Dan Spencer doesn't know Quarto yet

"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when you put comments in your code." ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, today

[Dan Spencer doesn't know Quarto yet @danCMDstat]

@BrainStatsSam , I'm installing your RFTtoolbox right now!

[Dan Spencer doesn't know Quarto yet @danCMDstat]

Short PSA to those of you who are developing software packages on GitHub: Get credit for your work if other people use your code by adding a CITATION.cff file. I find this incredibly useful when I use your packages in my publications! https://t.co/SXJkwusY2m #github #code

[Dan Spencer doesn't know Quarto yet @danCMDstat]

@BrainStatsSam Just re-read that paper! Thanks for sharing your pipeline!

[Dan Spencer doesn't know Quarto yet @danCMDstat]

Hey #neurostats, #NeuroTwitter, #neuroscience, when you develop methods for neuroimaging data, do you use simulated data? If so, how do you simulate? Do you use a software package or write your own code to simulate data? #askingforagrant

[Dan Spencer doesn't know Quarto yet @danCMDstat]

@Anna_NeuroSci @AGerlachPhD Good to know! This has been my approach, too. I'm thinking it may be time to look into how simulation is done across the field and how it can affect the development of methodologies. Thanks!

[Dan Spencer doesn't know Quarto yet @danCMDstat]

@daktx2 Very narrow audience for this one, but I’m here for it.

[Dan Spencer doesn't know Quarto yet @danCMDstat]

@hufengling It totally caught me off guard the first time I submitted a paper. I do the research and then *I* pay to show it to other people‽

[Dan Spencer doesn't know Quarto yet @danCMDstat]

The alternative to having to pay $30 for a copy of your own work is when the journal asks you for $3500 so you can be the good guy and publish in an open source journal. https://t.co/QyjIDxbTqT #AcademicTwitter #giveNanaTheArXivLink

[Dan Spencer doesn't know Quarto yet @danCMDstat]

@daktx2 This is hilarious. I know what I’ll be doing this afternoon

[Dan Spencer doesn't know Quarto yet @danCMDstat]

So excited for @BrightFatma as she proposes her PhD dissertation today!

[Dan Spencer doesn't know Quarto yet @danCMDstat]

@ClaireMKBowen @CoeurSports So awesome. Isn’t that such a nice place to run? Looks like we stayed in similar places!

[Dan Spencer doesn't know Quarto yet @danCMDstat]

@BrainStatsSam @hufengling I think that’s a fair point. However, this is an interesting use of a very new technology. I’m going to take a deeper read of this paper before I make any judgements about possible problems.

[Dan Spencer doesn't know Quarto yet @danCMDstat]

This is a truly genius idea. As a statistician working in neuroimaging methods, there are lots of times when you want simulated data that are close to the real thing, but with a controllable ground truth so you can test model power and accuracy. Great job!

[Walter Hugo Lopez Pinaya 🍍 @Warvito]

🎉New preprint! We used Diffusion Models (same one from #dalle2 and @StableDiffusion ) to generate 3D MRI images of the brain conditioned on several covariates and make 100k synthetic brains openly available
Paper: https://t.co/8Dh81lCTJu
Dataset: https://t.co/35Orp6SfP0
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[Dan Spencer doesn't know Quarto yet @danCMDstat]

@BrainStatsSam Yes, but then you are limited to the data that have been collected. I agree that you *can* and many people *have* simulated using the UK Biobank data. I think this is likely the next step. You have no limit to the number of subjects, plus you can simulate over unseen conditions.

[Dan Spencer doesn't know Quarto yet @danCMDstat]

@BrainStatsSam They also allow for you to simulate conditions because they have the distributional effects of tons of covariates.

[Dan Spencer doesn't know Quarto yet @danCMDstat]

This is the best thing I’ve seen on Twitter all year.

[Rafael Moral @rafamoral]

“The R Inferno Song”, as I like to call it. Caution: contains examples of what NOT to do 👀

If you’d like to see the full cinematographic experience, go to https://t.co/J2eAnV4Lkr for the full-length video.

#rstats #parody #teaching #statistics #teenagedirtbag

[Dan Spencer doesn't know Quarto yet @danCMDstat]

@raybai07 Thanks for this post Ray. Very helpful to me as I start my journey into the academic job market!