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An amusing “no parking” sign that threatens to transport your car to another universe. Collingwood, Melbourne Error messages are really important, and really hard to write well. When software authors take the time to check your inputs, and share rea...

Introduction How likely is it? For our team For teams of different sizes Conclusion Introduction Last week, I joined a team to work on a collaborative project. The team was already established for a few months, with several scientists workin...

Contributed post by Mike Smith, Senior Director Statistics at Pfizer There’s likely a group of people meeting fairly near where you are right now, regardless of where you are in... The post Be Part of the Global R community! appeared first on R Consortium.

# 135–136Puzzles:PQ_135: content filePQ_136: content filePQ_135Lets imagine that we have binning machines in our sport centre. We can set how many balls need to be grouped in one bin/bucket/chest/whatever. We have 10 balls and machine is placing it in ...

Picture this – the data science team you manage primarily uses R and heavily relies on dplyr for implementing data processing pipelines. All is good, but then out of the blue you’re working with a client that has a massive dataset, and all of a sudden dplyr becomes the bottleneck. ...

Introduction Hey folks! 👋 Today, let’s embark on a coding adventure and explore the fascinating world of Polynomial Regression in R. Whether you’re new to R or a seasoned coder, we’re going to break down the complexities and make this journey en...

Puzzles no. 334–338PuzzlesAuthor: ExcelBIPuzzles:# 334: content file# 335: content file# 336: content file# 337: content file# 338: content fileLets dive into solutions!Puzzle 334We are given pairs of numbers and we have to find if they are amicable. B...

In this Microsoft Fabric series: Yesterday we looked into lakehouse and learned that Delta tables are the storing format. So, let’s explore what and how we can go around understanding and working with delta tables. But first we must understand…Read more ›

Introduction Spline regression is particularly useful when the relationship between the independent and dependent variables is not adequately captured by a linear model. It involves fitting a piecewise continuous curve (spline) to the data. Let’...

Full Send. A blank trail blaze with a fun message. Fuji X100V Previously, I wrote a blog post, “How to get good with R”, where I touched on a bunch of ideas on how to improve your R skills, focussing on the coding aspect. It is by no mea...

Greetings, humanists, social and data scientists! Was there an association or relationship between gender and the verdicts in investigations in 18th-century London? If an inquest concerned a man, did this fact influence the final verdict of the in...

In the first chapter Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers he discusses how in Canadian Junior Hockey there is a higher likelihood for players to be born in the first quarter of the year. In his words: Because these kids are older within their year they make all the important teams at ...

The Statistics without Mathematics books from Vor Press are available in a variety of ‘skins’. In all versions, including those using jamovi, the subject is taught without statistical formulae in order to reduce ‘statistics anxiety’.

Is machine learning overrated, with traditional methods being underrated these days? Yes, ML has had some celebrated successes, but these have come after huge amounts of effort, and it’s possible that similar effort with traditional methods may have produced similar results. A related issue concerns the type of data. ...

Just what is a lord-a-leaping? Well, what is a lord? A lord is a title of nobility, usually inherited, that exists in the UK and other countries. And those lords like to leap, especially during the twelve days of Christmas. The song the Twel...