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✨ 2027 eConference Co-Chair (Majority World)
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📣 RoSE Network Vacancies - Call for Volunteers
We’re inviting applications from statistics education researchers & practitioners (any career stage, worldwide) for:
• RoSE 2027 eConference Co-Chair (Majority World)
• Finance Co-Director ×2
• Statistics Pedagogy SIG Lead
All roles are voluntary in a non-profit academic community.
🗓 Deadline: 30 Jan 2026
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At the RSS conference last week, I had the pleasure of speaking alongside Andy Field, Rhys C Jones, and Margaret MacDougall about the process of book writing and publishing!
You can find my slides online here: https://nrennie.rbind.io/talks/rss-conference-book-publishing/
This talk will share my personal experiences of writing and publishing a book as a scholarly activity. It will cover engaging with publishers, contracts, the writing process, and the benefits and challenges of book writing as an early career academic.
I had a fabulous time at the RSS conference in Edinburgh this week with lots of excellent talks and time spent catching up with people I don't get to see often enough!
See you next year in Bournemouth?
At RSS conference next week, I'll be talking in the 'Book Publication as a Scholarly Activity for Statisticians' session @ 11.30 on Thurs 4 Sept - which I'm really looking forward to!
Some of the things I'll be talking about include:
📖 Writing about #RStats with #QuartoPub
✍️ Working with Lara at CRC Press
📊 How it all started with some #TidyTuesday charts!
(Very subtle announcement that there's a #DataViz book from me coming soon!)
Thanks to those who came along to today's RSS Manchester session about teaching data wrangling with {messy}. There were so many useful questions at the end - my to-do list just got longer!
Slides: https://nrennie.rbind.io/talks/rss-manchester-messy/
In this session, I'll introduce the 'messy' R package designed to introduce controlled levels of messiness into existing, clean datasets. This package allows you to retain the structure and simplicity of familiar example datasets while providing students with a realistic, manageable data cleaning experience.
I'm really looking forward to delivering this talk about creating data for teaching and testing using the {messy} package in July for the RSS Manchester Local Group!
📅 Thursday 10 July 2025
⌚ 1.00PM - 2.00PM BST
📌 Online (everyone welcome!)
🚨 Exciting news! 🚨
We've just launched the @RoSE_Network_ blog!
If you're interested in sparking conversations and sharing insights about statistics education, then have a read (and think about contributing 👀)
Read our first post which introduces the blog: https://www.rose-network.org/blog/welcome-to-the-rose-blog
🎉 The {messy} package is now available on CRAN! 🎉
Read the introductory blog post here: https://nrennie.rbind.io/blog/introducing-messy-r-package/
The {messy} R package takes a clean dataset, and randomly adds mess to create data more similar to that which you'd find in the real world. This is an easy way for educators to create data sets that give students the opportunity to practice their data wrangling skills without having to change all of their examples.
Save the date for UKCOTS 2025!
📅 24th-25th June 2025
📌 University of Glasgow, UK
❔ A conference for anyone with an interest in the teaching of statistics in higher education in whatever department or discipline
Link: https://www.ukcots.org/
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Nicola Rennie