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Impressions from useR! 2021

July 23, 2021 | Mirai Solutions

The useR! conference took place as a global online conference and we are eager to share some impressions. This year’s useR! conference was quite different from those in the past due to its virtual and global design: its schedule was almost 24/7 an...

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Hosting Shiny Apps with Shiny Server

July 23, 2021 | Peter Solymos

Shiny Server is one of the most popular options to host unlimited Shiny web applications and interactive R markdown documents for free.

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Responsible Machine Learning

July 23, 2021 | Przemyslaw Biecek

Yesterday Olga Tokarczuk (2018 Nobel Prize in Literature) said in an interview that when she thinks about literature, she no longer thinks about books!!!So, how should we effectively tell the most important story in predictive modelling i.e. The story ...

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How to Calculate Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) in R

July 23, 2021 | finnstats

Root Mean Square Error In R, The root mean square error (RMSE) allows us to measure how far predicted values are from observed values... The post How to Calculate Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) in R appeared first on finnstats. [Read more...]

rOpenSci News Digest, July 2021

July 22, 2021 | rOpenSci - open tools for open science

Dear rOpenSci friends, it’s time for our monthly news roundup! You can read this post on our blog. Now let’s dive into the activity at and around rOpenSci! 🔗 rOpenSci HQ Great news for fans of statistics and software! rOpenSc... [Read more...]

Microsoft365R: testers wanted

July 22, 2021 | Hong Ooi

by Hong Ooi Microsoft365R author here. I've just updated the package on GitHub with the following features: Add support for shared mailboxes to get_business_outlook(). To access a shared mailbox, supply one of the arguments shared_mbox_id, shared_mbox_name or shared_mbox_email specifying the ID, ... [Read more...]

How I resurrected my ancient PhD thesis using R/bookdown (and some other tools)

July 22, 2021 | nsaunders

I’ve long admired the look of publications generated using the R bookdown package, and thought it would be fun and educational to publish one myself. The problem is that I am not writing a book and have no plans to do so any time soon. Then I remembered that ... [Read more...]

How to perform ANCOVA in R

July 22, 2021 | finnstats

ANCOVA in R, Analysis of covariance is used to measure the main effect and interaction effects of categorical variables on a continuous dependent variable... The post How to perform ANCOVA in R appeared first on finnstats.

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ggdist: Make a Raincloud Plot to Visualize Distribution in ggplot2

July 21, 2021 | Business Science

The ggdist package is a ggplot2 extension that is made for visualizing distributions and uncertainty. We’ll show see how ggdist can be used to make a raincloud plot. R-Tips Weekly This article is part of R-Tips Weekly, a weekly video tutorial that sh...

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Top 3 Coding Best Practices from the Shiny Contest

July 21, 2021 | Nick Strayer

Recently we wrapped up another round of the Shiny Contest, and, as always, the entries were terrific. A previous post announced and discussed the winners, but we wanted to take a moment to highlight some of the examples of fantastic code w...

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Handling Splits with SwimmeR

July 21, 2021 | Welcome to Swimming + Data Science on Swimming + Data Science

Splits are generally reported in one of two formats, cumulative or lap. When working with data I find lap format to be more useful, but what’s most useful is to have all splits in the same format. This post discusses how to do just that with data from swimming ... [Read more...]

Machine learning in a hurry: what I’ve learned from the SLICED ML competition

July 21, 2021 | David Robinson

This summer I’ve been competing in the SLICED machine learning competition, where contestants have two hours to open a new dataset, build a predictive model, and be scored as a Kaggle submission. Contestants are graded primarily on model performance, but also get points for visualization and storytelling, and from ... [Read more...]

ConfusionTableR has made it to CRAN

July 21, 2021 | Gary Hutson

In my dusty GitHub repository, sitting there, was a gem of a tool for tidying the outputs of a machine learning classification model into a record and row-level view for storage in databases. It has taken me time to get this to CRAN, as the dreaded closure, not subsettable, plagues ...

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How to Set Up ShinyProxy to Host Shiny Apps

July 21, 2021 | Peter Solymos

ShinyProxy is a free and open-source platform to deploy containerized web applications and is packed with enterprise features.

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Why use Purrr?

July 21, 2021 | Laura Swales

This week we spoke to Xinye Li, Head of Data Science at Mango Solutions, to talk about his career thus... The post Why use Purrr? appeared first on Mango Solutions. [Read more...]

10 new books added to Big Book of R

July 20, 2021 | Oscar

21 July 2021 In this post I’m highlighting 10 new books added to Big Book of R. Thank you to the authors for writing them and thanks to R Posts you might have missed who I got a bunch of these from. Hiring Data Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers Roy … The post 10 ...

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Latin R talks about the Trials of Starting a Conference in Latin America

July 20, 2021 | R Consortium

R Consortium talks to Yanina Bellini Saibene, Riva Quiroga, and Natalia da Silva on starting up a conference in Latin America, the importance of networking, and some of the difficulties... The post Latin R talks about the Trials of Starting a Conference in Latin America appeared first on R Consortium. [Read more...]

Packet Maze: Solving a CyberDefenders PCAP Puzzle with R, Zeek, and tshark

July 20, 2021 | hrbrmstr

It was a rainy weekend in southern Maine and I really didn’t feel like doing chores, so I was skimming through RSS feeds and noticed a link to a PacketMaze challenge in the latest This Week In 4n6. Since it’s also been a while since I’ve done ... [Read more...]

R Ladies Montevideo, Uruguay, Explains How to Create a High Quality Conference in the Southern Hemisphere

July 20, 2021 | R Consortium

R Consortium talks to Daniela Vázquez of R Ladies Montevideo on how they are building community in Latin America and trying to host a conference that people would attend. The... The post R Ladies Montevideo, Uruguay, Explains How to Create a High Quality Conference in the Southern Hemisphere appeared ...

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Time Travel with py datatable 1.0

July 19, 2021 | Gregory Kanevsky

R package data.table has become a tool of choice when working with big tabular data thanks to its versatility and performance. Its Python counterpart py datatable follows R cousin in performance and steadily catches up in functionality. A notable omiss...

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