Publications by Pachá
Generalized Linear Models, Part I: The Logistic Model
Context Let’s say we are interested in predicting the gender of a candidate for the British General Elections in 1992 by using the Political Parties as a predictor. We have the next data: library(dplyr) library(tidyr) elections <- tibble( party = c("Tories", "Labour", "LibDem", "Green", "Other"), women = c(57,126,136,60,135), men = c(577...
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Get tickets for An introductory course in Shiny on July 19th & 21th at 15 USD
An introductory course in Shiny This course aims to introduce people with basic R knowledge to develop interactive web applications using the Shiny framework. The course consists of two days, one-hour session per day, where we will discuss topics such as user interface (UI), server-side logic (tables and graphs that respond to user selection), da...
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Leaving a PhD Program
Abstract Purpose The purpose of this post is to offer the author’s view about the conceptualization of what it is to be a successful Ph.D. student and some of the challenges Iberoamerican students face to have an impact. Approach This post is a personal account based on the author’s experience and what I’ve learned from friends and acqua...
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[FREE] An introductory workshop in Shiny, July 27st from 17.30 to 18.30
Get FREE tickets at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/pacha/e/80848 This workshop aims to introduce people with basic R knowledge to develop interactive web applications with the Shiny framework. The course consists of a one-hour session, where we will demonstrate basic UI, reactive UI, CSS personalization and dashboard creation. Questions are super w...
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[FREE] An introductory workshop in Shiny, July 27st from 18.00 to 19.00
Get FREE tickets at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/pacha/e/80848 This workshop aims to introduce people with basic R knowledge to develop interactive web applications with the Shiny framework. The course consists of a one-hour session, where we will demonstrate basic UI, reactive UI, CSS personalization and dashboard creation. Questions are super w...
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An introductory workshop in Shiny, July 25st to 28st
Buy tickets at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/pacha/e/80760 This workshop aims to introduce people with basic R knowledge to develop interactive web applications with the Shiny framework. The course consists of a one-hour session, where we will demonstrate basic UI, reactive UI, CSS personalization and dashboard creation. Questions are super welcom...
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An introductory workshop in Shiny, August 3rd to 5th
This workshop aims to introduce people with basic R knowledge to develop interactive web applications with the Shiny framework. The course consists of a one-hour session, where we will demonstrate basic UI, reactive UI, CSS personalization and dashboard creation. Questions are super welcome! The course will be delivered online using Zoom at diffe...
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Compiling R with multi-threaded linear algebra libraries on Ubuntu
Motivation You may have an R setup that is not using hardware resources in an efficient way. Linear algebra libraries such as OpenBLAS and Intel MKL can compute matrix/vector operations with all available processing power to significantly reduce computation times. Use apt-get instead of compiling sources If you prefer to use apt-get there is an ...
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How to optimize a data pipeline
This is a personal reflection after my experience working for more than two years at Datawheel. By no means my opinions reflect on my former employer. What I’ll try to explain here is this famous diagram from R4DS from an often uncovered approach: Because what I express here is a personal perspective, I shall first present my background, so yo...
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Gravity Falls and Tidy Data Principles (Part 1)
Updated 2019-07-15 Motivation After reading The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Text and A tidy text analysis of Rick and Morty I wanted to do something similar for Rick and Morty and I did. Now I’m doing something similar for Gravity Falls. In this post I’ll focus on the Tidy Data principles. However, here is the Github repo with the scripts...
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