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By Olga Davydova, Data Monsters.

Keeping R Shiny code organized can be a challenge. One method to organize your Shiny UI and Server code is to use a combination of R’s list and source functions. Another method to organize you’re Shiny code is through modularization techniques. Here though, we’re going concentrate on the list and source options.

This month, The Data Incubator is hosting another free webinar on data science. This time it features an interview with Jake Porway, founder of DataKind. Jake and DataKind are doing amazing things, so I hope you can check out the webinar.

Logfile analysis allows website owners a deep insight about how Google and other search engines crawl their pages. How often does a bot come by a page, which pages are rarely or not at all visited by the bots? For which pages does the bot get errors? All these and more questions can be answered by a log file analysis.

In this short note I will write about the httr package and my need to detectwhether or not an HTTP request had been redirected or not – it turns out this is quite easy. Along the way I will also show how to access information of an HTTP-conversation other than the actual content to be retrieved.

By Brandon Morris, Arizona State University

Amazon SageMaker now allows customers to update or disassociate lifecycle configurations for notebook instances with the renewed APIs. You can associate, switch between, or disable lifecycle configurations as necessary by stopping your notebook instance and using the UpdateNotebookInstance API at any point of the notebook instance’s lifespan.