“I’ve given you the solution. It’s up to you to work out the details.” August 1943 marked a pivotal moment in the USAAF's air campaign against Nazi Germany. Over Belgium, just shy of German borders, American fighter planes reached thei...

Testing differences: from ANOVA to BNP Detecting and quantifying differences between groups is a problem of crucial significance across various fields, often addressed by practitioners using standard analysis of variance (ANOVA). However, ANOVA is subject to several well-known limitations. It primarily detects differences only in group means, assumes homogeneity within ...

Ivan Millanes from the R en Rosario recently talked to the R-Consortium. He shared the group’s vision to create an inclusive knowledge-sharing platform for a diverse R community in Rosario.... The post Use of R for Pharma in Rosario, Argentina appeared first on R Consortium.

R Esquisse is an R package that provides an intuitive GUI for creating data visualizations using ggplot2. This package is particularly valuable for stakeholders seeking quick interactive analysis and insights gathering from data sources, whether they are new to R or prefer a more visual approach to creating plots. With ...

The book can be downloaded for free but you will need a Leanpub account, same if you buy it. This release corresponds to chapters 1, 3, 4 and 5 of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Econometrics. The Github repository contains the code for the book so tha...

Introduction In the vast world of R programming, there are numerous functions that provide powerful capabilities for data visualization and analysis. One such function that often goes under appreciated is the curve() function. This neat little f...

Introduction ‘Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know’ A character in Ernest Hemingway’s novel “The Garden of Eden” Greetings, humanists, social and data scientists! In this lesson, we will learn how to evaluate the relat...

The stock market is one of the most complex systems we know about. Millions of intelligent, highly competitive people (and increasingly AIs) try to outwit each other to earn as much money as possible. In this post we build a simulation where little agents employ different trading strategies on an ...

Last week I played around with the TidyTuesday data on hot sauces, but I didn’t polish anything or write any text. This week’s TidyTuesday data concerns spam email. I’m going to cover them both in this blog post. Loading Libraries library(tidyverse) # who doesn't want to be ...

webR has been a trending topic ever since the release of webR 0.1.1 in March 2023. With the introduction of webR, developers can run R commands directly on top of their clients’ browsers. This eliminates the need for users to install R separately to run R scripts, allowing them to leverage their ...

I’ve been learning at least one new programming language per month through Exercism and the #12in23 challenge. I’ve keep saying, every time you learn a new language, you learn something about all the others you know. Plus, once you know \(N\) languages, the \(N+1^{\rm th}\) is significantly ...

Saving can be enjoyable! If you’re planning to cut down on takeout orders, why not use past data to simulate your savings? Let it inspire and motivate your future dining-in decisions! 👍 If you’re anything like me, you might often resort ...

This is fun 🙂 It is also O(MAX) complexity. But first some background. Since the problem is super old, we are not intending to solve it, merely to play with it. In the number theory of mathematics, the Goldbach’s conjecture…Read more ›

For this blog post, I also made a youtube video that goes over roughly the same ideas, but the blog post is more detailed as I explain the contents of default.nix files, which I don't do in the video. Watch the video here. This is the fourth post in ...