CARstan and the new brms

Finally Stan can do spatial modeling using CARstan module. Also, the new version (1.8.0) of the brms package also has that capability wrapped in.

The R community is one of R's best features

Excellent summary here.

Useful tricks when including images in Rmarkdown documents

Very useful post.

Lesser known dplyr tricks

Here are some useful dplyr tricks.

Mortality data

1. CDC Compressed Mortality File
2. U.S. County-Level Natality and Mortality Data, 1915-2007 (ICPSR 36603)

Interesting Kaggle data

Here is the list:

1. 2014 American Community Survey;
2. Death in the United States
3. Online Auctions Dataset
4. US county-level mortality
5. U.S. Pollution Data
6. Datascience Universities across US

Russian demographic data source

This is comprehensive list of Russian demographic data sources.

Good data source

Common Crawl provides some very interesting data!

Gelman's MrP in R - What is this all about?

A simple example here.