Looking for just the right colors for your data visualization? I often cover tools to pick color palettes on my website (e.g. here, here, or here) and also host a comprehensive list of color packages in my R programming resources overview. However, paletteer is by far my favorite package ...

In the previous article, we examined trends and seasonality in gasoline prices in Turkey. This time we will examine whether the gasoline prices are related to the variables that are thought to affect gasoline prices the most by the Turkish people. One of the variables is the Brent crude oil ...

Introduction One of the coolest features of Python is its nice ability to create decorators. In short, decorators allow us to modify how a function behaves without changing the function’s source code. This can often make code cleaner and easier to modify. For instance, decorators are also really useful ...

GDAL and PROJ gdalbarn crs objects in sf CRS objects in sp Coercion from CRS objects to crs and back Axis order Further reading [view raw Rmd] GDAL and PROJ GDAL and PROJ (formerly proj.4) are two libraries that form the basis, if ...

I’ve been publishing screencasts demonstrating how to use the tidymodels framework, from first steps in modeling to how to tune more complex models. Today, I’m using this week’s #TidyTuesday dataset on The Office to show how to build a LASSO regression model and choose regularization parameters! Here ...

In my last post, I made the point that p-values should not necessarily be considered sufficient evidence (or evidence at all) in drawing conclusions about associations we are interested in exploring. When it comes to contingency tables that represent the outcomes for two categorical variables, it isn’t so obvious ...

The S&P 500 is officially in a bear market, and the crash from the high valuation levels has been fast and painful. There is however light at the end of the tunnel. In this post I'll demonstrate how the US stock market has developed during past bear markets and how ...

Hey there! Here at Jumping Rivers, we have the capabilities to teach you R, Python & Git virtually. For the last three years we have been running online training courses for small groups (and even 1 to 1). How is it different to an in-person course? It's the same, but also different! The ...

Introduction Cancers are often first classified by their tissue of origin, but there are several types of cancer for each tissue. Further, each of these can have several subdivisions. For example, head and neck cancers can be further divided into seven cancers, including head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSC). ...

Introduction Cancers are often first classified by their tissue of origin, but there are several types of cancer for each tissue. Further, each of these can have several subdivisions. For example, head and neck cancers can be further divided into seven cancers, including head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSC). ...

Multiple facrtor analysis deals with dataset where variables are organized in groups. Typically, from data coming from different sources of variables. The method highlights a common structure of all the groups, and the specificity of each group. It allows to compare the results of several PCAs or MCAs in a ...

Briefly Front-line House Democrats Ideologies in the 116th Focusing on Democrats Summary Briefly A quick look at the voting behavior of the 30 House Democrats that represent congressional districts carried by Trump in 2016 – relative to other House members. Using Rvoteview. For a more in-depth account of the characteristics of front-line House ...