Articles by Jon Calder's R Blog

Naming things is hard

December 3, 2017 | Jon Calder's R Blog

Prefixing R function names - ‘There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.’ The above quip by Phil Karlton is fairly well known and often quoted, sometimes with amusing extensions: There are two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one ...
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The spark of statistics

July 25, 2017 | Jon Calder's R Blog

The science of us - I’ve enjoyed maths for pretty much as long as I can remember. I’m aware that it is rare to make such a statement. Probably straight up weird to some. But that just shows how much I have to be grateful for. I am ... [Read more...]

Data Science Podcasts

May 30, 2017 | Jon Calder's R Blog

Make the most of your commute! - Podcasts are awesome. Especially when you’re stuck in traffic on the way to work. Below are some podcasts I listen to that relate to data science and statistics. Each of them has something slightly different t... [Read more...]

Data Science Podcasts

May 30, 2017 | Jon Calder's R Blog

Make the most of your commute! - Podcasts are awesome. Especially when you’re stuck in traffic on the way to work. Below are some podcasts I listen to that relate to data science and statistics. Each of them has something slightly different t... [Read more...]

R track on exercism.io

April 4, 2017 | Jon Calder's R Blog

The devil is in the details! - As I’ve said before, when it comes to programming I’m a firm believer in the “learn by doing” approach. exercism.io is a project which exemplifies this. I came across exercism.io earlier this year while ex... [Read more...]

R track on exercism.io

April 4, 2017 | Jon Calder's R Blog

The devil is in the details! - As I’ve said before, when it comes to programming I’m a firm believer in the “learn by doing” approach. exercism.io is a project which exemplifies this. I came across exercism.io earlier this year while ex... [Read more...]

satRday Cape Town

March 12, 2017 | Jon Calder's R Blog

SA's first R conference - Almost a full month has passed since satRday Cape Town. Time races on (as always) bringing plenty of challenges and opportunities with each new day, but part of me wants to go back and re-live the experience, just to have some more time to take ...
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satRday Cape Town

March 12, 2017 | Jon Calder's R Blog

SA's first R conference - Almost a full month has passed since satRday Cape Town. Time races on (as always) bringing plenty of challenges and opportunities with each new day, but part of me wants to go back and re-live the experience, just to have some more time to take ...
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Halite

February 1, 2017 | Jon Calder's R Blog

May the best bot win - Halite is an artificial intelligence programming challenge. Players control a bot using the programming language of their choice. Bots fight for control of a 2D grid and the bot with the most territory at the end wins. ... [Read more...]

Halite

February 1, 2017 | Jon Calder's R Blog

May the best bot win - Halite is an artificial intelligence programming challenge. Players control a bot using the programming language of their choice. Bots fight for control of a 2D grid and the bot with the most territory at the end wins. Th... [Read more...]

Welcome to R-bloggers!

January 22, 2017 | Jon Calder's R Blog

Tal Galili, empowering bloggers to empower other R users - Hooray! I am now part of the R-bloggers community! R-bloggers is a blog aggregator for content created by the Rstats community. It was founded by Tal Galili towards the end of 2009, in ...
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Welcome to R-bloggers!

January 22, 2017 | Jon Calder's R Blog

Tal Galili, empowering bloggers to empower other R users - Hooray! I am now part of the R-bloggers community! R-bloggers is a blog aggregator for content created by the Rstats community. It was founded by Tal Galili towards the end of 2009, i...
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Why swirl?

January 8, 2017 | Jon Calder's R Blog

Learn R, in R. - swirl is a software package for the R programming language that turns the R console into an interactive learning environment. Users receive immediate feedback as they are guided through self-paced lessons in data science an...
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Why swirl?

January 8, 2017 | Jon Calder's R Blog

Learn R, in R. - swirl is a software package for the R programming language that turns the R console into an interactive learning environment. Users receive immediate feedback as they are guided through self-paced lessons in data science and ...
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satRday in Cape Town

December 16, 2016 | Jon Calder's R Blog

A celebration of R - In just two months time, the second satRday will be taking place right on my doorstep, in Cape Town, South Africa. I keep telling people I am looking forward to it, but to be honest that’s really quite an understatement. ... [Read more...]

satRday in Cape Town

December 16, 2016 | Jon Calder's R Blog

A celebration of R - In just two months time, the second satRday will be taking place right on my doorstep, in Cape Town, South Africa. I keep telling people I am looking forward to it, but to be honest that’s really quite an understatement. I a... [Read more...]

Introducing hugo!

December 11, 2016 | Jon Calder's R Blog

Fun with bot frameworks - Roughly two months ago, I embarked on a short mission: to setup an instance of hubot for integration with Slack. Despite being armed with only a very limited working knowledge of Javascript (hubot runs on node.js and sc...
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Introducing hugo!

December 11, 2016 | Jon Calder's R Blog

Fun with bot frameworks - Roughly two months ago, I embarked on a short mission: to setup an instance of hubot for integration with Slack. Despite being armed with only a very limited working knowledge of Javascript (hubot runs on node.js and scri...
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Breaking the Silence

December 7, 2016 | Jon Calder's R Blog

Reflections on new beginnings... - In April of 2016, I made a new friend. His name is Lorenz and he is from Switzerland. We met one evening when I arrived to pick him up for a small church group meeting, and he ambled up to the driver side door...
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Breaking the Silence

December 7, 2016 | Jon Calder's R Blog

Reflections on new beginnings... - In April of 2016, I made a new friend. His name is Lorenz and he is from Switzerland. We met one evening when I arrived to pick him up for a small church group meeting, and he ambled up to the driver side door on...
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