You can find all the posts on this series under the tag maps-app (including the Spanish versions). You can also find the current state of the project under my GitHub repo mapic. Scope of this post We are creating maps of data showing changes over a spa...

Interactive map and R package enable the research community with new insights about the ocean Global Fishing Watch is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing ocean governance through increased... The post Global Fishing Watch Helps Protect Critical Marine Ecosystems Through Open Data and Innovative Technology appeared first on R ...

Today’s TidyTuesday relates to the use of plants in the Neolithic era and is based on a paper by Arranz-Otaegul and Roe. The authors have made their data and analysis available on GitHub. The methods for generating all the figures and tables are in an RMarkdown document with some ...

In recent discussions with a number of collaborators at the NIA IMPACT Collaboratory about setting the sample size for a proposed cluster randomized trial, the question of variable cluster sizes has come up a number of times. Given a fixed overall s...

I often come across GBIF users who are unaware that the records available for a given taxon are not necessarily all presences: there’s a column named “occurrenceStatus” whose value can be “PRESENT” or “ABSENT”! The absence records can, of course, … Continue reading →

Just some simple codes to illustrate some points we will discuss this week, for the last course on GLMs, before the final exam.  We have mentioned that the Gamma distribution belongs to the exponential, so we can run a regression, and compute the associated AIC, __ set.seed(123) __ test.data = rgamma(...

CLV leads businesses to the most valuable customers, those who will continue to spend money with them for years to come. By understanding how much these customers are worth over time, businesses can create strategies to keep them happy and eng...

WebR has a template for React, but I’m not a fan of it or Vue (a fact longtime readers are likely tired of hearing right about now). It’s my opinion and experience that Lit webcomponents come closer to “bare metal” webcomponents, which means the “lock-in” with Lit is ...

Introduction Sentiment analysis is a common task in natural language processing. Many of the tools available for this are calibrated to the English language. Can Google Translate let us apply this toolset to a broader set of languages? We will us...

Bug fixing using ChatGPT

Results of sanitary controls in France can be found on data.gouv.fr however, only the running year is available… Thanks to @[email protected] we can access the archives since 2017. Config and data cleaning Code library(tidyverse) library(jani...

Inspired by TidyTuesday Some of the the R data science community participate in a weekly challenge called “Tidy Tuesday,” where an interesting data set is presented for analysis but mostly visualization. There are some tremendous examples of beau...

Our trees are dying. These days, the soft south-wind wafts only the sad notes of a forever-changed landscape. Our beloved forests are changing. And the faint murmurs from the pine tops that graced Aldrich’s ear, are vanishing; they are being replaced with the creaking groans of rising zombie forests. ...