Chris Kenny, PhD

@chriskenny.bsky.social

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Postdoc, Princeton DDSS. PhD '25 Government @harvard.edu. Studies redistricting with #rstats. https://christophertkenny.com/

A screenshot from GitHub desktop showing a tribble pre and post running air.
Plot of packages maintained by package author and year. Names are highlighted for most active maintainers in 2008 and again in 2026.
Histogram of new package submissions, showing a steady increase from 1997 to 2017, with flattening out except for peaks in Covid's 2020-2021 and a big jump in 2026
A dot density map of NYC where each point represents 50 voters. Lines show NYC neighborhoods. Density is highest in Manhattan with a lot of dots for Mamdani. Areas of Staten Island and Brooklyn are dense and yellow for Cuomo.
Clicking around in a map of New Mexico and lightly editing the map, starting from the 2020 congressional districts.
grid of hexagonal package logos
An email saying: Dear maintainer, Please see the problems shown on <https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_ggredist.html>. The new errors are from yesterday's update of {ggplot2}. Please correct before 2025-10-03 to safely retain your package on CRAN. Best wishes, The CRAN Team
From the CRAN policy: "Before submitting a package update, consult the CRAN check page at ‘https://CRAN.R-project.org/web/checks/check_results_NAME.html’, substituting NAME by the name of your package. In particular, wait for that page to be fully updated after publication of a version (which can take at least 48 hours) before submitting any corrections." which you warranted to have read when you resubmitted. It still is not 'fully updated', but already there is another failure. As it also says "The time of the volunteers is CRAN’s most precious resource" -- Brian D. Ripley
A map of the Sloatsburg and surrounding area, showing votes for a third party candidate alleging that she received fewer votes than she should have.
A map of undervotes in Ramapo, showing that the within-party dropoff in 2020 was also limited to two villages.
A map of undervotes in Ramapo, showing that the within-party dropoff is limited to two villages.
The same graph but for 2020, showing that the patterns are pretty normal.
The same graph, but using US House as the baseline to show that the pattern is very sensitive.
A graph showing that the percent of people by precinct who took a ballot and voted for any presidential candidate is very high.
Typr logo, which is the letters `typr` in shades of grey and blue corresponding to the Typst and R logos.
A picture of two templates for Annual Reviews and the APSR
Screenshot of geomtextpath CRAN page with the new highlighted issues notice.
BAF package logo, reminiscent of the famous crosswalk at Abbey Road
Logo for the R package crayons, saying crayons repeatedly in different colors
A line graph showing cumulative downloads for R packages from the last year. tinytiger leads, while bskyr falls way below.
A line graph, with week on the x axis and probability that the audience lets the presenter present on the y axis. The slope is negative.
A word cloud in the shape of South Carolina with words from the oral argument in Alexander on 2023-10-11. Top 10 words are court, district, race, evidence, data, racial, case, map, dr