2020-02 The Agony and the Ecstacy: Adding LuaTeX support to ‘dvir’
This report describes an update to the R package ‘dvir’ to add support for the LuaTeX engine. The immediate advantage of this support is the …continue reading.
This report describes an update to the R package ‘dvir’ to add support for the LuaTeX engine. The immediate advantage of this support is the …continue reading.
We discuss the estimation with R of the time-varying effective reproduction number during an infectious disease outbreak such as the COVID-19 outbreak. Using a single simulated outbreak we compare the...continue reading.
Microsoft has released a GitHub repository to share best practices for time series forecasting. From the repo: Time series forecasting is one of the most important topics in data science....continue reading.
So RStudio Connect has embraced Python and now runs Flask applications! At Jumping Rivers we make a lot of use of R, shiny, and Python for creating visual tools for...continue reading.
In our recent post about saving R graphics, it became obvious that achieving consistent graphics across platforms or even saving the “correct” graph on a particular OS was challenging. Getting...continue reading.
A new release of pins is available on CRAN today. This release adds support to time travel across dataset versions, which improves collaboration and protects your code from breaking when...continue reading.
The United States Centers for Disease Control (CDC from now on) has setup two new public surveillance resources for COVID-19. Together, COVIDView and COVID-NET provide similar weekly surveillance data as...continue reading.
R is known for it’s amazing graphics. Not only ggplot2, but also plotly, and the other dozens of packages at the graphics task view. There seems to be a graph...continue reading.
I hate to be the one to break it to you, but the average customer shouldn’t be that important to you. I’m not writing this to repeat the marketing rhetoric you hear...continue reading.
I hate to be the one to break it to you, but the average customer shouldn’t be that important to you. I’m not writing this to repeat the marketing rhetoric you hear...continue reading.
This is the first of two blog posts about our recent participation in the Pandemic Response Hackathon. Our project (CoronaRank) was one of only 5 projects out of 230 submissions...continue reading.
Appsilon’s open source shiny.info package just received a major update and is now available on CRAN. A great solution for development and testing, shiny.info allows for displaying diagnostic information from...continue reading.
Updated August 2020: If you’d like to learn more about best practices for Remote Data Science Teams, read this article by Appsilon Senior Data Scientist Olga Mierzwa-Sulima. Much more of...continue reading.
At the end of March a paper modelling the impact of various scenarios on the spread of COVID-19 infections, by the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis at Imperial...continue reading.
At the end of March a paper modelling the impact of various scenarios on the spread of COVID-19 infections, by the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis at Imperial...continue reading.
Developing the right mindset for learning statistics: Some suggestionscontinue reading.
Power BI support certain type of visuals that are by default available in the document. These are absolutely great and work perfectly fine, have a lot of capabilities to set...continue reading.
Just a quick note that thanks to a gentle nudge an updated version of {uaparser} — a package that processes User Agent strings web clients send to servers — is...continue reading.
For all those, who are struggling with the (kind of weird) Johns Hopkins University COVID-19 case data CSV files, we’ve created a free API that makes it easy to integrate...continue reading.
This post is to announce that version 1.5.0 of the foreach package is now on CRAN. Foreach is an idiom that allows for iterating over elements in a collection, without...continue reading.