We are very excited to announce that the eRum2020 (European R Users Meeting) will be held in Milan in 2020! The post Announcement: eRum 2020 held in Milano! appeared first on MilanoR.
Not always is the answer 42 as explained in Hitchhiker’s guide. Sometimes it is also 6174. Kaprekar number is one of those gems, that makes Mathematics fun. Indian recreational...
Those outside the Colonies may not know that Payless—a national chain that made footwear affordable for millions of ‘Muricans who can’t spare $100.00 USD for a pair of shoes...
Here are two nice exercises for a future simulation exam, seen and solved on X validated.The first one is about simulating a Gibbs sampler associated with the joint target...
Recently Hadley Wickham prescribed pronouncing the magrittr pipe as “then” and using right-assignment as follows: I am not sure if it is a good or bad idea. But let’s...
There was a flurry of activity in the last couple of days on Twitter and the blogosphere, most notably Thomas Lumley’s excellent Stats Chat, relating to whether there is...
Can you track your health status and your BMI simply by entering some personal data? Let's see how we did it with a brand new Shiny app. The post Monitoring...
The R package gganimate enables to animate plots. It is particularly interesting to visualize the intermediate results of an algorithm, to see how it converges towards the final results. The following...
Sorting values is one of the bread and butter tasks in computer science: this post uses it as a use case to learn what recursion is all about. It...
WiGLE has been around a while and is a great site to explore the pervasiveness or sparsity of Wi-Fi (and cellular) networks around the globe. While interactive use is...
Hugo Bowne-Anderson, the host of DataFramed, the DataCamp podcast, recently interviewed Marco Blume, Trading Director at Pinnacle Sports. Here is the podcast link. Introducing Marco Blume Hugo: ...
Installing R from scratch and creating your favorite IDE setup is especially useful when making fresh installation or when you are developing and testing out different versions. This blogpost...
I must preface this post with the posit that if you’re doing anything interactive() with Amazon Athena you should seriously consider just using their free ODBC drivers as it’s...
Google searches and the amount of searches for terms can show how interested the public is in that subject. After all, the act of Googling something is result of...
While developing your R package, you will want to make sure the code it contains is as clean as possible and that your package build and testing times are...
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A new Le Monde mathematical puzzle in the digit category: Given 13 arbitrary relative integers chosen by Bo, Abigail can select any subset of them to be drifted by...
I am currently reproducing a statistical analysis a colleague of mine conducted in Stata. Obviously, I am using R for the replication. I came across what I think is...
R users have been enjoying the benefits of SQL query generators for quite some time, most notably using the dbplyr package. I would like to talk about some features...
Taiwan Language Survey is a small project I worked on during May to June in 2018. The idea was to create a survey that continuously collects data and a...
Introduction When speed and memory efficiency is important, the data.table package is one of the ways to improve those aspects of our R code dramatically. Including data.table in a package...
This is another function I wrote to access the MET office API and obtain a 5-day ahead weather forecast:METDataDownload
This is a very simple function to perform geocoding using the Google Maps API: getGeoCode
“Lights, camera and … action – Take 4+!” This post includes a rework of all presentation of ‘Elements of Neural Networks and Deep Learning Parts 1-8 ‘ since my...
How do you program? I feel like there is a lot of advice out there, but most of it focuses on the micro level rather than on the macro level....
Mastodon is a decentralized microblogging platform. We can analyse some data and directly post our findings to a Mastodon instance. For example we can plot the different TLDs used...
In this post, I walk through the code I used to make a nice diagram illustrating the parameters in a logistic growth curve. I made this figure for a conference submission....
Townsville, Qld, has been inundated with torrential rain and has broken the record of the largest rainfall over a 10 The post The Most Amount of Rain over a...
CategoriesProgramming Tags Data Visualisation Exploratory Analysis R Programming This is an attempt to see how the data that are collected from us, can also be used for the betterment of us – one’s self....
I’ve got a post up over at $DAYJOB’s blog on using the ropendata🔗 package to access the ginormous and ever-increasing amount of internet telemetry (scan) data via the Rapid7...
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