In 2016, 2.1 million Americans were found to have an opioid use disorder (according to SAMHSA), with drug overdose now the leading cause of injury and death in the United States. But some of the country’s top minds are working to fight this epidemic, and statisticians are helping to lead the charge. In This is Statistics’ second annual … Continue reading Statistics...
Week 7 Gold Mining and Fantasy Football Projection Roundup now available. Go check out our cheat sheet for this week. The post Gold-Mining Week 7 (2018) appeared first on...
Here is the course link. Course Description Data visualization is an integral part of the data analysis process. This course will get you introduced to rbokeh: a visualization library for interactive...
Here is the course link. Course Description This course will help you take your data visualization skills beyond the basics and hone them into a powerful member of your data science...
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I have just submitted a revised version of survHE on CRAN — it should be up very shortly. This will be version 1.0.64 and its main feature is a...
Game of Chefs is an Israeli reality cooking competition show, where chefs compete for the title of "Israel's most talented chef". The show has four stages: blind auditions, training...
The Professional Footballers’ Association (PFA) Team of the Year is released in England at the end of each season, picking the 11 most influential players in each of Britain’s leagues....
CategoriesVisualizing Data Tags Data Visualisation ggplot2 R Programming tidyverse Visualization is a great way to get an overview of credit modeling. Typically you will start by making data management and data cleaning and after this,...
Continuing our series on new features in the RStudio v1.2 preview release, we would like to introduce shinytest. shinytest is a package to perform automated testing for Shiny apps,...
A couple of weeks ago, the first of September we had satRday in Amsterdam (The Netherlands) a fantastic event hosted by GoDataDriven. Now the great talks, including my 10...
In this post, I will show you how a very basic R code can be used to estimate quality control constants needed to construct X-Individuals, X-Bar, and R-Bar charts....
CategoriesData Management Tags Databases Import Data R Programming Tips & Tricks In this article, you learn how to connect R with Excel by importing and exporting data between the two programs. Excel: pros and cons...
Starting today, recreational weed is legal in Canada. This news has some how lead me to find Cannibus Curve, a mathmatical equation to draw Cannibus….!!! So to celebrate? being 2nd...
We’re excited to announce the general availability of our newest RStudio professional product, RStudio Package Manager. RStudio Package Manager helps your team, department, or entire organization centralize and organize...
During my stay in London for the m3 conference, I also gave a talk at the R-Ladies London Meetup on Tuesday, October 16th, about one of my favorite topics:...
The standard summary outputs from the glm and lm summary methods are a case in point. If you have been using R for as long...
It’s been pretty quiet over here for a long time. But I have been busy beavering away at many interesting projects at NIWA, including a project where we developed...
I came across this post which gives a method to estimate Pi by using a circle, it’s circumscribed square and (lots of) random points within said square. Booth used...
In August of 2003 Thomas Lumley added bquote() to R 1.8.1. This gave R and R users an explicit Lisp-style quasiquotation capability. bquote() and quasiquotation are actually quite powerful....
I recently came up with the idea for a series of screencasts: I've thought about recording a screencast of an example data analysis in #rstats. I'd do it on a...
This is the last update to this strange saga… I hope. Easily two of the most popular posts on my blog are this one and this one describing a...
In R, the logical || (OR) and && (AND) operators are unique in that they are designed only to work with scalar arguments. Typically used in statements like while(iter...
Generalized Linear Models: understanding the link function Generalized Linear Models (‘GLMs’) are one of the most useful modern statistical tools, because they can be applied to many different types of data. Count,...
The last two days, I was in London for the M-cubed conference. Here are the slides from my talk about Explaining complex machine learning models with LIME: Traditional machine learning workflows...
pubchunks is a package grown out of the fulltext package. fulltext provides a single interface to many sources of full text scholarly articles. As part of the user flow in fulltext...
We knew we were on to something important early on in the process of organizing R / Medicine 2018. Even during our initial attempts to articulate the differences between...
I’ve been creating several output tables for a paper, which I usually store as sheets in an Excel file, since my collaborators are entirely in the Microsoft Office ecosystem. One issue...
We previously discussed improved support in RStudio v1.2 for SQL, D3, Python, and C/C++. Today, we’re excited to announce improved support for the Stan programming language. The Stan programming...
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