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You shall know a word by the company it keeps — so choose your prompts wisely

March 23, 2026 | Pablo Bernabeu

In computational linguistics, word meanings are shaped by their contexts. As the British linguist John Rupert Firth put it in 1957, ‘You shall know a word by the company it keeps’ (see Brunila & LaViolette, 2022, for a re-examination of the intellectual history). It sounds almost like life advice, but Firth meant something ... [Read more...]

Digital Biology with R: Advanced Bioinformatics, Predictive Modeling, and Time Series Analysis for Modern Life Sciences

March 23, 2026 | rprogrammingbooks

Digital Biology with R Digital biology is no longer a niche intersection between biology and computation. It has become a core framework for how modern laboratories, biomedical teams, and translational researchers generate insight from complex biological systems. Whether the objective is to identify gene-expression signatures, model disease progression, classify patient ... [Read more...]

Using science to find the best decaf

March 22, 2026 | Giles Dickenson-Jones

TLDR: To test whether I could tell the difference between decaf coffees I conducted a highly scientific test (subject to […] The post Using science to find the best decaf appeared first on Giles.

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odds_summary: Turning Probabilistic Estimates into Clear, Decision-Ready Insights

March 22, 2026 | R-Blog on Data modelling to develop ...

Introduction Model tuning and estimation has evolved from simple extrapolation to sophisticated probabilistic modeling frameworks. In contemporary data science, decision-makers require more than estimates, the need for clear statements about likeliho... [Read more...]

Why Advanced Attribution Matters More When Everyone Else Uses Last Touch

March 21, 2026 | Florian Teschner

Short practical advice on attribution: Treat last-touch as a bias, not as a neutral baseline - If most advertisers optimize to last-touch conversions, budgets and auction pressure will drift toward channels that are easy to credit rather tha... [Read more...]

Speeding up tidySummarizedExperiment through query optimisation and the plyxp backend

March 21, 2026 | Stefano Mangiola

tidySummarizedExperiment logo Contributors: Michael Love, Justin Landis, Pierre-Paul Axisa The generality of tidySummarizedExperiment makes it easy to interface with several tidyverse packages (e.g. dplyr, tidyr, ggplot2, purrr, plotly...

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Pacific island demograpy, the narrative by @ellis2013nz

March 21, 2026 | free range statistics - R

This post is the last in a series of seven on population and people movement issues in the Pacific. The first six posts featured code re-generating the charts I used in a keynote speech before the November 2025 meeting of the Pacific Heads of Planning ...

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Can deep football knowledge guarantee betting success? Systematic evaluation of football pundits’ La Liga predictions

March 20, 2026 | Ilya Kashnitsky

As football fans, we constantly hear pundits making bold predictions. But how often do they actually hit the targets? Let’s check the track record of three popular Russian football pundits. Vadim Lukomskiy, Denis Alkhazov, and Vladimir Grabchak ...

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Beyond Keywords: How Semantic Search is Unlocking Clinical Code Reuse

March 19, 2026 | Mathieu Cayssol

Disclaimer: This blog contains opinions that are of the authors alone and do not necessarily reflect the strategy of their respective organizations. Why this matters for pharmaverse programmers Clinical reporting is built on repeatable patter...

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Bayesian Neural Networks in {tidymodels} with {kindling}

March 19, 2026 | R on Stats and R

This post was written in collaboration with Joshua Marie. What Are Bayesian Neural Networks? Standard neural networks learn fixed weights during training and produce a single point estimate for each input — with no sense of how confident the model...

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Reproducible Analytical Pipelines

March 19, 2026 | The Jumping Rivers Blog

Here’s the new data. Could you summarise it like Alice did last year, and send me a report? The civil service and public bodies in the UK publish lots of datasets. These datasets can be really helpful when experimenting with data visualis...

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revss – CRAN is updated!

March 19, 2026 | Avi

Just a quick note that CRAN now has the updated version 3.1.0 of the revss package. As always, I want to thank the CRAN team, and specifically Dr. Uwe Ligges, for their tireless work! ∞ The post revss – CRAN is updated! appeared first on St... [Read more...]

Major Update for revss Package for R – v3.1.0

March 18, 2026 | Avi

The revss Package for R Receives Major Update to Version 3.1.0 This is a big one! The revss package for R, which provides robust estimation for small samples, received a major, breaking update. The entire calculation engine was rewritten, new functionality added, and massive Monte Carlo analyses were run to calculate ...

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Getting to the bottom of TMLE: targeting in action

March 17, 2026 | ouR data generation

In the previous post, I worked my way through some key elements of TMLE theory as I try to understand how it all works. At its essence, TMLE is focused on getting the efficient influence function (EIF) to behave properly. When that happens, the estimat...

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Bio7 3.6 Released

March 17, 2026 | Marcel Austenfeld

17.03.2026 A new release of Bio7 is available.The application Bio7 is a free and open-source integrated development environment for ecological modeling, scientific image analysis and statistical analysis. Beside other programming tools it contains a feature complete development environment for R with an advanced R editor, R developer tools and interfaces ...

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stats19 v4.0.0: 45 Years of UK Road Crash Data, Unified

March 16, 2026 | R | Robin Lovelace

The stats19 R package has been updated to version 4.0.0. The main change is a unified column schema that lets you work with 45 years of UK road crash data (1979 to 2024) without running into mismatched column names. Unified schema Older data files have... [Read more...]

Prompting large language models for quality ecological statistics

March 16, 2026 | Seascapemodels

Like it or not, everyone is using large languageden models to help do their statistics. There’s a lot of claims made about whether LLMs can or can’t do useful ecological statistics. In our new paper “Prompting large language models for quality e...

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Can I use Skills with Posit Assistant for the RStudio IDE?

March 15, 2026 | Isabella Velásquez

I recently shared a blog post on Claude Skills for R Users, featuring excellent Skills developed by several community members. It brought me a lot of joy to share these impactful resources from the community. One question that I got repeatedly (...

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Option pricing using time series models as market price of risk Pt.3

March 15, 2026 | T. Moudiki

Option pricing using time series models as market price of risk and bootstrap resampling

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Little useless-useful R functions – Date Palindrome

March 15, 2026 | tomaztsql

It is a rare thing that a date can be a palindrome. But it happens. And the idea is the following, to cover all different date formats and for the given period And to do some useless extraction of the…Read more ›

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