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Taming Volatility: High-Performance Forecasting of...

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2025/11/01

Forecasting financial markets, such as the STOXX Europe 600 Index, presents a classic Machine Learning challenge: the data is inherently noisy, non-stationary, and highly susceptible to sudden market events. To tackle this, we turn to Automated Machine Learning (AutoML)—specifically the powerful, scalable framework provided by H2O.ai and integrated ... Continue reading: Taming Volatility: High-Performance Forecasting of the STOXX 600 with H2O AutoML

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Eight-thousanders

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2025/11/01

K2 – CC BY-NC-ND by Marcelo Aguilar Day 1 of 30DayMapChallenge: « Points ». Mapping the peaks above 8000 m, also known as the eight-thousanders. Config library(httr) library(glue) library(dplyr) library(tidyr) library(purrr) library(tibble) library(stringr) library(sf) library(leaflet) Data Several non-trivial options for obtaining the data: english Wikipedia doesn’... Continue reading: Eight-thousanders

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Prussian Horse Kicks II: Mixed Effects Models

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2025/11/01

Last time we used a quirky dataset to get acquainted with Generalised Linear Models. If you recall, the dataset is a count of deaths by horse kick, where every year all the corps in the army had some non-negative integer number of deaths and we ... Continue reading: Prussian Horse Kicks II: Mixed Effects Models

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New Council Members

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2025/10/31

Hi pharmaverse community, On behalf of the council we wanted to update you on 2 council members who are passing on the baton to new representatives from their respective companies. Firstly, Michael Rimler (who is one of our original co-founder... Continue reading: New Council Members

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Simplifying Interactions with Complex Widgets in...

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2025/10/31

When shinytest2's `set_inputs()` won't work, leverage widget APIs directly. Learn to write cleaner, faster and more robust tests using JavaScript APIs. Continue reading: Simplifying Interactions with Complex Widgets in shinytest2 Using JavaScript APIs

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Pledging My Time VII

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2025/10/30

Here we go again! I ran the Mainova Frankfurt Marathon 2025 and wanted to look at the race results. How can we do this using R? I couldn’t see an easy way to download the data, so I used R to scrape them. Note that these times are currently provisional, ... Continue reading: Pledging My Time VII

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R 4.5.1 – Batteries Included

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2025/10/30

If this post is useful to you I kindly ask a minimal donation on Buy Me a Coffee. It shall be used to continue my Open Source efforts. You can send me questions for the blog using this form and subscribe to receive an email when there is a new ... Continue reading: R 4.5.1 – Batteries Included

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¿Qué es el Índice de Gini y cómo calcularlo?

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2025/10/30

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Of course, someone has to write imperative code to...

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2025/10/29

Last time I quickly introduced my latest package, {rixpress}, but I think that to really understand what {rixpress} brings to the table, one needs to solve the same problem without it. And incidentally, I think that this exercise also show... Continue reading: Of course, someone has to write imperative code to build reproducible data science pipelines. It doesn’t have to be you.

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Elevate Your Data Skills with Jumping Rivers Training

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2025/10/28

In today’s data-driven world, strong analytical and programming skills are essential for success. Whether you’re just starting your data journey or looking to expand your expertise, Jumping Rivers offers training that combines real-world experien... Continue reading: Elevate Your Data Skills with Jumping Rivers Training

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GSS Release

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2025/10/28

Trends in the immameco question. Release 2 of the 2024 GSS cross-section and 1972-2024 culumative data are now available. I’ve updated gssr and gssrdoc to incorporate them. There are quite a few changes in the data and... Continue reading: GSS Release

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An update to Open Trade Statistics to showcase Tabler...

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2025/10/28

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September 2025 Top 40 New CRAN Packages

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2025/10/28

Computational Methods fastfocal v0.1.3: Provides a fast moving-window (“focal”) and buffer-based extraction for raster data using the terra package. Automatically selects between a C++ backend and a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) backend depend... Continue reading: September 2025 Top 40 New CRAN Packages

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Using D3po with Tabler

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2025/10/27

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Tabler 0.1.0 is here!

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2025/10/27

If this post is useful to you I kindly ask a minimal donation on Buy Me a Coffee. It shall be used to continue my Open Source efforts.You can send me questions for the blog using this form and subscribe to receive an email when there is a new ... Continue reading: Tabler 0.1.0 is here!

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Double Descent Explained

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2025/10/26

This is a post about the famous double descent phenomenon in machine learning. I aim to constrct the simplest possible example of double descent and explain exactly how it arises and why it doesn’t contradict the bias-variance tradeoff. I was inspired... Continue reading: Double Descent Explained

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Approximating evidence via bounded harmonic means...

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2025/10/24

Following a suggestion by Christian Hennig at JSM 2024, I started working with my PhD student Dana Naderi on a detailed assessment of the method we proposed in 2009 with Darren Wraith for evidence approximation. (The method was briefly mentioned in a Physical Review paper and also briefly illustrated in our 2010 San ... Continue reading: Approximating evidence via bounded harmonic means (and HPD regions with known volumes)

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Mapping Antarctica

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2025/10/24

Creating maps with R is usually straightforward, but representations that cross the International Date Line or that use polar projections can be tricky. Continue reading: Mapping Antarctica

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rOpenSci News Digest, October 2025

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2025/10/24

Dear rOpenSci friends, it’s time for our monthly news roundup! You can read this post on our blog. Now let’s dive into the activity at and around rOpenSci! rOpenSci HQ 2025-11-06 Community call: Graceful Internet Packages Join us for o... Continue reading: rOpenSci News Digest, October 2025

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EuroBioC2025 conference recap

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2025/10/24

The European Bioconductor conference 2025 (EuroBioC2025) took place between September 17 and 19, 2025, and was hosted at the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB) in Barcelona by the Department of Medicine and Life Sciences of Universitat Pompeu Fabra (MELIS-UPF)and the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal). The Catalan capital boasts a rich culture, ... Continue reading: EuroBioC2025 conference recap

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