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Lead developer of SOFA Statistics - the open source reporting, analysis & stats package with an emphasis on ease of use, learn as you go, and beautiful output

New Zealand
Joined March 2010
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SOFA 1.5.7 available for Ubuntu / Linux. Minor bug fixes and better guidance when a problem importing a CSV
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A new version (1.5.6) of SOFA Statistics is available for Ubuntu / Debian / Linux. Numerous bugs are fixed. See sofastatistics.com/downloads…
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SOFA Statistics is now in stable, maintenance mode. And SOFA Lite is under development. Find out why: sofastatistics.com/blog/main…
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youcanknowthings.com/2022/12… Based on: 1 Canada study where 1 person died with a guesstimated CI based on data requiring clairvoyant ER doctors, 1 small limited Swiss study (33 deaths), 1 small limited Spanish study (3 deaths) & stale data from last century (not specific to ERs)
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Capital T's as error bars - oh dear oh dear ;-) retractionwatch.com/2022/12/…
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Working on a brand new project called sofalite. Very excited.
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Some very opinionated comment on which Python features we should use, abandon, or use with care depending on situation - enjoy! github.com/when-of-python (repo) when-of-python.github.io/kiw… (slides)
Want your students to submit better Python scripts? Ask them to paste their scripts into pysuperhelp.herokuapp.com/ first
Version 1.5.5 has been released but for Ubuntu / Linux only - fixes Gnome display bug and includes a few minor extras not yet available for Windows
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SOFA 1.5.4 has just been released - support for more versions of SQL Server and lots of bug fixes.
A new Python stats library worth a look - Pingouin - towardsdatascience.com/the-n…