Create an Icon Map in R with ggmap and ggimage
Learn how to create an icon map in R with ggmap and ggimage!continue reading.
Category: R
R or Python
Data Science beginners often encounter the same question: which programming language should one learn first? The choice usually falls on one of the two major providers, R or Python. With...continue reading.
Getting a DOI for your code
This blog article is an explanation of sharing research code. It focuses on using the version control website Github and academic repository Zenodo.continue reading.
Forget about Excel, Use these R Shiny Packages Instead
tl; dr Transferring your Excel sheet to a Shiny app can be the easiest way to create an enterprise ready dashboard. In this post, I present 6 Shiny alternatives for...continue reading.
RSwitch 1.4.1 Released
A minor update to RSwitch has been released. Apart from some internal code reorganization there are three user-facing changes. First, RSwitch is now notarized! That means you won’t get a...continue reading.
Ecosystems chapter of “evidence-based software engineering” reworked
The Ecosystems chapter of my evidence-based software engineering book has been reworked (I have given up on the idea that this second pass is also where the polishing happens; polishing...continue reading.
How to Make Your CSS Systematically Awesome with SASS
tl; dr SASS is CSS for programmers. It gives you the building blocks that you’re used to, such as variables, conditions, and loops. And it helps you organize. The bigger...continue reading.
PostcodesioR 0.1.1 is on CRAN
Introduction The latest stable version of my UK geocoder package has finally made it to CRAN. PostcodesioR is a wrapper for postcodes.io and it provides multiple functions to work with...continue reading.
RSwitch 1.4.0 Released
Swift 5 has been so much fun to hack on that there’s a new update to macOS R-focused mebubar utility RSwitch available. Along with the app comes a new dedicated...continue reading.
Dummy Is As Dummy Does
In the 1975 edition of “Applied multiple regression/correlation analysis for the behavioral sciences” by Jacob Cohen, an interesting approach of handling missing values in numeric variables was proposed with the...continue reading.
Improvements to RSwitch in v1.3.0
It’s only been a couple days since the initial version of my revamped take on RSwitch but there have been numerous improvements since then worth mentioning. For starters, there’s a...continue reading.
Polyglot FizzBuzz in R (Plus: “Why Can’t Johnny Code?”)
I caught this post on the The Surprising Number Of Programmers Who Can’t Program from the Hacker News RSS feed. Said post links to another, classic post on the same...continue reading.
Quick Hit: A new 64-bit Swift 5 RSwitch App
At the bottom of the R for macOS Developer’s Page there’s mention of an “other binary” called “RSwitch” that is “a small GUI that allows you to switch between R...continue reading.
Which Factors Influence Gas Prices? Do Gas Companies Narratives Hold True?
What are driving factors behind the gas price? With freely accessible data we are goging to find out if the brand, the location and more have any impact on the...continue reading.
How to Use CSS to Style Your R Shiny Projects
I hope you will give me 7 minutes to convince you why CSS is a good thing, and why you should be using it in your projects. In this post...continue reading.
Modern reporting for R with Dash
Creating an effective, informative, and aesthetically appealing report to showcase your data can be tedious: it’s often difficult to display your data and your plots together in an uncluttered manner,...continue reading.
Why Machine Learning is more Practical than Econometrics in the Real World
Motivation I’ve read several studies and articles that claim Econometric models are still superior to machine learning when it comes to forecasting. In the article, “Statistical and Machine Learning forecasting methods:...continue reading.
Why Machine Learning is more Practical than Econometrics in the Real World
Motivation I’ve read several studies and articles that claim Econometric models are still superior to machine learning when it comes […] The post Why Machine Learning is more Practical than...continue reading.
We’re RStudio Certified!
We’re RStudio Certified! Big news. RStudio recently started certifying trainers in three areas: the tidyverse, Shiny and teaching. To be certified to teach a topic you have to pass the...continue reading.
Converting lines in an svg image to csv
During a search for data on programming language usage I discovered Stack Overflow Trends, showing an interesting plot of language tags appearing on Stack Overflow questions (see below). Where was...continue reading.
