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Hello world! My name is Michelle Caler, and I am Freya’s most junior Data Scientist. As I mentioned in a previous blog post, I used to be an Instructor in the Department of Physics and Engineering at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. Making the decision to leave academia was...

Do you want to make a web application in 30 minutes or less? Do you want to quickly prototype your development ideas?  Then you should learn about JHipster. What is JHipster? JHipster is a development platform to quickly generate, develop and deploy modern web applications and microservices.  You can...

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The Problem: Poor Server Performance from Inefficient Java Programs I inherited a Java program for a major OEM that was written by another developer. It was pretty daunting due to my being new to the Java language and the programmer being advanced. Also, the application was doing a lot...

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Data Analytics: Expectations for 2023    The use of data analytics will become more common in workplaces of all sizes as businesses strive to make better decisions faster. As a result, data and analytics will play an integral role in driving success for businesses worldwide. Companies embracing data-driven decision-making...

There comes a time in every organization when you need to sit down and evaluate where you are on a cultural level. Are our values still relevant to the Freya team? Have our values kept up with our evolution as a business? We asked these questions throughout last year,...

The following essay was Published in Drexel University Publishing Group’s annual collection (known as The 33rd”) in 2014 as the first-place winner of the Zelda Provenzano Endowed STEM Writing Award. In honor of the 207th anniversary of Ada Lovelace’s birth (December 10th, 2022) it is reprinted here with permission...

How to Create Dynamic Tabs in R Markdown   Tutorial on programmatically generating tab headings for multiple figures in HTML reports Freya Systems Extension of Previous Tabsets Tutorial A previous tutorial, “How to use tabsets in R Markdown”, introduced tabsets for grouping figures together into an interactive instance. In...

Learn which technologies combine to make data a critical organizational asset Read our tutorial below on space-efficient displays of multiple figures in HTML reports using Quarto and R. What is Quarto? Quarto is a new open source scientific and technical publishing system created by Posit (formerly RStudio). Quarto is...

In order for a flight vehicle to be safe and reliable, regular aircraft structural maintenance needs to be performed to repair worn-out components. Some components have a predictable wear rate and do well with a time-based or usage-based maintenance schedule, but many components are more random in their failure...

The Goal: Space Saving Displays for Similar Figures in an HTML Report R Markdown is a fantastic tool for R users seeking to combine data visualization and analysis in a single reproducible deliverable. However, there are instances in which the volume of figures required clogs up the report, which...

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Freya Team July 2020