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The future package celebrates ten years on CRAN as of June 19, 2025. I got a bit stalled over the holidays and going to the fantastic useR! 2025 conference, but, as promised, here is the third in a series of blog posts highlighting recent improveme...

Using NGBoost for probabilistic forecasting in time series analysis with nnetsauce and cybooster libraries.

Four years ago, I described a simple framework for organizing simulations to conduct power analyses or explore the operating characteristics of modeling approaches. In that framework, I introduced a small function scenario_list that generated a list...

Required Packages library(quanteda) library(quanteda.textstats) library(quanteda.textplots) library(readr) library(dplyr) library(ggplot2) library(stringr) library(DT) library(tidytext) Introduction In this post, we’ll explore how to transfo...

Required Packages library(quanteda) library(quanteda.textstats) library(quanteda.textplots) library(readr) library(dplyr) library(ggplot2) library(stringr) library(DT) library(tidytext) Understanding Text Analytics Fundamentals Text analytic...

The 1937 disappearance of Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan was briefly in the news in the last week or so. A campaign, apparently based in the Northern Marianas, to release any papers held by the US government found a willing ear in the current US admini...

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Scaling data to create double y-axis plots.

It’s been a while because, reasons. I’m still alive, still enjoying recreational R programming and still writing the occasional post that almost no one reads these days. Like this one. Sam Lord writes on the site formerly known as Twitter: I bet that we can answer that using ...

This post is about economic growth in a region in which labour is free to move around. A colleague recently showed me a paper by Capasso, Engbers and La Torre which describes an extension of the Solow growth model in which a spatial element is added. It seemed to me ...