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Great news that a major Statistics prize like the Rousseeuw Prize goes to the R Core Team, esp. Brian Ripley (University of Oxford), Martin Mächler (ETH Zürich), Kurt Hornik (WU Wien), Peter Dalgaard (Copenhagen Business School), and Luke Tierney (University of Iowa). R is indeed a unique phenomenon, ...

After all 72 matches of the group stage in the 2026 FIFA World Cup our probabilistic forecasts are evaluated, revealing what the machine learning algorithm predicted well and where it struggled. A challenging new tournament form...

I came across a chart of long term real gross domestic product per capita for Australia (1900 to about 2020) that had a couple of mistakes in its y axis scale and labelling. I wanted to see for myself what it should actually look like. Looking for dat...

TLDR: this post summarizes how I was able to leverage my Surface Pro 11’s Neural Processing Unit (NPU) to chat […] The post Running local LLMs on your NPU from R with Foundry Local and ellmer appeared first on Giles.

“AI In Production 2026”, a new conference hosted by Jumping Rivers, was held on 4-5 June, 2026. The conference touched on many of the intricacies of using AI in software products, as part of the developer toolkit, and at the wider us...

Temperature change in France – CC-BY by University of Reading As France enters its second heatwave of 2026, can we produce more detailed plots than the excellent visualizations provided by ShowYourStripes? MétéoFrance offers its monthly SI...

Thanks to Alan Haynes and his excellent suggestions, I have spent some time improving the flowchart component of the Gmisc package. The result is not meant to be another decorative diagram tool. It is meant for the kind of figures … Continue reading →

EFA explores unknown factor structures while CFA tests a predefined model. Compare both methods side by side with R code using psych and lavaan — know which to use in your dissertation. EFAEFA explores unknown factor structures while CFA tests a predefined model. Compare both methods side by side with R ...

With the recent resignation announcement from United Kingdom (UK) Prime Minister Keir Starmer, there have been a flurry of people talking about how many UK prime ministers there have been in the past decade, short terms for prime ministers, and so on. ...

How to Perform PCA in R: A Step-by-Step Tutorial Using prcomp() To perform PCA in R, use the built-in prcomp() function: pca 1), or a cumulative variance threshold — this tutorial shows all three and where they disagree. PCA is not the same as Factor Analysis. The comparison table below explains exactly ...

The European Bioconductor Conference 2026 (EuroBioC2026) took place from June 3-5, 2026, in Turku, Finland. Hosted by the University of Turku and the Finnish Society for Bioinformatics at BioCity, the conference brought together the Bioconducto...

A Likert scale (pronounced LICK-ert, not "LIKE-ert") is a psychometric rating scale used in surveys and questionnaires to measure attitudes, opinions, and perceptions. Named after American social psychologist Rensis Likert, who developed it in 1932, it remains the most widely used approach to scaling responses in survey research today. Key Takeaways ...