R-bloggers

I recently gave a talk, The value in teaching is not the content it’s the teacher My main point in this is: Your course materials should be out there in public for free online. To help support this, this blog post goes through the technical det...

A very short post today. During the global fuel crisis relating to the conflict in Iran, I have been monitoring this chart, every Thursday morning my time: It shows the amount of crude oil in the Cushing facility in Oklahoma and is one of the most t...

This post examines whether the Worldwide Governance Indicators' (WGI) rule of law measure provides a reasonable proxy for the World Justice Project's (WJP) Rule of Law Index, such as when analysis might benefit from the WGI's availability for more countries over a longer period. Results suggest the two measures broadly ...

In financial markets, distinguishing between information-driven movements and liquidity-driven shocks is critical. The reference study we based our work on highlights the importance of tail analysis: comparing Gaussian (thin-tailed) and Student‑t (fat-tailed) distributions to understand whether price changes are more likely to reflect genuine information or temporary liquidity imbalances. ...

Title slide of the talk Keynote slides: https://jakubnowosad.com/ml4eo2026/ Workshop materials: https://jakubnowosad.com/ml4eo2026workshop/ Machine learning is now deeply embedded1 in Earth observation workflows, from mapping current enviro...

I recently had the opportunity to learn what the term “Nerd Sniping” meant. Maëlle pointed out a conversation on the rOpenSci Slack about something called Vale, meant for text linting. I’d seen the comment, but honestly hadn’t...

Three hundred twenty-three of the new packages were submitted to CRAN in May. Here are my Top 40 picks in eighteen categories: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Methods, Ecology, Education, Finance, Functional Data Analysis, Genomics, Machi...

Or how to plot a very famous album cover.

Great news that a major Statistics prize like the Rousseeuw Prize goes to the R Core Team, esp. Brian Ripley (University of Oxford), Martin Mächler (ETH Zürich), Kurt Hornik (WU Wien), Peter Dalgaard (Copenhagen Business School), and Luke Tierney (University of Iowa). R is indeed a unique phenomenon, ...

After all 72 matches of the group stage in the 2026 FIFA World Cup our probabilistic forecasts are evaluated, revealing what the machine learning algorithm predicted well and where it struggled. A challenging new tournament form...

I came across a chart of long term real gross domestic product per capita for Australia (1900 to about 2020) that had a couple of mistakes in its y axis scale and labelling. I wanted to see for myself what it should actually look like. Looking for dat...

TLDR: this post summarizes how I was able to leverage my Surface Pro 11’s Neural Processing Unit (NPU) to chat […] The post Running local LLMs on your NPU from R with Foundry Local and ellmer appeared first on Giles.

“AI In Production 2026”, a new conference hosted by Jumping Rivers, was held on 4-5 June, 2026. The conference touched on many of the intricacies of using AI in software products, as part of the developer toolkit, and at the wider us...

Temperature change in France – CC-BY by University of Reading As France enters its second heatwave of 2026, can we produce more detailed plots than the excellent visualizations provided by ShowYourStripes? MétéoFrance offers its monthly SI...