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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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
I saw a fun video on YouTube recently in which some runners attempted to do two parkruns in one day. I don’t mean run the same parkrun course twice, I mean they ran one parkrun at one course and then ...
Guest post by Christian Martinez, developer of the nycOpenData package in R. nycOpenData: A unified R interface to NYC Open Data APIs I am pleased to announce the release of nycOpenData, an R package ...
Read it in: Español. Maintaining an open source package is rewarding work, but it’s also a lot of work. Life and careers change, interests shift, and sometimes you simply don’t have the time or energy...
From static pages to personalized, AI-driven experiences, web development isn’t just evolving — it’s transforming into a human-AI collaboration. Ready or not, the web is about to get a lot smarter.
Human-centered design helped shape the modern web—but in today’s AI-driven, globally connected world, it’s time to expand the definition. The next era of design will need to balance empathy with ethic...
Blogging isn’t dead—it just got weird, broke up with Google, and joined a Substack cult. From SEO zombie posts to AI-written filler, we’ve lost the soul of writing—but the rebellion has already starte...
UI design in 2026 isn’t about prettier screens — it’s about reducing friction users can’t explain but instantly feel. As AI, accessibility, and system complexity collide, the best interfaces are the o...
As you can see from our roundup of new tools for designers this month, almost everything is based in artificial intelligence. Most of the tools in development and launch right now are designed to supe...