I’m pleased to announce a new release of tidygraph. It has been a while since something major has happened to the package, reflecting the stable nature of it, but this time I felt like doing a bit more than just brush it of for the occasional upstream dependency change. ...

The paper Empirically Testing Predictions of an Attrition on Warfare Model for the War in Ukraine, by Peter Turchin, recently showed up during one of my regular searches for software engineering data. A quick scan of the paper founded that it is very empirical, and that the analysis coding was ...

A two-dimensional Ising model is an idealized physical system that consists of a lattice of binary variables (magnetic spins) that can be in one of two states: up or down. Each spin’s state is influenced by its neighbors: the more neighbors in th...

Hey guys, welcome back to my R-tips newsletter. In today’s R-Tip, I’m sharing how to do A/B Testing in R. Let’s go! Table of Contents Here’s what you’re learning today: What is A/B Testing (and how to pick the right Statistical Test)?: A/...

Another way to represent demographics on a map.

The R Consortium recently interviewed Mouna Belaid, a co-organizer of R-Ladies Paris, who provided insights into the growth of the R community in Paris, especially in the French language. Dedicated... The post Empowering R in Paris: Mouna Belaid’s Journey with R-Ladies and the French R Community appeared first on ...

Part 1: Using Google Lighthouse for Web Pages Part 2: Analysing Shiny App start-up Times with Google Lighthouse Part 3: Effect of Shiny Widgets with Google Lighthouse (This post) This is the third blog in our series on the Google Lighthouse too...

Efficiently handling complex workflows is crucial in computational biology, going beyond necessity to become a competitive differentiator. As professionals in this dynamic field, you’re likely familiar with the challenges: integrating diverse data sources, ensuring reproducibility, and scaling operations efficiently. Enter Nextflow, a robust solution designed to simplify and streamline ...

Guest blog contributed by Rikimaru Nishimura, Statistical Programming, Janssen Pharmaceutical K.K. I would like to introduce the task force of Open-Source Software (OSS) in Data Science Expert Committee, Drug Evaluation... The post Introduction of R activities in Japan  appeared first on R Consortium.

The Art of Testable CodeIn the intricate world of programming, particularly in the field of data science, the ability to write testable code stands as a hallmark of a skilled developer. Testable code is the backbone of reliable and maintainable softwar...