November, 2020 | R-bloggers

Installing V8 is now even easier

November 11, 2020 | rOpenSci - open tools for open science

Google’s amazing V8 JavaScript/WASM engine is probably one of the most sophisticated open-source software libraries available today. It is used to power the computation in Google Chrome, NodeJS, and also CloudFlare Workers, which make it possibl...

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The Notion of “Double Descent”

November 11, 2020 | matloff

I tend to be blase’ about breathless claims of “new” methods and concepts in statistics and machine learning. Most are “variations on a theme.” However, the notion of double descent, which has come into prominence in the last few years, is something I regard as genuinely new and very relevant, ...

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The Notion of “Double Descent”

November 11, 2020 | matloff

I tend to be blase’ about breathless claims of “new” methods and concepts in statistics and machine learning. Most are “variations on a theme.” However, the notion of double descent, which has come into prominence in the last few years, is something I regard as genuinely new and very relevant, ...

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Web Frameworks for R – A Brief Overview

November 11, 2020 | jonathanatmazamascience

Having recently announced the beakr web framework for R, we have received several questions about context and why we choose beakr over other options for some of our web services. This post will attempt to answer some of those questions by providing a few opinions on beakr and other web ... [Read more...]

RStudio Announces Winners of Appsilon’s Internal Shiny Contest

November 11, 2020 | Appsilon

The Results Are In! We recently ran an internal Shiny contest to see which Appsilon team member could make the best shiny.semantic PoC in under 24 hours, and today we have some winners to announce! Which shiny.semantic PoC app is your favorite? There is still time to vote for ...

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another electoral map

November 11, 2020 | xi'an

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A look at Biontech/Pfizer’s Bayesian analysis of their Covid-19 vaccine trial

November 11, 2020 | Economics and R - R posts

Let’s take again a look at Biontech / Pfizers vaccine candiate for which a press release stated more than 90% efficacy. As noted in my previous post Biontech/Pfizer actually use a Bayesian approach to assess the efficacy of their vaccine candiate. In ... [Read more...]

The Pfizer-Biontech Vaccine May Be A Lot More Effective Than You Think

November 10, 2020 | Ian

tl;dr; The point estimate for vaccine effectiveness may be 97%, which is a lot higher than 90% Yesterday an announcement went out that the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine candidate developed by Pfizer and Biontech was determined to be effective during an interim analysis. This is fantastic news. Perhaps the best news of the ... [Read more...]

YAPOEH! (Yet another post on error handling)

November 10, 2020 | R | Adi Sarid

Error catching can be hard to catch at times (no pun intended). If you’re not used to error handling, this short post might help you do it elegantly. There are many posts about error handling in R (and in fact the examples in the purrr package docu...

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lmDiallel: a new R package to fit diallel models. Introduction

November 10, 2020 | R on The broken bridge between biologists and statisticians

Together with some colleagues from the plant breeding group, we have just published a new paper, where we presented a bunch of R functions to analyse the data from diallel experiments. The paper is titled ‘Linear models for diallel crosses: a review... [Read more...]

Making an Online Risk Calculator

November 10, 2020 | YoungStatS

We first started making risk calculators with the website, http://nomograms.org. There are several here, and they are patient friendly. Later, we launched rcalc.ccf.org, which has many more risk calculators, although the intended audience is the ...

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Benford’s Law and Census Data

November 10, 2020 | R & Census

Benford’s law attracted lots of attention after the 2020 election, as some people attempted to use this law to question the integrity of the election. Benford’s law states that the frequency of the first digit of a large set of numerical data follows this rule: 30.1% are 1s, 17.6% are 2s, 12.5% ... [Read more...]

lmDiallel: a new R package to fit diallel models. Introduction

November 10, 2020 | R on The broken bridge between biologists and statisticians

Together with some colleagues from the plant breeding group, we have just published a new paper, where we presented a bunch of R functions to analyse the data from diallel experiments. The paper is titled ‘Linear models for diallel crosses: a review wi... [Read more...]

YAPOEH! (Yet another post on error handling)

November 10, 2020 | R | Adi Sarid - Personal Blog

Error catching can be hard to catch at times (no pun intended). If you’re not used to error handling, this short post might help you do it elegantly. There are many posts about error handling in R (and in fact the examples in the purrr package docum...

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Preview: satRday Columbus

November 10, 2020 | George Mount

Online conferences are getting to be a tough sell: the supply has exceeded the demand. It’s just so hard to make (and keep) the time for a conference when you’re sitting at home, and hard to know what’s quality. At the same time, the communities I belong ...

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See Appsilon Presentations on Computer Vision and Scaling Shiny at Why R? 2020

November 10, 2020 | Appsilon

Mark your calendars! Join Appsilon at the Why R? Conference on Thursday, November 12th @ 8PM UTC+1 / 2PM EST for two talks by Appsilonians. We will discuss wildlife preservation with computer vision and scaling Shiny apps on a budget. You can find the meetup link here and a direct link to ...

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About confidence intervals for the Biontech/Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine candidate

November 10, 2020 | Economics and R - R posts

Probably, many of you have read the positive news from the Biontech/Pfizer press release from November 9th: “Vaccine candidate was found to be more than 90% effective in preventing COVID-19 in participants without evidence of prior SARS-CoV-2 infec... [Read more...]

Upcoming Why R Webinar – Preserving wildlife with computer vision AND Scaling Shiny Dashboards on a Budget

November 10, 2020 | Why R? Foundation

This Thursday (Nov 12th 7:00pm UTC) at Why R? Webinars we will have Jędrzej Świeżewski PhD and Damian Budelewski from Appsilon with 2 talks Preserving wildlife with computer vision AND Scaling Shiny Dashboards on a Budget. The link to the webinar, bio... [Read more...]

Upcoming Why R Webinar – Preserving wildlife with computer vision AND Scaling Shiny Dashboards on a Budget

November 10, 2020 | Marcin Kosiński

This Thursday (Nov 12th 7:00pm UTC) at Why R? Webinars we will have Jędrzej Świeżewski PhD and Damian Budelewski from Appsilon with 2 talks Preserving wildlife with computer vision AND Scaling Shiny Dashboards on a Budget. The link to the webinar, bio... [Read more...]

Create Bart Simpson Blackboard Memes with R

November 10, 2020 | Learning Machines

Everybody knows the Simpsons, everybody loves the Simpsons and everybody can laugh about Bart Simpson writing funny lines on the blackboard! If you want to create your own Bart Simpson Blackboard Meme Generator with R read on! Conveniently enough there is a package for creating memes already (who would have ... [Read more...]

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November 2020

Installing V8 is now even easier

The Notion of “Double Descent”

The Notion of “Double Descent”

Web Frameworks for R – A Brief Overview

RStudio Announces Winners of Appsilon’s Internal Shiny Contest

another electoral map

A look at Biontech/Pfizer’s Bayesian analysis of their Covid-19 vaccine trial

The Pfizer-Biontech Vaccine May Be A Lot More Effective Than You Think

YAPOEH! (Yet another post on error handling)

lmDiallel: a new R package to fit diallel models. Introduction

Making an Online Risk Calculator

Benford’s Law and Census Data

lmDiallel: a new R package to fit diallel models. Introduction

YAPOEH! (Yet another post on error handling)

Preview: satRday Columbus

See Appsilon Presentations on Computer Vision and Scaling Shiny at Why R? 2020

About confidence intervals for the Biontech/Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine candidate

Upcoming Why R Webinar – Preserving wildlife with computer vision AND Scaling Shiny Dashboards on a Budget

Upcoming Why R Webinar – Preserving wildlife with computer vision AND Scaling Shiny Dashboards on a Budget

Create Bart Simpson Blackboard Memes with R

November 2020

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