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We all were presented with this problem – water jug problem, which – in the time of Football world cup 2026 – can be translated to any liquid. *hint hint* But the riddle is as logical as mathematical. With mathematics…Read more ›
At useR! 2026 in Warsaw, I contributed to a workshop on Geocomputation with R (July 6, 2026) and gave a keynote entitled A world still to be mapped: reflections on geocomputation in R (July 8, 2026). Both were opportunities to consider what the ...
TLDR: The first post established that the WGI and WJP rule of law measures agree on how they rank countries. […] The post Level With Me: Can the WGI Predict the WJP’s Rule of Law Scores? appeared first on Giles.
I recently read John Kay and Mervyn King’s book Radical Uncertainty as part of an economics book club and I thought I would share some thoughts on the book here. I’ve never read anything by John Kay before, but this is the second book by King which I ...
Tabular foundation models are a new category of machine learning model that can perform zero-shot (i.e., without any gradient updates) prediction on tabular datasets. They are pretrained on a distribution of synthetic tables and can transfer to n...
The U.S. Census Bureau publishes the rent that a typical household pays in every county in the country, updated every year, and gives it…
So you’ve built your data pipeline, you’ve designed your dashboard and you’ve connected the two through a real app. The screenshots match the designs and you can show it off and wow the stakeholders. Ready to launch, right? Well, maybe. In this post we’ll cover five things that are easy to overlo...
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a widely used measure of the prices of goods and services purchased by households. It’s the primary tool for tracking inflation and changes in the cost of living over time. The index is built from monthly price collections on a “basket” of goods and servi...
Reposted from the original at https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/turn-new-data-into-quarto-reports-automaticallyThe {watcher} R package monitors your filesystem and run arbitrary code when files change. You can use this to automate things like creating pa...
This is a short post to announce the release of an R package, VolcanoPlotR. Background Using proteomics, we often want to compare two experimental groups. A popular way to visualise this comparison this is via a volcano plot, where the enrichment of proteins in one condition is towards the right...
Getting Involved with rOpenSci I first came to rOpenSci in 2022, though at the time I barely knew what it was. I was getting a statistical package of mine ready to submit to the Journal of Statistical Software, and that is how I was pointed toward rO...
My last R posts: How conformalization helps weak models, fast conformal prediction with jackknife+ (and no refitting), and sklearn in R.
I started working on a deliberately tiny alternative to Shiny
Regulators expect insurance companies, banks, and others not to discriminate by race, but businesses are not allowed to collect the race of their customers. One solution for testing discrimination in the aggregate ...
Instacart logo Ben Knight from Instacart has published a great write-up on how they use pyfixest “in production” for measuring the effects of marketplace experiments. For an open source developer, there is of course nothing more rewarding th...
You can read the original post in its original format on Rtask website by ThinkR here: {golem} 1.0.0 is here After years of powering Shiny applications in production, {golem} — our opinionated framework for building production-grade Shiny apps as R packages — has finally reached a symbolic milest...
I recently gave a talk, The value in teaching is not the content it’s the teacher My main point in this is: Your course materials should be out there in public for free online. To help support this, this blog post goes through the technical det...
We are excited to introduce SummaryTables, a new module available in the jamovi library designed to provide an easy, flexible, and elegant way to create publication-ready analytical and summary tables. Powered by the gtsummary package in R, this module bridges the gap between running your analyse...
Credibly Curious Nick Tierney's (mostly) rstats blog I recently gave a talk, The value in teaching is not the content it’s the teacher My main point in this is: Your course materials should be out th...
A very short post today. During the global fuel crisis relating to the conflict in Iran, I have been monitoring this chart, every Thursday morning my time: It shows the amount of crude oil in the Cushing facility in Oklahoma and is one of the most t...
On R-Universe you can discover and learn everything there is to know about R packages. But did you know it does only provide a human-friendly website, but also programmatic access to all information through APIs! Thanks to those APIs you can list univ...
This post examines whether the Worldwide Governance Indicators' (WGI) rule of law measure provides a reasonable proxy for the World Justice Project's (WJP) Rule of Law Index, such as when analysis might benefit from the WGI's availability for more countries over a longer period. Results suggest t...
In financial markets, distinguishing between information-driven movements and liquidity-driven shocks is critical. The reference study we based our work on highlights the importance of tail analysis: comparing Gaussian (thin-tailed) and Student‑t (fat-tailed) distributions to understand whether p...
Title slide of the talk Keynote slides: https://jakubnowosad.com/ml4eo2026/ Workshop materials: https://jakubnowosad.com/ml4eo2026workshop/ Machine learning is now deeply embedded1 in Earth observation workflows, from mapping current enviro...
I recently had the opportunity to learn what the term “Nerd Sniping” meant. Maëlle pointed out a conversation on the rOpenSci Slack about something called Vale, meant for text linting. I’d seen the comment, but honestly hadn’t...
Making your first contribution to open source can be both empowering and yet very intimidating. – rOpenSci FTC Guide Last year we were grateful to receive funding from NumFOCUS1 to organize a series of events designed to reduce barriers restri...
