Predicting the NASDAQ 100 with Hyperparameter Tuning

July 8, 2025 | Selcuk Disci

Pressure on the markets has intensified ahead of the Wednesday deadline for trade deals. We will model monthly Nasdaq 100 data with the Federal Funds Effective Rate and the Unemployment Rate. We will use Boosted trees with hyperparameter tuning. According to the model, it would be better to wait until tariff ...
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ShinyProxy 3.2.0

July 8, 2025 | Open Analytics

We’re happy to share that ShinyProxy 3.2.0 is now available. This release focuses on a range of small but meaningful improvements aimed at making ShinyProxy easier to use. Debugging issues is now easier than ever, thanks to clearer error message...
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Bioconductor and ggplot2 4.0.0: What’s Changing and How to Prepare

July 6, 2025 |

Introduction A major update to ggplot2 (version 4.0.0) is expected around mid-to-late July 2025. It brings a significant internal change, replacing most of the S3 backend with the newer S7 object system. While this improves long-term maintainability and extensibility, it may break Bioconductor packages that depend on ggplot2, especially those that customise ... [Read more...]

smooth v4.3.0 in R: what’s new and what’s next?

July 4, 2025 | Ivan Svetunkov

Good news! The smooth package v4.3.0 is now on CRAN. And there are several things worth mentioning, so I have written this post. New default initialisation mechanism Since the beginning of the package, the smooth functions supported three ways for initialising the state vector (the vector that includes level, trend, ...
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PHUSE Update

July 3, 2025 | pharmaverse council

Hello, Phriends! In case you missed it, earlier this year, PHUSE and pharmaverse strengthened their initial relationship (established 2023) by bringing pharmaverse within the PHUSE community as the 9th active Working Group. At the moment, we a... [Read more...]

Hash-tag baby

July 3, 2025 | Open Analytics

Introduction Naming a baby can be a difficult task. It can take - soon to be - parents quite some time to align on a name they both like. Afterwards it can also be challenging to keep the name a secret until birth. If you are lucky, there might be ...
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