Dr Drang and the Electoral College

September 6, 2024 | R on kieranhealy.org

The other week, the Internetā€™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: ā€œā€¦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 ā€˜Checkā€™ 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 ā€˜hot takesā€™ comparing programming languages based solely on a ā€œfeelā€ or differential familiarity (ā€œI 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 Iā€™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 couldnā€™t justify continuing to try to get ā€œbetterā€ at Pandas, ...
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PowerQuery Puzzle solved with R

September 3, 2024 | Numbers around us

#213ā€“214PuzzlesAuthor: ExcelBIAll files (xlsx with puzzle and R with solution) for each and every puzzle are available on my Github.Ā Enjoy.Puzzle #213Two warehouses gave us some summary, but products there are sometimes in packages, sometimes in batche...
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Our Experience at posit::conf 2024

September 3, 2024 | Gift Kenneth

posit::conf 2024 was nothing short of amazing! While Posit has already shared their top highlights, we wanted to offer our own take on the experienceā€”what really stood out to us, what weā€™re excited about, and a few answers to questions that came up during Marcin Dubelā€™s session. ...
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