Your success as a Data Scientist isn’t because of your coding skills. Your success is determined by how well you can persuade decision-makers to take action. And that’s a powerful skill that I’m going to help you with today: It’s called Storytelling. ...

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates “There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.” – Seneca “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” – African Proverb 1. Introduction In this post, I put my R package cricketr to analyze ...

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Find out how to customize a shiny app and make it more accessible to users with our workshop on 14/06. With shiny you can add an interactive web interface to your R work, also enabling users without a technical background to profit from your analysi...

You can read the original post in its original format on Rtask website by ThinkR here: {attachment} v0.4.0: Breaking changes and configuration file for a better experience {attachment} v0.4.0 stores your parameters in a configuration file for an easier use during your package development: run att_amend_desc() from anywhere, ...

01 June 2023 Earlier this year I applied to the R Consortium for a grant to upgrade the Big Book of R. Unfortunately my proposal wasn’t accepted, but I am really proud of how the proposal turned out. I’ve never written a proposal before and wasn’t really sure of ...

Introduction As a programmer, you’re always on the lookout for tools that can enhance your productivity and make your code more efficient. In the world of R programming, the do.call() function is one such gem. This often-overlooked function is a...

We’ve released the newest version of NIMBLE on CRAN and on our website. NIMBLE is a system for building and sharing analysis methods for statistical models, especially for hierarchical models and computationally-intensive methods (such as MCMC and SMC). Version 1.0.0 provides substantial new functionality. This includes: A Laplace approximation algorithm ...

Introduction “The normal distribution describes the manner in which many phenomena vary around a central value that represents their most probable outcome” Leonard Mlodinow In this lesson, we will dive into the concept of the normal distributi...

Learning a new programming language can be tricky, and it can sometimes lead to more ways of getting confused - even in languages you know well! I always mix up len() and length()… When returning to Python after primarily working in R for a whil...