I recently saw a Reddit thread in r/PoliticalDiscussion asking the question “If the economy is still booming 2020, how should the Democratic address this?” This gets to an issue that’s been on my mind since at least 2016, maybe even 2014: when will the current period of economic growth end? For some context, the Great…Read more A Recession Before...
Laura Swales, Marketing and Events Assistant This year at Mango we're proudly sponsoring the Bath Cats & Dogs Home. To start our fundraising for them, we decided to run a sweepstake on...
To post your R job on the next post Just visit this link and post a new R job to the R community. You can post a job for free (and there are...
I don’t know whether ‘rename taxa’ is a common task or not. It seems not a good idea to rename taxa in Newick tree text, since it may introduce...
In this post, I talk about performance through an efficient algorithm I developed for finding closest points on a map. This algorithm uses both concepts from mathematics and algorithmics....
A reader recently inquired about functions in simstudy that could generate data for a balanced multi-factorial design. I had to report that nothing really exists. A few weeks later,...
In our next MünsteR R-user group meetup on Monday, June 11th, 2018 Thomas Kluth and Thorben Jensen will give a talk titled Look, something shiny: How to use R...
We were thrilled by the response to our summer internship program. After carefully reviewing over 250 applications, we have made our...
If you want to find the structure hidden behind your data, this is right class for you: you will learn how to group similar observations using Clustering; how to...
This week’s edition of Data is Plural had two really fun data sets. One is serious fun (the first comprehensive data set on U.S. evictions, and the other I...
In an update to his analysis of taxi and ride-share trips, Todd Schnieder reports that the number of daily Uber rides exceeds the number of taxi rides in New...
ggimage 0.1.4 is available on CRAN. This release introduces a new function called ggbackground for setting image background as ggplot canvas. require(ggplot2) p
Time series prediction (forecasting) has experienced dramatic improvements in predictive accuracy as a result of the data science machine learning and deep learning evolution. As these ML/DL tools have...
These are my sketchnotes for Sam Charrington’s podcast This Week in Machine Learning and AI about Systems and Software for Machine Learning at Scale with Jeff Dean: Sketchnotes from TWiMLAI...
On April 12th, 2018 I gave a talk about Explaining complex machine learning models with LIME at the Hamburg Data Science Meetup - so if you’re intersted: the slides...
![Le Monde puzzle [#1049]](https://xianblog.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/sieglemond.jpg?w=450&h=192)
An algorithmic Le Monde mathematical puzzle with a direct Alice and Bob play a game by picking alternatively one of the remaining digits between 1 and 10 and putting...
Con las bombas que tiran los fanfarrones, se hacen las gaditanas tirabuzones (Palma y corona, Carmen Linares) This time I draw Franky again using an algorithm to solve the...
My R package powerlmm 0.3.0 is now out on CRAN. It can be installed from CRAN https://cran.r-project.org/package=powerlmm or GitHub https://github.com/rpsychologist/powerlmm. New features This version adds support for raw effect sizes, and...
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I am going to be giving this course on 10 August and 6 December this year. It is organised by … More
R FOR HYDROLOGISTS SEASONALITY AND TREND DECOMPOSITION If you don’t have the data, please first get it from the first tutorial here. Also, you need to install and load...
R tip: use slices. R has a very powerful array slicing ability that allows for some very slick data processing. Suppose we have a data.frame “d“, and for every...
RStudio recently announced the reticulate package, which is designed to help R users inter-operate with Python code. I was immediately excited by this announcement. In a past life, I...
In my last four posts I have been working at automating a process, that I am likely to repeat many times, by turning it into a proper R function....
rOpenSci’s package review system (aka onboarding) is one of our key activities to improve quality and sustainability of scientific R packages. The editorial team are constantly working towards improving the experience for both authors...
This post is by Jonah and Aki. We’re happy to announce the release of v2.0.0 of the loo R package for efficient approximate leave-one-out cross-validation (and more). For anyone...
![a [Gregorian] calendar riddle](https://xianblog.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/riddler0407.jpg?w=300&h=300)
A simple riddle express this week on The Riddler, about finding the years between 2001 and 2099 with the most cases when day x month = year [all entries...
The R Consortium has been quite busy lately, so I thought I'd take a moment to bring you up to speed on some recent news. (Disclosure: Microsoft is a...
@mkjcktzn asked if one can access Feedly “Saved for Later” items via the API. The answer is “Yes!”, and it builds off of that previous post. You’ll need to...
