What’s In The Box: Wrapped but not streamed 2025

December 4, 2025 | Stephen Royle

I’m a music fan who is anti-streaming and instead I stubbornly maintain a large music collection. At this time of year, streamers receive a round-up of their year’s listening in a “wrapped” report. Not wanting to miss out, I set about rendering my own annual round-up using R! ...
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Gaussian Processes Again

November 28, 2025 | Chris Bowdon

One nice aspect of blogging about the things you’ve just learned is that when, inevitably, you forget those things, reading back your old posts can bring you up to speed pretty quickly. It’s like a slight groove has been worn and you can slip ba...
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Oil spill

November 28, 2025 | Michael

Oiled Bird - Black Sea Oil Spill 11/12/07 – CC BY by Igor GOLUBENKOV (Marine Photobank) Day 28 of 30DayMapChallenge: « Black » (previously). There is a global oil spill dataset from 1967 to 2023 by Liu, Yin, and Cai (2025). Config library(glue) library(dplyr) library(sf) library(janitor) library(readxl) library(leaflet) library(leaflet.providers) library(... [Read more...]

October 2025 Top 40 New CRAN Packages

November 27, 2025 | Joseph Rickert

Data AlgeriAPIs v0.1.0: Provides functions to access data from public RESTful APIs, including World Bank API and REST Countries API, retrieving real-time or historical information related to Algeria. The package enables users to query economi...
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Wealth boundaries

November 27, 2025 | Michael

Boundary – CC BY-ND by Hiroyuki Takeda Day 27 of 30DayMapChallenge: « Boundaries » (previously). There are still borders in Europe: wealth is not distributed equally. We can show the difference of gross domestic product (GDP) per...
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