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Fitting Wiggly Data: Generalized Additive Models

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models

Using ‘Generalized Additive Models (GAMs)’ to fit regression models to ‘wiggly’ or non-linear data.

Interactive Data Visualisation

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dataviz

reproducibility

shiny

Using {htmlwidgets} with/without {shiny} in reproducible Open Data workflows.

Using Predictive Modelling to Study the Impact of COVID-19 on Energy Consumption

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modelling

Using elastic net regression and neural network models to predict what would have happened in the absence of the pandemic, and comparing these ‘counterfactuals’ with observed electricity and gas consumption in several hundred households.

Ellen Zapata-Webborn

Let R browse the web for you: An introduction to web-scraping with RSelenium

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web-scraping

Nicole Schwitter introduces how R can be used to collect data from web pages.

Nicole Schwitter

R and Docker

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reproducibility

In this online event, we continue the reproducibility theme from our last meetup, with James Tripp introducing Docker containers and how they can be used with R. See full details below.

Managing R script dependencies: automagic and renv

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reproducibility

In this first session of the reproducibility series, we introduce two methods to deal with library dependencies: {automagic} and {renv}

Carlos Cámara-Menoyo

Code Review

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reviews

Talk slides

Sensitivity and Robustness Analysis in Bayesian Networks with the ‘bnmonitor’ R package

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dataviz

Manuele Leonelli

Long Term Gas Supply & Demand Scenarios

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dataviz

Talk slides

Kasia Taylor and Ben Dickel

The Grammar of Graphics: an introduction to ggplot2

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dataviz

Animated plots

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dataviz

Animation is an R package to create and export animations to a variety of formats (HTML/JS, GIF, Video, PDF), and it also serves as a gallery of statistical animations.

Rachel Lynne Wilkerson

Pitfalls of ‘dynamite’ plunger plots

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dataviz

Procrastinating in R: emoji plots

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dataviz

Use emojifont and emoGG in your plots.

Alejandra Avalos-Pacheco

An introduction to Shiny

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shiny

A beginner’s guide to Shiny

Nathan Cunningham