At Jumping Rivers we’re all about getting involved in the R community! As such, we host multiple events throughout the year. Read on for information about what we have planned so far for 202...

If you’re thinking of picking up a new skill in the new year, take a look at our upcoming public training courses! We have plenty of introductory courses coming up, both online and in-person...

This week, we’ve been reminding ourselves of some of the amazing talks from the Shiny in Production conference in October. The recordings are now up on our YouTube channel, for anyone to vie...

Data science and data engineering are incredibly cognitively demanding professions. As data professionals, we are required to leverage both our analytical/engineering skills and our interpersonal ...

It has been 6 months since the launch of Diffify, our website for comparing package releases. We are delighted to announce that, in addition to CRAN’s 20,000 R packages, you can now track 16...

Matplotlib is one of the longest standing and most comprehensive plotting libraries for Python. It is mostly used for creating static plots and its flexible customisation options make it a great c...

Here at Jumping Rivers we like to keep our courses up to date so we can bring you training on the latests tools and technologies. To this end, we have recently added two new courses to our listing...

Refactoring Russian Doll Code Recently, I’ve been working with an environmental scientist to refactor a large R package. Let’s call her Jane. Jane inherited a mess of code, and had to ...

Introduction This is part the final part of our three part series Part 1: API as a package: Structure Part 2: API as a package: Logging Part 3: API as a package: Testing (this post) This blog post is a follow on to our API as a package series, which looks to expand ...

It will come as no great surprise that here at Jumping Rivers, we are huge advocates for learning data skills. There are many benefits to learning at least some basic data skills, even if you don&...