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Below is a list of contributors to this blog. Name Role Bio Joseph Rickert Ambassador at Large Joseph is RStudio’s “Ambassador at Large” for all things R, is the chief...continue reading.

The plumber R package is used to expose R functions as API endpoints. Due to plumber’s incredible flexibility, most major API design decisions are left up to the developer. One...continue reading.

In a previous post, we explored the dividend history of stocks included in the SP500. Today, we’ll extend that analysis to cover the Nasdaq because, well, because in the previous...continue reading.

In this post, we seek to develop an intuitive sense of what type I (false-positive) and type II (false-negative) errors represent when comparing metrics in A/B tests, in order to...continue reading.

Approximately 136 new packages stuck to CRAN in June. (This number is difficult to nail down with certainty because packages may be removed from CRAN after sitting there for a...continue reading.

If you are like me, and rather last minute about making a plan to get the most out of a large conference, you are just starting to think about JSM...continue reading.

For many R users, it’s obvious why you’d want to use R with big data, but not so obvious how. In fact, many people (wrongly) believe that R just doesn’t...continue reading.

Welcome to a mid-summer edition of Reproducible Finance with R. Today, we’ll explore the dividend histories of some stocks in the S&P 500. By way of history for all you...continue reading.

As data scientists, we are often presented with a dataset and are asked to use it to produce insights. We use R to wrangle, visualize, model, and produce tables and...continue reading.

Two hundred twenty-two new packages made it to CRAN in May, and it was more of an effort than usual to select the “Top 40”. Nevertheless, here they are in...continue reading.

Recently, I had the opportunity to showcase tidymodels in workshops and talks. Because of my vantage point as a user, I figured it would be valuable to share what I...continue reading.

We were recently presented with a problem where the decision maker wanted to understand how their data would naturally group together. The classic technique of k-means clustering was a natural...continue reading.

Roland Stevenson is a data scientist and consultant who may be reached on Linkedin. reticulate is an R package that allows us to use Python modules from within RStudio. I...continue reading.

Graeme Blair is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at UCLA. Jasper Cooper is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Kahneman-Treisman Center for Behavioral Science and Public Policy at Princeton...continue reading.

One hundred eighty-seven new packages made it to CRAN in April. Here are my picks for the “Top 40”, organized into ten categories: Biotechnology, Data, Econometrics, Machine Learning, Medicine, Science,...continue reading.

After an extended hiatus, Reproducible Finance is back! We’ll celebrate by changing focus a bit and coding up an investment strategy called Momentum. Before we even tiptoe in that direction,...continue reading.

Andrie de Vries is the author of “R for Dummies” and a Solutions Engineer at RStudio Phillip (Armand) Bester is a medical scientist, researcher, and lecturer at the Division of...continue reading.

Phillip (Armand) Bester is a medical scientist, researcher, and lecturer at the Division of Virology, University of the Free State, and National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), Bloemfontein, South Africa Andrie...continue reading.

Bryan Lewis is a mathematician, R developer and mushroom forager.                               Morchella Americana by Bryan W. Lewis, see https://ohiomushroomsociety.wordpress.com/ It’s that time of year again, when people in the Midwestern...continue reading.

Phillip (Armand) Bester is a medical scientist, researcher, and lecturer at the Division of Virology, University of the Free State, and National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), Bloemfontein, South Africa Dominique...continue reading.