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Quantum computing with qsimulatR

July 27, 2023 | Boris Guarisma

Cover photo by berya113 ref. 1126414116 on iStock Go to R-bloggers for R news and tutorials contributed by hundreds of R bloggers. This is the first article of the Quantum Computing simulation with R series. Welcome to our series on quantum computing b...

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A Memorable Experience: Attending the NYC-R Conference and Key Takeaways

July 27, 2023 | R Consortium

This is a guest post by Joseph Korszun, Senior Manager of Data Solutions at ProCogia. ProCogia is a member of the R Consortium. Joe is a data scientist with a... The post A Memorable Experience: Attending the NYC-R Conference and Key Takeaways appeared first on R Consortium.

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Canadian Hansard Live Database

July 26, 2023 | pacha.dev/blog

Motivation The original LiPad site provides a SQL dump that requires you to configure PostreSQL on your own laptop or server. Because some classmates asked me about it, I decided to host the database to simplify its access. Description Database... [Read more...]

Unleashing the Power of Cumulative Mean in R: A Step-by-Step Guide

July 26, 2023 | Steven P. Sanderson II, MPH

Introduction As data-driven decision-making continues to shape our world, the need for insightful statistical analysis becomes ever more apparent. One crucial tool in a programmer’s arsenal is the “cumulative mean,” a statistical measure that al... [Read more...]

Text Analysis in R – Exploring Barbie and Oppenheimer Reviews – Part 1

July 26, 2023 | pacha.dev/blog

We follow the steps from Welcome to Text Mining with R to import text and reshape it into a format where can can apply what we know from the Tidyverse to analyze word and document frequency. This is a summary of the start of one of my workshops t...

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Adding social media icons to charts with {ggplot2}

July 26, 2023 | R on Nicola Rennie

When I’ve created data visualisations with {ggplot2} recently, I’ve been adding icons with my social media details in the caption. It’s a great, concise way to put your name on your work, and make it easy for people to find your profi...

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See BlueSky Statistics GUI for R at JSM 2023

July 26, 2023 | Bob Muenchen

Are attending this year’s Joint Statistical Meetings in Toronto? If so, stop by booth 404 to see the latest features of BlueSky Statistics. A menu-based graphical user interface for the R language, BlueSky lets people access the power of R without having to learn to program. Programmers can easily add ...

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AB tests and repeated checks

July 26, 2023 | vgherard

Intro “How is the experiment going?” Also: “Do we already see something?” And my favorite one: “Did we already hit significance, or do we need more data?” If you have dealt with experiments with relatively high outcome expectations, you will l...

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Understanding the Effect of Subsidies on Agriculture with Neural Networks

July 26, 2023 | Selcuk Disci

Today, subsidies are the most common method of encouraging countries to deal with global warming; but it is debatable how effective they are. For instance, agriculture subsidies cause farmers to violate forest frontier and make them responsible for 14% of global deforestation every year. Not to mention excessive use of fertilizers ...

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Price’s Protein Puzzle: 2023 update

July 26, 2023 | nsaunders

One of the joys (?) of having been online for…quite some time now…is watching topics reappear every few years or so. So what’s new? In terms of English word matches: not much. Some new proteins but no new 9-letter words. The Twitter thread, above, contains an interesting reply ... [Read more...]

Barbie and math

July 25, 2023 | Jerry Tuttle

With the Barbie movie coming out, I think it's time to review Barbie and math. If the original Barbie doll were an actual woman, she would be 5'9" tall, have a 39-inch bust, 18-inch waist, 33-inch hips, a size 3 shoe, a weight of 110 pounds, a BMI of 16.24, and perhaps would ...

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Summarizing Data in R: tapply() vs. group_by() and summarize()

July 25, 2023 | Steven P. Sanderson II, MPH

Introduction Are you tired of manually calculating summary statistics for your data in R? Look no further! In this blog post, we will explore two powerful ways to summarize data: using the tapply() function and the group_by() and summarize() fun... [Read more...]

Autoregressive Moving Average Models and Power Spectral Densities

July 25, 2023 | Chris Carbone

1 Introduction The simplest way to estimate a power spectral density (PSD) is to use a periodogram, defined as periodogram

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New cran.dev shortlinks to package information and documentation

July 25, 2023 | rOpenSci - open tools for open science

Introducing cran.dev shortlinks! On r-universe you can find package repositories from many different organizations and maintainers. But sometimes you just want to lookup a particular CRAN package, without knowing the developer. The new cran.dev shortlink service lets you navigate or link directly to the r-universe homepage and docs ... [Read more...]

Reducing my for loop usage with purrr::reduce()

July 25, 2023 | Maëlle's R blog on Maëlle Salmon's personal website

I (only! but luckily!) recently got introduced to the magic of purrr::reduce(). Thank you, Tobias! I was told about it right as I was unhappily using many for loops in a package1, for lack of a better idea. In this post I’ll explain how purrr::re... [Read more...]

Unraveling Data Insights with R’s fivenum(): A Programmer’s Guide

July 24, 2023 | Steven P. Sanderson II, MPH

Introduction As a programmer and data enthusiast, you know that summarizing data is essential to gain insights into its distribution and characteristics. R, being a powerful and versatile programming language for data analysis, offers various fu...

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A Heatmap of James Lind’s Scurvy Study

July 24, 2023 | Louise E. Sinks

This week’s TidyTuesday concerns what some have called the first randomized clinical trial- a study by James Lind evaluating various treatments for scurvy. This data has been collected into the medicaldata R package from Lind’s book on scurvy. Loading the Libraries and Data library(tidyverse) # who doesn't want ...

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The Old Faithful Geyser Data shiny app with webR, Bootstrap & ExpressJS

July 24, 2023 | Colin Fay

This post is the second one of a series of post about webR: Using webR in an Express JS REST API The Old Faithful Geyser Data shiny app with webR, Bootstrap & ExpressJS Note: the first post of this series explaining roughly what webR is,... [Read more...]

Use of R in Non-Profit Social Policy Research in New York

July 24, 2023 | R Consortium

Dorota Rizik of the R Ladies New York recently talked to the R Consortium about the diverse R community in New York. She also discussed how her current job at... The post Use of R in Non-Profit Social Policy Research in New York appeared first on R Consortium.

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7 New books added to Big Book of R

July 24, 2023 | Oscar

We’re closing on on 400 books in the collection! A new Economics chapter has been added and some of the books previously in Finance have been moved here. This post rounds up 7 of the newest additions. Thanks to Lluís Revilla, Mario De Toma and Gary for their submissions: Deep … ... [Read more...]

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