The R-Consortium talked to Novica Nakov of R Skopje about the challenges of managing an R User Group during the pandemic. Novica told us about the budding R community in... The post R Skopje in North Macedonia Talks About the Challenges of Virtual Events for Smaller Communities appeared first on ...

Series of Apache Spark posts: Dec 01: What is Apache Spark Today, we will look into installing Apache Spark. Spark is cross-platform software and therefore, we will look into installing it on both Windows and MacOS. Windows Installing Apache Spark on…Read more ›

So, you want to build interactive maps with R? It’s harder than it seems, we know. First, you need to choose a library from an extremely competitive open-source market. Welcome to the paradox of choice. Then the real problems begin. Where do you position your map? How much zoom ...

Based on our experience in the area of Responsible Machine Learning, developed a unique two-day hands-on training. Jump into the topic of eXplainable Artificial Intelligence with our trainers.The training is conducted once a month in small groups onlin...

In a previous post I documented what I had learned while trying to understand the structure of encrypted emails. I then took an informal Twitter poll to gauge how many people are using encrypted email messages. library(tweetrmd) tweet_screenshot(tweet_url("datawookie", "1464960543723339777")) -- It’s by no means a ...

Being a teaching assistant in statistics for students with diverse backgrounds, I have the chance to see what is globally not well understood by students. I have realized that it is usually not a problem for students to do a specific statistical te...

Apache Spark is an open-source unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing. It provides an interface for programming entire clusters with implicit data parallelism and fault tolerance. Originally it was developed at the Berkeley’s AMPLab, and later donated to the…Read more ›

We are so excited to bring back the fourth annual Government and Public Sector R Conference to a computer screen near you! Join us on December 9th and 10th for a jam-packed two-day conference filled with an incredible lineup of speakers across the government and public sector space. Buy your ...

The #30DayMapChallenge is a daily mapping, cartography, and data visualization challenge aimed at the spatial community. Every day in November participants create a map with a given theme (e.g. population, monochrome, raster) and share their results Twitter using the #30DayMapChallenge hashtag. Check out the challenge here. Although I’ve ...

This document describes an extension of the support for masks in R graphics to allow luminance masks as well as alpha masks. Paul Murrell Download

Huge lines at gas stations have been seen around Turkey in recent days. Under the reason for this is the rise in the prices so often, in the last few months and the expectation to continue this. Of course, it is known that the rise in the exchange rate (US ...