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Introduction Filtering and merging datasets is the bread and butter of statistical programming. Whether it’s on the way to an ADaM variable derivation, or in an effort to pull out a list of patients matching a specific condition for a TLG, or...

ISCR 17th Annual Conference 2024 Pic 1: ISCR 17th Annual Conference 2024 Indian Society for Clinical Research (ISCR), launched in June 2005, is a not-for-profit professional association of all stakeholders in clinical research. ISCR host...

ahead version 0.10.0 in R, Python and Julia; univariate and multivariate time series forecasting.

Last week I had the pleasure of running the Forecasting with generalised additive models (GAMS) in R workshop organised by Forecasting for Social Good. During the workshop, we covered what GAMs are and why we might want to use them, fitting GAMs in R ...

With a serious yak shaving deviation, I have a really short “cheat” solution to one of the featured Exercism problems. It’s been a really insightful journey getting to this point, and as always I’ve learned a lot along the way. The fact that I was able to understand ...

Routes of the african slave trade – W.E.B Du Bois Recreating the the data visualization of W.E.B Du Bois from the 1900 Paris Exposition using modern tools. See the challenge presentation. This week, the data provided1 don’t match the visualization. So we are free to be more ...

Routes of the african slave trade – W.E.B Du Bois Recreating the the data visualization of W.E.B Du Bois from the 1900 Paris Exposition using modern tools. See the challenge presentation. This week, the data provided1 don’t match the visualization. So we are free to be more ...

Thanks to everyone who helped create, shared, or filled out the first data.table survey! The survey was officially open between October 17 and December 1 and it received 391 responses during this time. This post provides a partial summary of the ...

Thanks to everyone who helped create, shared, or filled out the first data.table survey! The survey was officially open between October 17 and December 1 and it received 391 responses during this time. This post provides a partial summary of the...

For any positive, base-10 integer N, define f(N) as the number of times you have to add up its digits until you get a one-digit number. Find the smallest whole number N such that f(N) = 4. Fiddler on the Proof Although I first gave in to the R brute ...

In today’s blog post, we are going to create an elaborate diverging bar chart. Namely, we are going to create this plot here: As you can see in the caption of this image, this plot was originally created by the PEW Research Center. Here, we use...

I have been highly interested in multivariate time series modeling for the last few years and have spent a lot of time working out how to use hierarchical GAMs to tackle many of the questions I’m interested in. As you may already know, GAMs affor...

Join the R Validation Hub mailing list! The recent R Validation Hub Community meeting brought together around 50 participants to explore the concept of “validation” within the R programming ecosystem.... The post Recap: R Validation Hub Community Meeting appeared first on R Consortium.

In the digital age, where data proliferates like stars in the night sky, the role of an analyst transcends mere number-crunching. They are the modern-day storytellers, whose quill is the cursor, and parchment, the screen. Each report crafted is not just a document; it’s a distilled potion of wisdom ...