jon powell

📈 SPREADSHEET GAMES 📉 Everyone knows game designers love working with spreadsheets, but there aren't enough games that run *in* spreadsheets. But my students are helping set things right. Check out some of their amazing games, all playable in Excel or Google Sheets: 👇📊👇📊👇

@Duncan_Wilson78 Is this you confessing a deep love of Razorlight?

Excited to share that our meta-analysis about #mathanxiety & #testanxiety is now (finally) out and fully open access @SpringerNature! With my amazing co-authors: @EToffalini, David Giofrè, Jessy Mercader Ruiz, @DenesSzucs & @irenemammarella ⬇️ link.springer.com/article/10.100…

25 tips for new programmers (a thread) 👩‍💻

i'm diving into #rstats 💫tidymodels💫-the framework is incredibly powerful 💪, but there is a lot to learn! 🗻here are some resources i have found helpful (thank you developers and content creators!!)- please comment if you have others to add as well! 🙏

@mphcrawley @laurawatts Solid recommendation as I need new reading material.

Very much enjoying this by @laurawatts, not least for reading about the wind and rain on the Orkney Islands whilst sitting in the sunshine 😂

It’s a post punk playlist kind of Monday #WFH

@Duncan_Wilson78 @YouTube I’m still at work.

@Duncan_Wilson78 37 weeks

Violence against women in a silent, peaceful vigil. I can’t see any benefit here - there is certainly none from a covid point of view - only harm. This seems to represent so much of what the vigil was supposed to address. Terrifying for anyone hoping to rely on the police.

This comment from Tukey (1986, doi.org/10.2307/2683137) should be read out in the first 10 minutes of every statistics class, and at 20-minute intervals thereafter.

If you have trouble getting an overview of the many scales in ggplot2, this is for you. I have written a comprehensive guide to scales with loads of examples: ggplot2tor.com/scales #rstats #ggplot2

I've been working on a colorful, art-filled, penguin-wrangling learnr tutorial on some dplyr functions. When (not if) you find mistakes/issues, I welcome corrections & feedback 🤗🎨🐧👾 Tutorial: allisonhorst.shinyapps.io/dplyr-learnr/ Got issues? github.com/allisonhorst/d…

I’m increasingly convinced by data from countries across the world that we are underestimating the harms of keeping young kids out of school & overplaying their role in transmission. Children should be in school.

Another day, another glorious spreadsheet to wrestle with. #WFH

It’s been a shaky time. But there is now coffee in my mug!

Homeschool disaster! No coffee left in the house. #homeschooling #WFH

Sign up for the next free seminar hosted by the Mathematics Education Centre next Weds 13th ! Dr Silke Goebel will talk about “Writing numbers and reading digit strings – fundamentals of arithmetic development in primary school” (University of York) lboro.ac.uk/departments/me…

The medium child so excited for Prom on Netflix.

@Duncan_Wilson78 Looking forward this, especially if it includes shack.