How do you become a better programmer? Well, there is strong scientific evidence for the support of the principle of deliberate practice. Deliberate practice is a method of skill development first written by Anders Ericsson in the book “Peak: Se...

One of the great conveniences of performing a data science style analysis using Jupyter is that Jupyter notebooks are literate containers that combine code, text, results, and graphs. This is also one of the pain points in working with Jupyter notebooks with partners or with source control. That is: Jupyter […]

Create ridgelines (AKA joyplots) of territories using elevation data with R, sf, terra and ggridges.

New year, new website? Well, not really. But when starting to set up and move RAM’s website, I decided that it was probably also time for a fresh look on my own little blog. As always, coming up with the perfect theme and moving everything to your new and ...

You know that sinking feeling that you get when you’re months into a big project and you log in one day and nothing works? Turns out something has updated and things have been removed that y...

The side effect of the ongoing Russian occupation was that it stimulated countries’ intentions to increase their military budgets. Last month following the invasion, Germany announced a budget of 100 billion € for the restructuring of the army and announced that it would spend %2 of its GDP every year. Of course, it ...

One of the toughest parts of data analysis is preparing your data to be analyzed. We often have to deal with problems like NAs, typos, and data that are formatted incorrectly. In this blog post, I’m specifically going to help you with that last o...

Two hundred and six new packages stuck to CRAN in March. Here are my “Top 40” selections in thirteen categories: Computational Methods, Data, Finance, Game Theory, Genomics, Machine Learning, Medicine, Networks, Science, Statistics, Time Series, Utilities, and Visualization. Computational Methods RCDT v1.1.0: Provides functions to perform 2D Delaunay triangulation, constrained or ...

This week, the Kaggle Hidden Gems Competition is featured in a special crossover event with the fantastic TidyTuesday project to further strengthen the connections between the R & Kaggle communities. The TidyTuesday participants are invited to expand their beautifully crafted data visuals into narrative notebooks on the Kaggle platform, and receive ...

The stability result that the ratio converges holds for a Harris π-null-recurrent Markov chain for all functions f,g in L¹(π) [Meyn & Tweedie, 1993, Theorem 17.3.2] is rather fascinating. However, it is unclear it can be useful in simulation environments, as for the integral priors we have been studying over the years ...

RStudio Connect is a publishing platform that lets you and your team share R Shiny applications, R Markdown reports, APIs, dashboards, Jupyter Notebook, and interactive Python content in one convenient place. Today we’ll show you how to deploy RStudio Connect to the local Kubernetes cluster with ease. Following along ...