We build a lot of Shiny apps. Once we have more than a couple related Shiny apps, it often makes sense to create a dashboard for our Shiny apps. A dashboard of Shiny apps allows users to easily visualize available apps and navigate between apps. This p...

nnetsauce version 0.5.0, randomized neural networks on GPU.

stringdist version 0.9.6 arrived on CRAN on 16 july 2020. This release brings a few new features. Fuzzy text search Search text for approximate matches of a search string using any stringdist distance. There are several functions that allow you … Continue reading →

sparklyr 1.3 is now available on CRAN, with the following major new features: Higher-order Functions to easily manipulate arrays and structs Support for Apache Avro, a row-oriented data serialization framework Custom Serialization using R functions t...

The spring and summer of 2020 were going to be exciting times here at Swimming + Data Science, with NCAA championships, Olympic trials, and then the big one, the Olympics, on the docket. That’s all been canceled or postponed though, and with good reason. It has also left me with a ...

The spring and summer of 2020 were going to be exciting times here at Swimming + Data Science, with NCAA championships, Olympic trials, and then the big one, the Olympics on the docket. That’s all been canceled or postponed though, and with good reason. It has also left me with a ...

R is a great resource for data management, statistics, analysis, and visualization — and it becomes better every day. This is to a large part because of the active community that continuously creates and builds extensions for the R world. If you want to contribute to this community, writing a package ...

R is a great resource for data management, statistics, analysis, and visualization — and it becomes better every day. This is to a large part because of the active community that continuously creates and builds extensions for the R world. If you want to contribute to this community, writing a package ...

Many companies are thinking about how to accelerate their digital transformation with data. In this article, we’ll discuss the benefits of using personas to structure your data-focused learning and development programs and show you how to start mappi...

Yes, You Can Win a Shiny Contest by Building a Video Game RStudio has released the results of the 2nd Annual Shiny Contest, and we are pleased to announce that Appsilon engineer Pedro Silva has been named a Grand Prize Winner. Pedro’s entry is a video game created in ...

Data visualization is not only important to communicate results but also a powerful technique for exploratory data analysis. Each plot type like scatter plots, line graphs, bar charts and histograms has its own purpose and can be leveraged in a powerf...

Photo by Federico Beccari on Unsplash The Challenges of Complexity and Underutilization Organizations typically have multiple different environments and frameworks to support their analytic work, with each tool providing specialized capabilities or ser...

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Tidygeocoder v1.0.0 is now live on CRAN. There are numerous new features and improvements such as batch geocoding (submitting multiple addresses per query), returning full results from geocoder services (not just latitude and longitude), address component arguments (city, country, etc.), query customization, and reduced package dependencies.