{geotargets} 0.2.0

November 26, 2024 | Blog on Credibly Curious

I’m super stoked to announce {geotargets} version 0.2.0! The {geotargets} package extends {targets} to work with geospatial data formats. I’d like to firstly acknowledge the strong work by Eric Scott on getting this release ready. I do want...
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Spilhaus

November 26, 2024 | Michael

Monitoring the Single-Celled Powerhouses of the Sea – CC-BY-NC by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center Day 26 of 30DayMapChallenge: « Map projections » (previously). After seeing this post by Cédric Vidonne I had to try to...
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Examining Meta-Analysis

November 25, 2024 | John Mount

In this post, we would like to review the idea of meta-analysis and compare a traditional, frequentist style, random effects meta-analysis to Bayesian methods. We will do this using the meta R package and a Bayesian analysis conducted with R but...
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Tech I’m thankful for (repost)

November 25, 2024 | Stephen Turner

 Reposted from https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/tech-im-thankful-for-2024Data science and bioinformatics tech I'm thankful for in 2024: tidyverse, RStudio, Positron, Bluesky, blogs, Quarto, bioRxiv, LLMs for code, Ollama, Seqera Containers, St... [Read more...]

October 2024: Top 40 New CRAN Packages

November 24, 2024 | Joseph Rickert

One hundred eighty-one new packages made CRAN’s final cut in October. Here are my Top 40 picks in thirteen categories: AI, Climate Analysis, Computational Methods, Data, Epidemiology, Genomics, Machine Learning, Medicine, Quality Management, Sta...
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Pesticides

November 24, 2024 | Michael

Tractor fertilizes field pesticide and insecticide – CC-BY by Aqua Mechanical Day 24 of 30DayMapChallenge: « Only circular shapes » (previously). We’ll map the pesticides bought in France as a Dorling cartogram (Dorling 1...
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India

November 22, 2024 | Michael

Holi 2016-01 – CC-BY-NC-ND by Rajesh Pamnani Day 22 of 30DayMapChallenge: « 2 colours » (previously). Just a joke… Config library(dplyr) library(rnaturalearth) library(ggplot2) library(glue) Data Data from Natur...
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Chain your maestro pipelines DAG style

November 21, 2024 | Will Hipson

I’m thrilled to introduce the biggest maestro update yet. DAGs! A DAG (directed acyclic graph) in the context of data pipelines is when you have data processing steps that connect into other steps until a final step is reached. Almost all data o... [Read more...]

100 Bushels of Corn, Revisited

November 21, 2024 | John Mount

About the authors John Mount is a data scientist based in San Francisco, with 20+ years of experience in machine learning, statistics, and analytics. He is the co-founder of the data science consulting firm Win-Vector LLC, and (with Nin... [Read more...]
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