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Figura de Astarté – Museo Arqueológico de Sevilla, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons I was reading Phoenician colonization from its origin to the 7th century BC (Manzano-Agugliaro et al. 2025) and thought it was an interesting dataset, but alas: it is split in four tables, behind a javascript redirect (wtf Taylor & ...

Revisiting my 2007-2009 Master's Thesis work on SCR Equity approximation using probabilistic machine learning techniques in R and Python.

Our free monthly webinar series is back, and the first session on 21 August – “Reports that Write Themselves: Automated Reporting with Quarto” was a fantastic success! It was wonderful to see the Jumping Rivers community grow, with so many data p...

Introduction {admiralneuro} joins the family as the latest {admiral} extension package. The package supports neurological disease areas, with the initial release of version 0.1.0 focusing on Alzheimer’s disease. The package was born out of a ...

Introduction Neuroscience Extension Package for ADaM in R Asset Library • admiralneuro {admiralneuro} joins the family as the latest admiral {admiral} extension package. The package supports neurological disease areas, with the initial re...

We learnt how to assemble DNA fragments from a recently published N. meningitidis outbreak study using SKESA 🧬, practiced using BLAST for species identification and MLST for strain typing, and explored how serogroups are determined using specialized P...

Step-by-step guide to using nops_fix() for fixing problems that occurred during scanning written NOPS exams in R/exams. Overview The R/exams package provides a workflow for generating (exams2nops()), scanning (nops_sc...

Code library(tidyverse) library(patchwork) library(gt) # sysfonts::font_add_google(name = "fira code") # showtext::showtext_auto() knitr::opts_chunk$set(collapse = TRUE, comment = "#__", dev = "ragg_png") In celebration of the release of {ggplot2} 4.0.0 🥳, I wanted to explore the relationships between the geometric objects (“geoms”) and statistical transformations (“stats”) that ...

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Search and download data from the World Bank Data API.

Learning Japanese means memorizing thousands of characters, some of which look nearly identical. I wanted a way to visualize which kanji are similar to each other, and for once there wasn’t an R package for this, so I built one using Claude Code for $2...

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