Cormac Monaghan

Just a little reminder that I did a quarto revealjs slidecrafting workshop a little while back, and it was recorded! Recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpFy... material: emilhvitfeldt.github.io/workshop-sli...

🎉 Congratulations to our wonderful CRT Director, Professor David Malone! We’re delighted to celebrate Professor Malone winning the Maths Week Ireland 2026 Award for Raising Public Awareness of Mathematics. A very well-deserved achievement! Congratulations, David! 🎊 @researchireland.ie

Immediately trying this out tomorrow morning 👀

Artificial intelligence is built on the work of all of us. The gains are going to just a few large firms. My late father often said to me, "that's great David, but what are you going to do about it?" I have written up what the Irish State can do, & by when. corish.dev/writing/ai-w...

This town ain't big enough for the two of us 🤠 🔫

Super nice site for a Friday afternoon!!! bookofshapes.com 🔥

Big news! 🎉 𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚎𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚜 1.0.0 for #Rstats is out. It’s a big number and it feels like a big step. I wrote a blog on the challenges of interpreting statistical models, SPEED, cool new features, the future, and a 5 year package development and writing odyssey. arelbundock.com/posts/margin...

Father... How dare you abandon me downstairs

A psychology journal has retracted a seminal 2002 paper on deadlines and procrastination coauthored by behavioral scientist Dan Ariely of Duke University just days after a team of sleuths published analyses of the original study data, finding it had been tampered with.

Running a meta analysis study and having all the processing, modelling, tables, figures, and #Quarto documents generated via targets (all in about 30 seconds) is immensely satisfying

My latest attempt at an AI/LLM policy in my intro to social science stats class. Basically two rules: 1. Everything human-facing must be human-generated 2. You are responsible for understanding, verifying, and citing everything an LLM generates quantf26.classes.andrewheiss.com/syllabus.htm...

Wordle 1,873 4/6 A certain #rstats theme popping up in today's Wordle 👀 🟨🟨⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛🟨🟩 ⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I'll be in Ann Arbor next week to talk about `marginaleffects` and how to interpret statistical models. Let me know if you're around! pdhp.isr.umich.edu/workshops/ #RStats #PyData

Not all UFC fights are finished the same way. This week's #TidyTuesday looks at how weight class influences the path to victory. 🔗 Code: github.com/C-Monaghan/t... #rstats #ggplot2 #dataviz

This week's #TidyTuesday maps shipwrecks off Ireland, from the Wreck Inventory of Ireland Database Code: github.com/gkaramanis/t... #RStats #dataviz

Centuries of maritime loss surround Ireland’s coast. This #TidyTuesday visualises the known locations of shipwrecks recorded in the Wreck Inventory of Ireland 🔗 Code: github.com/C-Monaghan/t... #rstats #ggplot2 #dataviz

A new paper by @dominiquemakowski.bsky.social, @mattansb.msbstats.info, me and colleagues just out! We show how to choose informative priors in Bayesian regression models using a systematic simulation study and a practical step-by-step tutorial in #Rstats and #Stan! doi.org/10.3389/fpsy... >

Love that my non academic friends wish me a happy father's day with shit like this 😂

This dataviz is just amazing visquill.com/gallery/uk-a1

The number of babies named Arya rose dramatically after Game of Thrones premiered in 2011, turning an uncommon name into a much more popular choice across the UK. 🔗 Code: github.com/C-Monaghan/t... #TidyTuesday #rstats #ggplot2 #dataviz

Keeping it relatively simple for this week's #TidyTuesday 🔗 Code: github.com/C-Monaghan/t... #rstats #ggplot2 #dataviz

I made Conway–Maxwell–Binomial regression on #TMB + #glmmTMB. A bounded-count family that handles both over- and under-dispersion through one parameter.. Demo on coral fertilization data from @benoitpujol.bsky.social #rstats #STEM #biology jbogomolovas2.github.io/Julius-s-Blo...

Well that's just rude 😂

heyyy Positron has a packages panel now!! And it works with both #rstats and Python! github.com/posit-dev/po...

This week's #TidyTuesday looks at repair cafés. Some are fixed almost every time (like textiles 🧵), while others are brought in a lot but succeed less often (such as electronics). 🔗 Code: github.com/C-Monaghan/t... #rstats #ggplot2 #dataviz

And another Quarto announcement; I've alluded to it before, but we're making it "official". We've started work on Quarto 2. The blog post has an overview: quarto.org/docs/blog/po... We'll share more in future blog posts, but here's what you can expect from the Quarto 2 dev effort: (1/)

Just one day - or, depending on your timezone maybe just a few hours - until the next #30DayChartChallenge kicks off. 🚀 1 prompt for each day of April across 5 categories to spark inspiration, experimentation, and learning. 📊 Who's in? 👀 #dataviz #datavisualization

#TidyTuesday explores ocean temperatures 🌊 The ocean doesn’t warm evenly - surface waters heat up quickly, while deeper layers lag behind. 🔗Code: github.com/C-Monaghan/t... #rstats #dataviz #ggplot2

A #PiDay visualisation for this weeks #TidyTuesday 🔗 Code: github.com/C-Monaghan/t... #RStats #dataviz #PiDay #ggplot2

This is truly an exceptional idea and execution 😍 No more wondering how to share small datasets for quick analysis easily reproducible Just use Ziptable to pack a small dataset in the URL itself! Mind-blowing really 👀

@chess.com REALLY wants me to solve today's puzzle ⚠️

Great to see all the visualisations people have been doing with the CAPphrase dataset (github.com/adamkucharsk...) for #TidyTuesday!

What happens to lost farmed salmon in Norway? This #TidyTuesday map shows where salmon losses occur across Norwegian counties and whether they die, escape, are discarded, or are lost for other reasons. 🔗 Code: github.com/C-Monaghan/t... #rstats #dataviz #ggplot2

This IS the droid you're looking for. webRoid v1.0.0: R on Android. Console, editor, plots, packages, 9 themes. No server required. Tested extensively on emulators. Your actual device? The Force is strong, but no promises. play.google.com/store/apps/d... #rstats #webR #Android #WebAssembly

Who needs PowerPoint when you have Quarto and @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social's extensions?! I wanted to make an image-heavy presentation. Usually, I'd reach for Keynote. But Emil shared quarto-revealjs-editable, which let me stay in Quarto land 🥰 Thanks, Emil! Find it here: github.com/EmilHvitfeld...

How likely is "likely"? This week's #TidyTuesday explores probability phrases "Likely" is more likely than "Probable", but "Likely" is less likely than a "Very Good Chance" 🔗 Code: github.com/C-Monaghan/t... #rstats #dataviz #ggplot2

Announcing localtime, a #QuartoPub extension for displaying times in the reader's local timezone e.g. {{< localtime 2026-03-09 20:30 UTC >}} will render as 2026-03-09 21:30 for someone in CET. Has nice formatting options, and automatically accounts for daylight saving. github.com/EllaKaye/loc...

This week's #TidyTuesday almost looks like modern art or something tidytuesday.seanlunsford.com/...

This has been a challenge, but it's really cool! #TidyTuesday #ggplot2 #RStars

Exploring Science Foundation Ireland programme groups with the most awarded grants from October 2021 to March 2025 for #TidyTuesday 2026, week 08. Code: github.com/rajodm/TidyT... #dataviz #rstats #ggplot2

Science Foundation Ireland Grants Commitments for #TidyTuesday, wk 8. #Rstats #Dataviz #ggplot2

This week for #TidyTuesday we're looking at Science Foundation Ireland grant funding. Below we can see how much research funding each Irish university received over a 25 year period. 🔗 Code: github.com/C-Monaghan/t... #rstats #dataviz #ggplot2