There is an incredible amount of COVID-19 related material available online. While many dashboards, data sets, shiny apps and models represent significant contributions towards fighting the pandemic, we seem to have reached a point where we should be thinking about standards of quality, and should be exploring avenues for cooperation ...

One hundred sixty-four new packages made it to CRAN in February. Here are my “Top 40” picks in eleven categories: Computational Methods, Data, Genomics, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Medicine, Science, Statistics, Time Series, Utilities, and Visualizations. Computational Methods delayed v0.3.0: Implements mechanisms to parallelize dependent tasks in a manner that optimizes the ...

Florianne Verkroost is a Ph.D. candidate at Nuffield College at the University of Oxford. She has a passion for data science and a background in mathematics and econometrics. She applies her interdisciplinary knowledge to computationally address societal problems of inequality. This is the fourth and final post in a ...

Welcome to another installment of Reproducible Finance. Today’s post will be topical as we look at the historical behavior of the stock market after days of extreme returns and it will also explore one of my favorite coding themes of 2020 - the power of RMarkdown as an R/Python ...

Florianne Verkroost is a Ph.D. candidate at Nuffield College at the University of Oxford. She has a passion for data science and a background in mathematics and econometrics. She applies her interdisciplinary knowledge to computationally address societal problems of inequality. This is the third post in a series devoted ...

Tim Churches is a Senior Research Fellow at the UNSW Medicine South Western Sydney Clinical School at Liverpool Hospital, and a health data scientist at the Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research, also located at Liverpool, Sydney. His background is in general medicine, general practice medicine, occupational health, public health ...

Florianne Verkroost is a Ph.D. candidate at Nuffield College at the University of Oxford. She has a passion for data science and a background in mathematics and econometrics. She applies her interdisciplinary knowledge to computationally address societal problems of inequality. This is the second post in a series devoted ...

One hundred forty-seven new packages made it to CRAN in January. Here are my “Top 40” picks in nine categories: Computational Methods, Genomics, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Medicine, Statistics, Time Series, Utilities and Visualization. Computational Methods FSSF v0.1.1: Provides three methods proposed by Shang & Apley (2019) to generate fully-sequential space-filling designs inside a ...

rstudio::conf 2020 is already receding in the rear view mirror, but the wealth of resources generated by the conference will be valuable for quite some time. All of the materials from the workshops, and now all one hundred and four videos of conference talks are available. This unique video collection ...

Harrison Schramm, CAP, PStat, is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. In this short piece, I’m going to discuss a fun photography project I did over the winter using R. I’m also going to touch on some of the implications of the R ...

rstudio::conf kicked off the 2020 season for R conferences last week with record attendance somewhere north of twenty-one hundred. Session topics ranged from business to science, marketing to medicine and attracted R users with very varied backgrounds including DevOps professionals, data scientists, journalists, physicians, statisticians, R package developers, Shiny developers ...

rstudio::conf 2020 got underway today with a huge training event featuring eighteen workshops taught by some of the most experienced and sought after instructors in the R Community. The workshops covered a wide range of topics including the Tidyverse, machine learning, deep learning, JavaScript, Shiny, R Markdown, package building, geospatial ...

One hundred fifty-two packages made it to CRAN in December. Here are my “Top 40” picks in ten categories: Data, Genomics, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Medicine, Science, Statistics, Time Series, Utilities, and Visualization. Data climate v0.3.0: Provides access to meteorological and hydrological data from OGIMET, University of Wyoming - atmospheric vertical profiling ...

Pedro Coutinho Silva is a software engineer at Appsilon Data Science. It is not always possible to create a dashboard that fully meets your expectations or requirements using only existing libraries. Maybe you want a specific function that needs to be custom built, or maybe you want to add your ...

One hundred forty-four new packages made it to CRAN in November. Here are my picks for the “Top 40” in eight categories: Computational Methods, Data, Genomics, Machine Learning, Statistics, Time Series, Utilities, and Visualization. Computational Methods calculus v0.1.1: Provides C++ optimized functions for numerical and symbolic calculus including symbolic arithmetic, tensor ...