An interesting phenomenon in asking chatGPT to generate R, Julia, Lean, and Python code: it invents syntax and facilities that *should* exist.

For example, if I ask for a survey SEM analysis in R, it expects there to be an svysem function. This function does not exist (it's called lavaan.survey), but maybe it should!

So ChatGPT can illustrate how users of software might reasonably expect the software to work, potentially helping us design it better.

When subsetting in R using square brackets, it is important to know that `NA` values are returned if they are part of the variable used for filtering.

This behavior is different when using the `filter` function of dplyr.

I learned this the hard way and was reminded of it just now!
Be aware of it! 🚨

#RStats

We have a #Job opening for an Assistant Professor Geo-Environmental #DataScience at the Department of #PhysicalGeography at #UtrechtUniversity the Netherlands.

https://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/working-at-utrecht-university/jobs/assistant-professor-geo-environmental-data-science-08-10-fte

Boosts of this toot are appreciated!

#vacancy

Calling all graduate students and early career researchers in #datascience: @rwdatasci has launched a new blog this week called DataScienceBites - and we want you to join us as contributors!

The blog publishes digestible, engaging summaries of interesting new pre-print and peer-reviewed publications in the data science space. Our goal is to make scientific papers more widely accessible.

Further details: https://realworlddatascience.net/news-and-views/editors-blog/posts/2022-12-13-dsb-launch/dsb-launch.html

Stages of getting into a new research thing

1. No one has thought of this
2. Oh, some people have, but it’s not exactly the same
3. Oh, it’s exactly the same
4. OMG, everyone already knows about this, but they all call it something different

Three interesting vacancies at NWO for program leaders in the area of open science:

Citizen science/societal engagement: https://www.nwo.nl/vacatures/programmaleider-citizen-science/societal-engagement

FAIR/open data: https://www.nwo.nl/vacatures/programmaleider-fair/open-data

Open scholarly communication: https://www.nwo.nl/vacatures/programmaleider-open-scholarly-communication

Deadline is January 7.

@HLdeJonge

I am very excited to be teaching Causal Inference at the ECPR Winter School in Leuven, 6-10 Feb.

This will be an accessible introduction to the topic in a friendly, safe environment.

We will learn the basics and discuss how to apply them in our work.

More information here: https://ecpr.eu/Events/Event/PanelDetails/12560

Please consider signing up and sharing with who you think might be interested.

Thank you!