Publications by Oscar
6 New books added to Big Book of R
Welcome to another roundup of new additions to the Big Book of R collection of almost 400 books! If you want to bypass social media algorithms and be 100% sure you’ll be notified of new additions, sign up to my newsletter. You can select to only receive Big Book of R updates! Thank you to Michael Harris and Jim for their submissions! Neural Cr...
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7 New books added to Big Book of R
We’re closing on on 400 books in the collection! A new Economics chapter has been added and some of the books previously in Finance have been moved here. This post rounds up 7 of the newest additions. Thanks to Lluís Revilla, Mario De Toma and Gary for their submissions: Deep R Programming by Marek Gagolewski A comprehensive and in-depth intr...
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Sharing the Big Book of R upgrade proposal
01 June 2023 Earlier this year I applied to the R Consortium for a grant to upgrade the Big Book of R. Unfortunately my proposal wasn’t accepted, but I am really proud of how the proposal turned out. I’ve never written a proposal before and wasn’t really sure of how to do it, but with a little bit of guidance from Andrew Collier (Data Wookie)...
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5 new books added to Big Book of R
7 May 2023 Thanks to Niels Ohlsen for for helping me add the books, and to Adejumo Ridwan Suleiman and Mokandil for their submissions. If you’d like to support the Big Book of R financially, you’re welcome to leave a donation at my Kofi account. Thank you very much to the two folks who already gave a token of thanks Want to stay up-to-date...
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6 new books added to Big Book of R
2023-03-31 Many thanks to Sergey Bolshakov and Mokandil for some of this update’s submissions! I want to again give a special thanks to Niels Ohlsen for helping me vet books and adding them to the collection. Niels is the co-organiser of the Dataviz meetup in Bremen, Germany. If you’re in the area, why not look them up on LinkedIn and Meetup? ...
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Seeking community endorsement for an upgrade to Big Book of R
The R Consortium has opened a call for proposals seeking projects that improve the technical or social infrastructure of the R ecosystem. For a long time now I’ve wanted to make some upgrades to the Big Book of R which will enhance it’s usability, stability and enhance the discovery of books most relevant to people’s needs. For these upgrade...
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7 New books added to Big Book of R
03 March 2023 Welcome to this new edition of Big Book of R additions! Thanks to Lluis Revilla and Gary for submitting books! I also wanted to give a special shout-out to Niels Ohlsen (a long-time RStats twitter mutual!) who helped me review book submissions and add these to the collection. Population Health Data Science with R Tomás J. Aragón ...
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23 New books added to Big Book of R
02 September 2022 Today we have another huge addition of books to the library, now consisting at 350 R programming books! Thanks to Gary and Abraham for the additions! Using Spark from R for performance with arbitrary code by Jozef Hajnala This book provides practical insights into using the sparklyr interface to gain the benefits of Apache Spar...
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5 New books added to Big Book of R
30 September 2022 The Big Book of R has just had 5 new additions to the collection! Thanks to Gary and Adejumo for some of them! PS for those who may be interested, I have posted my replies to some great questions about cleaning a messy dataset. officeverse by David Gohel This book deals with reporting from R with the packages {officer}, {offi...
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4 new books and a new Finance chapter added to Big Book of R
24 April 2022 This update to Big Book of R happened a little differently than the previous ones in that I livestreamed while I was updating it. During the update I felt that there were enough books for the topic of Finance to warrant it’s own chapter! Thanks to Zachary del Rosario, Roland Schmidt and Guillaume Coqueret for their submissions. ...
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