Ben Cooper @b_t_cooper

Senior Data Officer with @DTScholars. PhD background in individual behavioural variability. Loves stats and code. He/him. Views my own github.com/btcooper22 Edinburgh, Scotland Joined August 2015

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Ben Cooper @b_t_cooper

2 years ago

Fantastic evening with @mattgreencomedy at The Stand - though so weird to see him in three dimensions after years on Twitter!

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Just finished up at this course - after a weekend of doing nothing but digesting the content, I can finally reflect on it. A fantastic course for anyone with an interest in interference, prediction and bias. Well taught, engaging, excellent materials and extremely accessible!

Peter Tennant has moved to Bluesky @PWGTennant

2 years ago

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Randall Munroe @xkcd

2 years ago

DateTime xkcd.com/2867

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Ben Cooper @b_t_cooper

2 years ago

Holy crap, a house a few hundred meters from mine just exploded. Spooked the shit out of the cats!

Police Scotland Edinburgh @PSOSEdinburgh

2 years ago

Holy crap, a house a few hundred meters from mine just exploded. Spooked the shit out of the cats!

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof

2 years ago

I witnessed the first destruction of a Confederate statues, and wrote about why I believe many more of our monuments to hate should follow: nytimes.com/2023/10/27/opi…

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Simon Evans @DrSimEvans

2 years ago

Reminder: switching from gas boilers to electric heat pumps would *cut gas demand by two-fifths*, even if all the electricity you need comes from gas power plants

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Prof Richard Johnston @DrRichJohnston

2 years ago

Evening ma’am. We’re here to talk to you about the wonders of editing a special issue for MDPI

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Paris Marx @parismarx

2 years ago

Silicon Valley wants us to believe ChatGPT and other AI tools will usher in a wonderful tech utopia (unless it ends humanity). But those narratives distract us from the truth that it’s all about enriching investors and reducing the power of everyone else. disconnect.blog/p/the-chatgpt-…

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Ben Cooper @b_t_cooper

2 years ago

I'm not even mad, I'm just impressed:

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Maarten van Smeden @MaartenvSmeden

2 years ago

Every statistician will come to a point in their career where they feel like they have no choice but to get a tattoo with "what is your research question?" on their forearm

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Ben Cooper @b_t_cooper

2 years ago

Writing out this #rstats {ggplot2} workshop. This phrase keeps coming to mind so often that I've dedicated a slide to it.

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Nat @unfortunatalie

2 years ago

If I were a billionaire stuck at the bottom of the ocean I would simply pull myself up by my bootstraps.

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Ben Cooper @b_t_cooper

2 years ago

Calling all #rstats users - I'm currently writing a workshop on #ggplot2. What's something you wish you'd known/been taught early on when using ggplot?

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Maarten van Smeden @MaartenvSmeden

2 years ago

If you think large language models produce BS answers sometimes, ask a random academic why they checked their data for normality

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Daniël Lakens @lakens

2 years ago

Sometimes people ask a question about statistics that is the equivalent of ‘I am installing an outlet, what do the colors of the wires mean?’ It’s acceptable to say 'hire an electrician’ but it is typically seen as an insult to say 'you might want to work with a statistician’.