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Do prices feel like they are rising more than the CPI says?

January 25, 2026 | Jerry Tuttle

Do prices feel like they are rising more than the CPI (Consumer Price Index) says? Yes. For 2025 the overall CPI increased by a pretty moderate 2.7% (CPI-U for all urban cons...

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2026-01 Variable Fonts in R Graphics

January 25, 2026 | pmur002

This document describes the addition of support for variable fonts in R, when rendering glyphs, plus changes to the CRAN package xdvir to take advantage of that ...

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Fight Data Science in R: Proven Boxing Metrics & Models

January 25, 2026 | rprogrammingbooks

Boxing analysis is no longer just about punch totals or “who looked busier.” Modern fight analysis is data science: repeatable pipelines, validated data, explainable models, and performance indicators that translate into strategy. This post shows how to build a professional fight data science workflow in R—from raw data to ... [Read more...]

When AdTech Misrepresent Their Own A/B Tests

January 24, 2026 | Florian Teschner

Preamble: I had a roughly 8 year break from blogging and focussed on kids plus related duties. This year, I will try to start again. My goal is to write about (advertising-related) research and how practitioners can apply the insights. Todays paper i... [Read more...]

pharmaversesdtm 1.4.0 Release

January 22, 2026 | Lina Patil

We are pleased to announce the release of {pharmaversesdtm} 1.4.0 🎉 This release expands the breadth of SDTM test data available in the package, with a particular focus on neurology and oncology, alongside several targeted enhancements and fi...

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Using {ellmer} for Dynamic Alt Text Generation in {shiny} Apps

January 22, 2026 | The Jumping Rivers Blog

Alt Text First things first, if you haven’t heard of or used alt text before, it is a brief written description of an image that explains context and purpose. It is used to improve accessibility by allowing screen readers to describe images, or p...

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futurize: Parallelize Common Functions via a “Magic” Touch 🪄

January 21, 2026 | JottR on R

I am incredibly excited to announce the release of the futurize package. This launch marks a major milestone in the decade-long journey of the Futureverse project. Since the inception of the future ecosystem, I (and others) have envisioned a tool ...

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Closing The Loop with Our 2025 Wrap-up

January 21, 2026 | rOpenSci - open tools for open science

At the beginning of 2025, we outlined our goals for the year, our 2024 Highlights. As the year started, our work took place in a far more challenging global context than many of us anticipated. Across many countries, science and research faced funding... [Read more...]

ChatGPT’ed Monte Carlo exam

January 21, 2026 | xi'an

This semester I was teaching a graduate course on Monte Carlo methods at Paris Dauphine and I decided to experiment how helpful ChatGPT would prove in writing the final exam. Given my earlier poor impressions, I did not have great expectations and ended up definitely impressed! In total it took ...

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Correcting for multiplicity in the ’emmeans’ package

January 20, 2026 | R on Fixing the bridge between biologists and statisticians

In my recent book (see below), on page 166 and earlier, I made the point that, with pairwise comparisons and, more generally, whenever simultaneous statistical tests are performed, it is necessary to provide P-values that account for the familywise ...

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Why Submit to AI in Production: Speaking as a Tool for Better Work

January 20, 2026 | The Jumping Rivers Blog

We’re accepting abstracts for AI in Production until 23rd January. The conference takes place on 4th–5th June 2026 in Newcastle, with talks on Friday 5th across two streams: one focused on engineering and production systems, the other on ma...

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Bioinformatics Analysis on Posit Connect Cloud with freeCount

January 19, 2026 | morphoscape

The easiest way to use the freeCount R Shiny applications online is through Posit Connect Cloud, which is an online platform that simplifies the deployment of data applications and documents.

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Introducing distionary for Building and Probing Distributions

January 19, 2026 | rOpenSci - open tools for open science

After passing through rOpenSci peer review, the distionary package is now newly available on CRAN. It allows you to make probability distributions quickly – either from a few inputs or from its built-in library – and then probe them in detail. These d... [Read more...]

Pharmaverse and Containers

January 17, 2026 | Ben Straub and Maciej Nasinski

Streamlining Our Pharmaverse Blog: Reducing Publishing Time with containers As an active contributor to the pharmaverse blog, I’ve always appreciated the opportunity to share new insights and tools with our community. The pharmaverse blog has... [Read more...]

Volleyball Analytics with R: The Complete Guide to Match Data, Sideout Efficiency, Serve Pressure, Heatmaps, and Predictive Models

January 17, 2026 | rprogrammingbooks

Volleyball Analytics Volleyball Analytics with R: A Practical, End-to-End Playbook Build a full volleyball analytics workflow in R: data collection, cleaning, scouting reports, skill KPIs, rotation/lineup analysis, sideout & transition, serve/receive, visualization, dashboards, and predictive modeling. Table of Contents Why Volleyball Analytics (and Why R) Volleyball Data Model: Events, ... [Read more...]

Setting Up A Cluster of Tiny PCs For Parallel Computing – A Note To Myself

January 15, 2026 | r on Everyday Is A School Day

Enjoyed learning the process of setting up a cluster of tiny PCs for parallel computing. A note to myself on installing Ubuntu, passwordless SSH, automating package installation across nodes, distributing R simulations, and comparing CV5 vs CV10 performance. Fun project! Motivations Part of something I want to learn this year ...

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admiral 1.4 release

January 14, 2026 | Jeff Dickinson

admiral 1.4 is here! There’s nothing like a new {admiral} release to start the new year with a bang, and that’s exactly what we have for you with {admiral} 1.4! This release comes packed with few choice updates and some exciting new features...

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LLMs can’t be trusted to do scientific coding accurately, but humans make mistakes too

January 13, 2026 | Seascapemodels

I often hear the comment that LLMs/generative AI (large language models) can’t be trusted for research tasks. Image Google’s Nano Banana tasked with “Generate an image of a male African researcher holding a balloon that is pulling them up above...

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GOLD/SILVER RATIO: GenAI with Quant Agents on Microsoft AI Foundry

January 13, 2026 | Selcuk Disci

1. Introduction: The Strategic Edge of Agentic Finance In the contemporary landscape of quantitative finance, the bottleneck is no longer data availability, but the speed of insight generation. Leveraging the Microsoft AI Foundry ecosystem, we have moved beyond static scripting into the realm of Autonomous Financial Agents. This article explores how ...

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Predicting Best Picture at the 2026 Academy Awards

January 12, 2026 | Mark White

I’m back with the Oscars Best Picture model, albeit a little late. I had a busy holiday season, but the story of December was surprising: The Secret Agent was the favorite, followed by One Battle After Another. This was largely due to The Secret Agent’s runtime, which is ...

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