I’ve been exploring the feasibility of aggregating data on prices of replacement parts for heavy machinery. There are a number of websites which list this sort of data. I’m focusing on the static sites for the moment. I’m using are R with {rvest} (and a few other Tidyverse packages thrown in for good measure). library(glue) library(dplyr) library(purrr) library(stringr) library(rvest) The data are paginated. Fortunately the URL...
Florianne Verkroost is a PhD candidate at Nuffield College at the University of Oxford. With a passion for data science and a background in mathematics and econometrics. She applies...
While I’m talking about getting data into R this weekend, here’s another quick example that came up in class this week. The mortality data in the previous example were...
Tidy Tuesday is a fun weekly activity where a lot of R enthusiasts make different visualisations, and possibly modelling, of the same dataset. You can read more about it...
At the work recently, I wanted to make some interesting start-up pitch (presentation) ready animated visualization and got some first experience with spatial data (e.g. polygons). I enjoyed working...
No dogs were harmed while making this release future 1.15.0 is now on CRAN, accompanied by a recent, related update of future.callr 0.5.0. The main update is a change...
Here’s a common situation: you have a folder full of similarly-formatted CSV or otherwise structured text files that you want to get into R quickly and easily. Reading data...
The third maintenance release 1.0.3 of Rcpp, following up on the 10th anniversary and the 1.0.0. release both pretty much exactly one year ago, arrived on CRAN yesterday....
Introduction In the previous parts of this series, we have shown how to write functions as both combinations of dplyr verbs and SQL query generators that can be executed by...
Unborking the borked laptop - Recap I’m trying to learn some Linux. Ostensibly to do some data science at the command line, because it feels...
Intro Just like the question “what’s the difference between machine learning and statistics” has shed a lot of ink (since at least Breiman (2001)), the same question but where...
An interesting big data thought experiment The other day on Twitter I saw someone referencing a paper or a seminar or something that was reported to examine the following situation:...
Week 10 Gold Mining and Fantasy Football Projection Roundup now available. The post Gold-Mining Week 10 (2019) appeared first on Fantasy Football Analytics.
Motivation for this The background to this package linked to a project I undertook about a year ago. The video relates to the project and the how R really...
Azure Machine Learning has added support for the R language, it was announced at the Ignite conference in Orlando this week. A new R package azuremlsdk (available to install...
The tidyverse ecosystem is steadily growing and adapting to the needs of its users. As part of this evolution, existing tools are being replaced by new and better methods....
No interruptions. That was our team’s goal for RStudio Package Manager 1.1.0 - we set out to make R package installation fast enough that it wouldn’t interrupt your work. More and...
Using the amazing package rayshader I wanted to render a video of my tour to Alpe d'Huez. Now I created an R package that can use any GPX file...
How can you adjust your prices to meet your sales quota better? By combining sales forecasts and price elasticity estimations, you can make recommendations to increase the profit. In...
We are pleased to announce that styler 1.2.0 is now available on CRAN. All the below features were added after styler 1.1.0, except the ones listed under Other changes were added somewhere...
Today we are pleased to announce that we have received new funding from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. The $894k grant will help us improve infrastructure for R...
We’re excited to announce that renv is now available on CRAN! You can install renv with: install.packages("renv") renv is an R dependency manager. Use renv to make your projects more: Isolated: Each...
I obviously haven't been blogging lately, but that doesn't mean that I haven't been thinking about what ought to be my next blog post. Fortunately,...
The aim of this blog post is to compute the implicit tax rates (ITR) on consumption, labour and corporate income for France, Italy, Spain, Germany and the Euro Area...
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is not only about acquiring new customers but especially about retaining existing ones. That is because acquisition is often much more expensive than retention. In...
Using a probability distribution to characterize uncertainty is at the core of statistical inference. So, it seems natural to try to summarize the information about the parameters in statistical...
It’s been a while since the last update, but RSiteCatalyst is still going strong! Thanks to Wen for submitting a fix/enhancement to enable the ability to use multiple columns...
by Virgilio Gómez Rubio Introduction In this session I will focus on Bayesian inference using the integrated nested Laplace approximation (INLA) method. As described...
In May 2019 version 0.2.0 of tidync was approved by rOpenSci and accepted to CRAN. Here we provide a quick overview of the typical workflow with some pseudo-code for...
