Jobs for R-users
By Gabriel Vasconcelos The Julia programming language is growing fast and its efficiency and speed is now well-known. Even-though I think R is the best language for Data Science, sometimes we just need more. Modelling is an important part of … Continue reading →
There are many ways to query data with R. This post shows you three of the most common ways: Using DBI Using dplyr syntax Using R Notebooks Background Several recent package improvements make it...
A recent riddle that I pondered about during a drive to Luxembourg last weekend was about splitting a square field into three lots of identical...
17.10.2017 A new version of Bio7 for Windows and Linux is available. The MacOSX version will be released soon, too. The application Bio7 is an integrated development environment for...
What a wonderful week at the Astrostat summer school in Autrans! The setting was superb, on the high Vercors plateau overlooking both Grenoble and Valence , with...
A new rOpenSci package provides access to data to which users may already have directly contributed, and for which contribution is fun, keeps you fit, and helps made the...
Plotly serves a large bioinformatics and biostats research community. These users leverage the uniquely interactive features of plotly charts for dendrograms, heatmaps, volcano plots, and other visualizations common in this field....
Note: cross-posted with the Stack Overflow blog. If you hang out on Meta Stack Overflow, you may have noticed news from time to time about A/B tests of various features...
One of our senior data scientists, Olga Mierzwa-Sulima spoke at the userR! conference in Brussels to a packed house. The seats were full and there were audience members spilling...
R is an incredible tool for reproducible research. In the present series of blog posts I want to show how one can easily acquire data within an R session,...
For those who aren’t familiar with the colourpicker package, it provides a colour picker for R that can be used in Shiny, as well as...
The ROpenSci team has started publishing a new series of interviews with the goal of “demystifying the creative and development processes of R community members”. I had the great...
This weekend, I decided it was time: I was going to update my Python environment and get Keras and Tensorflow installed so I could start doing tutorials (particularly for...
Coming back to markets and trading (after a while), the feeling has been that the markets, and the economy as a whole, are doing good. How good? Since I...
Introduction It is hard to wander around New York City without seeing rows of dozens of bright blue Citibikes planted in the middle of busiest nooks The post Citibike...
Today we are excited to announce the availability of RStudio Professional Drivers. There are, of course, many ways to connect to...
I’m exploring the idea of adding a function or set of functions to the simstudy package that would make it possible to easily generate non-linear data. One way to...
Sales, customer service, supply chain and logistics, manufacturing… no matter which department you’re in, you more than likely care about backorders. Backorders are products that are temporarily out of...
There have been several blog posts going around about why one would use Docker with R. In this post I’ll try to add a DevOps point of...
In this post we will explore how to make SVG tables in R using plotly. The tables are visually appealing and can be modified on the fly using simple...
Traffic fatalities in the news Fatalities from traffic crashes have been in the news in New Zealand recently, for tragic reasons. For once, data beyond the short term have...
Take a look at this list of 13 hot startups, from a list compiled by Alex Bresler. Perhaps one of them is the next Juicero? FAR ATHERA: A CLINICAL...
R is a powerful language used widely for business analytics. More companies are seeking business analysts with knowledge of R. In this R for Business Analysts The post R...
By Yuri Fonseca In this post we are going to make an Uber assignment simulation and calculate some metrics of waiting time through simulation. Setting Suppose we live in...
In this occasional series, we interview someone using a loosely defined set of interview questions for the purpose of “Demystifying the Creative/Development Process of the R Community”. This interview...
In this 2nd part of the series “Practical Machine Learning with R and Python – Part 2”, I continue where I left off in my first post Practical Machine Learning...
Three years ago I referenced the Seinfeld Streak used in an earlier post of regular updates to to the Rcpp Gallery: This is sometimes called Jerry Seinfeld's secret to productivity:...
Introduction I often see advertisement for The Bold and The Beautiful, I have never watched a single episode of the series. Still, even as a data scientist you might...
Last week's R-themed crossword from R-Ladies DC was popular, so here's another R-related crossword, this time by Barry Rowlingson and published on page 39 of the June 2003 issue...
Jobs for R users
