Ryan McShane

@ryanmcshane.bsky.social

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Statistics professor at The University of Chicago * Researching intransitivity in paired comparisons, pedagogy in sports analytics courses. * Data viz enthusiast. * #RStats * #GSG 🏀🇩🇪🇺🇸 ryanmcshane.com

My cat Pam sitting on my shoulders while I cut a bell pepper. She demanded "ups" while I was cooking.
Libby's app output (linked in her post)
Laptop cover featuring 15 hex stickers and three Spurs basketball stickers
The backside of the coin from another post that features the front side of the tidydevday 2025 coin.
Three tidyverse/r-lib stickers and a commemorative coin for participating in tidy dev day 2025
Hadley Wickham, me, and all of the post-it notes of completed PRs.
Sticker haul from posit::conf(2025) (and a couple from USCOTS 2025)
Four panel meme which is an exploited version of a classic meme. This one says, 1. How many layers of reproducibility are you on 2. Like, maybe 5, or 6 right now, my dude 3. You are like a little baby. // watch this 4. (Bruno Rodrigues' reproducibility iceberg meme saying "NIX" The original iceberg meme is from his book, Building Reproducible Analytical Pipelines (2023). Since then, Bruno has recommended Nix. I haven't started working at that level of reproducibility, so I couldn't compare old vs new, but I know there's some overlap.
Screenshot of the audiobook of "Julia" I am currently listening to on the library audiobook app called "Libby"
Bottom chart/tweet is from Biden touting an "improvement" in the deficit, by only showing two years, the first being the first year of COVID. Worse is the choice of y-axis. Top chart shows more accurate representation of the deficit over 21 years — the 2021 deficit was still orders of magnitude worse than all pre-COVID deficits. Context, of course, is important: COVID was unprecedented in living memory and had a massive impact on the economy and the government's response to it. In short, this is a misrepresentation of the truth by shifting the goalposts within the plot. It also removes nuance from the conversation, and that strategy of denying the truth of a changing (worsened) economy was ultimately one of the most major contributors to the Biden/Harris loss in 2024 (Trump was "for" the economy, and some voters accepted that claim). Trump, of course, has done nothing to help the economy, and has actively worked to make matters worse (tariffs, attempts to destabilize trust in institutions with DOGE and firing of BLS chief, etc) (I still plan on being nonpartisan in class, but am interested in how you would confront these issues in the classroom)
Four panels: Top left: Greg Matthews receiving the ASA Significant Contributor in Sports award from Ron Yurko. Bottom left: a young Michael Scott (The Office) getting a handshake from his first boss, Ed Truck. Top right: a zoomed in look at an uncharacteristically expressionless Greg. Bottom right: a zoomed in look at an uncharacteristically expressionless Michael. Together, the top (real) mimics the bottom (fiction).