Andrew Mercer @awmercer.bsky.social

Principal methodologist at Pew Research Center. He/him

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Sam Rickards @shiny--penny.bsky.social
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#30daychartchallenge

Day 11: Physical

Based on Royal Kennel Club registration data from 2016 to 2025, I give you 10 years of the most popular dog breeds in the UK, a crocheted slope chart.

We have Year on the X- and popularity ranking on the Y-axis, as well as a handmade legend.
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m.youtube.com/watch?v=mb2hMZxxWiA
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Exhibit B.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=XfgjObD5biE
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Case in point.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=PLT68mI5Pwc
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There a no better sign that a track is an absolute banger than “Feat. Busta Rhymes”.
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So how does one get an invite code for @attie.ai?
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This is really, really good.
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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social
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Until an LLM can feel this it can never truly write
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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social
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Presenting:

The Queersar Not An Award for 2021!

10 (+1) examples of top-quality queer SFF.

Brilliant fantasy cities, some great SFF romance, anti-Brexit Epic Fantasy, dark fantasy mystery, space opera, gonzo slipstream, a great spin-off with a particular spotlight on a throwback of the best sort.
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly
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I found function similar to human feeling in my calculator.
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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net
9d
You guys @carlislerainey.bsky.social has a free textbook online and it seems really useful pos5747.github.io/notes/
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social
9d
"i have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working."

The Astronauts truly representing us all up there.
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It’s not too late
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Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social
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Is this anyone’s dog? Found in Brookland, DC, 17th and Hamlin
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For anyone else who needs some hand-holding to experiment with AI coding for the kind of data work that I do, this series of posts is *incredibly* helpful.
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If you see this, post a concert photo you took.
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Stephen Wild @stephenjwild.bsky.social
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This is a fantastic paper
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Going to start recommending this to my friends with kids.
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While we’re doing this, it’s pronounced “lick-ert”. Not “like-ert”.
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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social
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Cool little package on CRAN for adding a download data button into html files created from your Rmd.

cran.r-project.org/web/packages/downloadthis/refman/downloadthis.html href="/search?t=posts&q=download_this">#download_this
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Literally got an email from Chewy saying “Did you really mean to buy all that?”
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Was just informed that the only food our 19 year old cat will eat has been discontinued so I’m over here planning my own rice truck saga but with whatever leftover stock I can get my hands on.
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This seems like a very good heuristic. Honestly, I need to do this for every room in the house.
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Statistical Rethinking 2026 is done: 20 new lectures emphasizing logical and critical statistical workflow, from basics of probability theory to causal inference to reliable computation to sensitivity. It's all free, made just for you. Lecture list and links: github.com/rmcelreath/stat_rethinking_2026?tab=readme-ov-file href="/search?t=posts&q=calendar--topical-outline">#calendar--topical-outline
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social
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NEW JENNY NICHOLSON I REPEAT THERE IS A JENNY NICHOLSON DROP
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Guido Imbens @imbens.bsky.social
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Don’t Do Difference In Differences (DDDID), cheers, guido
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Lazy #caturday playing some video games with Charlie.
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Lars van der Laan @larsvanderlaan3.bsky.social
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A very nice overview of PPI, which is closely related to the AIPW estimator from missing data and the even older model-assisted estimators from survey sampling.
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Kagi is hands down the best $10 I spend every month.
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