Permafrost Hackathon – Unsupervised Movement Detection
Have a look at what my team and I worked on during the Permafrost Hackathon in Zurich. The goal was to detect movements from multitemporal images. Since the images didn’t...continue reading.
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Great Looking Tables: gt (v0.2)
We are extremely excited to have our first release of the gt package available in CRAN! The name gt is short for “grammar of tables” and the goal of gt...continue reading.
Great Looking Tables: gt (v0.2)
We are extremely excited to have our first release of the gt package available in CRAN! The name gt is short for “grammar of tables” and the goal of gt...continue reading.
capitals: Knowledge Quiz Question about Capitals around the World
Exercise template for a multiple-choice knowledge quiz question with flexible shuffling of the alternatives. Name: capitals Type: mchoice Related: swisscapital Description: Knowledge quiz question about c…continue reading.
capitals: Knowledge Quiz Question about Capitals around the World
Exercise template for a multiple-choice knowledge quiz question with flexible shuffling of the alternatives. Name: capitals Type: mchoice Related: swisscapital Description: Knowledge quiz question about c…continue reading.
Ketchup, Correlation and Outliers
The classic saying “correlation does not imply causation” is still an incredibly important thing to keep in mind when doing data analysis. Spurious regressions will sneak up on you and...continue reading.
F is for filter
For the letter F – filters! Filters are incredibly useful, especially when combined with the main pipe %>%. I frequently use filters along with ggplot functions, to chart a specific...continue reading.
AI for Good: Fighting COVID-19 with Data Science
This is the first of two blog posts about our recent participation in the Pandemic Response Hackathon. Our project (CoronaRank) was one of only 5 projects out of 230 submissions...continue reading.
Python data manipulation, covid19: how to calculate new cases
This is a new installment in a series of tutorials showing you how to analyze covid-19 data with Python. In the last few tutorials, we’ve done quite a bit of...continue reading.
Some Select COVID-19 Modeling Resources
There is an incredible amount of COVID-19 related material available online. While many dashboards, data sets, shiny apps and models represent significant contributions towards fighting the pandemic, we seem to...continue reading.
A first look at federated learning with TensorFlow
The term “federated learning” was coined to describe a form of distributed model training where the data remains on client devices, i.e., is never shipped to the coordinating server. In...continue reading.
Appsilon’s shiny.info Development and Testing Shiny Package Released on CRAN
Appsilon’s open source shiny.info package just received a major update and is now available on CRAN. A great solution for development and testing, shiny.info allows for displaying diagnostic information from...continue reading.
E is for Exposition Pipe
For the letter E, I want to talk about a set of operators provided by tidyverse (specifically the magrittr package) that makes for much prettier, easier-to-read code: pipes. The main...continue reading.
Why Remote Data Science Teams Should Use RStudio Connect
Updated August 2020: If you’d like to learn more about best practices for Remote Data Science Teams, read this article by Appsilon Senior Data Scientist Olga Mierzwa-Sulima. Much more of...continue reading.
R Weekly 2020-14 {ggpattern}, stack traces, {ggplot2} workshop
Hello and welcome to this new issue! Release Date: 2020-04-06 This week’s release was curated by Eric Nantz, with help from the RWeekly team members and contributors. ggpattern: pattern &...continue reading.
Comments on the COVID-19 model source code from Imperial
At the end of March a paper modelling the impact of various scenarios on the spread of COVID-19 infections, by the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis at Imperial...continue reading.
Comments on the COVID-19 model source code from Imperial
At the end of March a paper modelling the impact of various scenarios on the spread of COVID-19 infections, by the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis at Imperial...continue reading.
Audio classification in R
Visiting Berlin in December 2013, some friends and I spent one evening at the White Trash, a rockabilly-vibe bar decorated with hanging skeletons and a couple of conspicuous portraits of Ian...continue reading.
D is for dummy_cols
For the letter D, I’m going to talk about the dummy_cols functions, which isn’t actually part of the tidyverse, but hey: my posts, my rules. This function is incredibly useful...continue reading.
Developing the right mindset for learning statistics: Some suggestions
Developing the right mindset for learning statistics: Some suggestionscontinue reading.
