I am thrilled to share that my article “Bringing the World to the Classroom: Teaching Statistics and Programming in a Project-Based Setting” is published in PS: Political Science and Politics as an open-access article. I set up and tested ...

When you have your website up and running and probably already started a little blog about data science related topics, you may want to share it with an even broader community. Here, R-bloggers and Python-bloggers are a great venue! Both websites pub...

To get a better (and more substantive) understanding of models’ black boxes, breakdown plots are extremely helpful and intuitive. The package {flashlight} makes generating these plots straightforward – but it has one shortcoming: It’s not intuitive h...

Is there anything better than having a personalized landing page that guides the visitors and allows you to point them towards what really matters? It’s hard to say yes. Luckily, GitHub offers you exactly this possibility and here’s a short...

New year, better overviewR! It comes with some brand new functions and extensions that make visualizing your sample more beautiful (and easy) than ever! Most of the functions are currently only available in the development version that can be downloade...

I had the great pleasure to talk about NLP at R-Ladies Bergen yesterday. Thanks to everyone for making this event so much fun! The talk covers both unsupervised and supervised approaches and introduces you to quanteda, an R package that allows you to p...

The positive aspects of a structured data workflow are at hand: You will always know where your things are – no matter in which project you are currently working. If you stick to one work frame, you can also access your projects later and easily ...

We have updated (and extended) overviewR with three new functions: overview_plot overview_heat overview_na You can also access a detailed overview of all functions in the CheatSheet: overview_plot overview_plot illustrates the information that is ge...

As you know, I love hackathons. And what better opportunity of joining one of them when you can generate something that is essentially helpful? In light of the current Covid19 crisis, HackZurich organized the CodeVsCovid19 hackathon and brought togethe...