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.

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 ...

R and Excel go together like macaroni and cheese. There’s no need to choose one over the other, as there are numerous packages and extensions that allow them to work together. Just because you have an xlsx file doesn’t mean you can’t analyze it with R. Likewise, ...

How did changes in life and emotional states affect the creativity and output of the great composers Mozart, Beethoven and Liszt? (Yeah, 3 composers are studied but Mozart seems to sell best, so he is in the title.) In his great article How Are You, My...

Photo by Jake Givens on Unsplash This is a guest post from Ryan Garnett, Ray Wong, and Dan Reed from Green Shield Canada. Green Shield Canada, a social enterprise and one of the country’s largest health benefits carriers, currently serves over 4.5 mi...