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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.

Nov 26, 2023

Chris Mainey

Interactive Data Visualisation

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dataviz

reproducibility

shiny

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

May 16, 2023

Charlie Hadley

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.

Mar 8, 2023

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.

Dec 8, 2022

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.

Sep 15, 2022

James Tripp