In the feature selection chapter, we describe several search procedures ("wrappers") that can be used to optimize the number of predictors. Some techniques were described in more detail than others. Although we do describe genetic algorithms and how they can be used for reducing the dimensions of the data, this is the first of series of blog posts that...
Since I have not posted in quite a while, I wanted to let everyone know that I am still alive and kicking. The resurrection of excitement (opportunity) in the markets, quarterly reporting cycle, and the overwhelming number of unbelievable R/javascript releases have kept me from writing something good enough to justify a post. In the markets, Japan and gold...
Here is an interview with Ron Hochreiter, Assistant Professor at WU Vienna University Economics and Business. In 25 words or less tell us what you do (using German words is cheating). I consider myself as a data scientist (teaching and research) with roots in Mathematical Programming, i.e. Optimization under Uncertainty (Stochastic Programming). You were an
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A few days ago I wrote about Travis CI, and was wondering if we could integrate the testing of R packages into this wonderful platform. A reader (Vincent Arel-Bundock) pointed out in the comments that Travis was running Ubuntu that allows you to install software packages at your will.
I took a look at the documentation, and realized...
Although I have always wanted to add such feature to pander, a recent question on SO urged me to create some helper functions so that users could easily highlight some rows, columns or even just a few cells in a table and export the result to markdown,...
I wrote already about changing figure options mid-chunk in reproducible research. This can be important e.g. if you are looping through a dataset to produce a graphic for each variable but the figure width or height need to depend on properties of the variables, e.g. if you are producing histograms and want the figures to
(This article was first published on Noam Ross - R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) This week at the Davis R Users’ Group we had a great presentation by Kara Moore O’Leary on using the popbio package to examine rare plant demographics. The following is her script run through knitr. You can download the original script and associated data...
Title This is an R Markdown document. Markdown is a simple formatting syntax for authoring web pages (click the MD toolbar button for help on Markdown). When you click the Knit HTML button a web page will be generated that includes both content as well as the output of any embedded R code chunks within
Business dashboards are available in many shapes and sizes. Business dashboards are useful to create an overview of key performance indicators (KPIs) important for the business strategy and/or operations. There are many flavours of dashboard frameworks and apps available, ranging in price from thousands of dollars to open-source implementations. Apparently Read more »
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
