I recently released the genbooster Python package (usable from R), a Gradient-Boosting and Boostrap aggregating implementations that uses a Rust backend. Any base learner in the ensembles use randomized features as a…
B2B Website Performance: Key Metrics to Track
Any business owner will tell you that today, your website is your most valuable sales tool. It’s the hub of your online presence, working 24/7 to attract, engage and convert potential customers….
Decomposing within and between person effects in longitudinal data with SEM in R workshop
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Cpp11 pull requests to improve the integration of R and C++
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Coworking Mini-Hackathon for First-Time Contributors
This week we had a wonderful community call, From Novice to Contributor: Making and Supporting First-Time Contributions to FOSS, where Sunny Tseng, Pascal Burkhard, and Yaoxiang Li shared with us their experiences…
A trip from variance-covariance to correlation and back
The variance-covariance and the correlation matrices are two entities that describe the association between the columns of a two-way data matrix. They are very much used, e.g., in agriculture, biology and ecology…
rOpenSci 2024 Highlights
In 2024, we remained committed to open science and open source software. We continued to build a welcoming and inclusive community, through innovation and collaboration. Here are the highlights of the year:…
Dyson’s Algorithm: The General Case
In a previous post, we looked at Dyson’s algorithm (Dyson 1946) for solving the Coins in Weighings problem : The most famous version of this problem is to resolve 12 coins in…
Shiny in Production 2025
The fourth instalment of Shiny in Production is back this October, hosted at the Catalyst in Newcastle upon Tyne, with the super early bird deadline on the 31st of January! Set in…
A collaborative triumph: Re-using test data between the NEST and admiral teams
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