“Like families, tidy datasets are all alike but every messy dataset is messy in its own way.” — Hadley Wickham, Chief Scientist at RStudio This article will try to show how we can link the structure of a dataset to it’s meaning and make sure the data is showing what ...

Gradient Boosting with R Gradient boosting is one of the most effective techniques for building machine learning models. It is based on the idea of improving the weak learners (learners with insufficient predictive power). Do you want to learn more about machine learning with R? Check our complete guide to ...

On November 2 – 7, 2020, the 5th edition of the Brazilian Conference on Data Journalism and Digital Methods (CODA.Br) took place with 50 national and international guest speakers and... The post Major Success! Highlights from the Brazilian Conference on Data Journalism and Digital Methods (CODA.br) appeared first on R Consortium.

I am really excited to announce my beta package and it is now available to download on GitHub. This is my third package I have managed to create. I have many more projects, tutorials and code snippets available on my GitHub site. I hope you find it useful and read ...

👉 Sign Up For More Blog Articles 👈 Both R and Python are great. We’ll showcase some of the strengths of each language in this article by showcasing where the major development efforts are within each ecosystem. R is for Research...

Suppose that you want to use {emayili} to send birthday messages (this post motivated by issue #61). Specifically, you want to send one message to the person having a birthday and send multiple messages to other people, reminding them of the birthday. Load a couple of packages.

library(emayili)
library(dplyr)

Set up some ...

In many cases, there is a need to split a userbase into 2 or more buckets. For example: UCG: Many ... Read moreHow to Split Randomly a Userbase using Modulo

Writing useless strings has been a focus of this series, and L-Systems (Lindenmayer Systems) are no different. It is a set or a string of characters that is rewritten on each iteration, following a set of rules. Probably the most…Read more ›

In April this year, I will have used R Shiny for a year. I am coming from a statistics background and the first programming language I learned was R and then Python. I am using R Shiny almost every week at work and I am amazed by how powerful it ...

How to join this free online event with Noam Ross, Mark Padgham, Anna Krystalli, Alex Hayes and John Sakaluk. This is the first in a series of Community Calls we’ll host throughout the year on our statistical software review project. We at rOpenSci are in the process of expanding ...

Thank you everyone who participated in our first mlverse survey! Wait: What even is the mlverse? The mlverse originated as an abbreviation of multiverse1, which, on its part, came into being as an intended allusion to the well-known tidyverse. As su...

TLTR: Finding similar spatial patterns requires data for a query region and a search space. Spatial signatures are derived for the query region and many sub-areas of the search space, and distances between them are calculated. Sub-areas with the small...

On February 7th, 2021, in the very first in the Why R? World Series, Kevin O’Brien of the Why R? Foundation spoke with Nontsikelelo Shongwe, an enthusiastic R user from... The post Interview with Nontsikelelo Shongwe, Co-Organizer of the Eswatini UseR Meetup Group appeared first on R Consortium.