This article comes from Jennifer Cooper, a new student in Business Science University. Jennifer is 35% complete with the 101 course - and shows off her progress in this PDF Scraping tutorial. Jennifer has an interest in understanding the plight of wild...
One thing I like about JavaScript is the const declaration method, which allows you to declare a variable one time, and that variable can’t be reassigned after that. I.e, this piece...
In the previous post I fitted a neural network to the cars_19 dataset using the neuralnet package. In this post I am going to use TensorFlow to fit a...
Welcome to the 2019 Fantasy Football Season! Week 3 Gold Mining and Fantasy Football Projection Roundup now available. The post Gold-Mining Week 3 (2019) appeared first on Fantasy Football...
Open Trade Statistics (OTS) was created with the intention to lower the barrier to working with international economic trade data. The project started when I was affected by the fact...
As an statistician, I feel really comfortable at using R, and lately I have started to build different dashboards for both public and private use. R already features excellent visualization...
Join us Wednesday, October 23rd, in Austin, Texas as RStudio teams up with Yotabites, to host a free half-day event on...
Thanks to generous funding from the R Consortium, Forwards has offered a series of workshops around the world to support the development of coding skills and to increase the...
Want to automate abstract booklet making? This is the post for you.
An RSwitch user, lcolladotor filed a most-welcome issue letting me know that the core functionality of the switcher was busted 😱. After testing out the 1.5.1 release candidate I...
Introduction In the first part of this series, we looked at how the sparklyr interface communicates with the Spark instance and what this means for performance with regards to arbitrarily...
GLM tips: get non-linear with splines This tip is great for a quick non-linear test, before you go all the way with a GAM or parametric non-linear model. You’ll need the splines...
A new version of digest is just now arriving at CRAN (following a slight holdup over one likely spurious reverse dependency error), and I will send an updated...
Next week is my first installment of live training offered through O’Reilly Media’s online platform. I’m so excited to partner with this outstanding organization to deliver workshops on business analytics....
Courtesy of R Consortium, you can view my forecast combination talk (16 mins) given in France few months ago, below. The slides for talk and the paper it’s based...
Quick and dirty Rmarkdown syntax highlighting for vim, when you don’t have time install bundles, plugins or dependencies: go to this github repository, download the file rmd.vim from the...
Web Scraping in R Web scraping needs no introduction among Data enthusiasts. It’s one of the most viable and most essential ways of collecting Data when the data itself isn’t...
Today, we’re announcing an important update to RStudio Server Pro 1.2 that introduces two new capabilities. Slurm Jobs Slurm is a open-source workload management system, capable of...
In this post, I will walk you through some examples that show off the major features of the ggforce package. The main goal is to share a few ideas...
Nina Zumel had a really great article on how to prepare a nice Keras performance plot using R. I will use this example to show some of the advantages...
Before predictive model creation, we need to check/change numerical, categorical, NAs, one unique value and high cardinality variables. This new function will assist us in this task.
As digitalization progresses and data science interfaces continue to grow, new opportunities are constantly emerging to reach the personal analysis goals. Despite the „modernity“ of the industry, there is...
I am happy to announce the release of ICC Bot, an app for computing interrater reliability scores using the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC). A screenshot of...
Step One Collate the Data We need the votes and the match statistics to train the model. So what we are going to do is for the competition and of...
Are you a Microsoft Windows R user? Does your Windows username include a space? Like Firstname Lastname. Then you might occassionally run into issues installing packages due to spaces. Solutions You...
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Another low-key arithmetic problem as Le Monde current mathematical puzzle: Notice that there are 10 numbers less than, and prime with 11, 100 less than and prime with 101,...
The nature of work today requires continuous learning and the ability to respond appropriately to new information—including an increasing abundance of data. Companies must ensure that their employees are...
Google drive is a great tool, specifically we’ve been using “G Suite” (the equivalent of google drive but for businesses), for a long time. Lately I noticed it’s missing...
by Hong Ooi, senior data scientist, Microsoft Azure As of version 1.2.0 (released to CRAN late last month), it’s possible to use the AzureAuth package to login interactively to...
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