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Introduction Spline regression is particularly useful when the relationship between the independent and dependent variables is not adequately captured by a linear model. It involves fitting a piecewise continuous curve (spline) to the data. Let’...

Greetings, humanists, social and data scientists! Was there an association or relationship between gender and the verdicts in investigations in 18th-century London? If an inquest concerned a man, did this fact influence the final verdict of the in...

In the first chapter Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers he discusses how in Canadian Junior Hockey there is a higher likelihood for players to be born in the first quarter of the year. In his words: Because these kids are older within their year they make all the important teams at ...

The Statistics without Mathematics books from Vor Press are available in a variety of ‘skins’. In all versions, including those using jamovi, the subject is taught without statistical formulae in order to reduce ‘statistics anxiety’.

Is machine learning overrated, with traditional methods being underrated these days? Yes, ML has had some celebrated successes, but these have come after huge amounts of effort, and it’s possible that similar effort with traditional methods may have produced similar results. A related issue concerns the type of data. ...

Just what is a lord-a-leaping? Well, what is a lord? A lord is a title of nobility, usually inherited, that exists in the UK and other countries. And those lords like to leap, especially during the twelve days of Christmas. The song the Twel...

The timeplyr R package, created by my colleague Nick, was accepted on CRAN in October 2023. A direct quote from the CRAN page is that it provides a set of fast tidy functions for wrangling, completing and summarising date and date-time data. It look...

Spatial signatures represent spatial patterns of land cover in a given area. Thus, they can be used to search for areas with similar spatial patterns to a query region or to quantify changes in spatial patterns. The approaches above are implement...

Hey guys, welcome back to my R-tips newsletter. In today’s R-Tip, Arben Kqiku is sharing his exact 8-step framework for taking R into production for Digital Analytics projects. You’ll learn how to use R, Mage.ai, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to buil...

When I started working as a Data Scientist nearly ten years ago, the data science team I joined did something I found really strange at first: They had a single GitHub repo where they put all their “throwaway” code. An R script to produce s...

Madrid R Users Group (RUG) is a community of industry professionals from a diverse range of backgrounds that provides a learning and networking platform. The organizing committee of the Madrid... The post R in Action: Madrid R Users Group on Trends and Insights Navigating R’s Evolution and Future Trends ...

Statistical analysis and data handling play a pivotal role in the life sciences and pharmaceutical industries. The need for accurate and robust data analysis cannot be overstated, as it underpins critical decisions related to drug development, clinical trials, and patient outcomes. In this context, selecting the right software for data ...

Introduction The 2nd edition of Geocomputation with R is due to be published in 2024. Now, we’re looking for a new cover image and we’d like your help. The competition is open to all and we have some prizes (see below). We’re launching this map c...

Some things that got my attention this week: Titan Image Generator in AWS Bedrock AWS Transcribe Supports 100+ Languages Cron Jobs in Vercel R v4.3.2 Spark v3.4.2 Keras v3.0.0 and Oceanography Gift.

This is part one of a three part series on Lighthouse for Shiny Apps. Part 1: Using Google Lighthouse for Web Pages (This post) Part 2: Analysing Shiny App start-up Times with Google Lighthouse (Coming soon) Part 3: Analysing Shiny App Component...