Sure, you could use one of the commercial or open-source RSS readers. But isn’t it more fun to code your own? RSS feeds have been around since the late ’90s, and they remain a handy way to keep up ...

Do you have some data with geolocation information that you want to map? You may not think of R when you’re looking for a GIS platform, but new packages and standards have helped make the R ...

It's not quite like C# or Python, but the R language's object-oriented programming capabilities are getting better with each iteration. Let's take a look at what .NET developers are able do now with ...

One of Slack‘s greatest appeals is that it’s so extensible. While its main purpose is group collaboration, add-on apps can do everything from answer questions about business analytics to offer project ...

Let's use this classical statistics technique -- and some R, of course -- to get to some of the latent variables hiding in your data. Factor analysis is a classical statistics technique that examines ...