English French German The newest release of the pointblank package makes it really easy to validate your data with workflows attuned to your data quality needs. You can install pointblank 0.3 from CRAN with:

install.packages("pointblank")

The design goals of pointblank are to enable two important data validation workflows with a common ...

The oil-to-gas ratio was recently at its highest level since October 2013, as Middle East saber-rattling and a recovering global economy supported oil, while natural gas remained oversupplied despite entering the major draw season. Even though the ratio has eased in the last week, it remains over one standard deviation above ...

Pedro Coutinho Silva is a software engineer at Appsilon Data Science. It is not always possible to create a dashboard that fully meets your expectations or requirements using only existing libraries. Maybe you want a specific function that needs to be custom built, or maybe you want to add your ...

Astrolabe Diagnostics is a fully bootstrapped five-person biotech startup. We offer the Antibody Staining Data Set (ASDS), a free service that helps immunologists find out the expression of different molecules (markers) across subsets in the immune system. Essentially, the ASDS is a big table of numbers, where every row is ...

One the greatest strengths of R for data science work is the vast number and variety of packages and capabilities that are available. However, it can be intimidating to navigate this large and dynamic open source ecosystem, especially for a newcomer. All the information you need is out there, but ...

Build beautiful dashboards rapidly. Example Flexdashboard. From shinyapps.ioThis is part one of a growing series on data reporting with micro services. For deploying web apps and this Flexdashboard in particular see part two, Deploying a Shiny Flexdashboard with Docker. For deploying dashboards at scale in production with a Shiny ...

Here is a call for a research fellow at the University of Warwick to work with Adam Johansen and Théo Damoulas on the EPSRC and Lloyds Register Foundaton funded project “Robust Scalable Sequential Monte Carlo with application to Urban Air Quality”. To quote The position will be based primarily ...

Recently there has been a couple of meta-analyses investigating heterogeneous treatment effects by analyzing the ratio of the outcome variances in the treatment and control group. The argument made in these articles is that if individuals differ in their response, then observed variances in the treatment and control group in ...

What is R script automation and why? Outline of what we’ll do here Part01: Creating the report: Part02: Automating the report reproduction What is R script automation and why? In most use cases R is used to analyze data, run statistical tests and build model. In doing so, data ...

I’m excited to announce that heatmaply version 1.0.0 has been published to CRAN! (getting started vignette is available here) What is heatmaply? heatmaply is an R package for easily creating interactive cluster heatmaps that can be shared online as a stand-alone HTML file. Interactivity includes a tooltip display of values ...

Nonlinear regression plays an important role in my research and teaching activities. While I often use the ‘drm()’ function in the ‘drc’ package for my research work, I tend to prefer the ‘nls()’ function for teaching purposes, mainly because, in my...

Introduction Over the next few posts, we will investigate decision boundaries. A decision boundary is a graphical representation of the solution to a classification problem. Decision boundaries can help us to understand what kind of solution might be appropriate for a problem. They can also help us to understand the ...