My first GitHub Actions extension: A tool to apply Clang format to C++ code
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My first GitHub Actions extension A tool to apply Clang format to C++ code
Augmented Dynamic Adaptive Model (ADAM) for Daily Seasonal Data
I have modeled the BIST 100 index to build predictive intervals. Because the data has daily seasonality, I preferred the modeltime::adam_reg function. I did not use the timetk::step_timeseries_signature function because the model cannot process too many exterior regressors, and the algorithm captures the trend and seasonality ...
Generative AI and R workshops in Hobart Australia
Centre for Marine Socioecology R and AI workshops
In person Hobart Australia 11th and 12th November 2025
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The R program is a powerful tool for data analysis, but has a steep learning curve. Join us for a ... [Read more...]
All the Ways to Programmatically Edit or Parse R Markdown / Quarto Documents
Read it in: Español.Read it in: Français. If life gives you a bunch of Markdown files to analyse or edit, do you warm up your regex muscles and get going? How about using more specific tools instead? In this post, we shall give an overview of programm... [Read more...]
Bayes on the Beach 2026 (University of Wollongong, NSW, 9-11 Feb.)
R vs SQL: Do You Still Need SQL if You’re a Data Scientist in R?
In analytics teams, the question often arises: “If I already know R, do I still need SQL?” The short answer is: yes—most of the time. R and SQL solve different—yet complementary—problems. SQL is the lingua franca for querying and shaping data where it lives (databases, data warehouses), ... [Read more...]
R vs Julia: Speed, Statistics, and the Future of Data Science
In the rapidly evolving world of data science and analytics, two languages stand out for statisticians and researchers: R and Julia. While R has been a trusted companion in statistical computing for decades, Julia has emerged as a modern language promising both speed and flexibility. This raises a crucial question: ... [Read more...]
R vs Python in 2025: A Complete Comparison for Data Science
In the world of data science, two programming languages dominate the conversation: R and Python. Both have powerful ecosystems, passionate communities, and proven success in real-world analytics. Yet the question persists: which language is better for data science? The truth is that both R and Python excel in different areas. ... [Read more...]
How to Collect and Clean Sports Data in R (FBref, Sports-Reference, ESPN + rvest Tutorial)
This hands-on tutorial walks through acquiring sports data for analysis in R—either by downloading CSVs from public sources or by using R-based APIs and web scraping. You’ll learn how to load raw data, deal with common “messiness” (types, missing values, inconsistent formats), and produce a tidy dataset that’... [Read more...]
Generative AI and R workshops in Hobart Australia
In person Hobart Australia 11th and 12th November 2025
Course page and further details
Registration
The R program is a powerful tool for data analysis, but has a steep learning curve. Join us for a 2-day workshop that will accelerate your R ski... [Read more...]
Phoenician colonization
Figura de Astarté – Museo Arqueológico de Sevilla, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
I was reading Phoenician colonization from its origin to the 7th century BC (Manzano-Agugliaro et al. 2025) and thought it was an interesting dataset, but alas: it is split in four tables, behind a javascript redirect (wtf Taylor & ...
Reimagining Equity Solvency Capital Requirement Approximation (one of my Master’s Thesis subjects): From Bilinear Interpolation to Probabilistic Machine Learning
Revisiting my 2007-2009 Master's Thesis work on SCR Equity approximation using probabilistic machine learning techniques in R and Python.
Boost Your Career with Jumping Rivers Free Monthly Webinars – Next Session on 18th September
Our free monthly webinar series is back, and the first session on 21 August – “Reports that Write Themselves: Automated Reporting with Quarto” was a fantastic success! It was wonderful to see the Jumping Rivers community grow, with so many data p...
Survivor Australia vs. The World is now in {survivoR}
Survivor Australia vs. The World has wrapped up, and the data is now available in the {survivoR} package. You can […]
The post Survivor Australia vs. The World is now in {survivoR} appeared first on Dan Oehm | Gradient Descending. [Read more...]
Introducing admiralneuro!
Introduction
{admiralneuro} joins the family as the latest {admiral} extension package. The package supports neurological disease areas, with the initial release of version 0.1.0 focusing on Alzheimer’s disease.
The package was born out of a ...
Introducing admiralneuro!
Introduction
Neuroscience Extension Package for ADaM in R Asset Library • admiralneuro {admiralneuro} joins the family as the latest admiral {admiral} extension package. The package supports neurological disease areas, with the initial re...
Learning About Assemblying DNA, BLAST, and Multiple Loci Sequence Testing (MLST) – A Note To Myself
We learnt how to assemble DNA fragments from a recently published N. meningitidis outbreak study using SKESA 🧬, practiced using BLAST for species identification and MLST for strain typing, and explored how serogroups are determined using specialized P...
From Surviving to Thriving: A Convening to Reclaim and Sustain Open Science Communities
Open science has transformed how research is conducted, shared, and reused.
Yet the organisations at the heart of this transformation are often left vulnerable, underfunded, and disconnected from one another.
To move from simply surviving to truly thr... [Read more...]
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