Outreach network of bayesvl and BMF analytics users as of June 2025

Viet-Phuong La

June 26, 2025

[UPDATE]

In this short piece, I show a graph representing the outreach network of bayesvl / BMF analytics users as of June 20, 2025. The graph is used in the presentation slides for scientific communication purposes [1].



Illustration. The growing network by June 2025.

The presentation also provides a useful figure: 25,215 downloads of bayesvl from CRAN, from May 24, 2019, to June 23, 2025. The total download number is not big compared to many popular computing programs. However, it is still far beyond my imagination even after its first anniversary.

The starting date in 2019 is when bayesvl v0.8.5 was officially approved to become an official package in the R library [2]. The current version is v1.0.0, released on May 18, 2025, with its official document being provided by The R Core Team [3].

Therefore, it is understandable that the graph shows a growing network of users over time, with new collaborative hubs being found in different locations than Hanoi, the original hub. It is quite safe to state that this portal has contributed significantly to this impressive growth.

References

[1] Vuong QH. (2025). Peer-mentoring mechanism [Presentation slides]. https://philarchive.org/archive/VUOPMP

[2] La VP, Vuong QH. (2019). bayesvl: Visually learning the graphical structure of Bayesian networks and performing MCMC with ‘Stan’. https://cran.r-project.org/package=bayesvl

[3] Vuong QH, La VP. (2025). Package ‘bayesvl’ version 1.0.0. The Comprehensive R Archive Network. https://books.google.com/books?&id=znleEQAAQBAJ