Machine Learning Powered Naughty List
Published: December 18, 2025.
A festive, tongue-in-cheek machine learning experiment that puts the Jumping Rivers team on Santa’s Naughty List.
Amieroh Abrahams
Amieroh discovered her love for R and Python while studying Oceanography. She has a wide range of experience in data analysis and training, enjoying extracting meaningful insight from data and making data science accessible to everyone.
Jumping Rivers Webinar 5th Release
Published: December 8, 2025.
Level up your Shiny skills with Jumping Rivers’ free 55-minute accessibility webinars, designed to help you build inclusive, professional apps that work for everyone. Join the community, learn practical techniques, and unlock exclusive discounts when you register.
Boost Your Career with Jumping Rivers Training
Published: November 27, 2025.
Start 2026 strong with Jumping Rivers’ hands-on online training courses, designed to boost your skills, confidence, and career prospects in just a few focused hours.
Jumping Rivers Webinar 4th Release
Published: November 17, 2025.
Stay ahead of the curve with Jumping Rivers’ next free monthly webinar, 'Machine Learning with Python', where you’ll level up your data skills in just 55 minutes and unlock exclusive learning perks.
Elevate Your Skills with JR Training
Published: October 28, 2025.
Boost your data expertise with hands-on, expert-led training from Jumping Rivers. Our experienced data scientists deliver practical courses in R, Python, Git, AI, and more, designed to help you apply new skills immediately. With flexible online and in-person options, comprehensive materials, and tailored in-house programmes, Jumping Rivers empowers individuals and teams to thrive in today’s data-driven world.
Jumping Rivers Webinar 3rd Release
Published: October 13, 2025.
Join our free Jumping Rivers webinar, “Understanding Posit: Ecosystem and Use Cases,” to discover how Posit tools like Connect, Workbench, and Package Manager can power scalable, collaborative data workflows.
Jumping Rivers Webinar 2nd Release
Published: September 15, 2025.
Our free monthly webinar series is back, and the first session on 21 August – “Reports that Write Themselves: Automated Reporting with Quarto” was a fantastic success! It was wonderful to see the Jumping Rivers community grow, with so many data professionals joining, engaging, and sharing ideas.
Inside Jumping Rivers
Published: September 9, 2025.
At Jumping Rivers, we streamline data workflows with engineering, automation, and analytics. We handle the tasks you can’t, optimise the ones you didn’t know could be improved, and work alongside your team to make operations easier, smarter, and faster.
How We Do Training at Jumping Rivers: Seamless, Expert-Led, and Tailored to You
Published: August 12, 2025.
When it comes to data science training, one size doesn’t fit all. At Jumping Rivers, we’ve built our reputation around delivering customised, expert-led training that actually fits your team’s goals, tools, and workflows - whether you're in healthcare, government, finance, or beyond.
Jumping Rivers Webinar Launch
Published: July 8, 2025.
Are you ready to expand your knowledge in R, Python, Shiny, and Posit while becoming a more valuable asset to your team? Jumping Rivers is here to help you do just that with our free monthly webinar series designed for data professionals at all levels.
Why JR’s Training is Different
Published: June 9, 2025.
At Jumping Rivers, we believe training should be more than just a tick-box exercise. It should be transformative. Whether you’re learning R, Python, SQL, Git or Posit for the first time or diving into advanced topics like machine learning and Quarto, our courses are built to help you actually use what you learn — not just watch someone code.
Creating an animated Christmas tree in R
Published: December 24, 2024.
In this short Christmassy blog we will show you how to use {ggplot2}, {sf} and {gganimate} to create a festive animation of a sparkling Christmas tree.
Best Practices for Data Cleaning and Preprocessing
Published: August 17, 2023.
Before you embark on your data science journey, it's crucial to equip yourself with the essential tools for data cleaning and preprocessing. Join us as we explore the vital role that data cleaning and preprocessing play in ensuring the quality and integrity of your datasets.
Why should I use R: Part 3
Published: May 18, 2023.
If you've been using Excel for a while, then you've likely entered your comfort zone and remained there. Let's help you make the wise switch to R. In this blog, we will explore the various ways to handle dates in Excel and R.
Why should I use R: Part 2
Published: April 13, 2023.
If you've been using Excel to create plots from your data for a while, you may have got to a point where you want more customisation options, or reproducibility. In this post, we discuss the differences between creating plots in Excel and using ggplot2 in R!
Why should I use R?: Part 1
Published: February 23, 2023.
Are you an Excel user who's considering switching over to using R? In this blog we'll use both to compare common data wrangling steps.
