Data Scientist (with R): 5th August 2025

R Girls Open Event 2025 (forwards​.github​.io). Students at Green Oak Academy showcase R programming skills through website projects at the R Girls Open Event 2025 in Birmingham, UK, promoting creativity and data science

R Weekly 2025-W32 Migration to Quarto, carousels, Romeo & Juliet finances (rweekly​.org). Migration to Quarto, automating carousels with R, and financial analysis of Juliet's independence explored in this week's R Weekly

openstatsware: From the mmrm R package to a lively community (posit​.co). openstatsware promotes open-source statistical software, focusing on R packages like mmrm, enhancing collaboration across the pharmaceutical industry

Shiny in Production 2025: Sponsors (jumpingrivers​.com). Shiny in Production 2025 features sponsors like Posit, ThinkR, Datacove, Newcastle University Solve, CRC Press, and R Consortium, highlighting R package validation and analytics

R/Pharma GenAI Day (rinpharma​.com). R/Pharma GenAI Day on August 19 focuses on generative AI in drug development with workshops, talks, and an Expo for showcasing contributions

What’s inside the Positron Lounge Experience (posit​.co). Experience Positron IDE at posit::conf(2025) for hands-on coding, explore RStudio, Jupyter, share Python/R projects, and attend insightful talks

A Modest Cloud Cover Study (part 6) (jdeeclimate​.substack​.com). Analysis of UK and Ireland cloud cover trends using CRU TS4.08 and ICOADS v3 datasets through ANOVA, revealing significant seasonal changes over time

June 2025 Top 40 New CRAN Packages (rworks​.dev). Top 40 new CRAN packages in June 2025 cover AI, Machine Learning, Epidemiology, Finance, and more, featuring tools like statlingua and vitals

Combining data from different sources in official statistics; examples from small area estimation and population size estimation (aliceinstatisticsland​.wordpress​.com). Professor James Brown discusses improving official statistics through small area estimation and population size estimation via auxiliary data and the polLCA() R package

Exploratory Data Analysis with R in Positron (posit​.co). Explore data efficiently in Positron IDE with R, featuring data exploration tools, auto-formatting, and streamlined workflows for R users

Posit Professional Drivers 2025.07.0 (posit​.co). Posit Professional Drivers 2025.07.0: ODBC connectors for R, Python, centralized management, enhanced security, and performance improvements in data insights and applications

Automate LinkedIn Carousels with R and Gemini (drmowinckels​.io). Automate creating LinkedIn carousels using R and the Gemini API with functions to summarize content and generate Quarto documents

WebDev4R: Shiny Explained (albert-rapp​.de). Exploration of R's Shiny framework through interactive applications, focusing on UI elements, reactivity, and modular constructions for data visualization and user engagement

Health Technology notes: Copilot tips and guidance (rworks​.dev). Explore AI prompting techniques with Copilot in RStudio for effective data summarization and patient care analytics using tidyverse

Animated Maps with {ggplot2} and {gganimate} (jumpingrivers​.com). Create animated maps using ggplot2 and gganimate with Gapminder data to visualize life expectancy changes across the Americas from 1957 to 2007

Coding Latent Discrete Parameters in Stan (yongfu​.name). Marginalization technique in Stan for cognitive modeling of children's number understanding using the Give-N task, integrating Bayesian methods

The Box-Cox power exponential distribution (blog​.djnavarro​.net). Discussion on the Box-Cox power exponential distribution, GAMLSS models, and utilizing NHANES data for growth curve modeling in pharmacometrics

The Science of Science (thepalindrome​.org). Exploration of reasoning under uncertainty using mathematical logic and probability, featuring implications, propositions, and conditional probabilities

Goal-Driven Flexible Bayesian Design (fharrell​.com). Overview of flexible Bayesian designs in clinical trials addressing issues like MCID, sample size, sequential designs, and improving decision-making accuracy

on stopping rules (xianblog​.wordpress​.com). Exploration of sequential analysis, stopping rules, the likelihood principle, and critiques of p-values through insights from Cornfield's 1966 paper and other foundational texts

I've got a big favor to ask - keeping Blaze running isn't expensive, but it does all add up, so I'm asking readers like you to help, if you can.
That's why I'm launching a Patreon page!. Nothing flashy, just a way for folks who find value in these newsletters to chip in a little each month. In return, you'll get:

• Real say in how Blaze evolves — vote on new topics, features, topic curation ideas
• First dibs on merch (details still cooking)
• That warm fuzzy feeling knowing you're supporting something that saves you time and keeps you plugged into great tech writing

If you are getting value from blaze, checking this out would mean the world. And if you can't contribute, no worries—the newsletters keep coming either way, and you can follow along on patreon for free.
Thanks for reading and being part of this nerdy corner of the internet. All the best - Alastair.