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...
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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...]

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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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", #...
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