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Creating Christmas cards with R

R

Data visualisation

The programming language R is capable of creating a wide variety of geometric shapes that can be used to construct high quality graphics – including festive images. In this tutorial, Nicola Rennie walks us through the process of using R packages to create and send Christmas cards with R.

A demonstration of the law of the flowering plants

Prediction

History of data science

Statistics

The day a flower blooms is one of the earliest phenomena studied with systematic data collection and analysis. The prediction rule developed nearly three centuries ago is still used by scientists – with relatively few changes – to plan harvests, manage pests, and study ecosystems stressed by climate change. In this tutorial, Jonathan Auerbach introduces the “law of the flowering plants” and demonstrates how it can be applied to modern datasets.

Jonathan Auerbach