R Weekly 2023-W07 Maintain, Resample, Manipulate
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Resampling to understand gender in #TidyTuesday art history data
Artists who are women are underrepresented in art history textbooks, and we can use resampling to robustly understand more about this imbalance.continue reading.
go forth and X [or the reverse]
The New Year Riddle is about optimisation: starting with a single machine, between delivering one unit per machine – hour and delivering one new machine per machine every six days,...continue reading.
How to use Python’s f-strings with pandas
Learn how to use Python’s f-strings for substitution and formatting, and then combine those features to solve a real-world pandas problem!continue reading.
dplyr 1.1.0: `pick()`, `reframe()`, and `arrange()`
In this final dplyr 1.1.0 post, we’ll take a look at two new verbs, pick() and reframe(), along with some changes to arrange() that improve both reproducibility and performance. If...continue reading.
R Weekly 2023-W06 Map learnings, old R, dplyr joins
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Extending R with C++ and Fortran
A recent social-media question by James Curran inquired about the best, or recommended ways, to extend R with Fortran code. Part of the question was whether the .Fortran() interface was...continue reading.
Why Python is the Best Data Science Language (in 2023)
The first question that aspiring data scientists ask me is “what is the best data science language … which should I learn.” And almost always, this is framed as a...continue reading.
dplyr 1.1.0: The power of vctrs
Today’s dplyr 1.1.0 post is focused on various updates to vector functions, like case_when() and between(). If you missed our previous posts, you can also see the other blog posts...continue reading.
R Shiny Shipping Logistics: How Shiny Provides Value to Your Business
R Shiny is a go-to technology when making apps and dashboards for companies using the R programming language. Shiny helps solve problems in complex business areas with large datasets, such...continue reading.
dplyr 1.1.0: Per-operation grouping
Today we are going to look at one of the major new features in dplyr 1.1.0, per-operation grouping with .by/by. Per-operation grouping is an experimental alternative to group_by() which is...continue reading.
Tips for organising your R code
Keeping your R code organised is not as straightforward as one might think. Just think about the libraries, variables, functions, and many more. All these objects can be defined and...continue reading.
dplyr 1.1.0: Joins
dplyr 1.1.0 is out now! This is a giant release, so we’re splitting the release announcement up into four blog posts which we’ll post over the course of this week....continue reading.
Introduction to Bayesian Data Analysis: Video lectures now available on youtube
These recordings are part of a set of videos that are available from the free four-week online course Introduction to Bayesian Data Analysis, taught over the openhpi.de portal.continue reading.
forcats 1.0.0
We’re so happy to announce the release of forcats 1.0.0. The goal of the forcats package is to provide a suite of tools that solve common problems with factors, including...continue reading.
December 2022: “Top 40” New CRAN Packages
One hundred sixteen new packages stuck to CRAN in December 2022. Here are my “Top 40” selections in thirteen categories: Computational Methods, Data, Ecology, Epidemiology, Genomics, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Medicine,...continue reading.
R Weekly 2023-W05 Testing, Distributed processing, Shiny responsiveness
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An R function to compute Tumor Mutational Burden (TMB)
Tumor mutational (or mutation) burden, TMB, is considered a useful estimation of tumor neoantigenic load (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6336005/) and a biomarker of sensitivity to immune checkpoint inhibitors (https://genomemedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13073-017-0424-2). Computing TMB is relatively...continue reading.
Performant web-based interactive visualization tool for spatially-resolved transcriptomics experiments
📣 Updates on this 🧵 We changed Loopy Browser –> Samui Browser! Same tool, new name (after Ko Samui 🏝️ in Thailand)#interactive #image #viewer #dataviz #spatial #georeferencing @chaichontat🔗 https://t.co/7lbqOsgOsh📖 https://t.co/MQhaS5U0Tk💻...continue reading.
latest math stats exam
As I finished grading our undergrad math stats exam (in Paris Dauphine) over the weekend, which was very straightforward this year, the more because most questions had already been asked...continue reading.
