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How to join this free online event with Salix Dubois, Tan Ho and Matthias Grenié. Join us for our next Community Call, “Graceful Internet Packages,” featuring Matthias, Tan, and Salix. In this session, we’ll explore how to design and maintain R packag...

Calvi - Noël 2017 – CC-BY-NC-NA by Valerie Hukalo Day 5 of 30DayMapChallenge: « Earth » (previously). What if the bathymetry of the Mediterranean Sea is reversed? We would get a Western Island and an Eastern Island, a Sardin...

6509Es – CC-BY-NC by Bob Mical Day 4 of 30DayMapChallenge: « My data » (previously). Where are my data? Partly in a data center; probably with your data too… So, where are they? library(dplyr) library(purrr) library(sf) library(osmdata) library(glue) library(leaflet) We send an Overpass API query with {osmdata}: # Get ...

Simulate patient-related events in clinical trials with the goal of detecting over and under-reporting sites. Monitoring reporting rates of patient-related events such as adverse events (AE) in clinical trials is important for patient safety. We u...

This October, Jumping Rivers hosted the fourth installment of our conference “Shiny In Production”. This year, speakers from around the world joined us in Newcastle to see how Shiny, in both Python and R, has solved real data problems...

If you use ggplot2, you are probably used to creating plots with geom_line() and geom_point(). You may also have ventured into to the broader ggplot2 ecosystem to use geoms like geom_density_ridges() from ggridges or geom_signif() from ggsignif. But have you ever wondered how these extensions ...

Physicists of many nations – CC BY-NC-ND by Ann Fisher Day 3 of 30DayMapChallenge: « Polygons » (previously). An interesting challenge a few weeks ago on https://en.osm.town/@opencage/115271196316302891: Post by @[email protected] View on Mastodon Name countries whose ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code is contained as a substring in the ...

What motivates human behaviour can be captured in the Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (source: Wiki). Maslow and psychologists have articulated these needs in a form of a Pyramid, and ever since the concept had been widely adopted (also criticised), and…Read more ›

Hiking Path – CC BY-NC-SA by HD Day 2 of 30DayMapChallenge: « Lines » (previously). Representing a digital elevation model as ridgelines… Config library(elevatr) library(rnaturalearth) # remotes::install_github("ropensci/r...

Forecasting financial markets, such as the STOXX Europe 600 Index, presents a classic Machine Learning challenge: the data is inherently noisy, non-stationary, and highly susceptible to sudden market events. To tackle this, we turn to Automated Machine Learning (AutoML)—specifically the powerful, scalable framework provided by H2O.ai and integrated ...

K2 – CC BY-NC-ND by Marcelo Aguilar Day 1 of 30DayMapChallenge: « Points ». Mapping the peaks above 8000 m, also known as the eight-thousanders. Config library(httr) library(glue) library(dplyr) library(tidyr) library(purrr) library(tibble) library(stringr) library(sf) library(leaflet) Data Several non-trivial options for obtaining the data: english Wikipedia doesn’...

Last time we used a quirky dataset to get acquainted with Generalised Linear Models. If you recall, the dataset is a count of deaths by horse kick, where every year all the corps in the army had some non-negative integer number of deaths and we ...

Hi pharmaverse community, On behalf of the council we wanted to update you on 2 council members who are passing on the baton to new representatives from their respective companies. Firstly, Michael Rimler (who is one of our original co-founder...

Here we go again! I ran the Mainova Frankfurt Marathon 2025 and wanted to look at the race results. How can we do this using R? I couldn’t see an easy way to download the data, so I used R to scrape them. Note that these times are currently provisional, ...

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