Publications by R Views
On Meeting Data Journalists
“I’d rather do data than date”. I overheard this while eavesdropping on a conversation among three female data journalists while waiting for an elevator at the IRE-CAR (Investigative Reporters and Editors – Computer-Assisted Reporting) conference last month. I would like to think the remark was overloaded with hyperbole, but maybe not. Mo...
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Setting up RStudio Server on a Cloud for Collaboration and Reproducibility
Roland Stevenson is a data scientist and consultant who may be reached on Linkedin. When setting up R and RStudio Server on a cloud Linux instance, some thought should be given to implementing a workflow that facilitates collaboration and ensures R project reproducibility. There are many possible workflows to accomplish this. In this post, we off...
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Reproducible Environments
Great data science work should be reproducible. The ability to repeat experiments is part of the foundation for all science, and reproducible work is also critical for business applications. Team collaboration, project validation, and sustainable products presuppose the ability to reproduce work over time. In my opinion, mastering just a handful ...
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A Few Old Books
Greg Wilson is a data scientist and professional educator at RStudio. My previous column looked at a few new books about R. In this one, I’d like to explore a few books about programming that people coming from data science backgrounds may not have stumbled upon. The first is Michael Nygard’s Release It!, which more than lives up to its subti...
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March 2019: “Top 40” New CRAN Packages
By my count, two hundred and thirty-three packages stuck to CRAN last month. I have tried to capture something of the diversity of the offerings by selecting packages in ten categories: Computational Methods, Data, Machine Learning, Medicine, Science, Shiny, Statistics, Time Series, Utilities, and Visualization. The Shiny category contains packag...
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Analysing the HIV pandemic, Part 1: HIV in sub-Sahara Africa
Phillip (Armand) Bester is a medical scientist, researcher, and lecturer at the Division of Virology, University of the Free State, and National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), Bloemfontein, South Africa Sabeehah Vawda is a pathologist, researcher, and lecturer at the Division of Virology, University of the Free State, and National Health Labor...
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Analysing the HIV pandemic, Part 2: Drug resistance testing
Phillip (Armand) Bester is a medical scientist, researcher, and lecturer at the Division of Virology, University of the Free State, and National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), Bloemfontein, South Africa Dominique Goedhals is a pathologist, researcher, and lecturer at the Division of Virology, University of the Free State, and National Health L...
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Virtual Morel Foraging with R
Bryan Lewis is a mathematician, R developer and mushroom forager. Morchella Americana by Bryan W. Lewis, see https://ohiomushroomsociety.wordpress.com/ It’s that time of year again, when people in the Midwestern US go nuts for morel mushrooms. Although fairly common in Western Pennsyl...
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Analysing the HIV pandemic, Part 3: Genetic diversity
Phillip (Armand) Bester is a medical scientist, researcher, and lecturer at the Division of Virology, University of the Free State, and National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), Bloemfontein, South Africa Andrie de Vries is the author of “R for Dummies” and a Solutions Engineer at RStudio Recap In part 2 of this series, we discussed the Phy...
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Analysing the HIV pandemic, Part 4: Classification of lab samples
Andrie de Vries is the author of “R for Dummies” and a Solutions Engineer at RStudio Phillip (Armand) Bester is a medical scientist, researcher, and lecturer at the Division of Virology, University of the Free State, and National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), Bloemfontein, South Africa In this post we complete our series on analysing the ...
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