Darren Dahly, username @statsepi, asked people on Twitter to share some of their favorite or least favorite data visualizations from the pandemic. I nominated the notorious “cubic fit” ‘forecast’ from the Council of Economic Advisers. But then there wa...

This post is part of a series of technotes about r-universe, a new umbrella project by rOpenSci under which we experiment with various ideas for improving publication and discovery of research software in R. As the project evolves, we will post update...

Are you interested in guest posting? Publish at DataScience+ via your RStudio editor.CategoryVisualizing DataTagsData VisualisationMapsR ProgrammingTips & TricksChoropleths are a nice tool for the visualization of geographic data and with R and Python, their creation can be pretty effortless, especially when clean data is readily available. Fortunately, a lot of ...

Data science is vastly different than programming. We use only four languages – R, Python, Julia, and SQL. Now, SQL is non-negotiable, as every data scientist must be proficient in it. Julia is still the new kid on the block. Many argue which is better – Python or R? But today, we ...

Photo by Khara Woods on Unsplash Whether it’s pulling data from Twitter, accessing the most recent weather information, or tracking where a particular plane is going, application programming interfaces (APIs) are often part of our data science pi...

Data Science on Blockchain with R, Part III: Helium-based IoT is taking over the worldHow big is the people’s network?Helium, the people’s network. Photo from Nima Mot on Unsplash.By Thomas de Marchin and Milana FilatenkovaThomas is Senior Data Scienti...

Gaussian Simulation of Spatial Data Using R Richard E. Plant This post is a condensed version of an Additional Topic to accompany Spatial Data Analysis in Ecology and Agriculture using R, Second Edition. The full version together with the data and R code can be found in the Additional Topics ...

You know that R 4.1.3 is out but don’t want to disrupt your current setup? Want to have multiple R versions with compartmentalized projects and libraries on your computer? Teaching people how to use R and need the entire class to all be on the same, easy-to-install system complete with ...

After an interesting conversation on using data. frames or strings (as a vector), I have decided to put this to a simple benchmark test. The problem is straightforward and simple: a MapReduce or Count with GroupBy. Problem Given a simple…Read more ›

Organisms & Organizations Size matters – in many situations the formula \(Y=aX^\beta\) can describe the empirical association between observed outcomes (Y) and size (X), e.g. for living organisms life expectancy (Y) is found to scale as size (X) to the power of 1/4. Geoffrey West argues i...

19 March 2022 There’s some very interesting books in this update! Thansk to Nick Ulle, Jonathan Godfrey , @datum_wrangler and @jebyrnes for some of the the additions. If you’re looking for a new way to discover books from the collection, follow the Big Book of R Twitter bot. Every couple … ...

The Smoke, to use London’s nickname, has 32 boroughs plus the central business district known as the City of London. What does Cluster Analysis tell us about the characteristics that bind them? library(tidyverse) library(tidymodels) library(tidyte...