Summary A qualitative overview of the midfieldr package and its application following its initial CRAN release. midfieldr provides tools and recommended methods for working with individual undergraduate student-level records (registrar’s ...

Lynn (of TITAA and general NLP wizardy fame) was gracious enough to lend me a Bluesky invite, so I could claim my handle on yet-another social media site. I’m still wary of it (as noted in one of this week’s Drops), but the AT protocol — whilst super (lacking ...

Introduction Abundant multivariate spatial data from the natural and environmental sciences demands research on the joint distribution of multiple spatially dependent variables (Wackernagel (2013), Cressie and Wikle (2011), Banerjee and Gelfand (2014)). Here, our goal is to estimate associations over spatial locations for each variable and those among the variables. In this document, ...

I’ve been learning at least one new programming language a month through Exercism which has been really fun and interesting. I frequently say that “every language you learn teaches you something about all the others you know” and with nearly a dozen under my belt so far I’m ...

Earlier this year, two data scientists from Jumping Rivers ran an outreach activity for 14-19 year olds across the UK, in collaboration with the youth charity Speakers for Schools. The three hour ...

Working with the OpenAI ChatGPT API in R using R6 Classes Unlike many examples you may come across online, this blog post does not demonstrate how to interact with the OpenAI ChatGPT API using a basic R script. Instead, I’ll demonstrate a more ...

Andy Thomason, code performance consultant and lecturer at the University of London covering programming, physics and AI courses focused on game development, created an open source project to add Rust’s... The post R Consortium Funded Project Extendr Provides Rust Extensions for R appeared first on R Consortium.

After serving as chair of the board for the R Consortium and being involved in multiple R Consortium committees both on the technical and community development sides, as well as... The post Change in R Consortium Leadership – Thank you, Joseph Rickert! appeared first on R Consortium.

To be successful as a Data Scientist, you’re often put in positions where you need to find groups within your data. One key business use-case is finding clusters of customers that behave similarly. And that’s a powerful skill that I’m going to help you...

A brief tutorial on the easiest - albeit limited - way to theme Shiny apps using CSS tags. Should be enough for most apps; also works if you need to make ad-hoc changes to a premade (e.g. corporate) theme used in your app.

The R Validation Hub recently had its community meeting after a brief hiatus. The team discussed announcements, common challenges, and brainstormed ideas for possible future projects through the R Validation... The post R Validation Hub Community Meeting – June Recap ↺ appeared first on R Consortium.

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I’m making freely available the first version of something I’ve wanted to do for a long time. I’m an advanced R user, but I’m very limited in both, Python and Julia. However, I’ve been reading reports that Julia is a pretty efficient programming language (here ...

We live in a constantly and rapidly evolving environment, which means that effective planning management is crucial for companies. This is particularly true in the pharmaceutical sector, which involves stringent regulations, research and development timelines, and intricate supply chains. Traditional planning methods often fall short in providing a comprehensive overview ...

Understanding the Air Pollution with Shiny Air pollution is a global problem that affects the health and well-being of millions of people each year. Poor air quality is linked to various respiratory diseases such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and lung cancer. Monitoring air quality is crucial in ...