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Welcome, Nick Masel

February 19, 2026 | pharmaverse council

Hi pharmaverse community, On behalf of the council we are pleased to announce that Nick Masel will be taking over from Sumesh Kalappurakal as the J&J representative on the Pharmaverse Council. Please join us in thanking Sumesh for his lead...

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Quantitative Horse Racing with R: Calibration, Backtesting, and Deployment

February 19, 2026 | rprogrammingbooks

R DuckDB Parquet Calibration Ranking Bayesian Odds TS Backtesting Racing analytics as an inference-and-decision system Thoroughbred flat racing is not a binary classification problem. It is a multi-competitor outcome process with hierarchy (horse / trainer / jockey / track), time dependence (form cycles, market moves), and decision layers (how you act on probabilities). ... [Read more...]

You can do more for neural networks in R with {kindling}

February 18, 2026 | R on Stats and R

This post has been written in collaboration with Joshua Marie. Why this post matters Neural networks in R are no longer niche. Today, we can choose among: {nnet} for classic, small-scale neural nets, {neuralnet} another classic neural nets packag...

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Keeping files organised for publication

February 18, 2026 | Seascapemodels

Getting files ready for publication can be frustrating when you can’t find the right file, or you realize your figures look like 2000s jpeg. Here’s a list of things I wished I’d done (or my students had done) properly earlier in the paper prep p... [Read more...]

Jumping Rivers Now Approved to Sell Services Through DOS7: Crown Commercial Services

February 17, 2026 | The Jumping Rivers Blog

Jumping Rivers has been approved to sell our services through the Crown Commercial Service CCS. For UK public sector organisations, this is an important milestone. It means there is now a simpler, compliant way to work with us without going throu...

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Pacific diaspora by @ellis2013nz

February 17, 2026 | free range statistics - R

This post is the fourth of a series of (probably) seven on population issues in the Pacific, re-generating the charts I used in a keynote speech before the November 2025 meeting of the Pacific Heads of Planning and Statistics in Wellington, New Zealand...

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Modeling Bitcoin Volatility Through Structural Breaks: A Compositional Perspective

February 17, 2026 | Selcuk Disci

Recent advances in time series modeling have emphasized the importance of structural breaks—abrupt changes in the underlying dynamics of financial or economic data. The paper “Directional-Shift Dirichlet ARMA Models for Compositional Time Series with Structural Break Intervention” (Katz, 2026) introduces a Bayesian framework that captures these breaks using three interpretable ...

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A Star is Born: Why GitHub Stars Are Vital to the Pharmaverse

February 16, 2026 | Jeff Dickinson

The Smallest Contribution You’re Probably Not Making You’ve used {admiral} to derive your ADSL. You’ve leaned on {metacore} to wrangle your metadata. You’ve validated your XPT files with {xportr} and scored your package risk with {riskmetric}...

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What’s new in flextable 0.9.11

February 16, 2026 | ArData

‘patchwork’ integration Aligning rows with flex_body Aligning columns with flex_cols Quarto markdown in cells ‘flextable’ 0.9.11 has recently landed on CRAN. It ships two features we are happy to introduce: ‘patchwork’ integration: aligning...

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Upcoming Workshop: Data Analysis in R with the Tidyverse

February 16, 2026 | Ari Lamstein

Next week I’m teaching a three‑session, hands‑on introduction to data analysis in R using the tidyverse, hosted by Instats in partnership with the American Statistical Association. We’ll meet February 24–26, from 8–11am PT each day — three focused mornings designed to give participants a clear, modern workflow from ...

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Oops, Git! How to recover from common mistakes workshop

February 16, 2026 | Dariia Mykhailyshyna

Join our workshop on Oops, Git! How to recover from common mistakes, which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series! Here’s some more info: Title: Oops, Git! How to recover from common mistakes Date: Thursday, March 19th, 14:00 – 16:00 CET (Rome, Berlin, Paris timezone) Speaker: Maëlle Salmon, with ... [Read more...]

CDCPLACES 1.2.0

February 15, 2026 | bs

Place geography, 2025 data, and a major reliability overhaul. [Read more...]

Get Ready for the PHUSE US Connect Pavilions!

February 15, 2026 | Michael Rimler

Howdy, Phriends! In case you missed it - there is a massive PHUSE Connect coming up soon in Austin, Texas! What’s so massive about it? There’s so much content planned that we’ve extended it by a full day! I guess it’s true what they say - ... [Read more...]

Understanding Boosted Configuration Networks (combined neural networks and boosting): An Intuitive Guide Through Their Hyperparameters

February 15, 2026 | T. Moudiki

How BCN combine neural networks and boosting, explained through the knobs you can turn [Read more...]

Machine Learning for Sports Analytics in R: A Complete Professional Guide

February 15, 2026 | rprogrammingbooks

Table of Contents 1. Introduction to Machine Learning in Sports Analytics Machine Learning has transformed modern sports analytics. What was once limited to box scores and descriptive statistics has evolved into predictive modeling, simulation systems, optimization engines, and automated scouting pipelines. Today, teams, analysts, researchers, and performance departments rely on machine ... [Read more...]

The world’s biggest ‘Pacific’ cities by @ellis2013nz

February 15, 2026 | free range statistics - R

This post is the third in a (somewhat interrupted) series on population issues in the Pacific, re-generating the charts I used in a keynote speech before the November 2025 meeting of the Pacific Heads of Planning and Statistics in Wellington, New Zeala...

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Git commits: please mark your stitches!

February 14, 2026 | Maëlle's R blog on Maëlle Salmon's personal website

In which I share a crochet analogy for Git commits… Don’t forget your stitch markers! I am happily continuing my crochet learning journey. One lesson I have now internalised is that I should never ever forget or neglect to use stitch markers. Stitch ma... [Read more...]

Testing for interactions in nonlinear regression

February 13, 2026 | R on Fixing the bridge between biologists and statisticians

Factorial experiments are very common in agriculture and they are usually laid down to test for the significance of interactions between experimental factors. For example, genotype assessments may be performed at two different nitrogen fertilisation...

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Fitting time-to-event models with an environmental covariate

February 11, 2026 | R on Fixing the bridge between biologists and statisticians

This is a follow-up post. If you are interested in other posts of this series, please go to: https://www.statforbiology.com/tags/drcte/. All these posts exapand on a paper that we have recently published in the Journal ‘Weed Science’; please follow ...

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How Posit’s Public Package Manager manylinux_2_28 repository can help you if your R project is stuck on Ubuntu Focal Fossa

February 11, 2026 | R | Dr Tom Palmer

Introduction I am a massive fan of repositories making binary R packages available. This includes the canonical CRAN repositories, r-universe, r2u, and the Posit (Public) Package Manager, and there are others. R-universe is outstanding because it bu...

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