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, […]
Since almost a year, I am working intensely with a data visualization library in R called CanvasXpress. It is a htmlwidget, which means that it’s a wrapper around a Javascript library. Connie Brett, the maintainer of this library, has introduced me to it. I am […]
Okay, let’s face it, the whole world has been into cryptocurrencies lately. Bitcoin (BTC), the first cryptocurrency (in fact, the first digital currency to solve the double-spend problem) introduced by Satoshi Nakamoto has become bigger than well-established companies. A lot of crypto followers and investors […]
Remote data scientists is a group of people working in the field of data science which do their work (totally) remotely. I recently started this group since it’s a good way to connect with other data scientists that are in a similar situation. Most of […]
Do you need to edit some data in your webapplication? If you are building an R shiny app, you can use the Rhandsontable package for it. I have used it a couple of times now and though there are some points for improvement for this […]
Speed skating is one of my favorite sports to practice and to watch. This winter the Winter Olympics will be held in PyeongChang, South-Korea. Will the Dutch be as dominant as they were in Sochi? That will be a big challenge. Since I was curious about […]