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I was chatting with a fellow Amazon Athena user and the topic of using Presto functions such as approx_distinct() via {d[b]plyr} came up and it seems it might not be fully common knowledge that any non-already translated function is passed to the destination intact. That means you ... [Read more...]

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Make1-like pipelines enhance the integrity, transparency, shelf life, efficiency, and scale of large analysis projects. With pipelines, data science feels smoother and more rewarding, and the results are worthy of more trust. ...looking to get your project/s organised in the new year? hoping just to distract from feelings ... [Read more...]

Make1-like pipelines enhance the integrity, transparency, shelf life, efficiency, and scale of large analysis projects. With pipelines, data science feels smoother and more rewarding, and the results are worthy of more trust. ...looking to get your project/s organised in the new year? hoping just to distract from feelings ... [Read more...]

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anndata is a commonly used Python package for keeping track of data and learned annotations, and can be used to read from and write to the h5ad file format. It is also the main data format used in the scanpy python package (Wolf, Angerer, and Theis 2... [Read more...]

anndata is a commonly used Python package for keeping track of data and learned annotations, and can be used to read from and write to the h5ad file format. It is also the main data format used in the scanpy python package (Wolf, Angerer, and Theis 2... [Read more...]

Bayesian statistics Taught by Shravan Vasishth (vasishth.github.io) When: Sometime between 13 and 15 April 2021 Where: https://emlar.wp.hum.uu.nl/tutorial/bayesian-statistics/ Bayesian methods are increasingly becoming mainstream in psychology and ps... [Read more...]

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The Enterprise Applications of the R Language Conference is back for 2021! We are working on whether the event will... The post EARL 2021: Abstract submissions are open appeared first on Mango Solutions. [Read more...]

100% Open Source Enterprise Management of R Repositories RDepot is a solution for the management of R package repositories in an enterprise environment. It allows to submit packages through a user interface or API and to automatically update and publi... [Read more...]

RStudio version 1.4 brought many great enhancements. My favorite feature is the new visual markdown editing mode. This allows to solve interactive RTutor problem sets with a shiny look directly in the RStudio editor. Here is a screenshot: The exam... [Read more...]

The German news magazine DER SPIEGEL has a regular puzzle section in its online version, called “Rätsel der Woche” (“Riddle of the Week”). Some of those puzzles are quite interesting but I am often too lazy to solve them analytically. So I often kill two birds with one stone: ... [Read more...]

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Introduction The previous post demonstrates the use of pre-compiled Stan models in interactive R Shiny applications to avoid unnecessary Stan model (re-)compilation on application start-up. In this short follow-up post we go a step further and tackle the issue of tracking the Stan model sampling progress itself in a ... [Read more...]

tl;dr: some stats agencies use the ISO standard to number weeks for data with weekly frequency. This has some funny implications, some of which cannot be handled with base R on some systems nor with {lubridate}. Use {ISOweek} for now. This is one of those posts written for future ... [Read more...]