Publications by R Views
December 2019: “Top 40” New R Packages
One hundred fifty-two packages made it to CRAN in December. Here are my “Top 40” picks in ten categories: Data, Genomics, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Medicine, Science, Statistics, Time Series, Utilities, and Visualization. Data climate v0.3.0: Provides access to meteorological and hydrological data from OGIMET, University of Wyoming – ...
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rstudio::conf 2020 Workshops
rstudio::conf 2020 got underway today with a huge training event featuring eighteen workshops taught by some of the most experienced and sought after instructors in the R Community. The workshops covered a wide range of topics including the Tidyverse, machine learning, deep learning, JavaScript, Shiny, R Markdown, package building, geospatial st...
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Some 2020 R Conferences
rstudio::conf kicked off the 2020 season for R conferences last week with record attendance somewhere north of twenty-one hundred. Session topics ranged from business to science, marketing to medicine and attracted R users with very varied backgrounds including DevOps professionals, data scientists, journalists, physicians, statisticians, R packa...
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Photo Mosaics in R
Harrison Schramm, CAP, PStat, is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. In this short piece, I’m going to discuss a fun photography project I did over the winter using R. I’m also going to touch on some of the implications of the R license, which underlies our entire ecosystem, but we don’t usually think abou...
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rstudio::conf 2020 Videos
rstudio::conf 2020 is already receding in the rear view mirror, but the wealth of resources generated by the conference will be valuable for quite some time. All of the materials from the workshops, and now all one hundred and four videos of conference talks are available. This unique video collection offers valuable insight into how developers, ...
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R, Public Health and Politics
Last week, Lancet published the paper Improving the prognosis of health care in the USA by Alison P Galvani, Alyssa S Parpia, Eric M Foster, Burton H Singer, Meagan C Fitzpatrick of CIDMA, the Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis, Yale School of Public Health. The paper, which, provides a detailed analysis of the single-payer syste...
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January 2020: “Top 40” New R Packages
One hundred forty-seven new packages made it to CRAN in January. Here are my “Top 40” picks in nine categories: Computational Methods, Genomics, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Medicine, Statistics, Time Series, Utilities and Visualization. Computational Methods FSSF v0.1.1: Provides three methods proposed by Shang & Apley (2019) to generate f...
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Comparing Machine Learning Algorithms for Predicting Clothing Classes: Part 2
Florianne Verkroost is a Ph.D. candidate at Nuffield College at the University of Oxford. She has a passion for data science and a background in mathematics and econometrics. She applies her interdisciplinary knowledge to computationally address societal problems of inequality. This is the second post in a series devoted to comparing different m...
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COVID-19 epidemiology with R
Tim Churches is a Senior Research Fellow at the UNSW Medicine South Western Sydney Clinical School at Liverpool Hospital, and a health data scientist at the Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research, also located at Liverpool, Sydney. His background is in general medicine, general practice medicine, occupational health, public health practice...
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Comparing Machine Learning Algorithms for Predicting Clothing Classes: Part 3
Florianne Verkroost is a Ph.D. candidate at Nuffield College at the University of Oxford. She has a passion for data science and a background in mathematics and econometrics. She applies her interdisciplinary knowledge to computationally address societal problems of inequality. This is the third post in a series devoted to comparing different mac...
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