R-bloggers

When it comes to crafting visualisations, people often put a lot of thought into what type of plot they’re going to make and what colour scheme they’re going to use. One thing that sometimes get less attention than it should is the choice o...

An investigator I frequently consult with seeks to estimate the effect of a palliative care treatment protocol for patients nearing end-stage disease, compared to a more standard, though potentially overly burdensome, therapeutic approach. Ideally, ...

Puzzles no. 529–533PuzzlesAuthor: ExcelBIAll files (xlsx with puzzle and R with solution) for each and every puzzle are available on my Github. Enjoy.Puzzle #529Today we need to look for some numbers and sum it up. So what is the problem? We have numbe...

GxP validation can be a complex and often misunderstood process, with each company implementing their own unique approach. During a recent roundtable I attended at the R/Pharma Summit in Seattle, there was a recurring theme that stood out to me – every company seems to have their own definition of ...

Causal forests model treatment effect inhomogeneity. We use XAI tools to interpret such model to see which features are associated with the treatment effect.

Prediction sets and prediction intervals for conformalized Auto XGBoost, Auto LightGBM, Auto CatBoost, Auto GradientBoosting

‘Fascinating’ describes my journey with Stable Diffusion 3. It’s deepened my appreciation for original art and masterpieces. Understanding how to generate quality art is just the beginning—it drives me to explore the underlying struc...

The R Consortium is excited to announce the second cycle of the 2024 Infrastructure Steering Committee (ISC) Grants Program. The Call for Proposals will open soon. This initiative aims to... The post The 2024 ISC Grant Program will begin Accepting Applications Soon! appeared first on R Consortium.

Not proportional to w A week ago I was surprised to read on Thomas Lumley’s Biased and Inefficient blog that when using R’s sample() function without replacement and with unequal probabilities of individual units being sampled: “What R currently h...

Quick/automated R package development workflow (assuming you're using macOS or Linux) Part2

A few months Michael Read of the Australian Financial Review published a chart showing real household income in Australia plummetting, relative to the OECD, since late 2021. A version of this drifted across my social media feed and interested me. Firs...

In today’s data-driven world, the ability to present information clearly and efficiently is essential across various fields, from business to academia. As the volume of data continues to grow, the importance of well-structured and easily interpretable reports becomes increasingly critical. This series on adapting the International Business Communication Standards (...

Nix is not only a package manager, but also a build automation tool, and you can use it to build polyglot data science pipelines in a completely reproducible way. For example, suppose that you need to mix Python, R and maybe some others tools for a project (by the way, ...