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Nov 6, 2026
Alaa HamdanGUEST
And I trained with one of the Egyptian, Britain, British companies called Mars, which was a great experience for me.
Alaa HamdanGUEST
And since then, I learned about biostatistics and data analysis and R programming, and I fell in love with that.
Alaa HamdanGUEST
And now here I am doing a master's degree in public health and data science, clinical data science.
Stephanie MossHOST
Wow, what a journey and how interesting that it's very different, like you say, from clinical medicine.
Eric NantzHOST
And as always, he had tremendous help from our fellow Our Wiki team members and contributors like all of you around the world with your poll requests and other wonderful suggestions.
Eric NantzHOST
And Mike, a virtue that we have always advocated for, much in the spirit of R itself, is the access to open data.
Eric NantzHOST
So many influential things can be done.
Eric NantzHOST
Whether you are just learning in data science and you want to practice your skills on some real tangible data that's outside that textbook, or if you are trying to improve a process improve the understanding of a key issue using open data is a wonderful way to do that and to share those results with the world not always is everything smooth in this aspect and sometimes things go kind of weird when something you could access from say a day ago a week ago a month ago something changes And so you got to figure out how to account for these changes.
Eric NantzHOST
And as a data scientist, do you really have time to go under those rabbit holes, if you will, to solve this? No, but luckily we have the R community to solve a lot of those issues for us.
Eric NantzHOST
And that's what this first highlight is going to do very well here.
Eric NantzHOST
And this blog post introducing not one, but two R packages that we're going to cover here in this highlight was authored by Jens von Bergman.
Eric NantzHOST
Hopefully I got that right.
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Python is free, easy to learn, and the basis of many fintech applications.
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R is free too, and built for statistical analysis, machine learning, and econometrics.
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Java runs on many systems and underlies many internet applications.
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C and C++ are optimized for speed and used in algorithmic and high-frequency trading.
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It's built for unstructured text and speech.
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Sixth, treating a normal distribution as safe for returns.
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Returns have fat tails, so it understates extreme losses.
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The takeaways.
Rob TulloGUEST
Put it into a save format.
Rob TulloGUEST
And then I had to figure out how to deal with it in R.
Rob TulloGUEST
So I found the Haven package, which is what I use to do a lot of my transformations.
Rob TulloGUEST
Most of the transformations that I did in SPSS or SAS were literally just dropping variables or maybe doing a couple of combinations.
Rob TulloGUEST
So the first time I put the map together, it turns out some districts are in the South Pacific because of Guam.
Rob TulloGUEST
Or there are the US version islands, which are nearer to Florida, but not quite.
Rob TulloGUEST
There's Puerto Rico.
Rob TulloGUEST
There's Alaska.
Peter SchmidtHOST
The hint is kind of in the name.
Peter SchmidtHOST
It's been initially based on three languages: Julia, Python, and R. JuPyThR.
Peter SchmidtHOST
More languages have been added since, and you can now code in C++ and Fortran as well, and many others if you wish.
Peter SchmidtHOST
Having said that, Python does play a key role in Jupyter, and in particular, an application inside Jupyter called Jupyter Notebooks, which I already mentioned.
Peter SchmidtHOST
Like Python itself, Jupyter has become a huge community worldwide, with its own conference and rich set of tools and applications.
Peter SchmidtHOST
Some online courses and online applications provide Jupyter as an online service, but you can also install it locally on your machine as a Python package.
Peter SchmidtHOST
I've been waxing lyrically about Jupyter, which brings me to my interview partner, Robin Wilson, who issues a note of caution when it comes to Jupyter Notebooks.
Peter SchmidtHOST
But let's hear from him himself.
Rajan PatelGUEST
Uh, sometimes we let something slip through, but, um, it's a very important goal of ours for the system to work, not only, uh, when there isn't a particular news re- news, uh, related event going on, but even during, um, during something like the swine flu, uh, that we've seen over the last month or so.
Rajan PatelGUEST
The second question is: For Stats two oh two, is a prior background in R or other general programming language recommended for the course? So, uh, experience with programming languages is recommended.
Rajan PatelGUEST
Uh, however, experience with R in particular, uh, or any particular programming language isn't, isn't necessary.
Rajan PatelGUEST
And if you, if you don't know R, if you haven't used R before, don't worry about it.
Rajan PatelGUEST
But hopefully you've used some, some statistical tool before.
Rajan PatelGUEST
Maybe, uh, maybe it's R or MATLAB or SAS, even Excel, um, well, more advanced Excel, um, or other programming languages so that, uh...
Rajan PatelGUEST
Because we'll, we'll dive into R, but I'll, I will provide a background, uh, within to R as well as Excel.
Rajan PatelGUEST
Um, but hopefully you, uh, can get off the ground, uh, running in terms of how programming languages, uh, typically work.
Fariba BhagganGUEST
... techiness for this week, I had an assignment, just like Mikayla, and I had like...
Fariba BhagganGUEST
It was to do R code, and other than that, well-
Andre CharlesHOST
Oh my goodness, R. Ugh.
Andre CharlesHOST
Sorry, go ahead.
Fariba BhagganGUEST
Plus, Mikayla, y'all don't understand.
Fariba BhagganGUEST
I hate R.
Michaela NoelHOST
[laughs]
Fariba BhagganGUEST
Like, I had to relearn R because I'm doing-
Georjeanna Wilson-DoengesGUEST
And SPSS is only one computer program for statistics.
Georjeanna Wilson-DoengesGUEST
We have R and R is a coding based one.
Georjeanna Wilson-DoengesGUEST
So SPSS is a drop down menu thing.
Georjeanna Wilson-DoengesGUEST
So it's actually less scary than an R that you would have to write some code yourself.
Georjeanna Wilson-DoengesGUEST
There's also free software.
Georjeanna Wilson-DoengesGUEST
Jamovi and JASP are two of the most popular programs that are free.
Georjeanna Wilson-DoengesGUEST
And I think that that's one of the biggest changes in me as a statistician that I learned from those students.
Georjeanna Wilson-DoengesGUEST
So shout out to all of you if you're listening.