Counting Arguments in the Tidyverse
Before we start anything, I’d like to mention that most of the hard work came from nsaunders and his great blog post Idle thoughts lead to R internals: how to...continue reading.
Category: Tidyverse
How Auth0’s Data Team uses R and Python
Auth0 Data Team shares their tooling, from R to Python, their favourite open-souce libraries for data science and data engineering 🛠continue reading.
Colonizing Franky
Y otra vez me arranco despacito, al sentir que nada necesito (Locura transitoria, Extremoduro) One of my favorite sites in the Internet is algorithmic botany . It’s always a source...continue reading.
Hadley is a smash hit at LondonR
We were thrilled to host Hadley Wickham who delivered, as ever, a funny and engaging talk to a packed house at LondonR in August. In fact, to give you an...continue reading.
Data Chats: From Physics student to Data Science Consultant
Introduction How do you begin a career in analytics and data science? What’s the best way of learning R? Should I still bother with Excel? Arguably, these are some questions...continue reading.
LondonR: Hadley Wickham & tidyverse’s greatest hits
Meeting Hadley! Last Monday, I had the pleasure of attending a talk given by Hadley Wickham at LondonR, which was held at one of their usual venues at the UCL...continue reading.
We’re RStudio Certified!
We’re RStudio Certified! Big news. RStudio recently started certifying trainers in three areas: the tidyverse, Shiny and teaching. To be certified to teach a topic you have to pass the...continue reading.
Data Chats: An Interview with Avision Ho
Introduction Why do an interview? On this occasion, I’ve decided to have a conversation with a data scientist for a change, as opposed to creating a vignette or reviewing a...continue reading.
Rhombuses
For a lonely soul, you’re having such a nice time (Nothing in my way, Keane) In my previous post, I created the P2 Penrose tessellation according to the instructions of...continue reading.
Vignette: Write & Read Multiple Excel files with purrr
Introduction This post will show you how to write and read a list of data tables to and from Excel with purrr, the functional programming package 📦 from tidyverse. In...continue reading.
Kites and Darts: the Penrose Tiling
Agarrada a mis costillas le cuelgan las piernas (Godzilla, Leiva) Penrose tilings are amazing. Apart of the inner beauty of tesselations, they have two interesting properties: they are non-periodic (they...continue reading.
Timing hash functions with the bench package
This blog post has two goals Investigate the bench package for timing R functions Consequently explore the different algorithms in the digest package using bench What is digest? The digest...continue reading.
Speedmining the Cubing Community with dbplyr
We use the RMariaDB and dbplyr packages to analyze the results database of the World Cubing Association. In particular we are interested in finding unofficial world records of fastest 3x3x3...continue reading.
Drrrawing with purrr
La luna es un pozo chicolas flores no valen nadalo que valen son tus brazoscuando de noche me abrazan(Zorongo Gitano, Carmen Linares) When I publish a post showing my drawings,...continue reading.
Allusions to parents in autobiographies (or reading 118 books in a few seconds)
If I keep holding out, will the light shine through? (Come Back, Pearl Jam) Imagine that you are writing the story of your life. Almost sure you will make allusions...continue reading.
forcats::fct_match
This journey started almost exactly a year ago, but it’s finally been sufficiently worked through and merged! Yay, I’ve officially contributed to the tidyverse (minor as it may be). It...continue reading.
Flowers for Julia
No hables de futuro, es una ilusión cuando el Rock & Roll conquistó mi corazón (El Rompeolas, Loquillo y los Trogloditas) In this post I create flowers inspired in the...continue reading.
What R version do you really need for a package?
At Jumping Rivers we run a lot of R courses. Some of our most popular courses revolve around the tidyverse, in particular, our Introduction to the tidyverse and our more...continue reading.
Crochet Patterns
¡Ay que ver cómo se estropean los cuerpos! (Pilar, my beloved grandmother) My grandmother was a master of sewing. When she was young, she worked as dressmaker, and her profession...continue reading.
R from the turn of the century
Last week I spent some time reminiscing about my PhD and looking through some old R code. This trip down memory lane led to some of my old R scripts...continue reading.
