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unifiedml: A Unified Machine Learning Interface for R, is now on CRAN + Discussion about AI replacing humans

November 15, 2025 | T. Moudiki

unifiedml is now available on CRAN. This package provides a consistent interface for machine learning in R, making it easier to work with different ML algorithms using a unified API.

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MODIS fire

November 15, 2025 | Michael

Eagle Creek Fire – CC-BY-NC-SA by Curtis Gregory Perry Day 15 of 30DayMapChallenge: « Fire » (previously). An animation of global fires in 2024 using MODIS data. library(dggridR) library(dplyr) library(readr) library(ggplot...

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Bayes vs. the Invaders (Redivivus)

November 15, 2025 | moth

Unidentifiable aerial and marine phenomena. Impossible lights in the sky. Patterns of visitation and terror. Insidious influences from the hadal voids between the stars. Who--what--swoop and glide through the ink-black nights of our world, probing and testing our structures, our societies, our minds? From barely remembered history, to early reports ... [Read more...]

container: v1.1.0 on CRAN

November 14, 2025 | R some blog

The {container} package provides an enhanced version of base R's list. Version 1.1.0 adds new extract and replace operations for interactive use to both match base R's list behavior more closely and to introduce new convenient features beyond that. [Read more...]

Recapping posit::conf 2025

November 14, 2025 | tshafer.com

In September I had the opportunity to give a talk in person at posit::conf in Atlanta, and now the video recording, plus annotated slides and other goodies, are generally available. Video on YouTube Companion website on GitHub ... [Read more...]

readtextgrid now uses C++ (and ChatGPT helped)

November 14, 2025 | Higher Order Functions

In this post, I announce the release of version of 0.2.0 of the readtextgrid R package, describe the problem that the package solves, and share some thoughts on LLM-assisted programming. Textgrids are a way to annotate audio data Praat is a program for speech and acoustic analysis that has been around ...

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Creating a London Population Map with D3po

November 13, 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...]

How to deploy a Shiny app for production

November 13, 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...]

Get Involved in the Data Science Community at our Free Meetups

November 13, 2025 | The Jumping Rivers Blog

As a data science consultancy, Jumping Rivers are already known for offering help and training to clients in all things data. But did you know that we also organise free, in-person data science meetups? In this post we will talk through the typic...

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10 minutes

November 13, 2025 | Michael

10:10:10 on 10/10/10 - “Give Me A Little More Time” – CC-BY-NC-SA by Jill Clardy Day 13 of 30DayMapChallenge: « 10 minute map » (previously). Where can you go in 10 minutes (by car) from Les Minutes? library(osrm) library(leaflet) library(glue) Data We use {osrm} to build the isochrone. The service is based on OpenStreetMap data. ...

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Context-aware Theta forecasting Method: Extending Classical Time Series Forecasting with Machine Learning

November 12, 2025 | T. Moudiki

Explore the context-aware Theta method, a flexible extension of the classical Theta forecasting approach that incorporates tunable drift parameters and machine learning-based slope estimation.

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2125

November 12, 2025 | Michael

Vignemale – CC-BY-NC-SA by Jon Larrañaga Day 12 of 30DayMapChallenge: « 2125 » (previously). Vidaller et al. (2021) indicate that Pyrenean glaciers are in a clear imbalance with the regional climate and will likely disappear...

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Using R/anomalize to identify delays in games of Australian Rules football

November 11, 2025 | nsaunders

In which we generate a dataset of game durations, do a little exploratory data analysis and then try to identify unusual instances and their causes. In my Twitter-whinge-post, I mentioned that one of its last redeeming features is the AFL statistics community. I always feel the need to apologise for ...

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ROC Curves in Two Lines of Code

November 11, 2025 | Robert Horton

Editor’s Note: This post first appeared on the Revolution Analytics/Microsoft Blog, “Revolutions” on August 2, 2016. As the Revolutions blog no longer exists, we are republishing it here with permission from the author. ROC curves are commonly u...

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Python package development for R developers (episode 2 !)

November 11, 2025 | Yohann Mansiaux

In a previous article, I shared my experience as an R developer diving into Python package development! I had noted several aspects that felt less smooth than in R, or even completely missing! Thanks to feedback from the community, I’ve been abl... [Read more...]

Minimal roman

November 11, 2025 | Michael

Cardo Maximus, Jerash, Jordan – Public domain by Mustang Joe Day 11 of 30DayMapChallenge: « Minimal » (previously). A recent dataset of Roman Empire’s road system has just been published (de Soto et al. 2025) and is updated ...

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Little useless-useful R functions – Finding substrings in number Pi

November 10, 2025 | tomaztsql

They say that number Pi holds all infinite possibilities, all the words, all the combinations. Well, easier said to be done. So let’s put this to a test. This is my translational table. We will do this in the following…Read more ›

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Trustworthy Data Visualization

November 10, 2025 | R on kieranhealy.org

This past September I gave the closing keynote at posit::conf; it’s now on YouTube to watch. Keen-eyed observers will note from the title that it’s about trustworthy data visualization. But it’s also about trust a bit mo... [Read more...]

Evaluating a New Job Market Data Feed

November 9, 2025 | R - datawookie

I’ve recently been given early access to a service that provides data on job listings published by a wide range of companies. The dataset offers a near real-time view of hiring activity, broken down at the company level. This is a potentially valuable signal for tracking labour market trends, ...

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Distribution of p-values under the null hypothesis for discrete data by @ellis2013nz

November 8, 2025 | free range statistics - R

Motivation A few months back in a side skirmish during the great p-curve controversy, Richard McElreath mentioned that p-values under the null hypothesis are not always uniformly distributed, as is sometimes claimed. This prompted me to check out the ...

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