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I’ve heard about a number of consulting companies, that decided to use simple linear model instead of a black box model with higher performance, because ,,client wants to understand...
New Features As promised, we kept on working on our bounceR package. For once, we changed the interface: users now do not have to choose a number of tuning...
These are my sketchnotes for Sam Charrington’s podcast This Week in Machine Learning and AI about Practical Deep Learning with Rachel Thomas: Sketchnotes from TWiMLAI talk: Practical Deep Learning with...
Every inch of sky’s got a star Every inch of skin’s got a scar (Everything Now, Arcade Fire) I think that a very good way to start with R...
We’ve released the newest version of NIMBLE on CRAN and on our website. Version 0.6-11 has important new features, notably support for Bayesian nonparametric mixture modeling, and more are...
In this post, I will illustrate the use of prediction intervals for the comparison of measurement methods. In the example, a new spectral method for measuring whole blood hemoglobin...
Many types of machine learning classifiers, not least commonly-used techniques like ensemble models and neural networks, are notoriously difficult to interpret. If the model produces a surprising label for...
R Tip: be wary of “...“. The following code example contains an easy error in using the R function unique(). vec1
Throughout the last years I noticed the following happening with a number of people. One of those people was actually yours truely a few years back. Person is aware...
Have you ever wondered how you create or use Plotly (plotly.js) on Datazar? No? Well here it is anyway.Datazar’s live chart editor allows you to create custom D3js charts with...
INTRODUCTION With flexdashboard, you can easily create interactive dashboards for R. What is amazing about it is that with R Markdown, you can publish a group of related data...
You can catch a bit of the @rOpenSci 2018 Unconference experience at home w with this short-ish ‘splainer video on how to use the new middlechild package (https://github.com/ropenscilabs/middlechild) &...
Today I decided to create a new repository on GitHub where I am sharing code to do spreadsheet data manipulation in R.The first version of the repository and R...
I’ve been using keras and TensorFlow for a while now - and love its simplicity and straight-forward way to modeling. As part of the latest update to my Workshop...
How to Read in and Clean Your Facebook Data - I recently learned that you can download all of your Facebook data, so I decided to check...
After my series of post on classification algorithms, it’s time to get back to R codes, this time for quantile regression. Yes, I still want to get a better...
There's growing awareness that the data we collect, and in particular the variables we include as factors in our predictive models, can lead to unwanted bias in outcomes: from...
OverviewIn this post, I would like to introduce my new R package GLMMadaptive for fitting mixed-effects models for non-Gaussian grouped/clustered outcomes using marginal maximum likelihood.Admittedly, there is a number...
Updates I’ve made small updates to two of my R packages on CRAN: ggseas (seasonal adjustment on the fly for ggplot2 graphics) and Tcomp (tourism forecasting competition data). Neither...
R, Julia, Python – todays data scientists have the choice between numerous different programming languages, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. Would it not be convenient to bring...
“The way to change the world is through individual responsibility and taking local action in your own community.” – Jeff Bridges Over the past few years, R’s adoption has...
Introduction Deducer is a free and open source Graphical User Interface for the R software, one that provides beginners a way to point-and-click their way through analyses. It also...
Emacs is the swiss-army chainsaw of software, the ultimate killer app. This article explains the basics of using R with Emacs and ESS. Continue reading → The post Using R...
The World Cup starts today! The tournament which runs from June 14 through July 15 is probably the most popular sporting event in the world. if you are a...
Provided different probability distributions, animate independent sample distributions to demonstrate mode variability. There is a thorough code description with some subtle tips and tricks. ...
Introduction I never thought that I’d be programming software in my career. I started using R a little over 2 years now and it’s been one of the most important decisions in...
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a blog post about slopegraphs. There was some polite interest and it was a good chance to practice my functional programming skills...
Abstract A good understanding of the statistical procedure used to calculate trisomy 21 (Down syndrome) risk in combined first trimester screening is a precondition for taking an informed decision on...
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