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Methods for comparing spatial patterns in raster data This is the fifth part of a blog post series on comparing spatial patterns in raster data. More information about the whole series can be found in part one. This blog post focuses ...

Introduction Linux, an open-source operating system known for its stability and flexibility, relies heavily on efficient process management. For beginners venturing into the world of Linux, understanding processes and mastering related commands...

It’s Hallowe’en; that time of year when LinkedIn is full of photos of the recruiters who ghosted you dressed up as ghosts. But ghosting isn’t the only bad thing about the modern-day job market. Another plague on job seekers is the endless rounds of int...

All of our public training courses for the first half of 2025 are now open for registration! Head over to the public courses page on our website to book in and start building your programming skills in the new year! Below is a list of all of our ...

Introduction In C programming, the ability to make decisions and control the flow of a program is essential. One of the most fundamental ways to do this is by using conditional statements like if and else if. These statements allow you to test ...

Introduction It can be fun to drive a problem all the way into the ground. I don’t always get to do that on paying projects, however sometimes I can do it with hobby projects. In this case I am going to re-solve Dudeney’s Remainder Problem again and again ...

Introduction to the new exams2forms package for including quizzes or individual questions from dynamic exercise templates into rmarkdown or quarto documents, e.g., for self-paced learning and self-assessment. Overview The new package exams2forms, co-authored with Reto Stauffer, provides several building blocks for embedding exercises written with the R ...

I have been thinking in my spare time a bit about synthetic control methods as an approach to evaluation, and am working on a blog post. But a side issue that popped up was sufficiently interesting to treat separately. Technically, it is a question of...

Introduction The dollar sign ($) operator is one of the most fundamental tools in R programming, serving as a key method for accessing and manipulating data within data frames and lists. Whether you’re just starting your R programming journey o...

How to join this free online event with Pedro Faria, Beatriz Milz and Francesca Belem Lopes Palmeira. A comunidade R está realizando vários esforços de traduções comunitárias para o português de diferentes recursos: livros, pacotes e guias. Nesta chamada da comunidade, três líderes ...

Valley of the roses – CC-BY-NC-ND by Riccardo Maria Mantero Day 6 of 30DayMapChallenge: « Raster » (previously). What was the temperature at your birth place when you were born? Copernicus provides many climate datasets. ...

I’ve added a new function to qeML 1.2, qeMittalGraph, based on an idea by my student Aditya Mittal. Below is an example that I think is rather compelling. The basic idea is quite simple (and not necessarily new, just something I had not seen below): Instead of comparing several curves ...

#231–232PuzzlesAuthor: ExcelBIAll files (xlsx with puzzle and R with solution) for each and every puzzle are available on my Github. Enjoy.Puzzle #231Both puzzles this weekend are somehow related to logistics. In first one we need to complete data for ...

We’re thrilled to announce the release of Tapyr 0.2, a major update that incorporates valuable feedback from the Shiny for Python developer community. Learn how Tapyr enhances Shiny for Python in our Open Source Spotlight. See how it simplifies deployment for Shiny apps. This version focuses on improving the developer ...

The setdiff function in R is a powerful tool for finding differences between datasets. Whether you’re cleaning data, comparing vectors, or analyzing complex datasets, understanding setdiff is essential for any R programmer. This comprehensive gu...

I’ve spent over 40 hours so far this year delivering talks and workshops about programming, visualisation, and data science, with several more hours still to come before the end of the year. If you’d told me 10 years ago that this is someth...

I am happy to announce that our paper entitled “Right to be forgotten for mortgage insurance issued to cancer survivors: critical assessment and new proposal” has been accepted for publication in European Actuarial Journal. In this paper, we propos...

Blue Whale – CC-BY-NC-ND by Tom Benson Day 5 of 30DayMapChallenge: « A Journey » (previously). Thirteen Blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus) were satellite tagged in 2015 in Australia (Mӧller et al. 2020). We’ll follow their summer in the Great Southern Australian Coastal Upwelling System (GSACUS). Data is available from the Australian Antarctic Data Centre (...