The Dinotracker app was trained on eight major characteristics of dinosaur footprints to quickly determine the species.
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I often hear the comment that LLMs/generative AI (large language models) can’t be trusted for research tasks. Image Google’s Nano Banana tasked with “Generate an image of a male African researcher hol...
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admiral 1.4 is here! There’s nothing like a new {admiral} release to start the new year with a bang, and that’s exactly what we have for you with {admiral} 1.4! This release comes packed with few choi...
Volleyball Analytics Volleyball Analytics with R: A Practical, End-to-End Playbook Build a full volleyball analytics workflow in R: data collection, cleaning, scouting reports, skill KPIs, rotation/li...
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Streamlining Our Pharmaverse Blog: Reducing Publishing Time with containers As an active contributor to the pharmaverse blog, I’ve always appreciated the opportunity to share new insights and tools wi...
Finance
After passing through rOpenSci peer review, the distionary package is now newly available on CRAN. It allows you to make probability distributions quickly – either from a few inputs or from its built-...
Sports
We’re accepting abstracts for AI in Production until 23rd January. The conference takes place on 4th–5th June 2026 in Newcastle, with talks on Friday 5th across two streams: one focused on engineering...
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In my recent book (see below), on page 166 and earlier, I made the point that, with pairwise comparisons and, more generally, whenever simultaneous statistical tests are performed, it is necessary to ...
Technology
1 Introduction – Why This Topic Matters A model that performs exceptionally well on a test set is not necessarily a good model; in many cases, it is a warning sign. High accuracy or low error metrics ...
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At the beginning of 2025, we outlined our goals for the year, our 2024 Highlights. As the year started, our work took place in a far more challenging global context than many of us anticipated. Across...
Technology
I am incredibly excited to announce the release of the futurize package. This launch marks a major milestone in the decade-long journey of the Futureverse project. Since the inception of the future ec...
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Alt Text First things first, if you haven’t heard of or used alt text before, it is a brief written description of an image that explains context and purpose. It is used to improve accessibility by al...
Preamble: I had a roughly 8 year break from blogging and focussed on kids plus related duties. This year, I will try to start again. My goal is to write about (advertising-related) research and how pr...
Boxing analysis is no longer just about punch totals or “who looked busier.” Modern fight analysis is data science: repeatable pipelines, validated data, explainable models, and performance indicators...
Technology
Thanks to Athanasia Mo Mowinckel for reviewing this post! One goal of mine this year is to learn how to crochet amigurumi, that is to say, cute creatures. When working on my first project, a cat toy m...
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Do prices feel like they are rising more than the CPI (Consumer Price Index) says? Yes. For 2025 the overall CPI increased by a pretty moderate 2.7% (CPI-U for all urban cons... Continue r...