Introduction As R developers I think we can all agree that Git is hard. There won’t be many of us who at some time haven’t broken a Git repository in some way or other, I know that I have (several times … ahem). A task I sometimes ne...

You can read the original post in its original format on Rtask website by ThinkR here: Customize your expedition: Create a unique documentation for your R Package Ah, pkgdown… That fantastic tool that turns your R package documentation into a website. But sometimes, it lacks a bit of personality. No ...

Overleaf, formerly known as Share$\LaTeX$, is the go-to collaborative document editor for many researchers, who have taken advantage of its free tier. It’s a web-based editor that compiles $\LaTeX$ documents in real time, with several word-proces...

As the Common Crane (Grus grus) is migrating back to their breeding area, it’s time to set up your own Crane server. Crane is a new open source product to host data science artifacts: data analysis reports, documentation sites, packages and libr...

In this post we are going to explore the relationship between sample size (n) and statistical significance for the chi-squared () test. Recall that from the normal distribution, we construct a confidence interval using: where z is the test stati...

In my previous post, I outlined a Bayesian approach to proportional hazards modeling. This post serves as an addendum, providing code to incorporate a spline to model a time-varying hazard ratio non linearly. In a second addendum to come I will pres...

I was searching for one last real world example for my upcoming video talk March 13th on time series forecasting. Hope to see you there! Or reach out to Win Vector LLC for custom training! I had the seemingly harmless thought: “Let’s look at Stack Overflow trends“. In particular ...

Announcement: teal 0.16.0 Release and Upcoming Community Meeting! We are excited to announce that teal 0.16.0 is now available on CRAN! In this release, we’ve introduced several exciting new features, such as the Data Transformator for f...

Recreating the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram in R For a few Fridays each year, I teach a course in the American Museum of Natural History’s Masters of Arts in Teaching program to apply and continue thinking about my work as an Earth Science teach...

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The most valuable feedback often comes not from what users say, but from what they do! When was the last time you clicked a “Give Feedback” button in an app? Exactly. Yet product teams keep adding these explicit feedback mechanisms, hoping for insights that rarely materialize into actionable data. In ...

Open-source tools are growing in popularity within the pharmaceutical industry. Pharmaceutical companies such as Roche, Novo Nordisk, GSK, Johnson & Johnson, Novartis, Gilead, and Pfizer have all made significant contributions to open-source by providing insights into their integration of open-source technologies through shared open repositories. One of the examples are Boehringer ...

In January, one hundred eighty-six new packages made it to CRAN. Here are my Top 40 picks in sixteen categories: Archaeology, Artificial Intelligence, Computational Methods, Ecology, Epidemiology, Finance, Genomics, Health Technology Assessment,...