Articles by R on The Jumping Rivers Blog

Why R 2018 Winners

June 24, 2018 | R on The Jumping Rivers Blog

How we did it The winners So it’s here… After lots of entries (147 to be precise), we can finally announce the winner of the WhyR 2018 Competition! But first, we have to tell you quickly about how we picked the winner. How we did it So it really wasn’t ...
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Competition: WhyR 2018

May 21, 2018 | R on The Jumping Rivers Blog

The competition It’s competition time! We’re sponsoring Why R? 2018 Conference. The conference runs from the 2-5th of July in Wroclaw, Poland and us nice folks here at Jumping Rivers are giving away a free ticket to the conference! The competition To enter your name into the prize ...
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R Courses in Hamburg

May 8, 2018 | R on The Jumping Rivers Blog

Introduction to R - 13th Mastering the Tidyverse - 14th Next Steps in the Tidyverse - 15th Automated Reporting (First Steps Towards Shiny) - 20th Interactive Graphics with Shiny - 21st Predictive Analytics - 27/28th Big news, from the 13th til the...
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eRum Competition Winners

April 19, 2018 | R on The Jumping Rivers Blog

The Main Competition The Secondary Competition What next? The results of the eRum competition are in! Before we announce the winners we would like to thank everyone who entered. It has been a pleasure to look at all of the ideas on show. The Main Competition The winner of the ...
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Edinbr: Text Mining with R

February 23, 2018 | R on The Jumping Rivers Blog

During a very quick tour of Edinburgh (and in particular some distilleries), Dave Robinson (Tidytext fame), was able to drop by the Edinburgh R meet-up group to give a very neat talk on tidy text. The first part of the talk set the scene What does does text mean? Why ...
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Free ticket to eRum

February 1, 2018 | R on The Jumping Rivers Blog

The Main Competition The Secondary Competition So… big news. Jumping Rivers is sponsoring eRum 2018 and in light of this news we are giving away a free place at the conference! (Not to mention our very own lead consultant, Colin Gillespie, i... [Read more...]

Free ticket to eRum

February 1, 2018 | R on The Jumping Rivers Blog

The Main Competition The Secondary Competition So… big news. Jumping Rivers is sponsoring eRum 2018 and in light of this news we are giving away a free place at the conference! (Not to mention our very own lead consultant, Colin Gillespie, i...
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Our Logo In R

January 31, 2018 | R on The Jumping Rivers Blog

Hi all, so given our logo here at Jumping Rivers is a set of lines designed to look like a Gaussian Process, we thought it would be a neat idea to recreate this image in R. To do so we’re going to need a couple packages. We do the ... [Read more...]

Our Logo In R

January 31, 2018 | R on The Jumping Rivers Blog

Hi all, so given our logo here at Jumping Rivers is a set of lines designed to look like a Gaussian Process, we thought it would be a neat idea to recreate this image in R. To do so we’re going to need a couple packages. We do the ...
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Styling Base R Graphics

January 24, 2018 | R on The Jumping Rivers Blog

Publication quality base R graphics Fixing the problem Why not use ggplot2 (or something else)? Publication quality base R graphics Base R graphics get a bad press (although to be fair, they could have chosen their default values better). In general, they are viewed as a throw back to the ... [Read more...]

Styling Base R Graphics

January 24, 2018 | R on The Jumping Rivers Blog

Publication quality base R graphics Fixing the problem Why not use ggplot2 (or something else)? Publication quality base R graphics Base R graphics get a bad press (although to be fair, they could have chosen their default values better). In general, they are viewed as a throw back to the ... [Read more...]

StanCon 2018 Highlights

January 23, 2018 | R on The Jumping Rivers Blog

Highlights from StanCon 2018 This year we had the privelage of sponsoring StanCon. Unfortunately, we weren’t able to actually attend the conference. Rather than let our ticket go to waste, we ran a small competition, which Ignacio Martinez won ... [Read more...]

StanCon 2018 Highlights

January 23, 2018 | R on The Jumping Rivers Blog

Highlights from StanCon 2018 This year we had the privelage of sponsoring StanCon. Unfortunately, we weren’t able to actually attend the conference. Rather than let our ticket go to waste, we ran a small competition, which Ignacio Martinez won with his very cool (but in alpha stage) R package - ... [Read more...]

SatRday in South Africa

January 18, 2018 | R on The Jumping Rivers Blog

What is SatRday? SatRday in Cape Town Be in it to win it Jumping Rivers is proud to be sponsoring the upcoming SatRday conference in Cape Town, South Africa on 17th March 2018. What is SatRday? SatRdays are a collection of free/cheap accessible ... [Read more...]

SatRday in South Africa

January 18, 2018 | R on The Jumping Rivers Blog

What is SatRday? SatRday in Cape Town Be in it to win it Jumping Rivers is proud to be sponsoring the upcoming SatRday conference in Cape Town, South Africa on 17th March 2018. What is SatRday? SatRdays are a collection of free/cheap accessible ...
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The Trouble with Tibbles

January 7, 2018 | R on The Jumping Rivers Blog

What are tibbles? Precursors Tribblemaking Tibbles vs Data Frames Disadvantages To summarise.. Let’s get something straight, there isn’t really any trouble with tibbles. I’m hoping you’ve noticed this is a play on 1967 Star Trek episode, “The Trouble with Tribbles”. I’ve recently got myself a job ...
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The Trouble with Tibbles

January 7, 2018 | R on The Jumping Rivers Blog

What are tibbles? Precursors Tribblemaking Tibbles vs Data Frames Disadvantages To summarise.. Let’s get something straight, there isn’t really any trouble with tibbles. I’m hoping you’ve noticed this is a play on 1967 Star Trek episode, “The Trouble with Tribbles”. I’ve recently got myself a job ... [Read more...]
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