July 2021

Animating kernel density estimators

July 13, 2021 | Albert Rapp

For my first post on this blog I decided to create an animation using the animation package. To give this animation some purpose let me demonstrate how kernel density estimators work with the help of an animation. In general, kernel density estimators ...
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Workflows for querying databases via R

July 13, 2021 | rstats | Emily Riederer

Simple, self-contained, reproducible examples are a common part of good software documentation. However, in the spirit of brevity, these examples often do not demonstrate the most sustainable or flexible workflows for integrating software tools into large projects. In this post, I document a few mundane but useful patterns for querying ... [Read more...]

What is an open source software distribution?

July 13, 2021 | George Mount

I remember when I first got into Python and heard about Anaconda. It wasn’t really clear to me if Anaconda was a “dialect” of Python code, a really awesome suite of tools for working with Python, or something else. Turns out that Anaconda is first and foremost a distribution ...
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Make error messages your own

July 12, 2021 | Code R

The stop() function allows you to terminate the execution of a function if there is a fatal problem. For example, imagine this code that calculates the square root of a number but only if the input number is positive. real_root [Read more...]

visualizing topic models with crosstalk

July 12, 2021 | Jason Timm

Introduction A simple post detailing the use of the crosstalk package to visualize and investigate topic model results interactively. As an example, we investigate the topic structure of correspondences from the Founders Online cor... [Read more...]
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