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Jumping Rivers Now Approved to Sell Services Through DOS7: Crown Commercial Services

February 17, 2026 | The Jumping Rivers Blog

Jumping Rivers has been approved to sell our services through the Crown Commercial Service CCS. For UK public sector organisations, this is an important milestone. It means there is now a simpler, compliant way to work with us without going throu...

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Modeling Bitcoin Volatility Through Structural Breaks: A Compositional Perspective

February 17, 2026 | Selcuk Disci

Recent advances in time series modeling have emphasized the importance of structural breaks—abrupt changes in the underlying dynamics of financial or economic data. The paper “Directional-Shift Dirichlet ARMA Models for Compositional Time Series with Structural Break Intervention” (Katz, 2026) introduces a Bayesian framework that captures these breaks using three interpretable ...

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Upcoming Workshop: Data Analysis in R with the Tidyverse

February 16, 2026 | Ari Lamstein

Next week I’m teaching a three‑session, hands‑on introduction to data analysis in R using the tidyverse, hosted by Instats in partnership with the American Statistical Association. We’ll meet February 24–26, from 8–11am PT each day — three focused mornings designed to give participants a clear, modern workflow from ...

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Oops, Git! How to recover from common mistakes workshop

February 16, 2026 | Dariia Mykhailyshyna

Join our workshop on Oops, Git! How to recover from common mistakes, which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series! Here’s some more info: Title: Oops, Git! How to recover from common mistakes Date: Thursday, March 19th, 14:00 – 16:00 CET (Rome, Berlin, Paris timezone) Speaker: Maëlle Salmon, with ... [Read more...]

CDCPLACES 1.2.0

February 15, 2026 | bs

Place geography, 2025 data, and a major reliability overhaul. [Read more...]

Get Ready for the PHUSE US Connect Pavilions!

February 15, 2026 | Michael Rimler

Howdy, Phriends! In case you missed it - there is a massive PHUSE Connect coming up soon in Austin, Texas! What’s so massive about it? There’s so much content planned that we’ve extended it by a full day! I guess it’s true what they say - ... [Read more...]

Understanding Boosted Configuration Networks (combined neural networks and boosting): An Intuitive Guide Through Their Hyperparameters

February 15, 2026 | T. Moudiki

How BCN combine neural networks and boosting, explained through the knobs you can turn [Read more...]

Machine Learning for Sports Analytics in R: A Complete Professional Guide

February 15, 2026 | rprogrammingbooks

Table of Contents 1. Introduction to Machine Learning in Sports Analytics Machine Learning has transformed modern sports analytics. What was once limited to box scores and descriptive statistics has evolved into predictive modeling, simulation systems, optimization engines, and automated scouting pipelines. Today, teams, analysts, researchers, and performance departments rely on machine ... [Read more...]

The world’s biggest ‘Pacific’ cities by @ellis2013nz

February 15, 2026 | free range statistics - R

This post is the third in a (somewhat interrupted) series on population issues in the Pacific, re-generating the charts I used in a keynote speech before the November 2025 meeting of the Pacific Heads of Planning and Statistics in Wellington, New Zeala...

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Git commits: please mark your stitches!

February 14, 2026 | Maëlle's R blog on Maëlle Salmon's personal website

In which I share a crochet analogy for Git commits… Don’t forget your stitch markers! I am happily continuing my crochet learning journey. One lesson I have now internalised is that I should never ever forget or neglect to use stitch markers. Stitch ma... [Read more...]

Testing for interactions in nonlinear regression

February 13, 2026 | R on Fixing the bridge between biologists and statisticians

Factorial experiments are very common in agriculture and they are usually laid down to test for the significance of interactions between experimental factors. For example, genotype assessments may be performed at two different nitrogen fertilisation...

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Fitting time-to-event models with an environmental covariate

February 11, 2026 | R on Fixing the bridge between biologists and statisticians

This is a follow-up post. If you are interested in other posts of this series, please go to: https://www.statforbiology.com/tags/drcte/. All these posts exapand on a paper that we have recently published in the Journal ‘Weed Science’; please follow ...

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How Posit’s Public Package Manager manylinux_2_28 repository can help you if your R project is stuck on Ubuntu Focal Fossa

February 11, 2026 | R | Dr Tom Palmer

Introduction I am a massive fan of repositories making binary R packages available. This includes the canonical CRAN repositories, r-universe, r2u, and the Posit (Public) Package Manager, and there are others. R-universe is outstanding because it bu...

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Introducing geoboundaries

February 11, 2026 | dieghernan

If you’ve ever worked with spatial data in R, this may ring a bell…

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My Blog

February 10, 2026 | My Name

Last updated 2026-02-12 22:26:58.886187 Details Source, Session info ReuseCC BY 4.0CitationBibTeX citation:@online{name2026, author = {Name, My}, title = {My {Blog}}, date = {2026-02-11}, url = {https://pharmaverse.github.i... [Read more...]

Associated Keywords: The Missed Opportunity in Search Advertising

February 10, 2026 | Florian Teschner

Short practical advise on search advertising: Look beyond brand and category keywords The paper shows “associated keywords” — terms like “license,” “battery,” “plates” — are searched 50-80 days before purchase, have high category purchase prob... [Read more...]

Simplifying Research Data Sharing with R

February 9, 2026 | Adriana Clavijo Daza

Working with Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) researchers across multiple resource-limited countries, we observed that valuable datasets often remain underutilized. This is frequently due to limited familiarity with FAIR (Findable, Accessib...

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smooth v4.4.0

February 9, 2026 | Ivan Svetunkov

Great news, everyone! smooth package for R version 4.4.0 is now on CRAN. Why is this a great news? Let me explain! On this page: What’s new? Evaluation Setup Results What’s next? Here is what’s new since 4.3.0: First, I have worked on tuning the initialisation in adam() in ...

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R version of Python package survivalist, for model-agnostic survival analysis

February 8, 2026 | T. Moudiki

Example of use of Python package survivalist, for model-agnostic survival analysis

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Introducing flownet: Efficient Transport Modeling in R

February 8, 2026 | R, Econometrics, High Performance

I am excited to introduce a new R package called flownet providing high-performance tools for transport modeling—network processing, route enumeration, and traffic assignment in R. As of now, the package implements the Path-Sized Logit (PSL) model (Ben-Akiva and Bierlaire, 1999)—a powerful and well-established method for stochastic traffic assignment accounting ...

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