Double Descent Explained

October 25, 2025 | datascienceconfidential - r

This is a post about the famous double descent phenomenon in machine learning. I aim to constrct the simplest possible example of double descent and explain exactly how it arises and why it doesn’t contradict the bias-variance tradeoff. I was inspired...
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Mapping Antarctica

October 24, 2025 | dieghernan

Creating maps with R is usually straightforward, but representations that cross the International Date Line or that use polar projections can be tricky.
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EuroBioC2025 conference recap

October 23, 2025 | Laurah Ondari

The European Bioconductor conference 2025 (EuroBioC2025) took place between September 17 and 19, 2025, and was hosted at the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB) in Barcelona by the Department of Medicine and Life Sciences of Universitat Pompeu Fabra (MELIS-UPF)and the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal). The Catalan capital boasts a rich culture, ...
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Be Mindful of the Time

October 22, 2025 | Joseph Rickert

The following diagram illustrates the 5-state, absorbing Markov chain framework used to model the progression of patients through various health states as they undergo treatment for asthma. The states are defined as follows: STW= successfully tr...
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The use of SAT/ACT for college admissions

October 21, 2025 | Jason Bryer

I have been working on a presentation regarding college readiness and the use of SAT/ACT for college admissions as part of the Diagnostic Assessment and Achievement of College Skills. I wanted to see how the use of these high-stakes assessments h...
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Rfuzzycoco released on CRAN

October 20, 2025 | Karl Forner

My Rfuzzycoco package just hit the CRAN: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Rfuzzycoco/index.html !! Publishing to CRAN is a rigorous process, and it was particularly challenging as this package includes custom C++ code. I documented the pr... [Read more...]

Compositional modeling of plant communities with Dirichlet regression

October 19, 2025 | GAMbler

Compositional data, where observations represent proportions that sum to a constant, are ubiquitous in ecology, yet many analysts fall back on problematic approaches like separate binomial models, beta regression on ratios, or worse, standard linear regression on raw proportions. These methods ignore the fundamental constraint that proportions must sum to ...
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gssrdoc Updates

October 19, 2025 | R on kieranhealy.org

Regular readers know that I maintain gssr and gssrdoc, two packages for R. The former makes the General Social Survey’s annual, cumulative and panel datasets available in a way that’s easy to use in R. The latter makes the survey’s codebook available in R’s integrated help ... [Read more...]

D3po 1.0.0 is here!

October 17, 2025 | pacha.dev/blog

If this post is useful to you I kindly ask a minimal donation on Buy Me a Coffee. It shall be used to continue my Open Source efforts. You can send me questions for the blog using this form and subscribe to receive an email when there is a new ... [Read more...]

Tutorial for Developing an Advanced Stock Dashboard for the S&P 500 for the 2025 Posit Table Contest

October 17, 2025 | Ozancan Ozdemir

This tutorial breaks down the development of an R Shiny application titled S&P 500 Monitoring Dashboard for the 2025 Posit Table Dashboard. This app effectively combines interactive financial data visualization (plotly), beautiful data tables (gt, gtExtras), web scraping (rvest), and external API integration (riingo, ellmer/Gemini AI) within a custom, sleek ... [Read more...]

What’s new for Python in 2025?

October 16, 2025 | The Jumping Rivers Blog

Python 3.14 was released on 7th October 2025. Here we summarise some of the more interesting changes and some trends in Python development and data-science over the past year. We will highlight the following: the colourful Python command-line interface; project-management tool uv; free-threading; and a brief summary of other developments. The Python 3.14 ...
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