Ben Harrap

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doer of data things at Yardhura Walani vice president of statsoc.org.au I do #rstats, surveys, biostatistics, #IDSov on Ngunnawal and Ngambri lands not Indigenous, non-binary (they/them) benharrap.com

A screen depicting a colourful street in an imagined future where quantum robots are helping out in various ways
You are... The Shrug patron saint: Matt Levine AI is a thing that exists and you regard it with detached amusement, like everything else. It's overhyped, sure, but so is most stuff. You'll use it when it's useful and ignore it when it isn't, and you find the discourse more interesting than the technology. You are unbothered.
A clip from the animated show Archer, where the main character Archer is slapping another character in the face with a steak
The inside of a coffee shop, with floor to ceiling windows looking out onto congested traffic backed up across an intersection
A back yard with lots of currawongs flying around and singing their birdsong
A screenshot of a stack overflow solution, with a "copy" button in the top-right
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A clip from Malcolm in the Middle, where Hal notices the light isn't working and goes to fix it, except he gets distracted by trying to fix lots of other things on the way and doesn't end up fixing the light
Cucumbers laid out on a chopping board next to a knife, with a recipe book open and several condiments and herbs scattered around
A sign that reads "persons shall not ride on this hoist"
A snippet of R code: mtcars |> filter_out(when_any(cyl == 6, hp < 100))
Tom Cruise yelling into a mobile phone "show me the DAG"
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A photo of text and a form from 1974. The text reads "the CBCS undertook a national anthem poll to advise the government of the anthem preferred by the population. Advance Australia fair was the favourite" The form asks demographic questions, one question about which songs respondents had heard, and another about which is preferred for the national anthem
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A slide with the text "definition of a confidence interval" followed by "the probability that the true value lies within the interval" is displaying. At several points, a gif of Wayne Knight from Jurassic Park appears, wagging his finger and saying "ah ah ah"
screaming seagull meme panel 1: chill seagull saying FALSE panel 2: agitated seagull saying FAALSE panel 3: deep breath panel 4: screaming FAAAAAAAAALSE
The 90's 'bop it' toy with the R package dplyr's verbs filter, select, mutate, and summarise superimposed on the toy's actions
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apply_labels <- function(data){ data |> mutate( across( .cols = everything(), .fns = \(x) { # Get current value labels value_labels <- dictionary |> filter(variable == cur_column()) |> pull(label_values) |> unlist() # Get current variable label variable_label <- dictionary |> filter(variable == cur_column()) |> pull(label) # Apply the labels labelled( x = x, labels = value_labels, label = variable_label ) } ) ) }
A four-panel meme of a person slowly applying clown make-up. 1: Yep I'll review that grant application 2: Sure, I'll supervise some students 3: OK I'll organise that conference 4: I didn't write any code today
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a scene from "the breakfast club" with r package hexes superimposed on the five characters from left to right: the delinquent is a plain-text markdown table the jock is the janitor package the loner is the tinytable package the popular girl is the knitr package the nerd is the gt package the jock is the 'janitor' package, the
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To Galahs sitting in a tree eating berries
A video of me sitting at a desk typing with superimposed text saying: Dr Ben Harrap Data nerd Supporting mob-led research Academic? Not that kind of doctor
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A summary of my performance on the survey. I was in the middle of the pack in terms of probability assignment and 100% consistent with my word comparisons versus numerical assignment
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A screenshot of text Computations involving ‘NaN’ will return ‘NaN’ or perhaps ‘NA’: which of those two is not guaranteed and may depend on the R platform (since compilers may re-order computations). Numerical computations using ‘NA’ will normally result in ‘NA’: a possible exception is where ‘NaN’ is also involved, in which case either might result (which may depend on the R platform). However, this is not guaranteed and future CPUs and/or compilers may behave differently.
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It's me, wearing a floppy black phd hat with red tassels, and a black gown with cherry trim
A room of people sitting at tables looking at a projection of github issues
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raphael, one of the teenage mutant ninja turtles, wielding two sai
A slide about accurate visualisations asking Is the chart appropriate Are the axis ranges reasonable Is it intuitive Is the 5 second conclusion the same as the 5 minute conclusion
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The title slide from a presentation. It reads "smoking guns - generating evidence to inform tobacco control. Associate professor Grace Joshy"
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A response from the Claude LLM after being instructed to respond like an aggressive New Yorker: Alright, alright, you want a function that strips ALL the whitespace, including those sneaky unicode characters? No problem, I got you covered. Here ya go - this'll handle everything from your basic spaces to those weird unicode whitespace characters that like to hide in your data: There ya have it! I gave you THREE versions because I'm thorough like that: Basic version - Uses \\s+ which catches 99% of whitespace including unicode. The perl = TRUE makes sure it handles unicode properly. Stringr version - Same thing but uses stringr if you're one of those tidyverse people. Comprehensive version - This bad boy explicitly targets specific unicode whitespace characters that sometimes slip through. I'm talking non-breaking spaces, em spaces, figure spaces - the whole gang. The \\s+ pattern is your friend here - it matches ANY whitespace character (spaces, tabs, newlines, unicode whitespace) and the + means it'll grab consecutive whitespace characters all at once. Just paste whichever version works for your situation and boom - no more whitespace problems. You need anything else or we good here?
A screen recording of R code, demonstrating how anonymous functions appear in the bookmarks pane - but only when the function argument is named
A demonstration of directory auto-complete in RStudio. An empty file location is partly filled in, then tabbing is used to auto-complete the location for saving a file
A graph from google trends showing a spike in search activity for "kitchensink r package"
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Twelve crispy, golden-brown Yorkshire puddings
Shrek ew no yes please meme Top panel: Shrek ew no face and the text "Sample size calculation based on Cohen's d" Bottom panel: Shrek yes please face and the text "Sample size calculation based on the outcome's original scale"
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A snippet of code which defines a list of pronouns and a function that randomly selects a pronoun from said list.
A screenshot of text from the article's discussion: When considering the mechanisms for prevention suggested by Anderson et al., most conditions were preventable through early access to primary care. Only dental conditions, gastroenteritis, and skin infections were considered preventable through health promotion. However, these conditions constituted 30%–50 % of conditions across the three age brackets, suggesting health promotion can play an important role in policy design to reduce rates of these PPHs. Underlying this, however, is our finding that the rate of PPHs increased with increasing socio-economic disadvantage. If the household environment and access to timely primary healthcare are dependent on financial capacity, such as paying for housing with more bedrooms to avoid overcrowding or visiting general practitioners and dentists that charge gap fees to access them earlier, the influence of health promotion will be limited for the most socio-economically disadvantaged families while financial barriers exist. Screening for healthcare needs, referrals to specialists, changing household environment and no longer being maltreated could all contribute to lower rates of PPHs. What is important to realise is that these preventive measures can all occur without having to remove a child from their family—through early intervention and support services for families.