mjskay

@mjskay@fediscience.org

Associate Professor at Northwestern in Computer Science and Communication Studies

Research in infovis, uncertainty vis, HCI, usable stats. Co-director https://mucollective.northwestern.edu. Co-founder https://www.journalovi.org.

Author of #tidybayes, #ggdist, & #ggblend #rstats packages.

he/him. 🏳️‍🌈

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mjskay, to random

Merry Distmas! A new version of

(3.3.2) just hit CRAN

The main impetus of the update is minor fixes to support

3.5.0, but there are a few things worth mentioning... 1/5

mjskay, to random

so has everyone learned to just not click "like" on here?

I'm browsing my feed and posts have like 200 reposts and no likes

If that isn't an indictment of algorithmic puritanism I dunno what is... basically everyone decided that if it doesn't impact what others see it's not worth doing

jbigham, to random
@jbigham@hci.social avatar

some of the papers i was a coauthor on were accepted, and some were rejected. i can honestly say i would not have predicted which ones fell into which categories correctly, which is probably a problem.

mjskay,

@jbigham are we talking predicting round 1 or round 2? Round 1 is hard to predict. For round 2 I think some things are predictable: I wrote down rough predictions on a scale of "definitely in" / "probably in" / "maybe in" and I was right about the "definitely"s.

I suppose if I wrote down probabilities and collected them over time I could check my calibration...

mjskay,

@jbigham hmm this actually makes me want to start collecting my paper decision predictions

mjskay, to random

For any ggdist users, I finally wrote down all the crap about how scaling of slabs / thickness works in case it's ever befuddled you https://mjskay.github.io/ggdist/articles/thickness.html

A plot of geom_slab(normalize = "xy") with two rows in two panels: all slabs are normalized according to the thickness of the tallest slab at the same y position within the same panel.
A plot constructed of two different densities made using different geom_slab() layers. The heights of the densities are scaled together so that both have the same area.
A plot created using geom_slab(position = "dodgejust", height = 0.8, scale = 0.65). Slabs with the same y value are dodged vertically within a shared space of height 0.8. Then, that region is equally divided into subregions for each slab, and each slab is drawn within 0.65 * the height of its subregion.

ct_bergstrom, to random
@ct_bergstrom@fediscience.org avatar

NOT NEWS: Stanford epidemiologist who published 324 papers from 2020-2022 expresses grave concern about the proliferation of "extremely productive authors" who wrote a mere 180 or more papers during the same period, suspects fraud is at play, blames global South.

NEWS: Nature sees fit to cover it.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03865-y

mjskay,

@ct_bergstrom @reedmideke love how he slips "or negative" in there

mjskay, to random

Just released a minor update to ggdist (v3.3.1)

Mostly minor stuff, but I did add a new bar dotplot layout based on feedback from @sharoz: https://github.com/mjskay/ggdist/issues/190#issuecomment-1826400021

Plus faster dotplot binning (especially for large n) using Rcpp (yay!)

Full changelog: https://mjskay.github.io/ggdist/news

jbigham, to random
@jbigham@hci.social avatar

review that recommended RRX for us dinged us for novelty compared to an arxiv paper that was publish about 20 days before the CHI deadline.

assuming that's even a good criticism -- do we just cede to whoever posts on arxiv first now?

what do other communities do?

mjskay,

@jbigham come join us at @jovi where novelty is not a review criterion

gaborcsardi, to random
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The new evercran project (https://github.com/r-hub/evercran#readme) helps you run old (or ancient) versions of R, together with old (or ancient) snapshots of CRAN.

#RStats

mjskay,

@gaborcsardi what a great project name

mjskay, to random

@lonnibesancon and I will be running a meetup for folks interested in @jovi today (Wed) at 5pm at in Room 103! Come chat about the future of open access publishing of and work, including living documents and the publication of interactive papers! https://www.journalovi.org/

hrbrmstr, to random
@hrbrmstr@mastodon.social avatar

WHAT MONSTER DESIGNED THIS NEW SLACK LAYOUT AND WHAT SOCIOPATH AT SALESFORCE THOUGHT FORCING THE DEFAULT THEME TO “SWEET TREAT” WAS A GOOD IDEA?

mjskay,

@hrbrmstr it took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out that you have to click on the "home" button to get an actually usable interface

And yeah this color is, as the kids would say, a choice

impactology, to UI
@impactology@mastodon.social avatar

Is there an journal just focused on pedagogy?

Basically a journal dedicated to experimenting with how to teach the craft of designing interfaces and deconstructing syllabi topics, assignments, exercises?

or any online forum or community (slack, discord, subreddit) for to reflect and deconstruct, discuss each other's pedagogy, syllabus, assignments, exercises?

A place dedicated to learning & experimenting with how to teach the craft of designing interfaces

mjskay,

@impactology there is the EduCHI symposium which has existed for a few years: https://educhi2023.educhi.org/

jbigham, to random
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has anyone done an analysis of how various conference locations change the average travel distance of CHI attendees?

i thought part of Hawaii rationale was that it is sort of in between Asia and the USA, even though relatively few attendees are super close to Honolulu.

given that flight times over the curved globe often don't match our intuitions, i'm not sure Hawaii helps that much.

shaves off only a couple hours from Asia compared to west coast of the US, for instance.

mjskay,

@jbigham @upol @andresmh @janeadams uh... yeah, personally I would not feel safe going to Dubai

Anyway all future CHIs should be in Chicago

✅ great city
✅ great food
✅ hub airport
✅ transit
✅ human rights
✅ no hurricanes, earthquakes, etc
✅ CHIcago

mjskay,

@ben @jbigham @upol @andresmh @janeadams

CHIcago
MinCHIapolis
MilkwauCHI

I'd say the midwest has this all wrapped up

andrew, to random
@andrew@fediscience.org avatar

Q about stuff: I'm finding the probability of direction (proportion of posterior that's >0 or <0), but I never know how to report these, since sometimes they're positive and sometimes they're negative. My current solution is to use a column for each direction—is there a better way tho?

mjskay,

@andrew I'd probably try to set it up as a table where one is labeled A and the other B and you report it as P(A > B)

mjskay,

@andrew @1010is10 I meant four columns: A, B, A - B, P(A > B). This should accommodate any combination of comparisons of any levels.

P(!= reference) doesn't seem right unless you're using a ROPE or something like that?

But also, since those all use the same reference, why not P(> Amnesty)?

barbone, to random

I recently found out I can do parenthetical method chaining (there's a real term for this right?) in like the examples below.

args &lt;- (  
 scribe::command_args()  
 $add_argument("foo", action = "flag")  
 $add_argument("bar", action = "list", default = 1)  
 $parse()  
)  

wb &lt;- (  
 openxlsx2::wb_workbook()  
 $add_worksheet()  
 $add_data(x = datasets::attitude)  
)

I think I'm going to update a lot of scripts now.
@RStats

mjskay,

@dgkf @barbone If you want to write against this type of API in a pipe-y way you can use $:

args &lt;- some_function()$  
 something_else("foo")$  
 another("bar")$  
 more()

No need for parens or %$%

and I guess if you really want it to look pipe-y you could add a space

args &lt;- some_function() $  
 something_else("foo") $  
 another("bar") $  
 more()
coolbutuseless, to random
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{remedy} AddIns -> AlignEqual()

mjskay,

@coolbutuseless I too enjoy coding styles that create interline dependencies adding meaningless changes to code history

mjskay,

@scheidegger @coolbutuseless when I was in undergrad I wrote a long diatribe in one of my notebooks about how that's how we should actually be storing code and doing version control. Came across it the other day when I was flipping through some old stuff.

On the one hand, yes. On the other... Code is a human communication medium, so maybe there's some problems with that. 🤷

mjskay,

@scheidegger @coolbutuseless oh yeah, for sure - some people have absolutely bonkers ways of formatting their code. Just mindbendingly illegible.

bkeegan, to StarTrek
@bkeegan@hci.social avatar

S02E09 “Subspace Rhapsody” of was sublime, extraordinary, and superlative.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Easily a top 3 episode of anything I’ve seen this year, and maybe in recent years. Definitely a top 5 all-time Star Trek episode—bonus points for triggering the toxic fan snowflakes.

Find a way to watch it ASAP and jump on this bandwagon before the season finale next week!

mjskay,

@bkeegan that episode and the lower decks crossover really hit it out of the park!

jbigham, to random
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one of the problems with mastodon is that people don't actually like to boost things, and so the lack of an algorithm means a lot of cool stuff doesn't have an easy way to spread

mjskay,

@jbigham algorithmic puritanism x realities of human behavior = sadness

mjskay,

@jbigham this is why I'm a bit more optimistic about bluesky long term, as they are opting for openness and experimentation with algorithms through "Feeds", rather than vendor lock-in to a specific algorithm (which includes mastodon - reverse chron is an algorithm after all)

andresmh, to random
@andresmh@hci.social avatar

Low hanging fruit idea for a CSCW "study" paper: a study of Blind, a pseudonymous discussion forum for tech workers.

mjskay,

@floe @jbigham @andresmh CSCW publishes 12 papers on Why Hot New Thing is Bad, UIST publishes 12 papers on Cool Thing You Can Do with Hot New Thing, they all cancel out and the literature moves on

mjskay,

@jbigham @floe @andresmh putting on my non-glib hat, I think (1) HCI is such a big tent it would be hard to level that accusation at the whole field (or even a majority of it) and (2) for the portions of the community where it is true, there's still value in understanding how people use things they actually use (locally in time)...

... BUT (3) at some point you might want to establish a mature enough field to have theories / models that could tell you something about new tech that comes along

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