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Prompted by Markku Hänninen, I thought I’d have a quick look at estimating motorsport safety car laps from a set of laptime data. For the uninitiated, if there is a dangerous hazard on track, the race-cars are kept out while the hazard is cleared, but led around by ... [Read more...]

[social4i size=”large” align=”float-right”] This is a re-post from the R packages mailing list Greetings, We wanted to announce a new R package [Read more...]

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You don’t have to be beautiful to turn me on (Kiss, Prince) I discovered recently how easy is to create GIFs with R using ImageMagick and I feel like a kid with a new toy. To begin this new era of my life as R programmer I have done ... [Read more...]

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Rumors of my demise have been (almost) greatly exaggerated. Folks have probably noticed that #52Vis has stalled, as has most blogging, package & Twitter activity. I came down with a nasty bout of bronchitis after attending rOpenSci Unconf 16 (there were so many people hacking [the sick kind] up a storm in ... [Read more...]

Image recognition and object detection has been around for some years. However, usage and adoption was limited due to quality and ease of development. With the release of Microsoft’s Project Oxford, and Google’s Vision API, the accessibility and applicability has massively improved. Both APIs use REST API access ... [Read more...]