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&...

This is part one of our three part series Part 1: API as a package: Structure (this post) Part 2: API as a package: Logging (to be published) Part 3: API as a package: Testing (to be published) Introduction At Jumping Rivers we were recently tasked with taking a prototype application built in {...

This is the final part of our three part series Part 1: Python API deployment with RStudio Connect: Flask Part 2: Python API deployment with RStudio Connect: FastAPI Part 3: Python API deployment with RStudio Connect: Streamlit (this post) RStudio Connect is a platform which is well known for providing the ability to ...

This is part two of our three part series Part 1: Python API deployment with RStudio Connect: Flask Part 2: Python API deployment with RStudio Connect: FastAPI (this post) Part 3: Python API deployment with RStudio Connect: Streamlit (to be published) RStudio Connect is a platform which is well known for providing the ...

This is part one of our three part series Part 1: Python API deployment with RStudio Connect: Flask (this post) Part 2: Python API deployment with RStudio Connect: FastAPI (to be published) Part 3: Python API deployment with RStudio Connect: Streamlit (to be published) RStudio recently announced they are changing to Posit. Their ...