I’ve been developing a course at DataCamp over the past several months, and I am happy to announce that it is now launched! The course is Sentiment Analysis in R: the Tidy Way and I am excited that it is now available for you to explore and learn...

Some time ago I started working with Bayesian methods, using the great rstanarm-package. Beside the fantastic package-vignettes, and books like Statistical Rethinking or Doing Bayesion Data Analysis, I also found the ressources from Tristan Mahr helpful to both better understand Bayesian analysis and rstanarm. This motivated me to implement tools ...

Organising useR!2017 was a challenge but a very rewarding experience. With about 1200 attendees of over 55 nationalities exploring an interesting program, we believe it is appropriate to call it a success - something the aftermovie only seems to confirm. Behind the Scenes To give you a glimpse behind the scenes of ...

I have been retrieving some route information using Rodrigo Azuero’s gmapsdistance package and noted that there was some asymmetry in the results: the time and distance for the trip from A to B was not necessarily always the same as the time and distance for the trip from B ...

Introduction Hacker News is one of my favorite sites to catch up on technology and startup news, but navigating the minimalistic website can be sometimes tedious. Therefore, my plan in this post is to introduce you that how this social news site ...

The R package seplyr supplies a few neat new coding notations. An Abacus, which gives us the term “calculus.” The first notation is an operator called the “named map builder”. This is a cute notation that essentially does the job of stats::setNames(). It allows for code such as the ...

What is a choice simulator? A choice simulator is an online app or an Excel workbook that allows users to specify different scenarios and get predictions. Here is an example of a choice simulator. Choice simulators have...

The recent release of the blscrapeR package brings the “tidyverse” into the fold. Inspired by my recent collaboration with Kyle Walker on his excellent tidycensus package, blscrapeR has been optimized for use within the tidyverse as of the current ...

routr is now available on CRAN, and I couldn’t be happier. It’s release marks the completion of an idea that stretches back longer than my attempts to bring network visualization and ggplot2 together (see this post for ref). While my PhD was still concerned with proteomics a began ...