Complete the Introduction to R Course for Free until March 7 To all of you who want to get started with data science and R we have a special offer! Until March 7 you can finish all of the new Introduction to R course lessons for free and collect the f...

Improving Interoperability through the RStudio Job Launcher In a previous blog post we discussed how improving interoperability between the multiple environments required by data scientists can improve productivity and ROI on IT investments. With the h...

Ordinarily posts on Swimming + Data Science have focused on swimming, or sometimes diving. Today though we’re going to visit some of our more gravity-afflicted colleagues and do a bit of cross-training. That’s because following what I’m going to call the SwimmeR package’s massive success literally several ...

Analysis of variance (ANOVA) is an usual way for analysing experiments. However, depending on the design and/or the analysis scheme, it can be a hard task. ExpDes, acronym for Experimental Designs, is a package that intends to turn such task easier. Devoted to fixed models and balanced experiments, ExpDes ...

My R-using family have a very old house with uneven heating and cooling. We are going to replace the HVAC system soon and rather than just install a new system I wanted to make data-driven decisions about the replacement. Since I have a couple of ecobee Thermostats which have remote ...

Appsilon at Hack4Environment Appsilon has recently taken part in the Hack4Environment – a 24-hour hackathon focusing on dealing with the critical problem of illegal waste disposal (known as fly-tipping).  Read about our AI4Good initiative – Here’s how Machine Learning can be used to analyze wildlife camera trap datasets. ...

Inspired by the informative post from Jumping Rivers about selecting the correct image file type, I decided to optimise PNG file size as part of this blog’s CI pipeline. OptiPNG As suggested, I used optipng. Let’s see how well this works on a lar...

I’m currently working on a preprint on the spread of COVID-19 in Luxembourg. My hypothesis is that landlocked countries, especially ones like Luxembourg that have very close ties to their neighbours have a very hard time controlling the pandemic, unlike island countries which can completely close off their borders, ...

Horrible puns aside, hopefully everyone saw the news, earlier this week, from @thomasp85 on the evolution of modern typographic capabilities in the R ecosystem. Thomas (and some cohorts) has been working on {systemfonts}, {ragg}, and {textshaping} for quite a while now, and the — shall we say tidyglyphs ecosystem — is super-ready ...

A look at Swiss mortality for 20 and over 100 years.

One of the things I’ve started pondering with my rally stage route metrics is the extent to which we might be able to generate stage descriptions of the sort you might find on the It Gets Faster Now blog. The idea wouldn’t necessarily be t...