Animating dot plots to demonstrate patient flow - Dots.. This is not the blog post I’d originally intended to write. But I’m glad - because this one is so much better. Some background. I’m one of the few Scotland based members of Ap... [Read more...]

On my pretty and up-to-date CV, one of the first things one sees is my Github username, linking to my Github profile. What does a potential employer look at there? Hopefully not my non informative commit messages… My imitating a red Ampelmann, my bei... [Read more...]

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Last week, we created a map of world oil production, by country. This week, I’ll show you how to make a slight modification. I’ll show you how to highlight specific countries according to a variable in your data frame. The post How to highlight countries on a map ... [Read more...]

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  As a follow-up on my previous post on the sub-Gaussian property for the Beta distribution [1], I’ll give here a visual illustration of the proof. A random variable with finite mean is sub-Gaussian if there is a positive number such that: We focus on X being a Beta random variable. ... [Read more...]

(For first-timers, R⁶ tagged posts are short & sweet with minimal expository; R⁶ feed) At work-work I mostly deal with medium-to-large-ish data. I often want to poke at new or existing data sets w/o working across billions of rows. I also use Apache Drill for much of my exploratory work. ... [Read more...]

The main international R user conference, useR!, is typically hosted in Europe every other year. Back in 2016 when useR! was held in the USA, an alternative conference was held in Poland. Next year (when the useR! conference will be in Australia) the tradition continues, and the 2018 eRum (European R Users ... [Read more...]

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DESCRIPTION summary has been updated Examples have been updated for fit_univariate, fit_empirical fit_empirical_discrete and fit_empirical_continuous are no longer exported added plot_qq and plot_pp functions for diagnostic plotting of fits Added ... [Read more...]

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If you decide you want to use R in your existing Hugo blog, it’s really easy to convert over. There’s a single command you need to know from blogdown and the rest is working out your deployment process. To create content, use the blogdown Rstudio a... [Read more...]