#rstats developer of graphical methods for categorical and multivariate data; #datavis history of data visualization; #historicaldatavis; Milestones project

Toronto, Ontario
Joined August 2015
Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social retweeted
En la práctica, la realidad empírica destruye los supuestos de la regresión lineal tradicional (OLS): los datos se agrupan, las varianzas explotan, las relaciones se curvan y los ceros inundan las tablas. Forzar tus datos en OLS arruina tu inferencia y predicción. 📊👇 #Analytics
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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social retweeted
My Claude found a critical zero day vulnerability in the Code of Hammurabi, unnoticed by developers for 3,779 years.
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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social retweeted
I’ve delivered on building housing, and we’re just getting started. Thanks to partnership with Prime Minister Carney we have secured $2.7 billion to build housing you can afford.
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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social retweeted
Dan Rather for the win.
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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social retweeted
Tommy Douglas knew then what New Democrats still know today. If we could mobilize the resources of this country to defeat Nazi tyranny, there is no reason we cannot do the same to make sure that each and every person has what they need to live a dignified life. Happy Birthday, Tommy.
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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social retweeted
🚨#BREAKING: JD Vance’s Fraud Whistleblower Incentive Program has been flooded with reports of blatant fraud committed by Republicans in the Trump Administration & Congress. Over 97% of reports over the past 24 hours have been against corrupt MAGA politicians.
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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social retweeted
The town of Mexico, NY announced Tuesday it would change its name to Epstein List to avoid being targeted by President Donald Trump’s reported push to rename New Mexico to New America. “We figured if we changed our name to something he absolutely doesn’t want to talk about, we might fly under the radar,” said town supervisor Mark Henderson.
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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social retweeted
Let's mention emergency response. One candidate reduced police response times from 26 minutes to 12 minutes. One candidate reduced 911 operator delay from up to 12 minutes to 3 seconds. Mayor Chow has been effective where it matters.
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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social retweeted
This morning, environmental titan David Suzuki joined me in speaking about the risks to our safety and pocketbooks that come with Bradford’s proposal to privatize our water. I’m grateful to have David’s support. His decades of leadership on the environment remind us that protecting our water means protecting our communities and our environment for future generations. Our water should never be for sale.
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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social retweeted
Why does a scientist study nature? by Henri Poincaré 💭 The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful it would not be worth knowing, and life would not be worth living. I am not speaking, of course, of the beauty which strikes the senses, of the beauty of qualities and appearances. I am far from despising this, but it has nothing to do with science. What I mean is that more intimate beauty which comes from the harmonious order of its parts, and which a pure intelligence can grasp. -- as mentioned in The Selection of Facts, p. 22, Ch. 1 [Image courtesy: Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis]
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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social retweeted
FLASHBACK: Ten years ago tonight, Hillary Clinton said that Donald Trump would operate as a puppet of Vladimir Putin. Hillary was right about everything.
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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social retweeted
George Conway on Trump: “The decline has been constant, but I do think it’s accelerating. He’s always been a narcissistic sociopath, a psychopath. His ego is so sensitive to slights or perceived criticisms. He knows he’s not that smart, he knows he had to cheat to get ahead. If you look at the history of people like Trump, Hitler was a psychopath and a delusional one. All these megalomaniacs throughout history, they become more and more detached from reality and then they get more desperate. This is not good”
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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social retweeted
This video needs to go viral. It is so true in every way. Trump is controlled by Vladimir Putin. He clearly puts Russia before America. @ProjectLincoln
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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social retweeted
There once was a man from Palm Beach Who tried to cure COVID with bleach His shorts filled with skids His datebook, with kids And still these assholes won’t impeach
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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social retweeted
Why I cheered in the cinema when I saw the film Pressure - great lessons on uncertainty, contested advice, and forecasting methods davidspiegelhalter.substack.… youtube.com/watch?v=eYa8N3R2…
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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social retweeted
Crossing over, tomorrow…
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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social retweeted
I went looking for one Japanese chart book and ended up with 19 prewar volumes, a new collecting method, and a stronger conviction that graphic history is far from fully known.
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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social retweeted
Spearheaded by @DavidKlaveren & with co-authors @stats_research, Patrick Serruys, @benvancalster our new article in Stat in Med provides a minimal-assumption way to estimate the relationship between survival probability and a continuous variable: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… #Statistics
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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social retweeted
🚨 EXTREMELY IMPORTANT — PLEASE READ AND SHARE THIS. Something extremely important is happening right now on the world stage, and I don’t believe nearly enough people understand just how big this story really is. Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff are pushing European leaders to release billions in frozen Russian assets and place them under American financial control. But my friends, this is about much more than frozen Russian money. Much more than Ukraine. And much more than what is being reported in the headlines. We are talking about Russia, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, American investors, oil and gas pipelines, and people inside Donald Trump’s closest circle. I have been warning about these connections since Trump returned to the White House. And what my sources are telling me is that this did not happen overnight. I put together a detailed investigation and a chart connecting the people, the money, the reported deals, and the timeline so you can see for yourself how these relationships intersect. We are witnessing the early stages of something much bigger: a potential effort to bring Russia back into the global financial system, with billions of dollars at stake. And what I am hearing suggests there is much more to come. I’m asking every one of you to take a few minutes to read this investigation, study the chart, and SPREAD IT FAR AND WIDE. Restack it. Share it. Send it to your friends and family. Help get this information outside our echo chambers. Because understanding what is happening behind closed doors is essential to holding those in power accountable. 👇 READ THE FULL INVESTIGATION AND STUDY THE CHART BELOW. levremembers.substack.com/p/… The truth matters. The receipts matter. And this is just the beginning
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