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Want to get hands-on experience with R and explore new Data Science project? On 13 May we’re hosting a R for Data Science workshop, come and join us! The post...continue reading.
Want to get hands-on experience with R and explore new Data Science project? On 13 May we’re hosting a R for Data Science workshop, come and join us! The post...continue reading.
If there was something that always frustrated me was not fully understanding Bayesian inference. Sometime last year, I came across an article about a TensorFlow-supported R package for Bayesian analysis,...continue reading.
Sur le même modèle que l’année dernière (et, nous l’espérons, avec autant de succès !), nous allons tenter de faire nos prédictions pour l’Eurovision 2019, avec toujours un modèle basé...continue reading.
A tutorial to explore the differences between two practices used for set analysis: Venn diagrams and UpSet plots. Tutorial coded in R but similar concepts and packages are available in...continue reading.
Shiny App as a Package In a previous post, I’ve introduced the {golem} package, which is an opinionated framework for building production-ready Shiny Applications. This framework starts by creating a...continue reading.
I’m running a one-day workshop called “From Statistics To Machine Learning” in central London on 28 October, for anyone who … Morecontinue reading.
Phased antenna arrays allow a radio or microwave beam to be steered electronically. They are of increasing practical importance. Phased array optimisation problems are non-convex with multiple local maxima and...continue reading.
I’m helping organise a conference on (geo)spatial open source software – FOSS4G. We’re hosting it in the great city of Edinburgh, Scotland in September 2019. Abstract submissions: https://uk.osgeo.org/foss4guk2019/talks_workshops.html We’re very...continue reading.
Recently, I had the pleasure of co-facilitating a discussion around the obstacles faced by data professionals when it comes to collaborating with other teams in a data context at the...continue reading.
The first thing that hit me about this year’s Google Next was the scale. Thousands of people wandering around Moscone Centre in San Fran with their name badges proudly displayed...continue reading.
When working with geo-spatial data in R, I usually use the sf package for manipulating spatial data as Simple Features … Read More →continue reading.
We’re excited to announce the official release of RStudio 1.2! What’s new in RStudio 1.2? Over a year in the making, this new release of RStudio includes dozens of new...continue reading.
parsnip was accepted to CRAN late last year. Our first blog post was a top-level introduction. Here, we will go into the design of some of the internals. If you...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 Sabeehah...continue reading.
Note: cross-posted with the rOpenSci blog. rOpenSci is one of the first organizations in the R community I ever interacted with, when I participated in the 2016 rOpenSci unconf. I...continue reading.
We’re excited to announce the official release of RStudio 1.2! What’s new in RStudio 1.2? Over a year in the making, this new release of RStudio includes dozens of new...continue reading.
We’re stoked to announce the release of dbplyr 1.4.0, the database backend for dplyr that translates R code into SQL. dbplyr allows you to use a remote database as if...continue reading.
Oracle R Distribution version 3.4.4 is now released on Oracle Linux 6 and Linux 7 yum channels. This update, code named “Someone to Lean On”, is a maintenance release for...continue reading.
There are nowadays different options to create interactive R tutorials that allow users to type in code, automatically check their solution and get hints if they are stuck. Two options...continue reading.
Introduction The full talks of the ViennaR March Meetup are finally online: A short Introduction to ViennaR, Laura Vana introducing R-Ladies Vienna and Hadley Wickham with a great introduction to...continue reading.