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If you use ggplot2, you are probably used to creating plots with geom_line() and geom_point(). You may also have ventured into to the broader ggplot2 ecosystem to use geoms like geom_density_ridges() from ggridges or geom_signif() from ggsignif. But have you ever wondered how these extensions ...

Physicists of many nations – CC BY-NC-ND by Ann Fisher Day 3 of 30DayMapChallenge: « Polygons » (previously). An interesting challenge a few weeks ago on https://en.osm.town/@opencage/115271196316302891: Post by @[email protected] View on Mastodon Name countries whose ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code is contained as a substring in the ...

What motivates human behaviour can be captured in the Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (source: Wiki). Maslow and psychologists have articulated these needs in a form of a Pyramid, and ever since the concept had been widely adopted (also criticised), and…Read more ›

Hiking Path – CC BY-NC-SA by HD Day 2 of 30DayMapChallenge: « Lines » (previously). Representing a digital elevation model as ridgelines… Config library(elevatr) library(rnaturalearth) # remotes::install_github("ropensci/r...

Forecasting financial markets, such as the STOXX Europe 600 Index, presents a classic Machine Learning challenge: the data is inherently noisy, non-stationary, and highly susceptible to sudden market events. To tackle this, we turn to Automated Machine Learning (AutoML)—specifically the powerful, scalable framework provided by H2O.ai and integrated ...

K2 – CC BY-NC-ND by Marcelo Aguilar Day 1 of 30DayMapChallenge: « Points ». Mapping the peaks above 8000 m, also known as the eight-thousanders. Config library(httr) library(glue) library(dplyr) library(tidyr) library(purrr) library(tibble) library(stringr) library(sf) library(leaflet) Data Several non-trivial options for obtaining the data: english Wikipedia doesn’...

Last time we used a quirky dataset to get acquainted with Generalised Linear Models. If you recall, the dataset is a count of deaths by horse kick, where every year all the corps in the army had some non-negative integer number of deaths and we ...

Hi pharmaverse community, On behalf of the council we wanted to update you on 2 council members who are passing on the baton to new representatives from their respective companies. Firstly, Michael Rimler (who is one of our original co-founder...

Here we go again! I ran the Mainova Frankfurt Marathon 2025 and wanted to look at the race results. How can we do this using R? I couldn’t see an easy way to download the data, so I used R to scrape them. Note that these times are currently provisional, ...

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Last time I quickly introduced my latest package, {rixpress}, but I think that to really understand what {rixpress} brings to the table, one needs to solve the same problem without it. And incidentally, I think that this exercise also show...

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Computational Methods fastfocal v0.1.3: Provides a fast moving-window (“focal”) and buffer-based extraction for raster data using the terra package. Automatically selects between a C++ backend and a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) backend depend...

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