Episode Details

A data-driven investigation on how September is a dangerous month for bikers in Wisconsin, a novel look at the distribution of castles across the globe, and the fundamentals behind an influential analysis method commonly used in experimental designs.


Episode Links 

• This week's curator: Jonathan Kitt - @jonathankitt.bsky.social (Bluesky)
• Madison bike crashes peak in September
• An Atlas of Stone
• Repeated measures ANOVA in R
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2026-W37

Supplement Resources 

• Madison Bikes https://www.madisonbikes.org
• Tidy Tuesday Castlemap dataset https://github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/tree/main/data/2026/2026-09-01
• Deepali's GitHub repository https://github.com/deepdk 
• {rstatix}: Pipe-friendly Framework for Basic Statistical Tests in R https://rpkgs.datanovia.com/rstatix/

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