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Previously in this series: Understanding the beta distribution Understanding empirical Bayes estimation Understanding credible intervals Understanding the Bayesian approach to false discovery rates Understanding Bayesian A/B testing Understanding beta binomial regression Suppose you were a scout hiring a new baseball player, and were choosing between two that have had 100 ... [Read more...]

bayesAB 0.7.0 Quick announcement that my package for Bayesian AB Testing, bayesAB, has been updated to 0.7.0 on CRAN. Some improvements on the backend as well a few tweaks for a more fluid UX/API. Some links: bayesAB Github Repo CRAN Page Now, on to the good stuff. Why should we care ... [Read more...]

Due to anthropogenic climate change, the average global temperature has increased steadily over the past decade or so. While we're all familiar with the hockey-stick line chart of rising temperature, the change is even more dramatic on this animated globe showing the local effects of climate change. The first half ... [Read more...]

We are delighted to announce the full agenda for the EARL2016 Conference which takes place at the fabulous Museum of Science, Boston  on 7-9th November. The conference will feature : 3 pre-conference workshops 2 Keynote Presentations 21 Presentations from leading R and industry practitioners 1 Evening … Continue reading → [Read more...]

Tired of R code not working on the fly even between your own computers? Think in a reproducible way. I've been thinking about the best way to create a reproducible report with rmarkdown and how to share that with people that don't even have R installed. Rmd format allows you ... [Read more...]

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What’s new A new version (0.5.1) of my ggseas R package is now available on CRAN. ggseas is a small package that provides several tools to make it easier to do seasonal adjustment or decomposition of time series on the fly in a ggplot2 pipeline. N... [Read more...]

MilanoR is a free event, open to all R users and enthusiasts or those who wish to learn more about R. The meeting consists of two talks (this time one about big data and and one about statistical learning) + a free buffet and networking time The post 7th MilanoR Meeting: ... [Read more...]

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A key question of environmental economics is to economically quantify damages from different types of pollution and benefits from environmental policy that attempts to reduce pollution. Often only indirect measures are available. An important measure i... [Read more...]

I recently published a technical note in Fisheries Research that described an algorithm for implementing the “seasonal cessation in growth model” of @Paulyetal1992. Describing an algorithm for a growth model does not seem like a useful... [Read more...]

How to inset a plot on another plot in R The difficulty of plotting one plot over the top of another in R has always frustrated me. I often end up opening some photo editing software (like Gimp, which is free) and doing it manually. However, manual ed... [Read more...]

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R's ggplot2 package is a well-known tool for producing beautiful static data visualizations that you can include in a printed report. But what if you want to include a ggplot2 graphic on a webpage and provide the ability for the user to interact with the data? The ggiraph package by ... [Read more...]

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This tutorial was first published in “Geocomputation a Practical Primer“. Here is a more complex example showing how to produce a map of 18th Century Shipping flows. The data have been obtained from the CLIWOC project and they represent a sample of digitised ships’ logs from the 18th Century. We ... [Read more...]

Great news R pirates! The yarrr package, which contains the pirateplot, has now been updated to version 0.0.8 and is up on CRAN (after hiding in plain sight on GitHub). Let’s install the latest version (0.0.8) and go over some of the updates: The most important function in the yarrr package ... [Read more...]