During the pandemic, the stock prices almost doubled, but their trends have recently declined. One of the reasons for that might be the interest rates. To examine this, we will take a consideration ARK Innovation ETF (ARKK), which is a long-term growth capital by investing mostly in tech companies. First, ...

This is the second of a series of three blog posts about using the {shinytest2} package to develop automated tests for shiny applications. In the posts we will cover the purpose of browser-drive...

As part of our Data for Good (D4G) initiative, we collaborated with the Institute of Dendrology of the Polish Academy of Sciences to build a Shiny application with an enhanced UI. This application – Future Forests – shows how different climate scenarios will affect European forests. It provides a sobering look ...

You expect me to read this long ass blog post? If you’re too busy to read this blog post, know that I respect your time. The table below summarizes this blog post: Need Solution I want to start a project and make it reproducible. {renv} and Docker There’s ...

SatRdays is returning to London this April! SatRdays are low-cost R conferences, hosted on Saturdays to enable those who usually cannot attend to take part. Thanks to CUSP London, SatRdays London ...

Dr. Gergely Daróczi is an active member of the R community, founder of the Budapest Users of R Network Group and organizer of the satRday and eRum conferences. Gergely shares... The post How a UseR! 2014 Experience Led to the Development of a 1,700-member R Community in Budapest appeared first ...

Introduction As we close the door on another year, it’s always a good time to look back and reflect on the past 12 months. And what better way to do that than with a LinkedIn Year in Review? Whether you’re a job seeker, a business owner, or just...

Real-world data is often messy and full of missing values. As a result, data scientists spend the majority of their time cleaning and preparing the data, and have less time to focus on predictive modeling and machine learning. If there’s one thing all data preparation steps share, then it’...

While I am no expert in political economy, it seems intuitive that voters are happy if their representatives manage to provide federal money for local investment projects. But how large is the effect in terms of additional votes in future elections? I...

DataCamp is an online data learning platform for all levels. Whether you’ve never written a line in R, you’re working to become a Data Scientist / Analyst with R, or you simply want to bring forward your promotion and add in-demand skills to your resume—upskill today to put ...

Introduction Histogram binning is a technique used in data visualization to group continuous data into a set of discrete bins, or intervals. The purpose of histogram binning is to represent the distribution of a dataset in a graphical format, al...

This is a follow-up post. If you are interested in other posts of this series, please go to: https://www.statforbiology.com/tags/drcte/. All these posts exapand on a paper that we have recently published in the Journal ‘Weed Science’; please follow ...