Following a teaser tweet two days ago, we are thrilled to announce that binb version 0.0.1 arrived on CRAN earlier this evening. binb extends a little running joke^Htradition I created a while back and joins three other CRAN packages offering RMarkdo...
This report discusses some problems that can arise when attempting to import PostScript images into R, when the PostScript image contains coordinate transformations that skew ...
Here is the track link. Track Details In this track, you’ll learn the skills needed to get you up and running with data science in R using the tidyverse. The tidyverse...
Despite having sailed through the core components of this year’s Talk Like A Pirate Day R post a few months ago, time has been an enemy of late so...
In a web application, routing is the process of using URLs to drive the user interface. Routing adds more possibilities and flexibility while building a complex and advanced web...
Customers lifetime value (LTV or CLV) is one of the cornerstones of product analytics because we need to make a lot of decisions for which the LTV is a...
Today we’re excited to announce Radix, a new R Markdown format optimized for scientific and technical communication. Features of Radix include: Reader-friendly typography that adapts well to mobile devices. Flexible figure...
Registration is now open for my 1.5-day workshop on deep learning with Keras and TensorFlow using R. It will take place on November 8th & 9th in Munich, Germany. You can...
I have yet another Meetup talk to announce: On Wednesday, October 26th, I’ll be talking about ‘Decoding The Black Box’ at the Frankfurt Data Science Meetup. Particularly cool with this meetup...
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The second Le Monde mathematical puzzle in the new competition is sheer trigonometry: When in the above figures both triangles ABC are isosceles and the brown segments are all...
Intro One of the features of functions of smooth package is the ability to work with intermittent data and the data with periodically occurring zeroes. Intermittent time series is...
I had a great time at the EARL Conference in London last week, and as always came away invigorated by all of the applications of R that were presented...
CategoriesData Management Tags Data Manipulation R Programming Tips & Tricks Before running your data analysis, every data scientist needs to make data management, data cleaning and data selection. This can be done in very...
CategoriesData Management Tags Data Manipulation R Programming Tips & Tricks I must admit that data cleaning sometimes feels like the necessary data step before the fun and also much more value creating process: Analysis!...
When I first started working as a data scientist (or something like it) I was told to program in C++ and Java. Then R came along and it was...
Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to change industries across the board, yet few organizations are able to capture its value and realize a real return-on-investment. The reality is...
We are thrilled to announce our (my and Nina Zumel’s) paper on the dot-pipe has been accepted by the R-Journal! A huge “thank you” to the reviewers and editors...
We are pleased to announce a new demo Shiny application that uses machine learning to predict annual payments on individual insurance claims for 10 years into the future. This post...
Sharing data sets for collaboration or publication has always been challenging, but it’s become increasingly problematic as complex and high dimensional data sets have become ubiquitous in the life...
The wayback🔗 package has had an update to more efficiently retrieve mementos and added support for working with the Internet Archive’s advanced search+scrape API. Search/Scrape The search/scrape interface lets...
This post will investigate using Principal Components as part of a momentum strategy. Recently, I ran across a post from … Continue reading →
The breakDown package explains predictions from black-box models, such as random forest, xgboost, svm or neural networks (it works for lm and glm as well). As a result you...
Back in the “olden days” of the 1970s it was apparently not unknown for statisticians to create 3D visualizations using tinkertoys. For some inexplicable reason, the advent...
Here is a link to the podcast. Introducing Renée Teate Hugo: Hi there, Renée, and welcome to DataFramed. Renée: Hi Hugo. Great to be here. Hugo: ...
This blog post is one of a series highlighting specific images from my book Data Visualization: charts, maps and interactive … More
The shinydashboard provides a well-designed dashboard theme for Shiny apps, and allows for an easy assembly of a dashboard from a couple of basic building blocks. The package is...
In the post (https://statcompute.wordpress.com/2018/09/15/how-to-avoid-for-loop-in-r), I briefly introduced the idea of vectorization and potential use cases. One might be wondering why we even need the Vectorize() function given the fact...
Today I am very happy to announce that during my stay in London for the m3 conference, I’ll also be giving a talk at the R-Ladies London Meetup on...
This tutorial will introduce the Deep Learning classification task with Keras. With focus on one-hot encoding, layer shapes, train & evaluate the model.How to create a sequential model in Keras...
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