Two related fallacies I see in machine learning practice are the shift and balance fallacies (for an earlier simple fallacy, please see here). They involve thinking logistic regression has a bit simpler structure that it actually does, and also thinking logistic regression is a bit less powerful than it actually […] [Read more...]
“To grasp how different a million is from a billion, think about it like this: A million seconds is a little under two weeks; a billion seconds is about thirty-two years.” “One of the pleasures of looking at the world through mathematical eyes is that you can see certain patterns ...
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Learning R for a little over a year now was and still is a great experience. But a year isn’t a lot, so why make a blog post about it?
I believe that pausing what one is doing and periodically evaluating if this pursuit is ... [Read more...]
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Our community manager Stefanie Butland, and one of our software review editors Brooke Anderson, are speaking remotely at an R-Ladies East Lansing meetup Thursday, October 22nd. They will talk about our how to g...
“Overengineering is the act of designing a product to be more robust or have more features than often necessary for its intended use, or for a process to be unnecessarily complex or inefficient.” This is how the Wikipedia page on overengineering starts. It is the diligent engineer who wants to ... [Read more...]
“Overengineering is the act of designing a product to be more robust or have more features than often necessary for its intended use, or for a process to be unnecessarily complex or inefficient.” This is how the Wikipedia page on overengineering starts. It is the diligent engineer who wants to ... [Read more...]
We’ve released the newest version of NIMBLE on CRAN and on our website. NIMBLE is a system for building and sharing analysis methods for statistical models, especially for hierarchical models and computationally-intensive methods (such as MCMC and SMC). Version 0.10.0 provides new features, improvements in speed of building models and ...
tl;dr As of late 2020 there are many dashboarding/reporting/BI tools out there, with the most popular ones being Tableau, PowerBI, and R Shiny. The question quickly becomes – “How can I determine the right tool for my particular needs?” Today we’ll compare two of the most widely used ...
Spatial Data Analysis Using Artificial Neural Networks, Part 2 Richard E. Plant Additional topic to accompany Spatial Data Analysis in Ecology and Agriculture using R, Second Edition http://psfaculty.plantsciences.ucdavis.edu/plant/sda2.htm Chapter and section references are contained in that text, which is referred to as SDA2. Data ...
Due to the current sanitary situation, the Grenoble (France) R user group has decided to switch 100% online. The advantage to this is that our talks will now open for anybody around the globe 🙂 The next talk will be on October 22nd, 2020 at 5PM (FR): Organising exams in R Package {exams} ...
Join Data Natives for a discussion on how to curb Climate Change and better protect our environment for the next generation. Get inspired by innovative solutions which use data, machine learning and AI technologies for GOOD. Lubomila Jordanova, Founder of Plan A, and featured speaker, explains that “the IT sector ... [Read more...]
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This is the latest in my series of
screencasts demonstrating how to use the
tidymodels packages, from starting out with first modeling steps to tuning more complex models. Today’s screencast uses a smaller dataset but lets us try out some impor...
This post is part of a series on new features in RStudio 1.4, currently available as a preview release.
What’s a Command Palette?
Just as a paint palette gives the artist instant access to all their colors, a command palette is a s... [Read more...]
Last Friday on Monday, we held our online R-HTA workshop. We will discuss the feedback and agree on ways forward in the consortium Scientific Committee soon, but I thought I’d write down some personal reactions to the very interesting discussions... [Read more...]
While reading up on modern soccer analytics (I’ve had an itch for soccer and tracking data recently, I stumbled upon an excellent set of tutorials written by Devin Pleuler. In particular, his notebook on non-negative matrix factorization (NNMF)...
Probably the most popular models in modern investment management are factor models. Growing out of the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), factor models were first theorized in Arbitrage Portfolio Theory and the concept was expanded and applied to risk premiums by Nobel-laureate Eugene Fama and Kenneth French (French, surprisingly, did ...
The CDC continues to “deliver” in 2020, this time by changing the JSON response of one of the hidden APIs that my {cdcfluview} package wraps. CDC: So helpful! It was a quick fix, and version 0.9.2 passed automated CRAN checks in ~9.42 minutes! 💙 the CRAN team! Plus, a special shout-out to Ian-McGovern (GH ...