REST APIs are everywhere around us. Software engineers use them to develop backend logic, and data scientists use them to deploy machine learning models. In this blog you’ll learn how to make a REST API with R and the plumber package. Introduction to REST APIs […]
Praetorian Covid is a clinical trial that is executed in the fight against covid-19. As you probably heard, there are many trials going on at this moment. On this clinical trials website you can find them. Praetorian Covid is executed by the Radboud University of […]
There is still quite some uncertainty about the corona-virus (Covid-19). Will it cause a pandemic? How deadly is it? Does it spread to other people easily? What is the length of the incubation period? It has already killed more people than SARS did. To answer […]
In one of my last blog posts I talked about Periscope which is an R package to assist with creating scalable shiny applications. Originally it was shipped with the standard shinydashboard package but recently I have upgraded it (CRAN) so it uses shinydashboardPlus. This last […]
Many people use the Python language to do Image recognition and other AI tasks. There has been a huge improvement lately in order to make some popular frameworks available in R. Of course, it’s possible to run Python code inside R (using reticulate) but it’s […]
Since almost 2 years I am working for a global Bio pharmaceutical company. Together with researchers, I am working on applications to analyze (sometimes big) data to find medicines for patients with serious and life-threatening diseases. As you can imagine, the work is confidential and […]
In one of my last blog posts I talked about Periscope which is a new R package to assist with creating shiny applications. We have been improving the package lately with a couple of items like support for row names in the DataTable module and a […]
Since the release of Shiny 1.1.0, we have the option to use asynchronous operations. I will describe why and how I have implemented an asynchronous download. Problem R is single threaded by nature. You can install R on a powerful server with 64 CPU cores, but […]
RStudio Connect (RSC) is a relatively new platform of RStudio. It is a place where you can share your Shiny applications, R Markdown reports, Plumber APIs, plots and more with your team and your users. It uses the push-button functionality from your local RStudio to deploy […]
Which countries do enable the adoption of Mobile Money the best? About Mobile Money Let’s start with the basics for everyone that is not familiar with mobile money. Mobile money is an electronic wallet service. It’s available in many countries and allows users to store, […]