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📢 #Internship opportunity at the OECD - OCDE Spatial Productivity Lab, starting early 2026
We're typically hiring MSc or PhD students in #Economics or #datascience , with strong data, coding (#Rstats / #stata), and English drafting skills.
🚨 Deadline: Sunday 4 January 2026, 23:59 Paris time
See my LinkedIN post for more details, otherwise, dm me
@danwwilson Do it, the whole "gen AI" bullshit is massively over-hyped, its a solution funded by venture capitalists looking for a problem so they can get a Return On Investment and make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
It's all smoke and mirrors and the bubble will burst if not soon then one day.
For the "Earth" prompt on day 5 of the #30DayMapChallenge, I decided to compare different world map projections! 🗺️
I had a great time talking about the process of creating charts with ggplot2 at @rladiesrome tonight! 📊
Slides and code from the session can be found here: https://nrennie.rbind.io/talks/rladies-rome-ggplot2/
A small but interesting dataset for #TidyTuesday this week! We're looking at differences in lead levels of water samples between two studies 🧪
📊 Barcode chart showing distribution of values
✍️ Extended subtitle giving context
🔢 Annotations highlighting removed values
Code: https://github.com/nrennie/tidytuesday/tree/main/2025/2025-11-04
Data dashboards are our passion at Jumping Rivers. Earlier this year, we created a gallery to demonstrate our application-development capabilities.
https://www.jumpingrivers.com/blog/shiny-dashboard-app-gallery/
I'm super excited to give a workshop during next week's R/Pharma conference! Join me if you'd like to discuss the ✨beautiful✨ outputs you can create with #Quarto and #RStats.
📅 Tuesday, November 4 at 9 am CT
🔗 Free to register, too! https://events.zoom.us/ev/Ai-geyS63AOzr-Tskeu2jwsPAZkX9yQixTAJuQzNT-h_rw24wX-p~AnyGxi92zGyWPS_7xPj-Oax9RjoaU3pZS0DjeX45ML084eyqq4qo6O7BMg
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17065099
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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We're building a national application for MRI infrastructure in Norway. Help us make a strong case by completing this survey, whether you're a current user or just interested in the field!
https://nettskjema.no/a/540995
Please boost/repost this! Your input on factors like
accessibility and cost is super helpful for our application.
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Nicola Rennie
Jumping Rivers
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