data visualization
Web applications can have rich functionality nowadays. For example a website of an E-commerce shop has a page about the products they are selling, a page about their conditions, a shopping cart page and an order page. Furthermore it can handle different HTTP requests from […]
Speed skating is one of my favorite sports to practice and to watch. This winter the Winter Olympics will be held in Beijing, China. Will the Dutch be as successful as they were in Sochi and PyeongChang? How many medals will the Chinese win? Four […]
In healthcare, the catchment area is the area served by a hospital or medical centre. The Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey has one main goal: to help individuals fight cancer. More specific they are targetting cancer with precision medicine, immunotherapy and clinical trials next to providing advanced cancer care […]
CITO is an institute in the Netherlands that support governments and schools so that they can develop world-class testing and monitoring systems to complete their educational programs. They have a lot of data regarding testing scores and it could be interesting to combine this data […]
Since the beginning of this year I have solar panels on the roof of my house. The electricity these are producing should be more than enough than I am currently using. I bought a bit more solar panels since I expect to have an electric […]
This week, the European R Users Meeting (ERUM) is happening. It’s a biennial conference that brings the R User Community together and this year it would be held in Milan. I am excited to give a lightning talk about “Reproducible Data Visualization with CanvasXpress”!
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 […]
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 […]