The #30DayMapChallenge is a daily mapping, cartography, and data visualization challenge aimed at the spatial community. Every day in November participants create a map with a given theme (e.g. population, monochrome, raster) and share their results Twitter using the #30DayMapChallenge hashtag. Check out the challenge here. Although I’ve ...

This document describes an extension of the support for masks in R graphics to allow luminance masks as well as alpha masks. Paul Murrell Download

Huge lines at gas stations have been seen around Turkey in recent days. Under the reason for this is the rise in the prices so often, in the last few months and the expectation to continue this. Of course, it is known that the rise in the exchange rate (US ...

YakData SmartManager for ShinyProxy on AWS Securely share R shiny web apps at scale in minutes The production-ready way to securely share R shiny web apps & R Markdown docs on AWS at scale, saving you time, money & aggravation. On the AWS Marketplace ? SECURE SHARING The production-ready way to securely share ...

30 November 2021 “Is the Google Data Analytics Professional Certificate any good?” Whether you’re a job seeker looking to boost your career or a hiring manager eager to find skilled staff, this is a pertinent question. In this review, I assess the certificate based on the syllabus, and not the … The ...

This tutorial might be for you if, e.g.: You have a lot of customer e-mails, or online-reviews on sales platforms or app stores for your product, etc., and you want to have a statistic based on the content of the texts: How many customers are complaining about a defect ...

One hundred forty-one new packages made it to CRAN in October. Here are my “Top 40” picks in twelve categories: Computational Methods, Data, Genomics, Machine Learning, Medicine, Networks, Science, Social Science, Statistics, Time Series, Utilities, and Visualization. Computational Methods gslnls v1.0.2: Implements an R interface to nonlinear least-squares optimization with the ...

This post gives a brief introduction to the estimation and forecasting of a Vector Autoregressive Model (VAR) model using R . We use vars and tsDyn R package and compare these two estimated coefficients. We also consider VAR in level and VAR in diff...

The current industry protocol for durability testing of vascular stents and frames involves testing many implants simultaneously at a range of different stimulus magnitudes (typically strain or stress). The test levels are spread out like a grid across the stimulus range of interest. Each implant is tested to failure or ...

This is the latest in my series of screencasts demonstrating how to use the tidymodels packages, from just getting started to tuning more complex models. Today’s screencast walks through how to handle workflow objects, with this week’s #TidyTuesday ...

In frozen percolation on a graph, there is a barrier located on each edge. Initially, the barriers are closed and they are assigned i.i.d. uniformly distributed activation times. At its activation time, a barrier opens, provided it is not frozen. At a fixed set \(\Xi\) of freezing times, ...