Will Mackey

uh oh @downround.bsky.social

So much to love in the scrollytelling — the ternary plot, the depth of the data, the findings — but my favourite part is the explanation and the text in general. 📊 Remember, a chart doesn't have to be understood in 3 seconds. It should reward the effort you put into understanding it.

Hey #rstats! There's space in my courses this Thurs & Fri in Brisbane! Quarto for Scientists - The art & science of reproducibility, "getting unstuck in R" - statsoc.org.au/event-6132307 R Package Essentials: - Function fundamentals, write a package from scratch! - statsoc.org.au/event-6132303

Grattan Institute is hiring an Associate! Are you ready to help solve some of Australia’s most pressing policy issues? 🧠 💼Join a think tank that is making a difference. For more details and to apply now, visit EthicalJobs [https://buff.ly/QoEUSaX].

Trying something new: A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?" It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social 🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...

this is such a beautiful story (with beautiful paintings!) by @joshnicholas.com. makes me love Melbourne all over again

Hi #rstats friends! I'm starting consulting! I've had a great journey in academia working with brilliant people, and while it's bittersweet (and a bit scary!), I'm excited for this next step. I'll still be maintaining {greta} and am hoping to be even more involved with the R community. 1/n

I’ve been using the new gradients and patterns in #rstats and #ggplot2 quite a bit for recent package, so here’s a deep dive! Everything from the basics of using gradients in your plots through to sophisticated visual effects. jamesgoldie.dev/writing/stac...

this is really cool

It is not a rigorous benchmark, but I was curious on how #duckdb duckplyr compares to other data wrangling packages in #Rstats. Turns out, it is pretty pretty fast 🚀. blog post: blog.schochastics.net/posts/2025-0...

Toad-in-the-hole? ⛳🐸🏌️‍♂️ Cane toads in Queensland love their local golf course. ⛳ Some golfers take this as a serendipitous chance to drive 🏌️‍♂️ down their numbers. Thanks to the {galah} package team for easy access observation data! @rowdynerd.bsky.social @daxkellie.bsky.social. #rstats

love parenting

louse up? what the shit is that

"Bar is raised because gravity is lower" was a fun sentence to write

Does new housing supply lead to a decrease in rents, even in high-demand markets? Read this Just Accepted article from the Journal of Political Economy Macroeconomics to find out: ow.ly/1eN950UqS1B

lucky for the Canucks that the score throughout the game has zero bearing on the score at the end of the game

maybe if #canucks fans whinged less and had a more positive attitude then we would win more??

thatcher demko what the hell (derogatory) #canucks

dakota joshua what the hell #canucks

no

yes

proven once again #canucks

honestly what is even the point in scoring first #canucks

People endogenously allocate more attention to thinking about prices in high inflation environments; which they hate doing because they don’t like complexity. A plausible reason people hate inflation so much Sort of remarkable how far “thinking is costly” can take you

remains true. he may never lose on the road again.

I've begun a statistical graphics starter pack at go.bsky.app/EMb8xWf . Please help me find more people or feeds to add to this pack. #rstats #visualisation #statistics 📈

omg @jamsha.bsky.social is here how exciting for energy bluesky

This is a good example of this phenomenon (that @aremay.bsky.social helped me find)—British voters supported cutting immigration by ~10 points, but they support most of the largest sources of immigration by 20 points or more. Only small boats and families of students were underwater.

maybe 3D charts are good 📊

Bluesky really is the new #rstats twitter because we have the first base R vs tidyverse flame war 🤣

Good list of Aussie nerds

Why we can’t avoid models, even when getting insights from ‘raw data’ - my piece from earlier this year: kucharski.substack.com/p/we-cant-av...

woah didn’t know #canucks could score on a power play

It looks as if this place is becoming what Twitter used to be; for now, at least, we can post stuff to a sigificant audience without being overrun by trolls and bots. For starters, here's my complete theory of the election, and probably my last word on the subject

My paper w/ @chloeneast.bsky.social, A. Hines, P. Luck & @hnmansour.bsky.social is now published in the Journal of Labor Economics! We study the labor market effects of Secure Communities, a policy that increased the removals of undocumented immigrants from the U.S. #EconSky doi.org/10.1086/721152

i mean, pretty close?

Calling all data storytellers — the first #Closeread Prize is here! posit.co/blog/closere... Andrew and I have teamed up with the kind folks at @posit.co who have some amazing prizes on offer, whether you're using #rstats, #python, #julia or #ojs or no coding at all!

Making things "pretty" has never been where I find the most joy in data work. So, I'm super excited about @posit.co 's {brand.yml} framework for adding unified styling across Quarto, Shiny, and more at minimal effort 🤩 posit-dev.github.io/brand-yml/ Site also featuring best at-a-glance roadmap