After having some time to ponder the issues I was having in my last post, I’m pleased to say that all three are resolved, or at least partially to my immediate satisfaction. First off, I managed to get Netlify to automatically build my website for me, thanks to the ... [Read more...]

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Data Visualization for Social Science will be published later this year by Princeton University Press. You can read a near-complete draft of the book at socviz.co. If you would like to receive one (1) email when the book is available for pre-order, ple... [Read more...]

RStudio Shiny is a great tool to create interactive reports and dashboards for R users. There are many ways to publish the results, e.g. shinyapps.io is a free online platform […] [Read more...]

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A maintenance release of the tint package arrived on CRAN earlier this week. Its name expands from tint is not tufte as the package offers a fresher take on the Tufte-style for html and pdf presentations. A screenshot of the pdf variant is below. ... [Read more...]

A minor maintenance release of the RcppCNPy package arrived on CRAN this week. RcppCNPy provides R with read and write access to NumPy files thanks to the cnpy library by Carl Rogers. There is no code change here. But to process the vignette we rely ... [Read more...]

I'm pleased to announce that the RQuantLib Windows binaries are now up to 0.4.4!  The RQuantLib pre-built Windows binaries have been frozen on CRAN since 0.4.2, but now you can get version 0.4.4 binaries on Dirk's ghrr drat repo. Installation is as simple as: drat::addRepo("ghrr") # maybe use 'install.packages("drat")' ... [Read more...]

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I recently completed all 25 days of Advent of Code 2017, an annual series of recreational programming puzzles. Each day describes a programming puzzle and illustrates a handful of simple examples of the problem. The puzzle then requires the participant to solve a much, much larger form of the problem. For five ... [Read more...]

It looks pretty cool! Wednesday, Jan 10 Invited Talk: Predictive information criteria in hierarchical Bayesian models for clustered data. Sophia Rabe-Hesketh and Daniel Furr (U California, Berkely) 10:40-11:30am Does the New York City Police Department rely on quotas? Jonathan Auerbach (Columbia U) 11:30-11:50am Bayesian estimation of mechanical elastic constants. ... [Read more...]

It looks pretty cool! Wednesday, Jan 10 Invited Talk: Predictive information criteria in hierarchical Bayesian models for clustered data. Sophia Rabe-Hesketh and Daniel Furr (U California, Berkely) 10:40-11:30am Does the New York City Police Department rely on quotas? Jonathan Auerbach (Columbia U) 11:30-11:50am Bayesian estimation of mechanical elastic constants. ... [Read more...]

It looks pretty cool! Wednesday, Jan 10 Invited Talk: Predictive information criteria in hierarchical Bayesian models for clustered data. Sophia Rabe-Hesketh and Daniel Furr (U California, Berkely) 10:40-11:30am Does the New York City Police Department rely on quotas? Jonathan Auerbach (Columbia U) 11:30-11:50am Bayesian estimation of mechanical elastic constants. ... [Read more...]

Shortly after my previous blog post, I saw this tweet on my timeline: The purrr resolution for 2018 - learn at least one purrr function per week - is officially launched with encouragement and inspiration from @statwonk and @hadleywickham. We start with modify_depth: https://t.co/dCMnSHP7Pl. Please join ... [Read more...]