Ben Harrap

@bharrap

doer of data things at Yardhura Walani vice president of statsoc.org.au I do #rstats, surveys, biostatistics, #IDSov on Ngunnawal and Ngambri lands not Indigenous, non-binary (they/them) benharrap.com

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Ben Harrap@bharrap· 9d

Which is crazy, because I'd wager that the majority of people doing science are first and foremost interested in estimates and how to interpret them

Top gear meme

Meaningful, accurate interpretations of important quantities - this is brilliant

Poop emojis - but I like this

Ben Harrap@bharrap· 9d

Or in modern terms...

Meme with two characters

Nerd crying and saying "nooo you have to consider the evidence in context and keep experimenting"

Normie saying "haha p<0.05 go brrr"

Ben Harrap@bharrap· 17d

The kids area at the science museum knows what's up #rstats

And illustration of five different types of penguin, showing their different heights

Ben Harrap@bharrap· 19d

Home made clotted cream: success

Thick clotted cream, standing upright in a container

Ben Harrap@bharrap· Jul 13

Accidental RStudio #rstats hotkey discovery of the day Alt (Option) + Shift + Up/Down I knew it incremented numbers, but not words too!? in/out true/false - what else? Is there a list of these words somewhere?

Ben Harrap@bharrap· Jul 4

Questacon has a new exhibition about quantum science. It was fun to sit and watch but the real highlight was the dad joke they snuck in: Where did all the hackers go? They ransomware

A screen depicting a colourful street in an imagined future where quantum robots are helping out in various ways

Ben Harrap@bharrap· Jun 30

I'm actually surprised by the result, although I don't know who Matt Levine is

You are...
The Shrug
patron saint: Matt Levine
AI is a thing that exists and you regard it with detached amusement, like everything else. It's overhyped, sure, but so is most stuff. You'll use it when it's useful and ignore it when it isn't, and you find the discourse more interesting than the technology. You are unbothered.

Ben Harrap@bharrap· Jun 26

How would you like your effect size today? I'll have it medium please

Ben Harrap@bharrap· Jun 21

Drinking my pre-workshop espresso and having a Very Melbourne Experience, where I can't tell if I'm hearing cars honking or saxophone playing over the cafe speakers

The inside of a coffee shop, with floor to ceiling windows looking out onto congested traffic backed up across an intersection

Ben Harrap@bharrap· Jun 15

It's currawong party time this morning (sound on) @skwinnicki.bsky.social some Australian birdsong for you. I love it!

Ben Harrap@bharrap· Jun 14

Wow in all my years of using Stack Overflow, I've never noticed/used the code copy button I finally used it today and found it automatically adds in some useful metadata! Left = Stack Overflow answer Right = Pasted code ps thanks @nrennie.bsky.social for the solution 😀

A screenshot of a stack overflow solution, with a "copy" button in the top-right

Code from the stack overflow solution, with additional metadata listing the source (a hyperlink to the original solution, the solution poster, and the retrieval date and licensing info

Ben Harrap@bharrap· Jun 13

Gomez needs to come to Australia, it's clearly an iced vovo

Two iced vovo biscuits, one on top of the other. They're rectangular with jam down the middle and pink icing on either side, dusted with coconut

Ben Harrap@bharrap· Jun 11

Expectation: I'll get on with this task I've been meaning to do for weeks now My ADHD reality:

Ben Harrap@bharrap· Jun 8

Spending the morning preparing food. Grateful to be able to spend a couple of hours in the kitchen and have people to share the food with

Cucumbers laid out on a chopping board next to a knife, with a recipe book open and several condiments and herbs scattered around

Ben Harrap@bharrap· Jun 4

The eleventh commandment

A sign that reads "persons shall not ride on this hoist"

Ben Harrap@bharrap· Jun 4

You probably saw `filter_out()` in {dplyr} 1.2.0 but did you notice `when_any()` and `when_all()`? Not only is it easier to write conditions, but the usage of commas instead of | and & means formatters like air will align all conditions the same 🤩 #rstats dplyr.tidyverse.org/reference/wh...

A snippet of R code:

mtcars |> filter_out(when_any(cyl == 6, hp < 100))

Ben Harrap@bharrap· Jun 4

Tom Cruise yelling into a mobile phone "show me the DAG"

Ben Harrap@bharrap· May 23

My dream job would be building dry stone walls! Niche market though haha

Ben Harrap@bharrap· May 20

I had no idea that Australia's national anthem was so democratically selected! (CBCS = Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics) #statssky #databs

A photo of text and a form from 1974. The text reads "the CBCS undertook a national anthem poll to advise the government of the anthem preferred by the population. Advance Australia fair was the favourite"

The form asks demographic questions, one question about which songs respondents had heard, and another about which is preferred for the national anthem

Ben Harrap@bharrap· May 3

Autumn leaves that have gone an intense red colour

Ben Harrap@bharrap· May 2

Disclaimer: this is my first #quarto extension, I don't know what I'm doing That said, for who knows what reason I've always wanted a RevealJS feature where you can summon Wayne Knight to deliver his iconic "ah ah ah" line from Jurassic Park You're welcome (sound on) github.com/benharrap/ah...

Ben Harrap@bharrap· May 1

screaming seagull meme

panel 1: chill seagull saying FALSE
panel 2: agitated seagull saying FAALSE
panel 3: deep breath
panel 4: screaming FAAAAAAAAALSE

Ben Harrap@bharrap· Apr 28

Common #rstats workflows in niche meme format

The 90's 'bop it' toy with the R package dplyr's verbs filter, select, mutate, and summarise superimposed on the toy's actions

Ben Harrap@bharrap· Mar 19

There's a lovely green gradient here for anyone looking to make a single sequential colour palette #rstats

Gum tree leaves of varying shades of green

Ben Harrap@bharrap· Mar 13

I love the haven package! I wrote this handy function for my data pipeline that takes a data dictionary and applies labels to each variable in the dataset (code in alt-text) I feel like @cghlewis.bsky.social would appreciate this

$apply_labels <- function(data){ data |> mutate( across( .cols = everything(), .fns = \(x) { # Get current value labels value_labels <- dictionary |> filter(variable == cur_column()) |> pull(label_values) |> unlist() # Get current variable label variable_label <- dictionary |> filter(variable == cur_column()) |> pull(label) # Apply the labels labelled( x = x, labels = value_labels, label = variable_label ) } ) ) }$

Ben Harrap@bharrap· Mar 5

I love my job, I get to write code all the time

A four-panel meme of a person slowly applying clown make-up.

1: Yep I'll review that grant application
2: Sure, I'll supervise some students
3: OK I'll organise that conference
4: I didn't write any code today

Ben Harrap@bharrap· Feb 28

King parrots ❤️

A king parrot peeking through something foliage

Ben Harrap@bharrap· Feb 27

Given the recent spicy #rstats threads, an important reminder: There's no single right way to code If it works for you, that's all that matters really Be good to your fellow coders

Ben Harrap@bharrap· Feb 16

How it feels picking an #rstats package to make tables

a scene from "the breakfast club" with r package hexes superimposed on the five characters

from left to right:

the delinquent is a plain-text markdown table
the jock is the janitor package
the loner is the tinytable package
the popular girl is the knitr package
the nerd is the gt package

the jock is the 'janitor' package, the

Ben Harrap@bharrap· Feb 15

Sunday roast time 🤤