Mountains

September 21, 2023 | Michael

Aconcagua - 6991 m If you like mountains, R and T-shirts, I got you covered. Here we use {elevatr} to get a DEM around some well known summits and make a map consisting only of isohypses. It produces (sometimes) very nice visualizations. And...
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Rugby World Cup explainer using data

September 20, 2023 | Antoine Rebecq

Last week, a stereotypical “French” ceremony opened the 10th Rugby World Cup in Stade de France, in the suburbs of Paris, France. As a small boy growing up in the southern half of France, I developed a strong interest for the sport. Now being an adult living and working in ...
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smooth & greybox under LGPLv2.1

September 19, 2023 | Ivan Svetunkov

Good news, everyone! I’ve recently released major versions of my packages smooth and greybox, v4.0.0 and v2.0.0 respectively, on CRAN. Has something big happened? Yes and no. Let me explain. Starting from these versions, the packages will be licensed under LGPLv2.1 instead of the very restrictive GPLv2. This does ...
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Algorithmic Fairness

September 18, 2023 | YoungStatS

Algorithmic Fairness Tuesday, October 3rd, 2023, 7:30 PT / 10:30 ET / 15:30 CET 2nd joint webinar of the IMS New Researchers Group, Young Data Science Researcher Seminar Zürich and the YoungStatS Project. When & Where: Tuesday, October 3rd, 20...
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