Publications by The Jumping Rivers Blog

SatRdays London 2023 – Recordings

27.07.2023

The recordings from this year’s SatRdays London conference are here! Over the next couple of weeks, we will be releasing the recordings of some of the excellent talks from the conference! You’ll be able to find them all in this playlist as they’re released, and keep an eye on our Twitter feed to see them as they come out. Data comes in all ...

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Generate multiple presentations with Quarto parameters

20.07.2023

Parameterised reporting is a powerful technique that allows you to create dynamic and customisable reports by incorporating user-defined parameters. These parameters act as placeholders that can be easily modified to generate tailored reports based on specific inputs or conditions, enabling seamless updates to reports without the need for manual mo...

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Shiny in Production 2023

18.07.2023

With the early bird deadline approaching, we thought now would be a great time to tell you a bit more about what to expect at this year’s Shiny in Production! Do you require help building a Shiny app? Would you like someone to take over the maintenance burden? If so, check out our Shiny and Dash services. As with last year’s conferenc...

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Changing the world with Data: An outreach event

06.07.2023

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

04.07.2023

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

06.06.2023

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!

02.05.2023

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

27.04.2023

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?

20.04.2023

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

11.04.2023

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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