Blas M. Benito, PhD
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R Code Optimization IV: Practical Tools and Workflow
The fourth and final post in the series, covering profiling with profvis, benchmarking with microbenchmark and bench, and the iterative optimization workflow that brings it all together.
Blas M. Benito
Last updated on Dec 23, 2025
12 min read
R Code Optimization III: Hardware Utilization and Performance
The third post in a four-part series on code optimization, covering vectorization, parallelization, and memory management techniques to maximize computational efficiency.
Blas M. Benito
Last updated on Dec 23, 2025
8 min read
R Code Optimization II: Language, Design, and Readability
The second post in a series on code optimization, exploring how programming languages, clean code principles, and how algorithm design shapes code efficiency.
Blas M. Benito
Last updated on Dec 23, 2025
4 min read
R Code Optimization I: Foundations and Principles
The first post in a series focused on code optimization, establishing the foundational principles and decision framework for when to optimize code.
Blas M. Benito
Last updated on Dec 22, 2025
6 min read
Analyzing Epidemiological Time Series With The R Package {distantia}
Tutorial on the applications of the R package {distantia} to the analysis of epidemiological time series.
Blas M. Benito
Last updated on Dec 22, 2025
17 min read
Coding a Minimalistic Dynamic Time Warping Library with R
Tutorial on how to implement dynamic time warping in R
Blas M. Benito
Last updated on Dec 22, 2025
26 min read
A Gentle Intro to Dynamic Time Warping
Brief introduction to Dynamic Time Warping with a conceptual step-by-step break down.
Blas M. Benito
Last updated on Dec 22, 2025
8 min read
My Reading List: Data Science
Live post with a curated list of high-quality data science posts and videos I found enlightening.
Blas M. Benito
Last updated on Jan 25, 2025
5 min read
Mapping Categorical Predictors to Numeric With Target Encoding
Target encoding is commonly used to map categorical variables to numeric with the objective of facilitating exploratory data analysis and machine learning modeling. This post covers the basics of this method, and explains how and when to use it.
Blas M. Benito
Last updated on Dec 22, 2025
19 min read
Everything You Don't Need to Know About Variance Inflation Factors
Deep explanation of what Variance Inflation Factors (VIF) are, how they work, what they really mean, and how they are used to manage multicollinearity in linear models.
Blas M. Benito
Last updated on Dec 22, 2025
16 min read
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