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Visual summaries of population in Pacific islands by @ellis2013nz

November 29, 2025 | free range statistics - R

This will be the first of several posts where I post some code and visualisations of population issues in the Pacific. The analysis and visualisations are pretty simple. Between them, they’ll show how to make (with publicly available data) all the stat...

Gaussian Processes Again

November 28, 2025 | Chris Bowdon

One nice aspect of blogging about the things you’ve just learned is that when, inevitably, you forget those things, reading back your old posts can bring you up to speed pretty quickly. It’s like a slight groove has been worn and you can slip ba...

Oil spill

November 28, 2025 | Michael

Oiled Bird - Black Sea Oil Spill 11/12/07 – CC BY by Igor GOLUBENKOV (Marine Photobank) Day 28 of 30DayMapChallenge: « Black » (previously). There is a global oil spill dataset from 1967 to 2023 by Liu, Yin, and Cai (2025). Config library(glue) library(dplyr) library(sf) library(janitor) library(readxl) library(leaflet) library(leaflet.providers) library(... [Read more...]

India’s 2015 National Classification of Occupations Data File

November 27, 2025 | Giles Dickenson-Jones

One of the projects I worked on this year was analyzing India’s labour market to identify potential occupational transition pathways. […] [Read more...]

October 2025 Top 40 New CRAN Packages

November 27, 2025 | Joseph Rickert

Data AlgeriAPIs v0.1.0: Provides functions to access data from public RESTful APIs, including World Bank API and REST Countries API, retrieving real-time or historical information related to Algeria. The package enables users to query economi...

rOpenSci News Digest, November 2025

November 27, 2025 | rOpenSci - open tools for open science

Dear rOpenSci friends, it’s time for our monthly news roundup! You can read this post on our blog. Now let’s dive into the activity at and around rOpenSci! rOpenSci HQ rOpenSci at LatinR We’re excited to continue supporting Latin... [Read more...]

Start 2026 Ahead of the Curve: Boost Your Career with Jumping Rivers Training

November 27, 2025 | The Jumping Rivers Blog

Ready to make 2026 the year you take your skills to the next level? Our 2026 online training courses are now live, designed to help you stay ahead of the curve, become more hirable, and gain practical skills that make a real impact. January 2026 ...

Wealth boundaries

November 27, 2025 | Michael

Boundary – CC BY-ND by Hiroyuki Takeda Day 27 of 30DayMapChallenge: « Boundaries » (previously). There are still borders in Europe: wealth is not distributed equally. We can show the difference of gross domestic product (GDP) per...

Getting the Absolute/Relative Growth Rate from growth curves

November 26, 2025 | R on Fixing the bridge between biologists and statisticians

Yesterday, a colleague of mine pointed me to the article “How to fit nonlinear plant growth models and calculate growth rates: an update for ecologists” (Paine et al., 2012). It addresses a relevant topic: many plant scientists are involved in growt...

Railways

November 26, 2025 | Michael

Convergence – CC BY-SA by beeveephoto Day 25–26 of 30DayMapChallenge: « Hexagons » and « Transports » (previously). Estimating the disappearance of railway lines in France. Config library(sf) library(glue) library(ggp...

Why are derivatives important in life? A case-study with nonlinear regression

November 25, 2025 | R on Fixing the bridge between biologists and statisticians

In general, undergraduate students in biology/ecology courses tend to consider the derivatives as a very abstract entity, with no real usefulness in the everyday life. In my work as a teacher, I have often tried to fight against such an attitude, by...

Translating the rOpenSci Dev Guide into Portuguese: Collaboration, Community, Challenges, and Impact

November 24, 2025 | rOpenSci - open tools for open science

Read it in: Português. Introduction rOpenSci curates packages developed in the R programming language and also offers a well-established peer review process for R packages. To guide this process, rOpenSci created the rOpenSci Packages: Development, M...

From RUnit to testthat with Coding Agent Support

November 24, 2025 | Mirai Solutions

A case study of AI-supported maintenance in an R package Migrating a Test Suite Going from one testing framework to another in a mature R package can be tedious and still requires some understanding of the codebase’s overall structure and goals, as...

Toponymy

November 24, 2025 | Michael

Texte latin sur marbre noir – CC BY-NC-SA by Francisco Gonzalez Day 24 of 30DayMapChallenge: « Places and their names » (previously). BDTOPO is the most detailed topographic GIS database for France, made by IGN under a free licen...

Bioconductor in Africa: Ethiopia’s First In-Person Course

November 23, 2025 | Maria Doyle

Introduction Following the success of our first in-person Bioconductor course in Nairobi earlier this year, we continued building momentum across the continent with Ethiopia’s first Bioconductor workshop, held in Addis Ababa from 25–29 August 2...

Twenty Questions and Decision Trees

November 22, 2025 | Jerry Tuttle

Most of us have probably played the game Twenty Questions. The answerer chooses something, and the other players try to guess it by asking yes or no questions. The TV show "What's My Line" is an example of this wher...

Data Science Quiz For Humanities

November 21, 2025 | Ponne, Bruno

Test your skills with this interactive data science quiz covering statistics, Python, R, and data analysis. Progress Answered 0 of 15 1Which of the following best describes a z-score? A measure of central tendency The number of standard deviations a value is from the mean The square of the correlation coefficient A ... [Read more...]

Flags

November 21, 2025 | Michael

Colors of Youth !! – CC BY-NC-ND by Rahul Sheel Day 21-22 of 30DayMapChallenge: « Icons » & « Natural Earth » (previously). The world as flags… Data # install.packages("grImport2") # install.packages("ggflags", #...

(ICYMI) RPweave: Unified R + Python + LaTeX System using uv

November 20, 2025 | T. Moudiki

Introducing RPweave, a unified document system that seamlessly integrates R, Python, and LaTeX for reproducible research and professional typesetting.

Should I Use Figma Design for Dashboard Prototyping?

November 20, 2025 | The Jumping Rivers Blog

Heard of Figma but not sure what it is? Seen Figma but not sure if it’s worth learning? Never seen or heard of Figma? If the answer to any of these questions is “Yes” then this blog post is for you. What are Figma and Figma Design? This is ...

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