mastodon 4.6.9Associate Professor at Northwestern in Computer Science and Communication Studies
Research in infovis, uncertainty vis, HCI, usable stats. Co-director https://mucollective.northwestern.edu. Co-founder https://www.journalovi.org.
Author of #tidybayes, #ggdist, & #ggblend #rstats packages.
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Oh hey y'all I don't post as much here anymore (too many social networks!!), but I still miss folks from on here, especially in #rstats... do me a favor if your wanna connect? Follow my bluesky account from within mastodon by following *both* @bsky.brid.gy (to enable the bridge to bluesky) and @mjskay.com (to follow me there).
I miss a lot of y'all!
Where-ish is the MU Collective at #chi2024? We've got 2 workshops, 9 papers (4 honorable mentions + 1 best paper), and a SIG --- on topics including vis literacy, human-AI interaction, uncertainty vis, multiverse analysis, vis for public policy, data sonification, and new ways of publishing in #HCI! https://mucollective.northwestern.edu/
@ryanmcshane@fosstodon.org I read it as something like "foo of x equal to 3", and would probably call = in that context the "parameter assignment" operator if I wasn't just calling it the "equals sign".
The R language definition doesn't seem to give it a name but does say: "Although it is not strictly an operator, it also needs mentioning that the ‘=’ sign is used for tagging arguments in function calls and for assigning default values in function definitions."
https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-devel/R-lang.html#Infix-and-prefix-operators