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- Overview Do people in red states live shorter lives? This project examines whether state level life expectancy is statistically associated with each state's political climate in t… Continue reading: Does state life expectancy correlate with political party voting?
- We’ve previously extolled the virtues of automating the repetitive chores we encounter, allowing us to focus on the tasks that matter. Three years ago, we posted an example of how to automate the deployment of a Shiny application to shinyapps.io from a GitHub Actions. When a new commit … Continue reading: Using GitHub Actions to […]
- This post was originally published on our collaborative substack site. Visit the site to follow us and read more similar posts. Jointly authored by Chris Brown, Scott Spillias, Carla Sbrocchi and Luis D. Verde Arregoitia. Chris had putting off t… Continue reading: Running local large language models not as difficult as you might think
- In anticipation of the second edition of Data Visualization, which is coming later this year from Princeton University Press, version 2.0.0 of my socviz package is now on CRAN. The update removes some functions that aren’t needed anymore and adds… Continue reading: socviz 2.0.0 on CRAN
- There's no official crosswalk between the ONET's occupational taxonomy and ANZSCO, which is awkward, because Australian researchers use ONET data all the time. This post builds one, explains why you should be suspicious of relying on it and then suggests a better methodology is probably what was applied by the … Continue reading: The boring […]
- Prompted (😉) by some AI dread, I decided to go back to some basics and re-read The Programmer’s Brain by Felienne Hermans. Felienne Hermans’ work caught my attention when she gave a keynote talk at a Posit conference years ago. The book was… Continue reading: Reading notes on The Programmer’s Brain by Felienne Hermans
- The gap Much of what Bioconductor packages do is interactive and exploratory, and rightly belongs in an R session. But some of it is batch-shaped: a well-defined analysis with file inputs, file outputs, and a handful of parameters. Differential… Continue reading: BiocJobs: declaring dispatchable jobs inside Bioconductor packages
- This week I took time to re-read The Programmer’s Brain by Felienne Hermans. Among the many gems one idea that stuck with me is that not learning how to do something and looking it up every time will make you less efficient. Therefore I starting … Continue reading: Learning how to extract parts of a […]
- Below are the slides for my Futurize – Tearing Down Parallelization Barriers in R with Transpilers talk that I presented at the useR! 2026 conference in Warzaw, Poland. Title: Futurize – Tearing Down Parallelization Barriers in R with Transpil… Continue reading: useR! 2026: Futurize – Tearing Down Parallelization Barriers in R with Transpilers
- Building a sports betting model in R does not begin with machine learning or a complicated statistical formula. It begins with reliable data. You need historical results, team or player statistics, bookmaker odds and a process for updating everything without manually downloading a new spreadsheet every day. Fortunately, R provides … Continue reading: How to […]
The 8 Best R Programming Books in 2022
New course aims to train next generation of data scientists
“Ogihara and Bonnell chose to use R because it is attuned to statistical analysis and, by incorporating an increasingly popular collection of tools in R called tidyverse, students can easily learn how to process, wrangle, transform, and model data on their own, too.”
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How to do R-like data manipulations using Pandas?
R and Python play a crucial role in handling and manipulating the data. Many beginners find it difficult to shift from Python to R or vice-versa in such requirements. This will help the beginners to understand the differences and also help them switch in between.
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