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...]

Bike accidents

November 21, 2024 | Michael

Ciclista atropellado – CC-BY by Nicanor Arenas Bermejo Day 20 & 21 of 30DayMapChallenge: « OpenStreetMap » and « Conflict » (previously). Mapping the accidents between bicycles and cars in 2023 in France. We have had a few sad accidents recently showing a growing attention on cyclist security and the conflicts on the road. We’ll use the Annual ...
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