This article is part of a R-Tips Weekly, a weekly video tutorial that shows you step-by-step how to do common R coding tasks. Missing values used to drive me nuts… until I learned how to impute them! In 10-minutes, learn how to visualize and impute ...

In this post I will explain the history behind BaseSet then a brief introduction to sets, followed by showing what you can do with BaseSet. Brief BaseSet history I study diseases to try to find what causes them at a research institute associated with an hospital. Thanks to recent technological ...

As we evaluate therapies for COVID-19 to help improve outcomes during the pandemic, researchers need to be able to make recommendations as quickly as possible. There really is no time to lose. The Data & Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) of COMPIL...

A short code-golf challenge led me to learn about the Kempner series, which is the series made of the inverted integers, excluding all those containing the digit 9. Most surprisingly this exclusion is enough to see the series converging (close to 23). The explanation for this convergence is that, citing Wikipedia, “The ...

Web Scraping, by nature requires a lot of understanding from the ability to find the css selector to rightly parse the scraped content. While there are a lot of R packages (even Python packages for that matter), {ralger} does a wonderful job of abst...

shiny.semantic::grid() The main job of a data scientist is to provide meaningful insights, mostly through data visualizations and dashboards. More often than not, data science professionals struggle with HTML and CSS, which makes building an aesthetically-pleasing layout near to impossible. And they are not to blame – that’s ...

The R Markdown team is happy to share that blogdown version 1.0 is now available on CRAN. blogdown was originally released in the fall of 2017. The latest version of the package includes some significant improvements to the user experience, and some un...

Tidygeocoder v1.0.2 “Yodeling Yak” is now on CRAN. This release adds support for the popular Google geocoder service (thanks @chris31415926535) and also includes several bugfixes and enhancements. Refer to the changelog for details on the release and to the tidygeocoder homepage for a comparison of all supported geocoder services.

rstudio::global is Just Around the Corner Only a few days remain until the 2021 rstudio::global conference on January 21st, and we have some good news. In collaboration with RStudio, Appsilon will be hosting an in-depth Shiny Masterclass on January 20th @ 9AM EST. Space is limited, but you can still ...

About 2 week ago, yes right around the New year, I was browsing Kaggle just for fun. It made me remember how much fun it actually is to play around with random data. Not only that but very often with a cool purpose too. One of my new year goals is ...

BASIC XAIBASIC XAI with DALEX — Part 7: Ceteris Paribus profilesIntroduction to model exploration with code examples for R and Python.By Anna KozakWelcome to the “BASIC XAI with DALEX” series.In this post, we present the Ceteris Paribus profiles, the m...