There’s a lot going on in the development version of {tidyr}. New functions for pivoting data frames, pivot_wide() and pivot_long() are coming, and will replace the current functions, spread() and gather(). spread() and gather() will remain in the package though: You may have heard a rumour that gather/spread are going away. This is simply not true (they’ll stay around forever) but I...
In my previous post, I discussed Gartner's reviews of data science software companies. In this post, I show Forrester's coverage and discuss how radically different it is. As usual,...
Francis Anscombe's seminal paper on "Graphs in Statistical" analysis (American Statistician, 1973) effectively makes the case that looking at summary statistics of data is insufficient to identify the...
Labelling data is typically a task for end-users and is applied in own scripts or functions rather than in packages. However, sometimes it can be useful for both end-users...
From https://twitter.com/sharon000/status/1107771331012108288: From https://tidyr.tidyverse.org/dev/articles/pivot.html: There are two important new features inspired by other R packages that have been advancing of reshaping in R: The reshaping operation can be specified...
As promised in the post Learning Data Science: Modelling Basics we will now go a step further and try to predict income brackets with real world data and different...
There’s been alot of talk about “dependencies” in the R universe of late. This is not really a post about that but more of a “really, don’t do this”...
Hugo Bowne-Anderson, the host of DataFramed, the DataCamp podcast, recently interviewed Skipper Seabold, a Director of Data Science at Civis Analytics. Introducing Skipper Seabold Hugo: ...
RStudio have recently announced ‘RStudio Connect QuickStart’ which is a VM containing a full suite of RStudio’s pro tools, available to be trialled for a 45 day period. RStudio...
Opening the black-box in complex models: SHAP values. What are they and how to draw conclusions from them? With R code example!
We recently commented on excess package dependencies as representing risk in the R package ecosystem. The question remains: how much risk? Is low dependency a mere talisman, or is...
CategoriesGetting Data Tags Data Management Plot R Programming Since the initial publication of the Three Factor Model by Eugene Fama and Kenneth French in their influential 1993 paper (Common Risk Factors in the Returns...
The fine folks over at @PacketTotal bequeathed an API token on me so I cranked out an R package for it to enable more dynamic investigations work (RStudio makes...
Some random thoughts… Over the past 6 months I’ve been creating, refining, and delivering a variety of ‘Introduction to R’ training courses. The more I do this, the more I...
Andrew Mangano is the Director of eCommerce Analytics at Albertsons Companies. Part I - Modelling The reticulate package integrates Python within R and, when used with RStudio 1.2, brings the two...
In this month’s post, I set out to create a visual network of emotions. Emotion Dynamics tells us that different emotions are highly interconnected, such that one emotion morphs...
Version 7.0.0 of drake just arrived on CRAN, and it is faster and easier to use than previous releases. install.packages("drake") Recap Data analysis can be slow. A round of scientific computation can...
We did a large machine learning project at work recently. It involved two data scientists, two backend engineers and a data engineer, all working on-and-off on the R code...
DBnomics : the world’s economic database Explore all the economic data from different providers (national and international statistical institutes, central banks, etc.), for free, following the link db.nomics.world. You can also retrieve...
A new version 0.4.8 of RQuantLib reached CRAN and Debian. This release was triggered by a CRAN request for an update to the configure.ac script which was easy...
Following up on the 10th anniversary and the 1.0.0. release, we excited to share the news of the first update release 1.0.1 of Rcpp. package turned ten on...
So it is approaching AFL mens season, which means that soon everyones twitter feed, Facebook and emails will get clogged up with various tipsters. People saying they have won...
I would like to once again recommend our readers to our note on wrapr::let(), an R function that can help you eliminate many problematic NSE (non-standard evaluation) interfaces (and...
FWIW “The chance of the setwd() command having the desired effect – making the file paths work – for anyone besides its author is 0%.” You should look into...
Introduction If the practical tips for R Markdown post we talked briefly about how we can easily create professional reports directly from R scripts, without the need for converting them...
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...
ggplot – You can spot one from a mile away, which is great! And when you do it’s a silent The post Adding Custom Fonts to ggplot in R...
The eight release of littler as a CRAN package is now available, following in the thirteen-ish year history as a package started by Jeff in 2006, and joined by...
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