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| Pronouns | He/him |
| Website | https://alexandernewton.page/ |
| Defunct blog | https://dis.repair/ |
Alex Newton
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PhD student at LSE. Formerly at Office for National Statistics. Interested in all things scientific practice, metascience and models of scientific communication.
PositAnnouncing the release of renv 1.0.0! 🌱 The renv package helps create reproducible environments for your R projects.
Important changes include:
• Revisions to the renv intro documentation
• The new `renv::checkout()` makes it easy to use packages as if they’d all been installed at a specified date
• Different handling of “development” dependencies
• `renv::dependencies()` now discovers R dependencies inside Jupyter notebooks.
Read more in the blog post: https://posit.co/blog/renv-1-0-0/
Prof Christina PagelA fediverse THREAD on latest NHS situation in England: Ambluance times, A&E, Waiting lists...
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I am Alex Newton, a researcher and team lead at the Office for National Statistics, UK.
My work mostly focused on how to improve the computational reproducibility of official statistics, economic research, machine learning models, social studies, surveys, and analysis of all kinds that the UK government produces.
I'm currently taking a year out to do an MSc in Econ at LSE. My goal is to learn about and contribute to the micro theory literature on how science works.