I love the idea of a permanent side-bar for the TOC. Can’t wait until you provide the open-source code. Can you share any resources for those interested in learning CSS rules and hacks to customize their blogs and reports?

I’m sure there’s a better way out there, but I struggled to find a way to dissolve polygons that touched/overlapped each other (the special case being buffers). For example,  using the osmdata package, we can download the polygons representing hospital buildings in Bern, Switzerland. library(osmdata) library(...

We all know that Shiny is great for interactive data visualisations. But, sometimes even the best attempts to fit all your graphs just in one Shiny page are not enough. From our experience, almost every project with growing amount of KPIs struggles with a problem of messy and not readable ...

We all know that Shiny is great for interactive data visualisations. But, sometimes even the best attempts to fit all your graphs just in one Shiny page are not enough. From our experience, almost every project with growing amount of KPIs struggles with a problem of messy and not readable ...

The World of Anomalies Imagine you are a credit card selling company and you know about a particular customer who makes a purchase of 25$ every week. You guessed this purchase is his fixed weekly rations but one day, this customer makes a different purchase of 700$. This development will not just ...

Mark Sellors, Head of Data Engineering If you use RStudio Connect to publish your Shiny app (and even if you don't) take care with how your arrange your projects. If you...

In the last post of this series we dealt with axis systems. In this post we are also dealing with axes but this time we are taking a look at the position scales of dates, time and datetimes. Since we at STATWORX are often forecasting – and thus plotting – time series, ...

In this post, I talk about loops in R, why they can be slow and when it is okay to use them. Don’t grow objects Let us generate a matrix of uniform values (max changing for every column). gen_grow

We are happy to report that a new version of MODIStsp (1.3.4) is on CRAN as of today ! The new version introduces a strongly improved GUI (thanks mainly to @lwasser comments in her review for MODIStsp onboarding on ropensci). The new GUI facilitates the selection of layers to be processed, and ...

Traditional Correlation Bayesian APA formatted Correlation Indices Posterior Credits The Bayesian framework is the right way to go for psychological science. To facilitate its use for newcommers, we implemented the bayes_cor.test function in the psycho package, a user-friendly wrapper for the correlationBF function of the great BayesFactor package ...

The probabilistic forecast from the bookmaker consensus model for the 2018 FIFA World Cup is visualized in an interactive Sankey diagram, highlighting the teams' most likely progress through the tournament. Bookmaker consensus model Two weeks ago we published our Probabilistic Forecast for the 2018 FIFA World Cup: By adjusting quoted bookmakers’ odds ...