This is an incredibly easy way to spice up any R Markdown file. It adds an animated link to GitHub in the top corner of the HTML output, just like you see at the top of this page. Mouse over the icon to make it wave. All thanks and praise ... [Read more...]

This is an incredibly easy way to spice up any Rmarkdown file. It adds an animated link to GitHub in the top corner of the HTML output, just like you see at the top of this page. Mouse over the icon to make it wave. All thanks and praise should ... [Read more...]

Check out the “From Data to Viz” website to learn more about common graph types, their use, caveats and how to create them. [Read more...]

In this post, We’re simply going to see 5 tricks that could help improve your tooling using {tidyverse}. Create a difference variable between the current value and the next value This is also known as lead and lag - especially in a time series dataset this varaible becomes very important ... [Read more...]

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During a search for data on programming language usage I discovered Stack Overflow Trends, showing an interesting plot of language tags appearing on Stack Overflow questions (see below). Where was the csv file for these numbers? Somebody had asked this question last year, but there were no answers. The graphic ... [Read more...]

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If you’re like me, when running a process through a loop you’ll add in counters and progress indicators. That way […] The post Fun with progress bars: Fish, daggers and the Star Wars trench run appeared first on Daniel Oehm | Gradient Descending. [Read more...]

There are so many wonderful EARL talks happening this year – it’s hard to highlight them all! But we thought we’d share some that the Mango team are really looking forward to: Ana Henriques, PartnerRe Using R in Production at PartnerRe Ana Henriques is the Analytics Tool Lead in ... [Read more...]

About twenty years ago, I was a young teenager when my two-year older brother introduced me to the increasingly popular card game Magic the Gathering (MTG). We both liked the game a lot and started to collect cards, making sure that all the blue cards would go to my brother ... [Read more...]

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rOpenSci HQ rOpenSci received a $678K award from the Sloan Foundation to expand Software Peer Review. We are hiring for a new position in statistical software testing and peer review. Join our next Community Call on Reproducible Workflows at Scale with drake September 24th. Videos, speakers’ slides, resources and collaborative ... [Read more...]

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