Publications by The Jumping Rivers Blog
Changing the world with Data: An outreach event
Earlier this year, two data scientists from Jumping Rivers ran an outreach activity for 14-19 year olds across the UK, in collaboration with the youth charity Speakers for Schools. The three hour workshop focussed on how to create visualisations that are both visually appealing and useful to the viewer. We demonstrated with a few examples of some v...
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July Training Update
Embark on your programming odyssey with our extensive range of courses! Never written a line of code in your life? No stress – we offer a mix of introductory courses for beginners as well as more advanced courses for those looking to expand their knowledge further.Over the summer and autumn months, we will be offering training in the popular prog...
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June Training Update
This summer, we have public courses to take you all the way from the very basics of R, through to using R for statistical modelling, with some data wrangling and intermediate programming in between. Wherever you are on your R journey, take a look at our upcoming courses to see if we can help you on your way. Whether you want to start from scratch, ...
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Diffify – the anniversary update!
We’ve just passed an important milestone for diffify: our app for tracking Python and R package releases has just turned 1 year old! To mark this exciting occasion we are delighted to announce an “anniversary update” featuring numerous quality of life improvements. This post will outline the latest changes and tease at some exciting developme...
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How to create a clickable world cloud with wordcloud2 and Shiny
Word clouds are a visual representation of text data where words are arranged in a cluster, with the size of each word reflecting its frequency or importance in the data set. Word clouds are a great way of displaying the most prominent topics or keywords in free text data obtained from websites, social media feeds, reviews, articles and more. If yo...
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What’s new in R 4.3.0?
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will you take everywhere. (Einstein) R can already take you everywhere. With it we can learn about the minutest particles and the largest galaxies. So, to celebrate the release of R 4.3 (“Already Tomorrow”, on April 21st, 2023), let’s reverse Einstein’s quote and take you from A to B with logic. ...
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We’re a British Data Awards 2023 Finalist
We’re delighted to announce that we’ve been named a Finalist in the British Data Awards 2023.The British Data Awards is an annual quest to discover and celebrate data success stories. Organisations taking part this year range from FTSE 100 heavyweights, public sector pioneers, technology unicorns, fast-growing scale-ups, essential Not-For-Profi...
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We’re a British Data Awards 2023 Finalist
We’re delighted to announce that we’ve been named a Finalist in the British Data Awards 2023. The British Data Awards is an annual quest to discover and celebrate data success stories. Organisations taking part this year range from FTSE 100 heavyweights, public sector pioneers, technology unicorns, fast-growing scale-ups, essential Not-For-Prof...
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SatRdays London is now Hybrid!
SatRdays London is fast approaching, and we have a couple of exciting announcements to share with you! Full program available now The full list of speakers and their abstracts can now be found in a downloadable program on our conference website, along with the schedule for the day and the registration options. Registration deadline extension The re...
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SatRdays London 2023: Sponsors
SatRdays London 2023 is fast approaching! Don’t miss out! Ticket sales close at midnight on 8th April! On 22nd April 2023 we will be hosting SatRdays London, an inclusive, low cost event, which gives R users an opportunity to network and learn from other experts across sectors. In a recent blog post, we introduced all of the speakers for the even...
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