Articles by Pachá

Leaving a PhD Program

July 18, 2022 | Pachá

Abstract Purpose The purpose of this post is to offer the author’s view about the conceptualization of what it is to be a successful Ph.D. student and some of the challenges Iberoamerican students face to have an impact. Approach This post is a ... [Read more...]

Generalized Linear Models, Part I: The Logistic Model

July 17, 2022 | Pachá

Context Let’s say we are interested in predicting the gender of a candidate for the British General Elections in 1992 by using the Political Parties as a predictor. We have the next data:
library(dplyr)
library(tidyr)

elections <- tibble(
  party = c("Tories", "Labour", "LibDem", "Green", "Other"),
  women = c(57,126,136,60,135),
  men = c(577,508,496,192,546)
)

elections
## # A tibble: 5 × 3
##   party  women   men
##   <chr>  <dbl> <dbl>
## 1 Tories    57   577
## 2 Labour   126   508
## 3 LibDem   136   496
## 4 Green     60   192
## 5 Other    135   546
Being the dependent variable a categorical one, we need to propose a Logistic Model. Let \(... [Read more...]

An introductory course in Shiny – July sessions

June 29, 2022 | Pachá

I’m offering this course to learn Shiny, and I’ve put this with a 50% discount for 48 hours. This course aims to introduce people with basic R knowledge to develop interactive web applications using the Shiny framework. The course consists of two da... [Read more...]

An introductory course in Shiny

June 25, 2022 | Pachá

Paid course. Get tickets at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/pacha/e/77110. This course aims to introduce people with basic R knowledge to develop interactive web applications using the Shiny framework. We will discuss topics such as user interface (UI)... [Read more...]

[ESP] Curso de introducción a Shiny

June 20, 2022 | Pachá

Fechas: Semana del 26 al 30 de junio (dos sesiones) Curso pagado. Tickets disponibles en https://www.buymeacoffee.com/pacha/e/76592. El curso busca introducir a personas con conocimientos básicos de R al desarrollo de aplicaciones interactivas usand... [Read more...]

Comparing CENSO 2017 versions for Python and R

June 19, 2022 | Pachá

Motivation Language wars are pretty counterproductive, in my opinion. Different languages have different strengths. Here I’ll show the equivalence of Python and R for a particular context, which is creating and querying a DuckDB (embedded SQL) database. A simple exercise with the census The general idea here is to ... [Read more...]

R Packages for Organizations

June 1, 2022 | Pachá

Summary An R package focused on an organization’s particular needs (with a small or large team) can open up many possibilities, including easier data access, shared functions for data transformation analysis, reporting and standardization of tasks.... [Read more...]

leaRn! (learn R)

May 27, 2022 | Pachá

All levels No prior experience required Certified RStudio Trainer (Tidyverse + Shiny) Also certified by The Carpentries at UofT Eight years of experience with R and databases See my email in the image.
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1:1 R Training

May 20, 2022 | Pachá

Do you need to learn R from zero? Would you like to improve the way you work with R? Hop on a Zoom call with me, where I’ll spend an hour with you to help you understand the R basics in a way it contributes to your daily work. ... [Read more...]
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