The UK approved on December 2nd, as first country in the world, the emergency use authorization (EUA) of Biontech/Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccination. A few days later on December 8th, the first NHS patient became vaccinated. Neither the European Union nor ... [Read more...]

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Are your visualizations an eyesore? There might be something you can do about it. Are your visualizations an eyesore? The 1990s are over, pal. Terrible-looking visualizations are no longer acceptable, no matter how useful they might otherwise be. Lucki... [Read more...]

Learn how to apply doc2vec in R on your text in this pdf presentation available at https://www.bnosac.be/index.php/blog/103-doc2vec-in-R. Where we focus on our R package doc2vec available at https://github.com/bnosac/doc2vec You can view the prese... [Read more...]

This Thursday, December 17th at 7 pm UTC, as part of the Why R? Webinar series, we will be delighted to host Paulito Palmes, a research scientist in IBM Research Europe. He will be speaking about combining utilities and workflows of R and Julia to so... [Read more...]

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COVID-19 has the world more than ever in its grip – but there is hope: several vaccines have been developed which promise to deliver “95% efficacy”. When people read this many assume that it means that 95% of vaccinated persons will be protected from infection – but that is not true. Even many (science) ... [Read more...]

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We are happy to announce that the version 0.2.0 of torch just landed on CRAN. This release includes many bug fixes and some nice new features that we will present in this blog post. You can see the full changelog in the NEWS.md file. The features th... [Read more...]

In a year where it has been hard to pay attention to anything not critical to our day-to-day lives, you have continued to share your time, expertise, enthusiasm, and willingness to try things with us. Our staff of developers, researchers, and communit... [Read more...]

Introduction ???? Why visualize the age-sex composition of confirmed coronavirus cases? Demographers have been consistently highlighting the importance of age-sex structure of the population and confirmed cases in shaping fatality rates in countries (see these articles???? published in PNAS and PlosONE for details). My colleagues and I also wrote a commentary????... [Read more...]

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