3 w/ J Hainmueller, D Hangartner, @niklas-harder.bsky.social & E Vallizadeh #econtwitter #econsky

BASE R GIRLIES OUR TIME HAS COME Come hang with us, ask Ella questions (I know Isabella and I will), and learn something new. Don't think you use base R? You use it pretty much each and every time you use R! #baseRgirly Also, we're a delight ✨

Hello 👋🏻 I'm a Principal Research Software Engineer in Advanced Research Computing at the University of Birmingham, UK. I lead the international project “Enabling the next generation of contributors to R” and manage research software development projects at UoB. * R Core member * Chair of R […]

We are pleased to announce that Heather Turner @heathrturnr.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy has joined the R Core Team. She has been an active contributor notably via the R Dev Days, and has greatly improved cooperation between R Core and the R community in more ways #RStats.

📢 CFP Deadline Extended: useR! 2026 Warsaw! 📅 New Deadline: Saturday, 14th March 2026 🚀 Submit projects on #rstats, ML, or data viz for the global #Rstats community stage in Poland. Standard/Lightning Talks, Posters, Tutorials & Panels wanted! CFP Link: user2026.r-project.org/call/

Have you used the CAST R package? We’re running a short survey on use cases, challenges, and feature needs. Your input will guide CAST priorities during developer days in Mar 2026. 🔗 uni-muenster.sciebo.de/apps/forms/2... #RStats #RSpatial #OpenSource

Really excited about this new release of {survey}. I can't wait to test the multiphase support (vs twophase only in older versions). #rstats

#rstats bat signal: If any of y'all have experience with multilevel multinomial logistic regression, with {brms}, Kruschke and I could use your help. This is your chance to influence the upcomming textbook. discourse.mc-stan.org/t/problem-in...

Inspired by @nrennie.bsky.social excellent #TidyTuesday plot on the power of passports, I adapted the idea to look at refugee origins. This chart ranks countries of origin of refugees, asylum-seekers, and others in need of international protection, grouped by region. #RStats #ggplot2 #Refugees

So excited for this! As well as ‘C for R users’ I’ll be talking about contributing to base R more generally, and doing a live demo of the R Dev Container. #RStats

Just published: our new data story on efforts to protect South Sudan’s most vulnerable — including children, women, and persons with disabilities. Explore how protection monitoring and partnerships are making a difference: dataviz.unhcr.org/product-gall... #refugees #unhcr #protection

Maps aren't just eye candy—they uncover patterns unseen in other data viz. Our upcoming Mapping with R course offers practical insights into static, interactive & complex maps, all using R. Coming soon! 🧭 Follow us or sign up for updates to stay informed. buff.ly/B0dtY66 #rstats

If one wanted to hire a professional #rstats #rshiny developer to work work with qualitative/text data in particular (so many involve a dashboard for search/semantic/sentiment analyses), do you have any recommendations of individuals or companies? (please repost)

I wrote a thing about coupling streams of random numbers: "the same" number with different parameters notstatschat.rbind.io/2025/03/04/c...

🚨 The "penguins" data is coming to the base #rstats{datasets} in 4.5.0! @ellakaye.co.uk & @HeathrTurnr.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy r prepared an adapted and a raw version of the data set based on the {palmerpenguins} 📦 by @allisonhorst.bsky.social @apreshill.com and Kristen Gorman. 📈 Scatter plot:

- Handles remote packages with remote deps much better! - IDEs are now handled more consistently and are better documented (there's a new vignette "Using an IDE with Nix shells) - Many bugfixes and overall improvements! Quick 5 minute video to know what's this about youtube.com/watch?v=OOu6...

Thanks for all your work on bringing Nix to the #rstats world for reproducibility. I'll give it a try for my next analysis!

FANTASTIC ICPSR at U Mich is coordinating the archiving of at-risk federal data (all of it?) You can upload data you have & search for data you don’t have www.datalumos.org/datalumos/

If you know simulation based calibration checking (SBC), you will enjoy our new paper "Posterior SBC: Simulation-Based Calibration Checking Conditional on Data" with Teemu Säilynoja, @marvinschmitt.com and @paulbuerkner.com arxiv.org/abs/2502.03279 1/7

DuckCon #6 starts in just two hours. Looking forward to seeing you in Amsterdam or online! duckdb.org/events/2025/...

The tidymodels team is hiring an intern to work on preprocessing and feature selection! Please get in touch by Feb 15 and/or share with #RStats folks who might be interested. The blog post links out to posts by previous interns and the job posting, of course. www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/01...

Join @statsteph.bsky.social, RJP, & me on Feb 25 11am CT for a session on Analyzing Complex Survey Data in #RStats! Learn how to use srvyr and tidyverse for weighted survey analysis. Thanks to @rladiesamsterdam.bsky.social & R-Ladies RTP for hosting! ⚖️ Sign up here: www.meetup.com/rladies-amst...

Join us at the R Dev Day @ Rencontres R 2025! 🏢 University of Mons, Belgium 📅 Thu 22 May, 09:00 - 17:00 CEST We'll collaborate on contributions to the code, documentation & translations of base R, or infrastructure that supports such contribution. Free and […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

UNHCR published its ggplot2 theme and color palettes in their {unhcrthemes} #RStats 📦 unhcr-dataviz.github.io/unhcrthemes/ By @cvidonne.bsky.social & @ahmadoudicko.com

🚀 {unhcrdown} is now on CRAN! 🎉 This R package adds UNHCR-branded R Markdown templates for reports, presentations, and websites. It’s tailored for UNHCR but shows how R packages can support consistent branding across organizations. 🔗 cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

For branded charts, check out {unhcrthemes}, shared yesterday! Together with {unhcrdown}, it forms a complete ecosystem for UNHCR data viz and reporting. 🔗 cran.r-project.org/web/packages... #rstats #rmarkdown #dataviz

Looking for a longitudinal (ideally intensive) dataset where missing data is expected to be problematic, i.e. MNAR, anyone have pointers to good examples?

If you’re an existing/aspiring R contributor and want to gain/refresh basic skills in C programming, please do join our C Study Group! contributor.r-project.org/events/c-stu... If interested, please fill in the poll by Jan 20th to help us find the best time for the sessions: whenisgood.net/jqfrg3j

reaching out to the #rstats / #databs hivemind --- I'm looking for a maintainer! nplyr is a small R package I shipped to CRAN a few years ago that allows users to perform dplyr-like operations on nested data frames. If you'd like to take over, please follow up here: github.com/markjrieke/n...

OK, here is a very rough draft of a tutorial for #Bayesian #SEM using #brms for #rstats. It needs work, polish, has a lot of questions in it, and I need to add a references section. But, I think a lot of folk will find this useful, so.... jebyrnes.github.io/bayesian_sem... (use issues for comments!)

Very proud to announce that @posit.co has joined the opensourcepledge.com. We're committing to spending $2000 / developer / year to support open source software that we use (but don't develop): posit.co/blog/posit-p... #rstats #pydata

Really excited to be taking the lead on this next year. If you’re an existing/aspiring R contributor and want to gain/refresh basic skills in C programming, please do join! If interested, please fill in the poll to help us find the best time for the sessions: whenisgood.net/jqfrg3j