Author: R Views

There is an incredible amount of COVID-19 related material available online. While many dashboards, data sets, shiny apps and models represent significant contributions towards fighting the pandemic, we seem to...continue reading.

Affiliation Harrison – Center for Strategic and Budgetary Analysis, Washington DC Cara – Department of the Air Force (Studies, Analyses, and Assessments – AF/A9), Washington DC Disclaimer The views expressed...continue reading.

One hundred sixty-four new packages made it to CRAN in February. Here are my “Top 40” picks in eleven categories: Computational Methods, Data, Genomics, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Medicine, Science, Statistics,...continue reading.

Florianne Verkroost is a Ph.D. candidate at Nuffield College at the University of Oxford. She has a passion for data science and a background in mathematics and econometrics. She applies her...continue reading.

Tim Churches is a Senior Research Fellow at the UNSW Medicine South Western Sydney Clinical School at Liverpool Hospital, and a health data scientist at the Ingham Institute for Applied...continue reading.

Welcome to another installment of Reproducible Finance. Today’s post will be topical as we look at the historical behavior of the stock market after days of extreme returns and it...continue reading.

Florianne Verkroost is a Ph.D. candidate at Nuffield College at the University of Oxford. She has a passion for data science and a background in mathematics and econometrics. She applies...continue reading.

Tim Churches is a Senior Research Fellow at the UNSW Medicine South Western Sydney Clinical School at Liverpool Hospital, and a health data scientist at the Ingham Institute for Applied...continue reading.

Florianne Verkroost is a Ph.D. candidate at Nuffield College at the University of Oxford. She has a passion for data science and a background in mathematics and econometrics. She applies her...continue reading.

One hundred forty-seven new packages made it to CRAN in January. Here are my “Top 40” picks in nine categories: Computational Methods, Genomics, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Medicine, Statistics, Time Series,...continue reading.

Last week, Lancet published the paper Improving the prognosis of health care in the USA by Alison P Galvani, Alyssa S Parpia, Eric M Foster, Burton H Singer, Meagan C...continue reading.

rstudio::conf 2020 is already receding in the rear view mirror, but the wealth of resources generated by the conference will be valuable for quite some time. All of the materials...continue reading.

Harrison Schramm, CAP, PStat, is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. In this short piece, I’m going to discuss a fun photography project I did...continue reading.

rstudio::conf kicked off the 2020 season for R conferences last week with record attendance somewhere north of twenty-one hundred. Session topics ranged from business to science, marketing to medicine and...continue reading.

rstudio::conf 2020 got underway today with a huge training event featuring eighteen workshops taught by some of the most experienced and sought after instructors in the R Community. The workshops...continue reading.

One hundred fifty-two packages made it to CRAN in December. Here are my “Top 40” picks in ten categories: Data, Genomics, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Medicine, Science, Statistics, Time Series, Utilities,...continue reading.

Pedro Coutinho Silva is a software engineer at Appsilon Data Science. It is not always possible to create a dashboard that fully meets your expectations or requirements using only existing...continue reading.

Welcome to another installment of Reproducible Finance with R – the blog series that never seems to stop reproducing itself. Today we will explore the new almanac package for working...continue reading.

If you are lucky enough to have some extra time for discretionary reading during the holiday season, you may find it interesting (and rewarding) to sample some of the nearly...continue reading.

One hundred forty-four new packages made it to CRAN in November. Here are my picks for the “Top 40” in eight categories: Computational Methods, Data, Genomics, Machine Learning, Statistics, Time...continue reading.