Overview Data analysis is a useful way to help solve problems in quite a few situations. There are many things that go into effective data analysis, but three are commonly mentioned 1. defining the problem you want to solve through data analysis 2. meaningful data collected 3. the skills (and expertise) to analyze ...

The R Consortium has opened a call for proposals seeking projects that improve the technical or social infrastructure of the R ecosystem. For a long time now I’ve wanted to make some upgrades to the Big Book of R which will enhance it’s usability, stability and enhance the ...

Over the past months, heavy market drifts have occurred, and no one could have imagined the frenzy of free money being stopped. The idea that the end of history had arrived has been shattered. As we entered 2023, we witnessed certain stocks soaring in the markets, attempting to recover from their ...

This is the second in the series of blog posts about using server headers Content Security Policies Network Error Logging - this one! Heads up! We’re about to launch WASP, a Web Applicati...

While it sounds like the title of a science-fiction catastrophe novel or of a (of course) convoluted nouveau roman, this book by Nick Huntington-Klein is a massive initiation to econometrics and causality. As explained by the subtitle, An Introduction to Research Design and Causality. This is a hüûüge book, ...

When a person opens their medicine cabinet, they open the door to ingenuity: a confluence of nature and human discovery that has found cures for diseases and helps manage the ones that we do not fully understand yet. As living conditions and medical care have improved, people are living longer ...

Maps of continents, mainlands and islands can be useful, for example, for selecting areas — and then cropping or masking variables — for modelling a species’ distribution. Here’s a way to obtain such maps using the ‘geodata’ and ‘terra’ R … Continue reading →

In this blog, we’d like to describe in detail the main function of the forester package called the train(). We will focus on showing you how particular steps work and how the user can shape the training process. The concept of the package is described ...

Just how diverse is the senior leadership of international aid organizations? Colleague Astrid Haas and I recently launched a research project to attempt to answer exactly this for a key dimension of diversity: gender. Data and R code used in the analysis are provided at the bottom of the post ...

SatRdays London is fast approaching, and we are happy to announce our full lineup of speakers for the event! Read on for more info. If you want to join the fun, head over to the conference website...

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