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In case you missed them, here are some articles from June of particular interest to R users.
An animated visualization of global migration, created in R by Guy Abel.
My take on the question, Should you learn R or Python for data science?
The BBC and Financial Times use R — without post-processing — for publication graphics.
"Handling Strings in R", a free e-book by Gaston Sanchez, has been updated.
The AI, Machine Learning and Data Science roundup for June 2018.
The PYPL Popularity of Languages Index ranks R as the 7th most popular programming language.
The "lime" package for R provides tools for interpreting machine learning models.
An R vignette by Paige Bailey on detecting unconscious bias in predictive models.
Microsoft R Open 3.5.0 has been released (with a subsequent fix for Debian systems).
Slides from the webinar, What's New in Azure for Machine Learning and AI.
And some general interest stories (not necessarily related to R):
- The Curvature Blindness Illusion
- Lioness v Wrestlers in tug-of-war
- A comedian imagines an AI writing a TV commercial
- A fur seal, transcribed
- An architecture error and a near-disaster in NYC
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