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    <title>statistics &amp;mdash; Paul Sutton</title>
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    <description>Paul Sutton - personal blog </description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 01:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Mastodon user stats</title>
      <link>https://paper.wf/paulsutton/mastodon-user-stats</link>
      <description>&lt;![CDATA[Mastodon user stats&#xA;&#xA;Just sharing this to counter those who say things like &#39;no one uses Mastodon / Fediverse&#39;&#xA;&#xA;iframe src=&#34;https://mastodon.social/@mastodonusercount/110510134033681702/embed&#34; class=&#34;mastodon-embed&#34; style=&#34;max-width: 100%; border: 0&#34; width=&#34;600&#34; height=&#34;600&#34; allowfullscreen=&#34;allowfullscreen&#34;/iframe&#xA;&#xA;Tags&#xA;&#xA;#Fediverse,#Mastodon,#User,#Statistics]]&gt;</description>
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<p>Just sharing this to counter those who say things like &#39;no one uses Mastodon / Fediverse&#39;</p>

<iframe src="https://mastodon.social/@mastodonusercount/110510134033681702/embed" class="mastodon-embed" style="max-width: 100%; border: 0" width="600" height="600" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>

<p><strong>Tags</strong></p>

<p><a href="/paulsutton/tag:Fediverse" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">Fediverse</span></a>,<a href="/paulsutton/tag:Mastodon" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">Mastodon</span></a>,<a href="/paulsutton/tag:User" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">User</span></a>,<a href="/paulsutton/tag:Statistics" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">Statistics</span></a></p>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Jun 2023 19:24:16 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Learning the R statistical language</title>
      <link>https://paper.wf/paulsutton/learning-the-r-statistical-language</link>
      <description>&lt;![CDATA[Learning the R statistical language&#xA;&#xA;During a recent conversation, with a member of a job seeking buddy group that I am a member of,  we had a brief chat about the R programming language.  This is designed and optimised to help with statistics, allows graphs to be produced from data and also integrates with other software such as LaTeX, Python and more.&#xA;&#xA;Learning R is probably not difficult, the hardest part with learning something is finding the right resources to help.  To this end I have found a collated a few links below. &#xA;&#xA;Links&#xA;&#xA;R-Project&#xA;  Comprehensive R Archive&#xA;Combine R and LaTeX&#xA;Include R in to Overleaf&#xA;R-Studio&#xA;CodeCademy R&#xA;&#xA;OTHER&#xA;&#xA;The Links below could be useful generally if you are going to be running R on a GNU/Linux system then knowledge of the command line may be useful.   I have also included a link to the study support forum. &#xA;&#xA;Learn Bash Programming&#xA;Study support forum&#xA;&#xA;TAGS&#xA;&#xA;#Statistics,#R,#Language,#Data,#Analysis]]&gt;</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Learning the R statistical language</p>

<p>During a recent conversation, with a member of a job seeking buddy group that I am a member of,  we had a brief chat about the R programming language.  This is designed and optimised to help with statistics, allows graphs to be produced from data and also integrates with other software such as LaTeX, Python and more.</p>

<p>Learning R is probably not difficult, the hardest part with learning something is finding the right resources to help.  To this end I have found a collated a few links below.</p>

<p><strong>Links</strong></p>
<ul><li><a href="https://www.r-project.org/" rel="nofollow">R-Project</a>
<ul><li><a href="https://cran.r-project.org/" rel="nofollow">Comprehensive R Archive</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-combine-latex-and-r-for-report-generation-82f23787fc43?gi=703ec61595ea" rel="nofollow">Combine R and LaTeX</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/Questions/How_do_I_include_sections_of_R_code_within_my_LaTeX_document%3F" rel="nofollow">Include R in to Overleaf</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.rstudio.com/" rel="nofollow">R-Studio</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.codecademy.com/catalog/language/r" rel="nofollow">CodeCademy R</a></li></ul>

<p><strong>OTHER</strong></p>

<p>The Links below could be useful generally if you are going to be running R on a GNU/Linux system then knowledge of the command line may be useful.   I have also included a link to the study support forum.</p>
<ul><li><a href="https://www.codecademy.com/catalog/language/bash" rel="nofollow">Learn Bash Programming</a></li>
<li><a href="https://forum.tuxiversity.org/" rel="nofollow">Study support forum</a></li></ul>

<p><strong>TAGS</strong></p>

<p><a href="/paulsutton/tag:Statistics" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">Statistics</span></a>,<a href="/paulsutton/tag:R" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">R</span></a>,<a href="/paulsutton/tag:Language" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">Language</span></a>,<a href="/paulsutton/tag:Data" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">Data</span></a>,<a href="/paulsutton/tag:Analysis" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">Analysis</span></a></p>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2022 15:36:06 +0000</pubDate>
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