While the future of the Apache Drill ecosystem is somewhat in-play (MapR — a major sponsoring org for the project — is kinda dead), I still use it almost daily (on my local home office cluster) to avoid handing over any more money to Amazon than I/we already do. The latest (...

Some weeks ago I tweeted this: GUIs were a mistake — Bruno Rodrigues (@brodriguesco) October 9, 2020 you might think that I tweeted this as an unfunny joke, but it’s not. GUIs were one of the worst things to happen for statisticians. Clickable interfaces for data analysis is probably one of the ...

Boosting nonlinear penalized least squares

20.11.2020 A new version of Bio7 is available. This update comes with a plethora of new features, improvements and bugfixes. For those who don’t know Bio7. The application Bio7 is an integrated development environment for ecological modeling, scientific image analysis and statistical analysis. It also contains a feature complete development ...

The idea OK. We are at home. Again. Given that large parts of Europe and the U.S. are currently experiencing a second large wave of Covid-19 cases and that most European jurisdictions have reacted with more or less rigorous lockdown regulatio...

Appsilon is Named a Rising Star 2020 wasn’t easy on anyone, and it was a devastating year for many. Businesses of all types had to readjust the way they work and pivot their overall strategies in this new environment. The IT sector was one of the least affected by the ...

Short term forecast from the California COVID Assessment Tool (CalCAT) “Things move along so rapidly nowadays that people saying: “It can’t be done,” are always being interrupted by somebody doing it.” – Puck magazine, 1903. As we at RStudio have talked about the topic of serious data science, we often field ...

One thing I really admire about Taylor Swift is her ability to tell a story. The way she weaves in details and characters, you feel like each song is about you or a friend. I think one reason for her popularity is because her music is so relateable. In particular, ...

One hundred fifty-six new packages made it to CRAN in October. Here are my “Top 40” selections in eight categories: Computational Methods, Data, Epidemiology, Mathematics, Machine Learning, Statistics, Utilities, and Visualization. Computational Methods mcmcensemble v 2.0: Provides ensemble samplers for affine-invariant Monte Carlo Markov Chain algorithms which allow a faster convergence for ...

At rOpenSci, we encourage R package developers to take advantage of Continuous Integration services to automatically check the package on different platforms, with different versions of R. The rOpenSci dev guide dedicates chapter 2 to the topic of Con...

It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything R-related and, while this one will be brief, it may be of use to some R folks who have taken the leap into Big Sur and/or Apple Silicon. Stay to the end for an early Christmas ????! Big Sur Report ...