#TidyTuesday 2023 – Week 32

August 9, 2023 | Jonathan Kitt

Introduction The #TidyTuesday weekly challenge is organised by the R4DS (R for Data Science) Online Learning Community. Every tuesday throughout the year, participants work on a common dataset and share the plots they create. The dataset for th...
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Tidymodels: The Los Alamos of Data Science

August 9, 2023 | Numbers around us

The dimmed lights of the cinema hall, the hushed anticipation of the audience, and the opening scenes of Nolan’s portrayal of Dr. Oppenheimer drew me in instantly. Amidst the enthralling narrative and cinematic brilliance, my mind began drawing parallels that transcended the screen. The palpable tension, the nexus of ...
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Multi-step Estimators and Shrinkage Effect in Time Series Models

August 9, 2023 | Ivan Svetunkov

Authors: Ivan Svetunkov, Nikos Kourentzes, Rebecca Killick Journal: Computational Statistics Abstract: Many modern statistical models are used for both insight and prediction when applied to data. When models are used for prediction one should optimise parameters through a prediction error loss function. Estimation methods based on multiple steps ahead forecast ...
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Care about FAIR

August 6, 2023 | Martin Schobben

This article is about the first release of rirods (see the documentation). The data that drives our R workflow is just as important as the script. Nevertheless, the emphasis lies often on the R script when it comes to reproducibility, but that is...
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goodreads

August 5, 2023 | Matias Andina

A Challenging New Year Around early January 2023, an idea came to my mind: the books I read were all written men. My initial guess was 90% male. That’s bad, I know. So I decided to do two things: Check my current ratio Whatever my current number was, make the effort ...
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Argument Matching Across Languages

August 5, 2023 | Jonathan Carroll

With Functional Programming, we write functions which take arguments and do something with or based on those arguments. You might not think there’s much to learn about given that tiny description of “an argument to a function” but the syntax and mechanics of different languages is actually widely variable ... [Read more...]

Data Cleaning for the Tombstone Project

August 3, 2023 | Louise E. Sinks

Project Overview I’m working on a project for my father that will culminate in a website for his genealogy research. There are a couple of different parts that I’m working on independently. This part involves linking photos of family gravestones to an Excel sheet that records the GPS ...
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