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Mind reader game, and Unicode symbols

September 8, 2024 | Jerry Tuttle

Mind reader game, and Unicode symbols, by Jerry Tuttle Perhaps you've seen this Mind Reader game? Think of a two-digit positive whole number, such as 54. Subtract each of the two digits from your number, such as 54 - 5 - 4 = 45, and call 45 the RES...
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JSON, NULL values and as_tibble

September 6, 2024 | rstats-tips.net

When working with data provided by common APIs you will almost always get in contact with JSON formatted data. Using R’s rjson::fromJSON will transform JSON to R’s lists. So far so good. Converting those lists to tibble using tibble::as_tib... [Read more...]

Dr Drang and the Electoral College

September 6, 2024 | R on kieranhealy.org

The other week, the Internet’s most beloved creepy snowman wrote a blog post where he showed how to use a little Python to group states by their number of electoral college votes to make a table like this: Electors States PopPct ECPct 3 AK, DE, DC, ND, SD, VT, WY 1.61% 3.90% 4 ... [Read more...]

State-Space Vector Autoregressions in mvgam

September 5, 2024 | GAMbler

Vector Autoregressions (VAR models), also known in the ecological literature as Multivariate Autoregressions (MAR models), are a class of Dynamic Linear Models that offer a principled way to model delayed and contemporaneous interactions among sets of multiple time series. These models are widely used in econometrics and psychology, among other ...
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BlueSky Statistics Version 10 is Not Open Source

September 5, 2024 | Bob Muenchen

BlueSky Statistics is a graphical user interface for the powerful R language. On July 10, 2024, the BlueskyStatistics.com website said: “…As the BlueSky Statistics version 10 product evolves, we will continue to work on orchestrating the necessary logistics to make the BlueSky Statistics version 10.x application available as an open-source project. This ... [Read more...]

Guarding Against Misleading Data

September 5, 2024 | Numbers around us

The IBCS ‘Check’ PrincipleIn the complex world of business intelligence (BI), the ability to present data accurately and transparently is critical. Whether crafting a dashboard for executive decision-making or generating a report for operational analys...
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Side by Side Comparison – Gleam vs R

September 4, 2024 | Jonathan Carroll

Gleam vs R I thoroughly dislike ‘hot takes’ comparing programming languages based solely on a “feel” or differential familiarity (“I know this one better therefore it is better) so when I came across a blog post detailing a small learning project wr...
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Why I’m Switching to Polars

September 4, 2024 | Ari Lamstein

I recently decided to switch from Pandas to Polars for my Python projects that use dataframes. I came to this decision while taking a workshop on Polars last week: I found its syntax to be so intuitive that I couldn’t justify continuing to try to get “better” at Pandas, ...
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