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<a href='https://ropensci.org/es/blog/2025/06/05/mentors-2025/'>Read it in: Español</a>. We are excited to introduce the new team of mentors for the rOpenSci Champions Program! This year, we have ten very talented individuals, all from Latin America, who bring a unique combination of experience, enthusiasm, and commitment to open science. Some of them have already been part of the program in previous editions, either as mentors or Champions, and today, they return to continue strengthening this community. Our new mentors come …

Anything you can do with Bayesian inference you can do in other ways. Bayesian inference is a bit like calculus: You can do derivatives and integrals without calculus (indeed, mathematicians in pre-Newtonian times were able to compute limits, with care), but calculus makes it a lot easier. Similarly, I find that Bayesian inference makes it a lot easier to combine information.

2025-06-05

This came up in comments a few years ago: Anything you can do with Bayesian inference you can do in other ways. Bayesian inference is a bit like calculus: You can do derivatives and integrals without calculus (indeed, mathematicians in … Continue reading → …

When are AI/ML models unlikely to help with decision-making?

2025-06-05

This is Jessica. Enthusiasm for integrating predictive models–most recently LLMs–to support or even replace human decision-makers can be found in many domains these days, from medicine to financial investments to content moderation. Surely not all decisions are better made with … Continue reading → …

Let It Flow: recreating a FACS plot with ggplot

2025-06-05

It’s plot recreation time! In this post, we’ll look at how we can recreate a plot in R. I thought it might be useful to provide the solution but also to detail the process I went through to get there. We have a FACS plot taken from a …

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New Mentoring Team, Same Open Science Spirit

2025-06-05

Read it in: Español. We are excited to introduce the new team of mentors for the rOpenSci Champions Program! This year, we have ten very talented individuals, all from Latin America, who bring a unique combination of experience, enthusiasm, and commit…

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R version of Probabilistic Machine Learning (for longitudinal data) Reserving (work in progress)

2025-06-05

R version Examples of use of Probabilistic Machine Learning (for longitudinal data) Reserving

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Rethinking Image Formats

2025-06-05

Adding images to a web page used to be straightforward. You’d add the img tag to the HTML, set the src attribute to the appropriate URL and, hopefully, write some informative alt text. (You might also add some CSS, either inline or via a styles…

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