Publications by The Jumping Rivers Blog
An introvert’s guide to networking at a conference
Uh oh. Conferences. I’ve been trying not to think about them, but I can’t put it off any longer.That’s okay! It might not be too late to book on to the conferences you want to attend. Some will even still have early bird offers available if you’re quick.Oh that’s not a problem. I’m already booked on, travel is arranged, my talk is writt...
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A Blog Post About the Blog
If you’re a regular visitor to our blog you may have noticed some recent changes we hope will make it easier to find what you’re looking for (or interesting stuff you weren’t).The blog “home” page, “/blog” now shows a card for every post with title, author, excerpt, tags and image. (But don’t worry, we won’t clog your browser up b...
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Events at Jumping Rivers 2024
SatRdays London 2024 Once again, we’re partnering up with CUSP London to bring you a day of R themed talks in the centre of the UK capital. We’ll be returning to the amazing Bush House to hear experts in all things R share their knowledge and experience. The day is a great opportunity to meet like-minded data science enthusiasts – whether you...
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Reading and Writing Data with {arrow}
This is part of a series of related posts on Apache Arrow. Other posts in the series are: Understanding the Parquet file format Reading and Writing Data with {arrow} (This post) Parquet vs the RDS Format (Coming soon) What is (Apache) Arrow? Apache Arrow is a cross-language development platform for in-memory data. As it’s in-memory (as opposed ...
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Security Headers for Shiny Applications
Over the last few years, we have been performing audits on Posit set-ups, Shiny Applications and general R set-ups. One of our standard checks is to examine the server headers of a Shiny Server. Numerous websites do this check for you, but as we have an R-based/Quarto workflow, it was helpful to write a quick R package. The package isn’t on CRAN,...
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Effect of Shiny Widgets with Google Lighthouse
Part 1: Using Google Lighthouse for Web Pages Part 2: Analysing Shiny App start-up Times with Google Lighthouse Part 3: Effect of Shiny Widgets with Google Lighthouse (This post) This is the third blog in our series on the Google Lighthouse tool. In Part 1, we looked at what Lighthouse is and how it can be used to assess the start-up times of webp...
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Analysing Shiny App start-up Times with Google Lighthouse
This is part one of a three part series on Lighthouse for Shiny Apps. Part 1: Using Google Lighthouse for Web Pages Part 2: Analysing Shiny App start-up Times with Google Lighthouse (This post) Part 3: Effect of Shiny Widgets with Google Lighthouse (Coming soon) Intro In the last blog I spoke about using Google Lighthouse to test the speed of web...
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Using Google Lighthouse for Web Pages
This is part one of a three part series on Lighthouse for Shiny Apps. Part 1: Using Google Lighthouse for Web Pages (This post) Part 2: Analysing Shiny App start-up Times with Google Lighthouse (Coming soon) Part 3: Analysing Shiny App Components with Google Lighthouse (Coming soon) Intro This blog post was partly inspired by Colin Fay’s talk �...
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Training Lineup for 2024: January-June
All of our public training courses for the first half of 2024 are now open for registration! Head over to the public courses page on our website to book in and start building your programming skills in the new year! Below is a list of all of our upcoming courses with a description, upcoming dates, course level and a link to the page to find out mor...
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SatRdays London 2024
SatRdays is returning to London on 27th April 2024! We’re collaborating once again with CUSP London to bring SatRdays to the amazing Bush House venue, and we can’t wait to see you there. More information will be released in the coming weeks – in the meantime, check out the recordings of last year’s talks for an idea of what to expect! Call ...
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