Publications by R Consortium
TIBCO’s COVID-19 Visual Analysis Hub: Under the Hood
Originally published in the TIBCO Community Blog, by Adam Faskowitz TIBCO Spotfire is a unique platform that combines advanced visualization and data science techniques. The culmination of its capabilities can be demonstrated in TIBCO’s COVID-19 Visual Analysis Hub. Allowing complex algorithms to run in the background, the application boasts a...
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Estimating COVID-19 Trends using GAMLSS
Originally published in the TIBCO Community Blog, by Adam Faskowitz R0, the basic reproduction number, and Rt, the time-varying reproduction number, are quantities used when trying to understand the reproduction rate of the virus. However, both of them are quite difficult to estimate. One glaring issue is the largely unknown prevalence of asympt...
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Nearcasting: Comparison of COVID-19 Projection Methods
Originally published in the TIBCO Community Blog, by Adam Faskowitz As COVID-19 continues to impact people’s lives, we are interested in predicting case trends of the near future. Trying to predict an epidemic is certainly no easy task. While challenging, we explore a variety of modeling approaches and compare their relative performance in pre...
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Use Your R Skills to Fight COVID-19 – COVID-19 Challenge Funded by R Consortium – Open Now!
Citizen science is a critical engine for creating professional tools that become new standards in epidemic outbreak response. The problem is connecting people on the front lines – “COVID-19 response agents” – and people with R language skills. You personally can get involved! Get started now: https://tasks.repidemicsconsortium.org/#/about...
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The 2021 RUGS Program is Live!
source: R User Groups on meetup.com – 35 countries • 85 groups • 65,200+ members The R Consortium is excited to announce the 2021 R User Group and Small Conference Support Program (RUGS). We give grants to help R groups around the world organize, share information and support each other. We are now accepting applications! Find out det...
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Decoding Case Data Through the COVID-19 Data Hub
by Emanuele Guidotti & David Ardia, originally published in the Journal of Open Source Software In December 2019 the first cases of pneumonia of unknown etiology were reported in Wuhan city, People’s Republic of China.[1] Since the outbreak of the disease, officially called COVID–19 by World Health Organization (WHO), a multitude of papers ha...
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Interview with Nontsikelelo Shongwe, Co-Organizer of the Eswatini UseR Meetup Group
On February 7th, 2021, in the very first in the Why R? World Series, Kevin O’Brien of the Why R? Foundation spoke with Nontsikelelo Shongwe, an enthusiastic R user from Eswatini, and co-organizer of the Eswatini UseR meetup group. (Eswatini is located in southeastern Africa, surrounded by South Africa and Mozambique.) In this interview, Nonts...
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Major Success! Highlights from the Brazilian Conference on Data Journalism and Digital Methods (CODA.br)
On November 2 – 7, 2020, the 5th edition of the Brazilian Conference on Data Journalism and Digital Methods (CODA.Br) took place with 50 national and international guest speakers and 16 workshops. CODA.Br is the largest data journalism conference in Latin America and this year was completely virtual. Open access to all debates, keynotes, lightn...
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Upcoming Event: The role of data journalism in the COVID-19 pandemic
Join us March 18, 9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. PDT. More information! The role of data journalists in the scientific process has traditionally been overlooked. However, the most recent pandemic showed how journalism shapes scientific responses and public policy. Thousands of journalists rose to the challenge when the public needed information in orde...
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March 2021 ISC Call for Proposals – Now Open!
The deadline for submitting proposals is April 19, 2021. The March 2021 ISC Call for Proposals is now open. The R Consortium’s Infrastructure Steering Committee (ISC) solicits progressive, pioneering projects that will benefit and serve the R community and ecosystem at large. The ISC’s goal is to foster innovation and help bring your ideas i...
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