Overall, I am quite impressed with the responses! With minimal prompt engineering, document cleaning! It was able to return accurate responses, and even separated different conditions and provided appropriate treatment options. It was also able to return the correct response for tricky questions that our RAG was not able to. ...

Suppose you are modeling a process that you believe is well approximated as being linear in its inputs, but only within a certain range. Outside that range, the output might saturate or threshold: for example if you are modeling a count or a physical process, you likely can never get […]

Lessons from Will Hunting and McGayverIn the world of data science, data cleaning is often seen as one of the most time-consuming and least glamorous tasks. Yet, it’s also one of the most critical. Without clean data, even the most sophisticated algorithms and models can produce misleading results. This ...

About this tutorial In summer 2024, Zotero had a major update to version 7. The update affected some of the setup routines that I outlined ages ago in the Zotero hacks post. The recipe laid out in that old post helped me painlessly update, move...

#207–208PuzzlesAuthor: ExcelBIAll files (xlsx with puzzle and R with solution) for each and every puzzle are available on my Github. Enjoy.Puzzle #207Sometimes we have task that are somehow related to real life, not just mind-bending puzzles. And today...

This is reposted from the original article: https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/use-r-to-prompt-a-local-llm-withUse R to prompt a local LLM with ollamar: Using R to prompt llama3.1:70b running on my laptop with Ollama + ollamar to tell me what's inter...

Introduction In this post, we’ll cover how to open an Excel workbook using VBA and then call this VBA code from R. This guide will help you automate tasks in Excel directly from R, combining the strengths of both tools. We’ll break down the VBA...

Puzzles no. 514–518PuzzlesAuthor: ExcelBIAll files (xlsx with puzzle and R with solution) for each and every puzzle are available on my Github. Enjoy.Puzzle #514Today we are searching for treasure. Exactly what we need is to find highest 2x2 submatrix ...

Have you ever thought R’s approach to machine learning is outdated? Like, data analysis and visualization tools are superb. Everything feels intuitive and every following step of your workflow integrates seamlessly. That’s by design. Or, the design of the tidyverse collection of packages. R tidymodels aims to do ...

John White Alexander, Study in Black and Green I had the opportunity to present an automated Quarto dashboard on Posit’s Monthly End-to-End Workflow with Posit Team, followed by a Q&A. The project involved a script that retrieves Consume...

A few months ago I listened to an episode on the Founder’s Journal podcast. The episode reviewed an essay, The Opportunity Cost of Everything, by Jack Raines. If you haven’t read it, then I suggest you invest 10 minutes in doing so. It will be time well spent.

John White Alexander, Study in Black and Green I had the opportunity to present an automated Quarto dashboard on Posit’s Monthly End-to-End Workflow with Posit Team, followed by a Q&A. The project involved a script that retrieves Consume...

Introduction The Paris 2024 Olympic Games featured the debut of a new Olympic sport: break dancing. The sport made a lot of headlines after Australian competitor Raygun delivered an unusual routine which was ridiculed by many internet commentators. Is ...

How to join this free online event with Jeroen Ooms. R-Universe is rOpenSci’s platform for testing, building, distributing, and discovering R packages, lead by Jeroen Ooms. R-Universe provides no-setup continuous integration, compilation for all platforms (including WebR!), accessible HTML R package manuals, a comprehensive API, and the ability for ...

The R Consortium recently interviewed Sanket Sinojia, organizer of the Ahmedabad R User Group (ARUG). With over 14 years of experience in statistical programming and data sciences in the clinical... The post A New R Community in Ahmedabad, India, focused on Clinical Research and Pharmaceutical Industries  appeared first on R Consortium.